If you are a classroom teacher or homeschooler, you may be discussing the Nobel Prizes today.  They have been in the news quite a lot in recent days, and today especially due to President Obama being the latest recipient of one of the honors.

There are Nobel prizes in each of the following disciplines: physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace activism, and there is a related prize in economics, as well.

Each recipient is invited to give a lecture at the Nobel awards ceremony, which is held in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10 of each year (the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death).  Students can view videos of past lectures here

There are wonderful vocabulary words that can tie-in with the different categories of the Nobel prize.  You might want to assign your students any of the following topics as their focus of vocabulary games at Vocabulary.co.il:

• Energy
• Human Body
• Chemistry
• Government and Civics
• Great Inventions
• Literary Terms
• International Relations
• Periodic Table
• Astronomy
• Business and Money