Music Winter Olympics - The Music Winter Games
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This five day unit (with bonus day for six!) focuses on using the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China as a learning tool for music education, while incorporating traditional winter Olympic sports such as hockey, curling, skating, and bobsledding (with a bonus speed skating lesson!). It can be used for elementary school students from kindergarten to sixth grade, as well as junior high students for fun and music review and offers students the chance to both prove their knowledge and think like Olympians! All while exploring music, culture and sports with each lesson. This unit has been updated through a few winter Olympics with new adventures every four years to celebrate a new Olympic country and culture!
PDF=29 pages, linked Google Slides Presentation=68 slides AND Jeopardy style music quiz for use with the hockey lesson (or anytime!) with 61 more slides! (Yeah, it's a lot, but I love this stuff and it is SO much fun to teach!)
Google Slides copy link INCLUDED free of charge for BOTH presentation and jeopardy quiz in the PDF!
Day 1: Intro to the location and its torch, parachute opportunity to move to John Williams' "Olympic Fanfare", and two boomwhacker/xylo themes (simple and with dotted rhythms and already color coded!)
Day 2: Theme songs and ice skating - moving and responding to music
Day 3: Mascots and the good old hockey game - with jeopardy-style trivia challenge
Day 4: Culture and curling - learn about the medals, the Great Wall and curling
Day 5: Paralympics and bobsledding - with a rhythm bobsledding challenge and included play along tracks for the rhythms with a 4-beat count-in
This includes five custom lessons with an introduction and cultural lesson on five different winter Olympic sports, plus a BONUS speed skating lesson from a previous version and one Olympians' choice day for a total of seven lessons. All lessons include a section for modifications, materials and NAfME music standards.
UPDATES INCLUDE: Google Slides links to presentation and jeopardy game (in both PDF and Slides), the sport of curling, updated methods for bobsledding and of course, updated graphics and links about China and its culture.
