BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES 3: SPORTS AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES BASED ON COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA and THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. Sidorchuk, Ruth and Brenda Willoughby. Cambridge (Ont.), Encyclopedia Britannica Publications, 1987. 44pp, looseleaf, $12.95. Distributed by Britannica Learning Materials, P.O. Box 2249, Cambridge, Ont., N3C 3N4. No ISBN or CIP Grades 4-6 Reviewed by Michael Freeman Volume 15 Number 4 1987 July The authors have compiled a comprehensive series of reproducible worksheets to "take advantage of students” enthusiasm for sports to refine their research skills." The questions and activities are based on information found in The Canadian Encyclopedia and Compton's Encyclopedia. The authors are undoubtedly experienced educators, but unfortunately their lack of familiarity with the details of individual sports limits the usefulness of these reproducibles. A general sports worksheet to be filled out by the students may well be appropriate for a complex team sport such as baseball, but proves irrelevant for an individual technique activity such as diving. In addition, many of the assignment questions are overly simplistic and quite unrelated to the research, such as, "Why is football a popular spectator sport?" Or "Choose a theme for a figure skating routine." Does this mean a visual theme or a musical theme? The sheets themselves are often deceptively set out, as only three lines are provided for generalized questions such as the purposes of the Olympics or descriptions of the skill requirements for certain track and field events. , The basic concepts of the exercises are worthwhile; however, in their present format the sheets require too many revisions by the classroom teacher before they can be used effectively as a teaching tool. (The package suffers from an immediate lack of credibility due to a typing error in bold face on the first page of the introduction.) Recommended, following revisions. Michael Freeman, Bathurst Heights S.S., North York, Ont.