Knowledge : Information Gathering (knowing)

Describe the costs and benefits of staging the Olympics.

Define the meaning of the Olympic Motto.

Label any Olympic sporting apparatus with design features.

Locate any sporting apparatus from games before 1960 and compare with today's apparatus.

Write a news report.

Draw a new symbol for the 2000 Olympics.

Identify problems that will occur at the Sydney Olympics.

Select an athlete and follow their progress through the games.

Comprehension: Confirming / Understanding

Express your opinion of 'Drugs in Sport' through poetry.

Define a meaning for Olympism in the New Millennium.

Illustrate this caption: "Olympic as a Media Event in the Information Society"

Transform one of the rules of any Olympic sport. Explain the need for this change.

Confirm the IOC's current policy on drugs with one good argument.

Match an Olympic athlete with an inanimate object and suggests three things that are different and three things that are the same.

Restate the Olympic motto in your own words.

How does drug use affect competition?

Application: Making Use of Knowledge

Apply your understanding the Olympic spirit to develop a new motto/slogan.

Model an Olympic Village for the new Millenium.

Choose a country that does not compete at the Olympics and explain why that country is not an Olympic member.

Report on what opportunities and threats confront the Olympic movement in t he next Millennium.

Classify past and present Olympic Games in order of the 'Greenness" 
How green are our Olympics?

Change the order in which the games are run and explain your changes.

Collect information about what role science plays in athletic performance to make a multimedia scrapbook.
http://pomo.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapphysicsjo.html   

Modify an Olympic sport so that it could be introduced into the Paralympics.

Analysis: Taking Apart

Infer what would happen if the media were banned from Olympic sport.

Survey current and past athletes with this question: "Is the Pure Olympic Athlete a myth?"

Categorise all Olympic sports in order of difficulty. Describe the reasons behind your selection.

Contrast Olympic athletes of today with athletes of past Olympic games.

Investigate innovations that can enhance future Olympics.

Examine what helps to make a good Olympics? Think about money, schedules, sports and people.

Point Out a sport that should be included in the Olympics and give reasons for its inclusion.

Select the athlete of the century and analyse why you chose this person.

Synthesis (creativity)

Combine any two sports to develop a new Olympic sport.

Plan a training schedule for an elite athlete in the month leading up to the games.

Construct a device that would assist an athlete in their training.

What if drugs were legalised at Olympic Games?

When does sport become a business?

Develop a plan for a new Olympic Bid System.

Hypothesise: 2001 Torch Odyssey: How Bright is the Future?

Add to the current IOC drug policy to ensure that drugs are not permitted at the Sydney Games.

Role Play a different medal presentation. 
It must reflect the Olympic spirit yet be totally different fro current practice.

Evaluation: Judging the Outcome

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current Olympics and recommend action that should be taken in future Olympics: What can be improved, reformed or rejected?

Compare the Sydney Olympics with any other Olympic Summer Games.

Solve terrorism. What strategies should be put in place at future Olympic Games.

Summarise the place of the athlete in Olympic marketing.

Relate any two of your own personal experiences with current Olympic news reports.

Consider what role science plays in athletic performance?

Judge whether Olympic Ideals are realistic or unrealistic for the contemporary elite athlete.