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Planet Sport

Going for Gold (14-16)

By Grant Kleeman

Gold medals

In this activity we focus on global inequalities in sporting achievement as measured by the tally at successive Summer Olympic Games - Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and now, Beijing 2008. In doing so we have an opportunity to develop our understanding of global inequalities and practice a range of geographical skills including: the interpretation of column and line graphs, choropleth maps, proportional circle graphs, pie graphs and semi-logarithmic graphs.

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Extension activities for this unit including additional materials are available in the Medal Mapping section.


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