Paris Olympics Education Kit: celebrating the world’s biggest sporting event

The 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games are finally here!

And to celebrate the world’s biggest sporting event, Kids News has produced a dedicated Paris Olympics Education Kit.

The free digital kit comes with a workbook of 35 classroom activities designed to help students from Year 3 onwards learn all about the Olympic and Paralympic Games, from its ancient beginnings to the modern spectacle it has become.

Activities are created by a teacher for teachers and are aligned to the national curriculum.

The kit content covers:

• The Ancient Games
• The Modern Games
• Olympic values
• Olympic Torch and the Olympic Flame
• The Opening and Closing Ceremonies
• Life in the Olympic Village
• Medals and mascots
• Sports and teams
• Host nation Paris/France profile
• The Paralympics
• Australia’s Olympic heroes
• The Winter Olympics
• Australia’s Olympic Games

Kids News will cover the Olympics and Paralympics throughout the Games - the workbook is additionally supported by feature stories published on our Education Kits topic page HERE.

These stories will assist your students to answer the questions in the workbook.

The Olympics Education Kit is FREE to teachers who sign up to the Kids News newsletter.

A link and a special access code will be sent to subscribers in forthcoming newsletters.