NOTES FOR THE TEACHER
Here’s a choice-board style list of musical Olympic events that your students can enter. They can choose which ones they’d like to do and there are plenty
of “novelty” options, so everyone is in with a chance of winning a medal!
This would work well as an informal end-of-year activity, a music camp social
activity, as a light-hearted break between concert programs or even as an
activity for remote learning.
And even though it’s Olympic-themed, you could use it at any time!
Here’s how it works:
• Provide your students with a list of Olympic events. You can use the example below as is or create your own using the blank template
• You might like to suggest that each student enters a minimum of 2 events
each, or you could randomly select students to enter events
• You could then host a live Musical Olympics event and students can
perform their submission in front of the class. Alternatively, they could
submit their entries as a video recording (using something like Flip, Loom
or Screencastify). Make sure they include their own name, plus the name
of the event in the video title
•After all of the entries have been viewed or received, you can award a
bronze, silver and gold medal winner in each event
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