Long flat. Red iron bark tree. Hold tight country. The narrow valley held the mountains together. Little or shovel nosed
Spot the difference—sporting
Gold Coast 2018 lth
There are ten differences between these two pictures of sporting equipment used in the Commonwealth Games. Can you find them all?
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Name: _______________________________________ With a partner, list the 8 Commonwealth sports that you would play if you were using this equipment.
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Words that rhyme!
Glue (this page)
Line up the edge of the paper to this line
Fill in the missing letters so that each list rhymes.
b a t
r u n
w a y
h a
f u
d
s
s
m
b
p l
f
s t
t r
p
t
Circle the words you may see in a book about sport. 9781925490329 © Blake Education • 2018 • Commonwealth Games
Flags!
There are 70 nations and territories competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Eleven countries are competing in the basketball. Use the Basketball Team Flags web page to find out which countries these flags belong to.
Line up the edge of the paper to this line
Making patterns!
Glue (this page)
What’s in a name? The traditional owners of the land now known as the Gold Coast were the Kombumerri people. Many of the place names around the Gold Coast can be traced back to their Aboriginal language roots. Use the History of our suburbs web page to match these suburb names with their meanings. Long flat
Biggera Waters
Red iron bark tree Mudgeeraba
Using the pictures above, make your own pattern:
Numinbah
Hold tight country. The narrow valley held the mountains together. Little or shovel nosed shark
Carrara Nerang
a) Place of infant’s excrement (poo)! b) Place where someone told lies. c) Place of sticky soil.
! How many players?
We can see...
By organising the numbers from lowest to highest, top to bottom, you will find out how many players are in a team for each sport!
Use the words from the box to complete the sentences.
5
2
7
11
4
We can see swimming at the games. Splish, splash! Splish, _________! They kick their _________ to swim as fast _________ they can.
Beach Volleyball
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We can _________ cycling at the games. Whoosh! They push _________
100 metre Relay
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pedals to make the bikes go as _________ as they can.
Basketball
________
Netball ________ Hockey ________ 9781925490329 © Blake Education • 2018 • Commonwealth Games
We _________ see table tennis at the __________. Dink! Donk! They hit the _________ to each other as fast as they can. splash their can as games fast legs ball see
Teacher’s Notes: Lower Primary Created by: Melanie Theed & Jackie Wright – JaM Education Resources
Before Starting ●
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Set up a folder of website links for easy student access. To avoid confusion, we suggest giving each link the name in bold used in the booklet. ◆ Basketball Team Flags https://www.gc2018.com/sport/basketball ◆ History of our suburbs http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/thegoldcoast/history-of-our-suburbs-2557.html Photocopy the student activity sheets back to back — ensure both sheets are the same way up. (You may need to select ‘Flip side on short edge’ if printing double sided.) For younger or less dextrous students, you may like to pre-cut the sheets into strips.
What it will look like! A mini concertina booklet with ten pages and eight activities.
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Name : ______________________
Commonwealth Games — Interesting Information ● ● ● ●
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The Commonwealth is a voluntary association that comprises countries that were formerly British colonies. Only countries from the Commonwealth can compete in the Commonwealth Games (CG). The first CG was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada, with 400 athletes from 11 countries competing in 59 events across 6 sports. Over the years the Games have grown, with the Gold Coast 2018 Games hosting 6600 athletes/officials from 70 nations/territories competing in 277 events across 18 sports and 7 para sports. ◆ The Core Values of the Games are Humanity, Equality and Destiny. ◆ The CG are often referred to as the ‘Friendly Games’ and aim to unite Commonwealth countries through sport. 2018 is the XXI (21st) Commonwealth Games. The Kombumerri people were the original inhabitants of large parts of the area now known as the Gold Coast. The local dialect of the region is Yugambeh, which is where the 2018 mascot, Borobi, gets its name — Borabi means ‘koala’.
Further Interesting Information and Resources The central values of the Kombumerri community were to keep life simple and to have respect for family, the environment and self. This site explains more about the cultural practices, codes of conduct and stewardship of the environment from a traditional owner’s perspective. https://hillstoheadlands.com.au/kombumerri-saltwater-people/ The Gold Coast City Council site, which has a local history section that includes historical photos. http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/thegoldcoast/gold-coast-histories-26556.html The official site of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, which includes a fun interactive map of the Queen’s Baton Relay. https://www.gc2018.com/ The official Commonwealth Games site, which includes information and histories of all Commonwealth Games. http://commonwealthgames.com.au/
Extension Ideas If your students are showing a deeper interest in these activities, you may like to make the most of the opportunity. Students can: ● Further research the countries whose flags are shown. They can look for: ◆ Location on a map ◆ Population ◆ Capital city ◆ History of connection to Commonwealth ◆ Currency ◆ Most successful athlete from each country in the Commonwealth Games ● ●
Research the history of place names in their own local area. Go to the Queen’s Baton Relay interactive map and watch the video clips from countries participating. (See Further Interesting Information and Resources for the link.) 9781925490329 © Blake Education • 2018 • Commonwealth Games
Curriculum Links This booklet links to the Australian Curriculum in the areas of: CONTENT DESCRIPTION
ACTIVITY
ACHASSK049
The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place.
ACELA1778
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns.
ACELA1825
Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations.
ACELY1659
Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading
ACELY1670
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures.
ACMNA013
Recognise, model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100. Locate these numbers on a number line.
ACMNA027
Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000.
ACMNA018
Investigate and describe number patterns formed by skip-counting and patterns with objects.
ACMNA035
Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements.
MATHS
ENGLISH
HISTORY
ACARA CODE
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
What’s in a name?
Words that rhyme!
We can see…
How many players?
Making patterns
Investigating with ICT
Answers: Lower Primary Words that rhyme!
How many players?
bat, hat, pat, mat, fat run, fun, sun, bun, stun way, day, say, play, tray
Beach Volleyball – 2, 100 metre Relay – 4, Basketball – 5, Netball – 7, Hockey – 11
What’s in a name?
Flags Australia
Cameroon
Canada
Scotland
Mozambique
India
Biggera Waters Mudgeeraba Numinbah Carrara Nerang
Red iron bark trees Place of infant’s excrement etc. Hold tight country Long flat Little or shovel-nosed shark
Spot the difference! Sporting equipment shown is: • shooting target • badminton shuttlecock • bicycle wheel • netball goal • squash racket • hockey stick • rugby ball • boxing glove 9781925490329 © Blake Education • 2018 • Commonwealth Games
