Fine Arts:

Dance: Who are Our Heroes?
Risk is required for students to create, perform and express who they are and their personal view of the world. These learning activities explore how students use dance to express, experience, celebrate and strive for their heroic personal best.
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Drama: Developing Character
The Olympic Games provide students with examples of real life heroes. Students compare and contrast heroes portrayed in the media with Olympic athletes and local heroes. Students will create an original dramatic representation of a real life hero.
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Music: Dancing to Your Own Drummer
Successful people use music to build inner strength. Students interview local heroes to learn what music inspires them to do their best.
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Visual Arts: Medals for Heroes
The Olympic Games provide students with examples of real life heroes. Students compare and contrast heroes portrayed in the media with Olympic athletes and "local heroes." Students design a medal to present to a personal hero that they admire.
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Health Education: Making Ethical Decisions

Students will use decision-making skills to resolve conflicts related to the 2002 Games.
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Language Arts:

Finding Your Best Self
Huckleberry Finn, the novel by Mark Twain, was written to convey a message about the search for identity in adolescence. Readers will find a corollary between the self-exploration and reaching for one's best identity found in Huckleberry Finn and the reaching an athlete does when searching for the best that is within him or her.
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The Runner in You
The Runner, by Cynthia Voigt, was written to convey a message about the search for identity and independence in adolescence. Readers will find a corollary between the kind of self-exploration and reaching for one's best identity found in The Runner and the reaching an Olympic athlete does when searching for the best that is within him or her. Students read and participate in activities based on the book, The Runner.
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Mathematics - Elementary Algebra: The Importance of 1
Students use the property of 1 to obtain equivalent rational expressions so that they may add and subtract rational numbers and expressions and simplify rational expressions. Using the theme, "The Importance of 1," a connection between the number one and the importance of one individual is made using information from related 2002 Olympic Winter Games web sites.
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