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I will relate disciplines with physics.

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Wonderful exmples.

The students can study the social conditions in the countries taking and not taking part in the 2016 Olympic Games. They can then compare them, as well as compare the athletes’’ social backgrounds. See if these affect the results in keeping up with the athletes that win medals. Before the Olympics the students can use the Mario and Sonic Games to see what information they can collect and study to then develop their project about the 2016 Olympic Games.

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I will use the topic: Sports undoubtly. They will learn different typical sports in different countries, their diet depending on the sport, the type of training, the number of players, the history of the game...

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Very useful indeed. We can use it as a tool for exercising the memory..

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We (teachers and students) can use Olympic games in an eTwinning project.

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Portuguese-English dictionary divided per sections: Greetings; Introducing oneself; At the airport; At the restaurant; ...

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Sports are very common subjects for all children. they like to compete and be ready to accept different challenges.

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You can work with logos og flags in Geogebra- that´s a great idea in e.g. math.

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I would prepare something about nutrition and how controlled it is for professional sport, and then link with what we eat in our country

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this game can be very interesting to study the history between countries and further develop language skills.

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The Olympic Games have a lot of different sports: one of the ideas is to observe the graph of quadratic functions in different sports

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For sure, I would enhance their literacy skills. I would for example ask them to write a letter to their friend to tell him that they will become a volunteer at Rio for the olympic games. (literacy)

We will then talk about volunteerism, and the olympic ideal for world peace. (social studies)

I would try to profit the participation of every country and say a few words for each country and its place in world map. (geography)

I would separate my students in groups, each group would choose an olympic sport and they will have to make a represantation for that sport(its history, some big athletes, which skills are necessary, world records, etc)

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<p>In the English class we can work :
- the vocabulary of the sport (sport-the athlete-the object they practice the sport- the land on which they practice-action)
- Essays on different topics:
1. the diet / the daily regime of an athlete (calories, hours of training)
2. the sports practiced in countries around the world
3. interview with a famous athlete
4. Survey: pro-cons the sport</p>

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I would love to use a short video game of Mario and Sonic at the Olympics  in order to enhance high school students` critical thinking. They might discuss about the moral values that an Olympic player should have in oder to be a good competitor.

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they can be used to teach words in a dforegin language that the student is learning. I might add some challenging tasks to increase the joy. Olypics games might be flexible. after each session ends a challinging school topic question may be asked to be carried out.

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Teachers can use the activities in a range of ways: as stand-alone units of work, as integrated thematic units, integrated VELS units, or by grouping a number of activities to focus on various subjects such as The benefits of the Olympic Games or Students visit the National Sports Museum to develop an inquiry-based learning project about that area

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We use the topic of Olympic games in eTwinning project about sport

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I have already used very successfully Scholastic.com game GO FOR THE GOLD! The students choose a country and a game: archery (easy) or discus (difficult) and compete in the Olympic Games by understanding english words all deriving from Greek. The rubric says: Represent your country in the Olympics! You not only have to be strong, but you have to be smart to win. Play "It's Greek to Me" and learn about Greek influences on the English language. We use the interactive board or play it on the computer lab!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm

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For foreign languages - talk about different types of sports and parts of the body implied by them.

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just whole rage of sport language activities...I like extending topic to doping in sport and achievments and its cost.....sharing views global citizenship

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I agree with most of my friends on encouraging pupils prepare interviews, improving communication skills and trying to find out cultural differences.

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It could be used to teach how to describe people in a foreign language. We could start by asking our students to say what is their favourite Olumpic sport and then ask them to find out who are the best athletes in that sport, make a research work and finally prepare an oral exposition about him/her.

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Students can divide into teams and work on different roles (athletes, reporters, visitors, organising commitee). Excellent idea to develop intercultural consciousness and respect for the different, thus promoting Olympic values.

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It can be used in learning Citizenship and social /emotional skills - fair play, umpiring, fair supporting of your team, player, sport violence &penalties to individuals &teams

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The skype session could be used for MFL class chatting with students from other country of the target language (English-Spanish). I think the activity where the students are reporters is great as it is linked to the real life, journalism profession. I find this activity motivating for the MFL class to use and work on the target language.

This video game is also a good opportunity to work on geography.

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in olympic games learn to be social with different cultures, learn about history of games in history lesson. Very good one.

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Of course, geography, history and training are my favorite, because, these subjects need and extra of interest. Geography in particular need strong project, maybe because I'm not very fond of it myself.

In my class I like when children create thinks together, and I hope they can create a model of the olympic stadium, learning things about architecture, and math, and using it for their creation. After, they can play with the video game, and with a real game.

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The Olympic Games could be used in my classroom to engage students to writing. They could construct some news to TV or to newspaper. They could write interwiest to atlets and make some podcasts with them...

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The Olympic Games lends itself to a big (or a small) cross-curricular project. Teachers should do more of them and show a good example for their students.

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it shows how something which is part of students everyday experience - gaming can be brought into the classroom and be used as a starting point for good learning.

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Absolutely amazing examples! As a teacher of English, I would focus on sports, events, prizes, Olympic games in the past / present, paralympics, the importance of a balanced diet, and even sacrifices athletes and their families have to do.

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Let's go to Rio. We have to be prepared to participate in the Olympic games. Every student can choose a sport and become a mascotte of that (as an athlete). We have to plan our training (exercise, healty food, no doping, no cheating), we have to advertise our team (think a logo and uniforms), we have to present ourselves as athlethes and our sport in some events to erase some fundings....(we have to go to Rio), finally we have to organize our trip to Rio

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We can learn different language, promote health life, maths tasks...

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The Olympic games aare great material for statistics in maths....it can be used for learning decimal numbers...

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I have a lot of brazilian students, a cooperative work with a school in brazil could be great for motivation. We have a common past, we share the same language but today the differences are big, could be a good game for share experiences.

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In addition to my colleagues' ideas I can suggest making posters about the athletes performing in games for Foreign Language classes.

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Languages, sports and culture would clearly be the topics I would teach with this game... or other subjects, too.

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I agree with some of the comments here. It's a very useful resource and material, as well for working with our students in intercultural differences, sports, geography and culture, and Human values, for example.

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The variety of activities is huge. Students can research, read and write on a variety of topics/themes that we need to accomplish.

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And here the possibilities are endless. I liked very much your suggestions and examples of video. We can use the Olympics Games to learn about intercultural differences in time zones, about sports. Can be realiyate vocabulary development exercises, role play.

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I really used the last Olympic games in my teaching, but I didn´t use any game in the project, so the information about the new version of the game Rio 2016 is useful for me. I teach foreign languages - this topic offers a lot of activities, I liked the international aspect in the video and this inspired me a lot. I also teach History - the topic can be used as well - creative writing, cartoons, drama. It is also good for cooperation with other subjects - Math, ICT, Biology, Art, Music and others.

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We can use Oympic games in differents ways ad example to compare different civilization nowaday and specially differents sports in the countries

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I loved the suggestions in the video and I think we could use the game about the Olympics in Rio 2016 to discuss the different climates and environments. We could use it to teach all sorts of vocabulary, text types (writing formal and informal letter or emails, news reports, even CVs.

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the Olympic games could be an endless source of possibilities for teaching vocabulary, staring with nationalities, sports vocabulary, phrasal verbs , grammar tenses to report the events, use the past tenses to talk about the hystory of the games, the present for role play games - reporting the events live or future to talk about the future plans of the sportsmen , teaching the adjectives and their degrees of comparison and so on.

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We can study the hours around the world and why we did that.

We can learn about the weather, customs, clothes, habits in different countries.

Join all the medals to calculate maximum, minimum and average, ... per country

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The game could be used in many ways and at every stage of the process of teaching / learning. For example, in science to address the issue of swell-being associated with the sport, in history to introduce the study of Greek civilization or the evolution of the Olympics, in intercultural to talk of sports competitions in the different countries, etc.

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Using Olympics, I can teach pupils about very different subjects. I am thinking about intercultural aspects, about weather, fair play and respect, about materials used to manufacture sports equipment . The possibilities are unlimited!

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Since the Olympic Games were born in Greece, my students could get ideas from this video game and engage in a process writing activity to make a presentation of the history of Olympic Games for their classmates all over the world.

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Great ideas to enrich learning! In my language class, Mario could visit all the countries taking part in the 2016 Olympics and introduce each capital ! Because he also likes trying new food, he could look for a typical recipe in each country! For that he could try and find some friends in eTwinning to start a project :-)

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The idea seems interesting to me and I believe that this will be a good opportunity for my students to study the subject through different fields of mathematics, science, language, art, social sciences.

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I agree with my colleagues ideas, they're all great!

One idea would be to come up with a mascot for the Olympic Games , which requires research on culture-history-traditional costumes, draw a poster of it or even create a muppet size mascot for the Rio Olympic Games

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The concept of Olympic games offers a lot of different opportunities to use it by learning - about the history od the games, about the geography, about the different cultures,about sports, rules, motivation, collaboration in team... We can prepare activities for collaborative work or individual activities.

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Using Olympics, I can teach pupils about diversity, about competing, hard working and winning, about intercultural aspects, about weather, types of grounds (the games are played on different types of grounds-grass, sand, ice, snow...), socialization, empathy, collaboration. The possibilities are unlimited!

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Still in shock at the idea of keeping the Canadian kids in school all night for the Skype link!

Olympics theme has proven project work value and I think the fact that almost all the games platforms will have Rio 2016 games on the market makes it available to many educators/ Loved the logo that I'd not seen before too!

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During Olympics, in which way a chemistry knowledge is needed in different sports (equipment, playing field etc.) and in different careers connected to Olympics?

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I would use the game with my 8th graders in collaboration with the sport teacher in a sort of CLIL project, where the game can be used to learn in the foreign language the basics of each sport (description of the needed equipment, rules, body parts involved, etc.)

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The ideas in the video were excellent. As a language teacher I think the use of the Rio Olympics 2016 is unlimited in terms of vocabulary and intercultural awareness. It’s a good project to start planning!

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Through this game we can teach geography and culture aspects of other countries. Learning these topics, we are teachingh respect, tolerance and citizenship.

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the game can be use in class mainly for teaching foreign language vocabulary, saying short sentences in different languages, introducing notions about citizenship, ancient and modern Olympics, cultural elements, taking about rules. For Rio2016 it will be nice to organize also a sambadrome and learn samba.

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After playing the game, students can be assigned to conduct a research in groups regarding the participating countries' history/culture and produce a poster/chart/presentation.

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I think that the Olympics is a very good opportunity to combine lots of subjects and discuss about cultural diversity.

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I agree with many of you- great way - Filippos - I think I can use it in different subjects, like maths, languages,..

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Great way to teach my primary school students about the history of Olympics, the concepts of Olympic spirit, and the differences between the sports now and then

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Despite my initial enthusiasm concerning the use of commercial video games in my EFL classroom, I would definitely avoid such platform like games on upper secondary education. However, I can arrange lots os vocabulary activities such as learning names of sports, nationalities, local traditions and would promote a discussion on paraolympics.

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Rio 2016 as well as this game could be used to introduce some physics laws and their theories applied in each game

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It's a nice game but, for some reason, I think it would look 'childlike' to the eyes of my elder students. It might be suitable for the 1st Middle Class Grade though. I also find it a bit difficult to adapt to my (mother tongue) language courses because it is suitable for some specific units, such as teaching about Olympics or the athletic spirit or vocabulary on sports etc but ... Greek education is too much 'book-centered' and kids HAVE to learn too many things that we, teachers, need many hours to teach. Thus, there isn't time for a timeconsumming activity that might not be strictly related to the curriculum.

I personaly like the idea of games in education and I'm gonna use it, so I will be able to draw safe conclusions.

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In foreign languages, we could study the vocabulary, choose the topic depending on the level of the learners, simple sports vocabulary to politics surrounding the game. We could set up competitions and have the learners as judges giving points and as reporters, hosting the show. It would be an exciting way to train vocabulary and phrases especially with younger learners

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I don't know anything about that game but it looks great. We can teach lots of things in a fun way in EFL class; fav sports, rules of games , materials of sports, sport vocab etc.

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I agree with Arrate... I have to think about how to use this games with 30 students at the same time (and short amount of computers)

Anyway, from technology, olimpic games are good to study materials... can sky , swim or jump more if we got the right material?

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In my field, EFL, could be used for nationalities, languages, sport vocabulary and expressions, ... However, I still have to think about how to organise games with a big big group and not much space and time (these activities usually need a lot of preparation time, a physical class,....)

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we could learn geography, state flags, cout of arms, cultures, languages ..

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Loads of things to teach in EFL, vocabulary about sports, interviews with athletes, arguments on best practices and good habits, descriptions and narrations. Learners will be motivated to learn the foreign language in a very meaningful for them context.

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Children can talk about their favourite sports and their favourite champions. They can talk about health, good and bad habits, motivation and how to succed in different sports.

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A great idea to use this game in EFL to teach sports vocabulary, good and bad habits for athletes vocabulary, sports reports writing or speaking activities, etc.

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Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Rio 2016 could be very useful for organizing focus group about the different kinds of sports played in the Olympics and about some key values like rules, discipline, sacrifice, nutrition. It could be used also for history and geography lessons about Brazil and for the story of Olympic Games in ancient Greece. The multiplayer mode could develop social engagement, team work and competitiveness. It would be of an interest to write down the profile of each character, describing how they represent the ideas of Power, Velocity, Ability in the game and discussing about skills in every day life.

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Olympic Games is an all time classic topic used for educational reason. History, time lines, athlete nutrition, values cultivated from ancient years as fair play and respect, different ways to honor athletes throughout the years, differentiation, war truce and so many more. I think Rio 2016 would be a very goog oppotunity to teahch about geography. I will try to use the Mario Sonic video Game!! 

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Olympic Games is an all time classic topic used for educational reason. History, time lines, athlete nutrition, values cultivated from ancient years as fair play and respect, different ways to honor athletes throughout the years, differentiation, war truce and so many more. I think Rio 2016 would be a very goog oppotunity to teahch about geography. I will try to use the Mario Sonic video Game!! 

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I think that this tool can be used to exchange experience or ideas between students. They can chose idea and discuss on them.

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In language learning, the Olympics could be used as a project's theme targeting specific communication skills. Parts of the game should be chosen, based on their usefulness in achieving the objectives of the learning procedure.

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The environment and the diversity of species would be rather interesting, sharing the politics of recycling and preservation. It would also be important to understand the diversity of ecosystems in Brazil since it is a very large country. Sharing the study of an autoctone specie and share it importance in medicine or other area.

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The theme of this game allows to organize tournaments between users from different parts of the world. I believe that this aspect of the game Mario and Sonic at the Olympics complemented with synchronous communication (ex .: skype) systems, allows intercultural exchange between users as we saw in the video. An experience of electronic game like this, can be a good reason to establish exchanges among peers if the themes are cross cultures. Deep social and cultural questions could be discussed between students like racism, ethnocentrism,...

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I believe there are a lot of interesting ideas in this Padlet.Brazilian culture,Racism,Geografy of the country,south America's History...

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Languages and culture would definitely be the topics I would teach with this game...

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I like the concept of Olympics because it indeed offers endless opportunities to be investigated. I think I would use it to teach values,sports, languages, local culture....

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Students have to transmit new content to their classmates, so they have to reflect continuously on the mental processes of the other students in the classroom. This way it is possible to develop step-by-step the students' feeling for group reactions and networking.

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Thank you for this great examples! I have not used so far none of the games that promote the Olympics and moral values are based. For me,

it will be a topic of reflection !

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I don't know anything about the game, but I think it could be a nice opportunity to talk about gender when it comes to the games. Traditionally only men competed. There could other aspects as well of course. I just think that the history and evolution of the games are really interesting.

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great idea. I like the most to teach aboutfair play, competition and races of people, black people white people yellow people come together to compete. Games against rasism,

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Thanks for these useful examples :-) We could research the history of some olympics games, how the evolved and play some of this old versions.

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I think it would be useful for IT lessons. Pupils might learn to build diagrams for the sports competitions timetables and results.

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I love sport and I'd like to start project about Olimpic Games including sports disciplines, countries, nationalities and challenges...

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I love the idea anf find it very nice!

I'm just wondering how I will be able to have a Wii or Kinect in my classroom (financial part)...

Another idea will be to use this video games in an eTwinning project about olympic games

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For English literacy, students could create a role play between their classmates who are 'event organizers' and 'athletes'.

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It is a good way to prepare children, reinforcing skills , such as collaboration, problem solving, creativity, and communication.

Olympics can be used to explore mathematics for example explore real numbers, means; develop some statistical analysis with the results and present this results using some digital resources like excel, prezi etc

I think it is lots of possibilities just depends on our imagination.

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I love the idea of students organizing a trip to the Olympics , and then reporting back to the rest of the class, depending on the country they would have chosen to host the Olympic Games...

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Olimpics can be integretad in many subjects in different ways. I can't play this game in my school, but we can solve problems about speed, lenght, height, measurement.

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Olympics give us many possibilities - to investigate the training schedule, diet, the Olympic achievements of previous years and hypothesizing new results. Very exiting is to discover new country and plan the travel to this country.

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I work with young learners and I did a project about London lypics with different countries and on of the activities we did was to invent new games to be included in the Olympic ames in addition to many others (interview to local sportsmen/wome, sports rules...

I think the game could be integrated very well in order to start from students' interest

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It's a good way to talk with students about health and wellbeing.