Title of Bulletin Board: A Gold Medal Team!

Category: Olympics

Suggested Grade Level: All

Materials: Pictures of your teachers/staff, construction paper, pictures of athletes in olympic events from the internet or magazines.

Description:

To show my students the variety of sports represented in the Olympic games, I created a "bulletin board" in which the stars are not the actual Olympians, but the teachers and staff members of our school. I used the headshots that are typically given to the teachers when school pictures are taken and pasted them onto the bodies of the "real" athlete and labeled the sport. I then labeled the board with the heading "Pleasant's Gold Medal Team." The kids (and teachers!) REALLY loved looking at their teachers as Olympians and helped them get to know all of the people who are in the building. The students also got the opportunity to see and learn of the various olympic events.

Additional Information:

I used this bulletin board in conjunction with another where the students voted for their favorite event and we created a huge bar graph illustrating the results.