This is a great activity to teach students about other countries, learn about the Olympics, get exercise, and have a healthy competition.

Here's how it works:

1) In most schools there are more than one class of each year group. Each class chooses a country to study and divides their class into different groups to compete in different sports.

2) Children in each year group will compete against each other. Some ideas for competitions are: - Basketball - Volleyball - Track/Field - Jumping - Gymnastics - Swimming (If possible) - And I'm sure that you can come up with other ones. You can also make sure that the competitions you choose are appropriate to the age and ability level of the children in each particular year.

5) The students will study the country that their class has chosen, learn about the rules of their competition, and learn about the Olympics.

6) After a couple of weeks of preparation, each class will present what they have learnt about their country to the school, and then the "Olympics" will begin - that's when the classes will compete against each other.

*This activity also works well for Social Studies.