Olympics - Winter Olympics

• NBC site- official site
• Olympic.org - offficial website of the Olympic Movement
• Team USA - athlete bios, photo galleries, videos, athlete blogs organized by sport, and Real Athletes Play Fair program
• Vancouver2010 - official Olympics site
  • Canadian Olympic School Program - bring Olympics to your classroom
    • Olympic torch relay contest
    • Teacher resources with curriculum linked activities -- to download
      • games
      • Olympic origins
• US Olympic Team - official site
• Weekly Reader -Let the Games Begin - free digital verison - 2nd grade level
• Winter Olympics 2010 - InfoPlease information
  • 92 countries competing

History of and information on:

• Ancient Olympic games - Olympic.org - history, mythology, athlete, sports events with brief cartoon video
• Ancient Olympics (Perseus exhibit at Tufts from 1996 Olympics))
• Olympic history - through 2000 - well done pictoral and timeline - EJournal by Kodak
• Olympics through time (Foundations of Hellenic world)
• Sports Science (Why Files explores science behind Olympic athletic success)
• Winter Olympics through the years - FactMonster info

Sports - all listed - Olympic.org

• US Biathlon http://www.usbiathlon.org/
• US Bobsled and Skeleton http://www.usbsf.com/
• US Skiing http://www.usskiteam.com/public/
• US Curling http://www.usacurl.org/
• US Figure Skating http://www.usfsa.org/
• US Speed Skating http://www.usspeedskating.org/
• US Hockey http://www.usahockey.com/
• US Luge http://www.usaluge.org/

Education links:

• ABCTeach - Olympics - classroom activities
• Ancient Olympic Cyberhunt with worksheet
• Countdown to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games - Education World- Lessons to teach history, vocabulary, decimals, sportsmanship, and more!
  • Let the games begin - Education World - more than two dozen Olympics-related classroom activities.
• EdHelper - Olympics Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles - need membership
• Enchanted Learning - Olympics history, printouts, links
• Gateway to the Winter games lesson plans from 2002- Copernicus Education Gateway
• Olympic activities for Preschoolers
• Teacher Vision - Olympic games resources ( first 4 freee, then $$)
• Winter Olympics for Kids - 4th grade student site with cyber hunts
  • Winter Olympic Activities - to print out

Go for the Gold

• Go for the gold cyberhunt
• Go for the gold - winter Olympics activities - Education World - math, geography, listening, ABC order
• Go for the gold - Scholastic - history, in my backyard, in the news, get in the game
  • Go for the gold - Scholastic
  • Go for the gold - Scholastic - books and resources