Unite everyone for fun and learning with these exciting Olympic resources! The WHRO Education team has curated a collection within eMediaVA to help you bring the fun of the Olympics home to enjoy with your kids.
Explore the excitement and history of the Olympic Games with this collection. Discover stories of perseverance, athleticism, and global unity, and help children connect with the values and experiences of Olympians from around the world.
A few highlights include:
Origins of the Olympics | The Greeks
From all over the Greek-speaking world, the best athletes descended on Athens to take their best shot at achieving immortality. Review the archaeological evidence of the first Olympics and the early events such as chariot-racing, boxing, and sprinting, that it depicts.
Team Motherboard's CyberOlympic Strategy | Cyberchase
In this Cyberchase video clip, the cybersquad uses numbers and operations to add up individual scores and determine which relay event each person should be in to maximize the team's chance of winning.
Rebeccah Rodriguez Regner: Médica / Physician | SciGirls
Rebeccah Rodriguez Regner was the medical director for Team USA athletes at the Rio Olympics. NOTE: Video is in English, with subtitles in Spanish and English.
Beating Usain Bolt
Use mathematics to determine what is required to beat retired world champion Usain Bolt in a 200-meter race. This video focuses on systems of equations that are visualized by completing a table of values and looking for a point of intersection in a set of line graphs.
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