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Hand out the Student
Data Sheet: World Climates (Frost-Free Days).
Have students locate the approximate latitudes
of the six continents.
Explain the physical
relationship between latitude and climate.
- Generally speaking,
the farther one travels both north or south
of the Equator, the cooler the climate will
become.
Hand out the blank
Student Information Sheet: Origin of the
Modern Summer Games and have students fill
in the "Physical Geography" column for each
country, using the world climate map and a topographical
map of the world's countries.
- Students may
need access to a political map to locate each
country and identify it according to latitude.
Using reference
books and culture data information fill out
the second column, titled "Culture."
- This category
should not be a research project initially.
A brainstorming session should be used first.
Forecasting or predicting is best done when
students combine current information to generate
new assumptions.
- Follow-up research
could be used to verify predictions. Praise
students for their ability to make logical
predictions even though all predictions may
not be accurate.
- The Teacher
Answer Key: Teacher Information Sheet
(completed version of Student Information
Sheet: Origin of the Modern Summer Games)
provides an answer key for the first two columns
of information.
Hand out the Student
Data Sheets: Olympic Summer Games and Olympic
Winter Games to help students decide which
Olympic sports would best be suited to the information
they have generated in the first two columns.
Allow students
to work in groups to create their own explanations,
justifying sports choices in the fourth column.
Use the Student
Handout: Timeline of Modern Olympic Games
Events, to compare actual host countries
of the past century with their own predictions.
- How many of
the countries in the list have actually hosted
either the Summer or Winter Olympic Games?
- Discuss perceptions
and misperceptions once comparisons are made.
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