Bring the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay to Your Classroom

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Bring the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay to Your Classroom.

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This winter, Canada will be a little brighter

On October 30 2009, the Olympic Flame will reach Canadian soil and begin its journey. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will cross Canada touching each coast, province and territory. As it weaves its way through our communities it will ignite our national pride and act as a rallying point for Canadians. By celebrating all of the 2010 Olympic Torchbearers we demonstrate how any one of us can create a better future for our families and friends and our country. So how can you experience the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay?

Join us when the Olympic Flame lights up your community Approximately 12,000 Canadians will carry the Olympic Flame across the country with millions more cheering and supporting them. You are encouraged to come out and cheer on the torchbearers as they make their way across Canada.

1,036 communities across Canada will have the opportunity to host the Olympic Flame as it travels across Canada. 187 of these towns will host celebrations so that friends, relatives and neighbours from near and far can join in celebrating the Olympic Spirit and share in the experience of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay.

To find the list of community celebration sites and a map of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay route, please visit www.vancouver2010.com/torchrelay.

When you’re at the community celebrations don’t forget to check out the RBC Create a Better Canada Experience where you can meet RBC Olympians, have your picture taken with an Olympic Torch, play interactive games, and learn about sustainable living.

Finally, all Canadians will be able to follow the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay across Canada on www.rbc.com/carrythetorch. There will be daily photos from the relay, stories about torchbearers and links to learn more about RBC’s commitment to Canadian athletes and the development of strong and healthy Canadian communities.

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How to Host a Torch Relay in Your School

Imagine seeing your students pass a torch between one another. Use tissue paper, paper towel rolls, tin foil, flashlights, pylons, Picture their proud faces carrying a torch as they see their excited dollar store toilet plungers, etc., to make your torches. Needless classmates cheering them on in your school yard. Create a school- to say, it is strongly recommended that open flame is not used for based torch relay with your class or entire school community and school-based torch relay. feel the Olympic Spirit come alive! The Olympic Flame has the n Select your torchbearers – Participation is the key. 12,000 power to reach and inspire every student in your class and school Canadians will get the opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame and you are the one that can bring them this memorable activity. in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. The more students There are many exciting elements of an official Vancouver 2010 you can touch by appointing them as official torchbearers in your Olympic Torch Relay to incorporate when hosting your own school- school-based torch relay, the greater the chance of making a based torch relay. life-long impact with this experience. Try to incorporate all of your students as torchbearers if you can! n Decide the size of your torch relay – The event could be as big or small as you make it. Will your torch relay include only your class n Celebrate Canada’s diversity – As the Olympic Flame will pass or your entire school? Will the activity span a class period, lunch through every province and territory, take the opportunity to time or a day. celebrate and learn about the culture and diversity of the 1,036 communities touched by the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. n Assemble your team – Your school-based torch relay will likely take fewer than the 100 staff members required to coordinate Incorporate some of these elements showcasing the diversity of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. But you may need to our Canadian landscape and culture in your torch relay. involve a team of fellow staff members or parent volunteers. n Host a celebration of your school community – Over the span of the 106 days of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay, 187 n Plan your relay route – Engage your students in designing your relay route. Be sure to consider safety, overall length, length of community celebrations will take place. These celebrations will each relay segment, room for spectators to cheer and the impact honour the torchbearers, community leaders, local heroes, teams of weather! and volunteers involved in the relay. Use this opportunity to celebrate various people and aspects of your school community. n Choose your modes of transport – During the Vancouver 2010 n Olympic Torch Relay , the Olympic Flame will travel via many Have fun! – A school-based torch different modes of transportation from canoe, to dogsled, to relay is an incredible opportunity skate board, to cross-country skis. Allow your students to get for you to make the Vancouver creative and select their own method of physical activity or 2010 Olympic and Paralympic transportation to actively move through their section of your Winter Games and the relay route. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay come alive n Create a torch – Run a class or school wide contest to design for your students. Use and build a torch. Encourage the students to design a torch this moment to create that symbolizes something about your school, city, province or an once-in-a-lifetime Canada. Have your students each carry their own torch during experience for your their leg of your torch relay or pick a winner to be carried by your students. class or another torchbearer in the school. Encourage creativity!

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5 Brainstorm how this relay will bring Canadians together in the spirit of peace, unity unity peace, of in the spirit together Canadians bring will relay this how Brainstorm explanation. require may concepts these students, younger For and friendship. other – each – and to the world to communicate to Canadians for a chance is This is. Canada of the true spirit what Learning Activity Learning Vancouver the 2010 of the map article students and show the attached Read how Describe www.vancouver2010.com. at available Route Relay Torch Olympic through passing and territories, provinces all through travel will Flame the Olympic communities. 1,000 Canadian over Pre - Learning Activity Activity - Learning Pre this From school. at played are that games of list a brainstorm to students your Ask peace, of values Olympic the of discussion a to itself lend would that one choose list, values. these demonstrates game selected the how Discuss friendship. and unity n n Learning Outcomes Learning The Values Behind the Flame the Behind Values The Purpose This and friendship. unity peace, of values the promotes Relay Torch The Olympic the and how relay the torch of the history appreciate help students will lesson values. these promote will Relay Torch 2010 Olympic Vancouver The Olympic Torch Relay – Relay Torch The Olympic LANGUAGE ARTS ELEMENTARY

Divide the class into groups of three or four students. Have each group create a poster – a diagram of the torch relay and a short write-up (two to four sentences for MORE INFO primary, a paragraph for intermediate) about how this relay will unite Canadians in a display of peace, unity and friendship. Available Resources:

Post – Learning Activity www.olympicschool.ca Have students answer this in a journal: “If you could be part of the torch relay – The Olympic Flame celebration in your community, what would you want the rest of Canada and the world to know about where you live?” Remind the students they are trying to www.vancouver2010.com/ promote peace, unity and friendship. torchrelays

Lesson Extensions n The following outline could be used on a school-wide project. Each class could decide which aspect of peace, unity and friendship it would like to portray about itself and design a short presentation – a reading, skit or visual presentation. Then students could create their own torch relay by visiting different classes and celebrating the “peace, unity and friendship” of their school community. n Intermediate students could research and present various stops on the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay route. As the relay progresses, pairs of students could present their “town” to the class, thus promoting unity in Canada. n Intermediate students who might be studying ancient civilizations could do more in-depth research into the use of “fire” as a metaphor for Olympic values.

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8 As a class, brainstorm the characteristics and qualities of Canada. Draw from the from Draw Canada. of and qualities the characteristics brainstorm a class, As cultures the different for account and/or in the class, represented cultures different Canadians. to important are that ideas and values with up come Next, Canada. within Learning Activity Activity Learning at website VANOC on the home” located you guide will “Lights video the View logo http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-videos/lights-will-guide-you-home_ Relay Torch Olympic 2010 Vancouver discuss the 10, page on Referencing 116232g110288-JA.html handout the on located Lights”) the by Northern of inspired Path “A was design (entitled emblem’s The metaphor. ignite the of and spirits meaning the light class the with torchbearers the as land magnificent this across journey torch’s lights. northern of path a like dreams n n n Activity - Learning Pre these of knowledge previous students’ the on drawing symbol, and metaphor Define five down write and find to school the around students send pairs, In terms. literary represents symbol the what as well as symbol the write should Students symbols. represent lockers locked “the or freedom” represents flag Canadian the (e.g., found. students the symbols the discuss class, to return their Upon distrust”). n n n n Learning Outcomes Outcomes Learning A Symbol for the Nation for Symbol A Purpose and 2010 Olympic Relay Torch Olympic 2010 Vancouver in the students engage To the with associated and metaphors the symbolism examining by Games Winter torchbearer. final Torchbearer— The Final LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE 8-10

As a class, choose the top five characteristics/qualities of Canada and the top five ideas/values that are important to Canadians. Students write these on the handout. LEARN MORE

Ask the students to read the article entitled “The Final Torchbearer—A Symbol for ‘Illanaaq’ (Inukitut for “friend”) the Nation.” is the Inukshuk inspired logo representing the Vancouver In groups of four or five, ask students to select which Canadian they feel should light 2010 Olympic Winter Games. An the cauldron in 2010 and in what way the cauldron should be lit. Remind them to Inukshuk is a traditional stone marker used by the Inuit to guide connect the qualities/characteristics of Canada and the idea of metaphor or symbol their way across the sometimes as they make these decisions. How the Cauldron is lit must also show significance. featureless Arctic.

Students should write their choice on the handout, describing who, why and how the cauldron would be lit with the flame. Have groups defend their choices to the entire class.

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Writing exercise: Photo courtesy of VANOC. Students write a letter recommending their choice of final torchbearer, as well as a suggesting how this Canadian could light the Olympic Cauldron. The letter should clearly explain how these choices truly reflect Canada and/or values important to Canadians. The letter should be formal, using appropriate voice and tone. OR Students write a personal reflection defining who they are as Canadians and how they are an important part of the identity of Canada.

Lesson Extensions n Pre-Learning activity option: Students brainstorm values and characteristics of their school. Who would be a good choice to be a figurative representation of the school? n Debate: Groups or individuals could defend their choice of Canadian in a formal debate. n Prediction Pool: Make a formal format in which students predict who will actually light the Olympic Cauldron. Store that information safely, and bring it out after opening ceremony in 2010.

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LANGUAGE ARTS WORKSHEET A Path of Northern Lights The emblem’s design was inspired by the torch’s journey across this magnificent land as the torchbearers light spirits and ignite dreams like a path of northern lights.

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The Canadian Olympic School Program wishes to thank and acknowledge the contributions of the following people. Without their efforts and creativity, this project would not have been possible. Story Writer - Kevin Sylvester Graphic Artist - Andy Maier Translation Marie Pierre Lavoie Pascale Seide Legros Educational Consultants Nicci Beninger – Richmond School District No. 38 Leanne Engbers – Langley School District No. 35 The Canadian Olympic School Program was developed by: David Bedford Bruce Deacon Isabelle Hodge Jeff Jurmain Ayisha Karim Steve Keogh Kathrin Mertens Lisa Wallace

The Canadian Olympic Committee thanks RBC Financial Group for their generous support of the Canadian Olympic School Program. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of Josh Epstein, Jacqueline Harkness and Jacqueline Ryan. The Canadian Olympic Committee would also like to acknowledge the support of the VANOC to help make this resource possible. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge the support of Sheree Alexander, Andrew Greenlaw, Stacey Khan, Chris Schauf and Kelly Simpson.