Are Olympic Athletes a Different Kind of Genius? Everyone is obsessed with the Olympics right now, watching these geniuses push the boundaries of their field. Wait, did we say GENIUSES? Yes! We normally associate the word genius with intellectual accomplishments, but athletes are geniuses at pushing their bodies to new heights, making the impossibly difficult seem easy and effortless. Use this resource from PBS Digital Studios’ award-winning series Idea Channel to show how athletes from 2012’s Olympics such as Michael Phelps and Gabby Douglas have created a new threshold for greatness in their sports, making them and other Olympians our next generation of geniuses. The bar sure is high for the athletes competing in Sochi! (Grades: 9-12)
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:29:03 +0000