Web Resources
 Compiled by Jackie Miers

Medal tally - Check to see who's ahead
General and Official Sites Facts about the Games History of the Games
Information about Melbourne Australian Champions The Australian Team
Queen's Baton Relay The Ceremonies
 The Sports
The Venues The Village The Uniforms
The Results and Medals Drugs and Anti-Doping Commonwealth and Countries
The Mascot Fun and Games Curriculum Links

Official and General Information Sites

Facts about the Games

The History of the Commonwealth Games

Starting blocks: History of the Games.
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

Find out some of the history of the Commonwealth Games from Annalee.
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/ic_chap_02.html

20 things about the history of the Commonwealth Games.
 http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Media Centre/Fact Sheets/

Find out about past Commonwealth Games by using the sliding menu bar and selecting the game of your choice.
http://www.thecgf.com/games/default.asp


The story of the British Empire & Commonwealth Games, now known as  the Commonwealth Games.
 http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/Story.htm

History of the Commonwealth Games. (a .PDF document)
http://www.dsr.wa.gov.au/library/History_of_Commonwealth_Games.pdf

Information about Melbourne

Topics in Sport - Commonwealth Games - 2006 Australian AIS team
 http://www.ausport.gov.au/info/topics/commonwealth_games/

Starting blocks: Athlete's corner. An excellent source of information about athletes in each sport. Includes profiles of Australian athletes as well as selected others.
 http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

Athletics Australia. Search the database for an athlete's profile.
http://www.athletics.org.au/athletes/index.cfm

Search the Australian Swimming Athlete profiles for the biography of swimmers.
http://www.swimming.org.au/profiles/profile.cfm

Australia's past champions. Find out about 9 of Australia's past champions.
http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/

Australia's memorable moments at the Commonwealth Games. Read some interesting facts about our champions.
http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/

Australia's high achievers. Find out some brief facts about Australia's most successful games and information about medal winners.

http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/

Saxton Speaker's Bureau. This website has information and profiles on some of our champions.
http://www.saxton.com.au/searchindex/CommonwealthGames1.html

Commonwealth Games gold medallists. (Includes winners from other countries as well)
http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/

The Australian Team

Australian Team. Provides a list of athletes officially named by the Australian Commonwealth Games Federation for inclusion in the Australian Team for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
 http://www.ausport.gov.au/info/topics/commonwealth_games/

Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Scroll down for the names of the athletes.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_2006_Commonwealth_Games

Ceremonies

Starting blocks: The ceremonies
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

Commonwealth Games ceremonies. Describes the opening, closing and victory ceremonies.
 http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/

Delta seizes Games opening. An article from the Herald Sun, by Michael Warner.
 http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page

Queen's Baton Relay

Queen's Baton Relay - The international route
 http://qbr.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=qbrcalendar

Queen's Baton Relay Australian Route Calendar
http://qbr.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=qbrroute

Queen's Baton Relay Australian runners schedule
 http://qbr.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=qbrrunnerschedule

Winning design for Commonwealth Games Baton. Description of the baton design from the Design Institute of Australia.
 http://www.dia.org.au/view_article.cfm?id=99

Innovative Queen’s Baton unveiled. This article by Zoe Fielding provides information about the manufacture of the baton.
 http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/d4/0c02dbd4.asp

Wand with wow factor. This story from the Herald Sun provides detailed information about the design of the baton as well as a large labelled diagram of its features.
 http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/

The Village

Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village.
http://www.m2006.com.au/Getting+Involved/About+the+Games/

The Games village. Find out all about it.
 http://www1.dvc.vic.gov.au/ocgc/building/village.htm

The Village and nations. Includes information, aerial photos and photos of the interior and exterior of the temporary cabins that have been erected.
http://www.geocities.com/m2006cg/village.html

Commonwealth Games Athletes Village.
 http://www.majorprojects.vic.gov.au/

Security lockdown for Games Village. Read about the precautions taking place.
 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/

Military presence increased in Melbourne for 2006 Commonwealth Games.
 http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Military_presence_increased

The Uniforms

Commonwealth Games uniforms released. - Article and photos from the Herald Sun.
 http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/

Australian Team Games Wear. Click 'next' for 6 more uniform images.
 http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/In+the+News/Photo+Galleries/

Games athletes hip-hop to glory. An article in the Herald Sun about the athletes' uniforms by Shaun Phillips.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/

Games Uniforms launch. Click 'next' to view the various uniforms.
 http://www.commonwealthgames.com.au/Karak+the+Mascot/

Drugs and Anti-Doping

Anti-doping. Provides information about cutting-edge testing and links to fact sheets and more information.
 http://www.m2006.dcita.gov.au/support/antidoping.htm

Sports events regulations - Commonwealth Games 2006 - Advice issued by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association & the Australian the Australian Sports Drug Agency.
 http://www.asda.org.au/sports/events/cg06_melbourne.htm

The Australian Sports Commission. Provides links to a list of policies, guidelines and other resources that deal with anti-doping in sport.
 http://www.ausport.gov.au/policies/antidoping.asp

How performance-enhancing drugs work.
 http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/athletic-drug-test.htm

How much do you know about the Commonwealth?  Find out what Terri has to say.
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/ic_chap_01.html

Click the arrow to rotate the globe and click on a country for information.
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/

Member countries of the Commonwealth. Click on the link under each country's flag for its Fact Files.
 http://www.cata.ca/Commonwealth/membersof.html

Select a continent in the left menu to find out about the Commonwealth countries.
http://www.thecgf.com/countries/default.asp

See the list of the competing countries and click on the links for each country to find out information about it.
 http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Getting%20Involved/A

Scroll down slightly until you see the Country Profiles tab in the left hand menu. Select a country from the drop down menu and click Go.
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/

Select a Commonwealth country from the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members

Starting Blocks: Karak's biography
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

Karak the official mascot of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
 http://www.melbourne2006.com/Karak+the+Mascot/

All about Karak
 http://www.melbourne2006.com/NR/exeres/

Karak - Official Mascot. Read this information from the Healesville Sanctuary
http://www.zoo.org.au/healesville/karak.htm

2006 Commonwealth Games mascot. Read about this endangered bird.
http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/

Red-tailed black cockatoo. Find out about it.
http://www.redtail.com.au/site/

Karak! protecting the red-tailed black cockatoo
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/

Red-tailed black cockatoo. A fact file
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3039.shtml

Fun and Games

Starting blocks: Things to do. Interactive games and quizzes for students from Reception (Prep) to Year 10. (Click the small arrow at the bottom of the page)
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

The ultimate balooning challenge - around the Commonwealth in 80 days
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/game/atcied.html

From the NSW Country Areas Program - a unit of work created by Luke Potts from Finley PS.
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/teachers/tech_based_resources/

Starting Blocks. "Provides an introduction to the Commonwealth Games, including a brief history". Choose a Year Level and using drop-down menus select from 4 options consisting of Sport, Key Learning Area , Things to do or Audio Interviews.
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/

Let the Games Begin. "Middle Years Resources - engaging units addressing the themes Sports and Ethics & Hosting a Major Event"
 http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=crgamesbegin

United Through the Games. "Integrated Units - Five units of work based on the core values of the Commonwealth Games - humanity, equality and destiny."
 http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=crunited

CommPass. "A set of innovative teaching and learning activities for primary students designed to develop greater knowledge."
 http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=crcommpass

For post compulsory resources, news headlines, professional development resources and more, check out out the Commonwealth Games Education Program pages.
http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/

United by the moment: Melbourne Commonwealth Games, 2006. A unit of work of between 2 to 3 weeks' duration, targeted at Year 5/6 students. The major learning task is to "Write a profile of a person involved in the Commonwealth Games"
http://www.english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/melbourne/

Print this 2-page .pdf file for some lesson ideas and student activities - From Learning Online. (NZ)
http://www.teachingonline.org/lessonpdfs/commonwealth.pdf

This site has been designed to provide students with projects and activities relating to the Commonwealth Games.
http://www.lowanna.vic.edu.au/cg/

Teachers: Citizenship: The Commonwealth. Students find out the history of the games and what they are about. They then have a go at devising their own inclusive sporting event. Targeted at Upper Primary and Lower Secondary students.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1790000/

Middle Years Numeracy Research Project - Rich Tasks and Scoring Rubrics. The Commonwealth Games.
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/mys/docs/Numeracy/
 
Karak's family and home. Students explore the what and why of a mascot, create a profile of  Karak and develop their own school mascot.
 http://education.melbourne2006.com.au/_content/classroomresources/
 
Karak in action. This is a webquest based project for children throughout the Commonwealth. It uses Karak, the mascot for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, as a central motif and motivates children to investigate a local endangered species and to develop an action plan to ensure its survival.
 http://www.surreal.com.au/karak/content/default.asp
 
Activities centred around the theme of the games developed by Ararat Schools.
http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/web/commonwealth/index.htm

© 2005-2006 Jackie Miers 
Magill Primary School
South Australia

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