Where to next?

Further possibilities for learning

This integrated approach provides a good set-up for teachers to develop further learning within their area of expertise.

Using the idea of the Olympic Games symbols and using wood cuts, develop your own versions of symbols/flags or banners. These could reflect sport or the cultural groups in your school, or be signage for your school, etc.
Create a photo essay on a chosen theme, expressing our culture or 'one world one dream' from a New Zealand perspective, and using digital cameras and photographers’ work. Visit China: Fifty years inside the people's republic.
Create collaborative collages using digital images. Refer to the work of Hong Hao as a model for your work.
Develop responses in drama, music, and dance to ideas about the culture and heritage of China.

Design an Olympic Games bid for New Zealand – students could use the Olympic Games criteria and present this, for example, in the form of a storyboard or a PowerPoint presentation. Students could show this to their own class, another class, or to the wider community.
Develop writing using the Olympic Games as a starting point – consider the perspectives of athletes, managers, and organisers.

See ideas for English, but focus on identity culture and heritage.
Develop further inquiry into some of the questions students raise.
Use current issues to look at issues of sustainability and the Olympic Games – the use of resources and the environment.
Examine the photo essay China: Fifty years inside the people's republic and consider your own photo essay or a plan for someone else in New Zealand.

Pursue further learning in Mandarin Chinese by ordering the Hao kit or contacting the International Languages Aotearoa New Zealand (see Additional resources).