The Teacher Resource Packages listed below are comprehensive general information and activity kits about the MCG. We trust you find them educational, enjoyable and informative.
The activity kits are designed to target the middle years of schooling. Teachers are encouraged to adapt the activities to suit the interest and abilities of their own students.
MCG EXPERIENCE
Information Kit
Activity Kit
CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought.” (Baron de Coubertin, founder of the Modern games) Information Kit
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MOW THE BALL
What is nipping the ball? Where does the long stop stand? These are cricket terms from a bygone era.
DROP PUNT
PHIL Hughes will go into the Ashes with question marks over his technique after the opener was bounced out by Steve Harmison.
AUSTRALIAN cyclist Allan Davis has been dumped from the Tour de France so that a playboy rider with a cocaine habit can ride instead.
ROGER Federer reached a record 20th Grand Slam final while Andy Roddick ended Andy Murray's bid to become the first British champion since 1936.
EXCLUSIVE: JOSEPH Tomane has conceded he handled the announcement he was leaving the club badly.
MARK Viduka might be without a club, but appears committed to joining the Socceroos at the World Cup finals next year.
ANDY Murray says he can transform his Wimbledon misery into a US Open title when he heads to New York for the last Grand Slam of the season.
MELBOURNE racing clubs will not cut prizemoney next season, averting fears of an immediate crisis in Victorian racing.
BERNARD Tomic has bowed out of Wimbledon after losing his junior semi-final against unseeded Russian Andrey Kuznetsov.
AUSTRALIA has admitted it may have mismanaged veteran paceman Brett Lee after his difficult marriage break-up last year.
AUSTRALIA'S netball preparations for the Commonwealth Games will be bolstered with extra matches against Jamaica and England in October.