Social Studies

The Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

Official Vancouver Olympics site

Online games for kids - Flash animation games featuring the cartoony mascots

Enchanted Learning reources - text, coloring pages and more (elementary level)

Olympic crafts - From Disney's Kaboose web site.

Olympic Alphabet Book: Athletes, sports, and Olympic and Paralympic events all become the subjects for a class alphabet book in this Winter Olympics lesson plan for early elementary classes.

Lesson Starter search: A collection of lesson ideas from the Vancouver 2010 Education Program "Sharing the Dream."

Learn About The Winter Olympics Events: Find out more about each of the sports involved in the Winter Olympics, with this super online resource.

Winter Olympics Crossword: a printable Olympics crossword here for upper elementary classes along with a link to find the answers

Vancouver Cyberhunt: How much does it cost to attend an event at the Olympics? How many people live in Vancouver? Who are the three Olympic mascots? Students will use selected online sites to answer these and other questions.

Olympic Math: Find a bank of printable math worksheets covering grades one through five on various topics, all themed to the Winter Olympics.

Comparing The Ancient And Modern Olympics: Students will learn about both past and present traditions in the Olympic games, and then use the printable worksheets to compare those activities.

All about Canada:
A large compendium of K-12 lesson plans on different topics regarding the Winter Olympics host country introduces students to different aspects of Canada.

Olympic Emblems and Olympic Posters: The principles of design come into play with this lesson plan for middle and high school students involving research and collaborative design work.

Teacher Planet Winter Olympics Theme Page - Links to even more lesson plans and activities.

Teachers First Resources - Another page of links to other sites.

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General Olympic Sites

United States Olympic Team Site - Includes pages related to each sport, with bios of U.S. team members, news about the sport, a quiz, a "crash course" in the technical aspects of the sport, a teacher area, newsletter, and the Winter Games schedule.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Offers a history of the games, virtual galleries, results, activities and information about the Olympics.

NBC Olympics.com - Contains news, features, results, schedules, athlete bios, and more from the NBC coverage of the Olympics.

Olympic Games - From Wikipedia - Includes history, modern Olympics, symbols, sports, references, and more.

Go for the Gold - Student activities sponsored by Scholastic.

Sports coloring pages

The Ancient Greeks - In this BBC website for students, learn about the everyday Ancient Greek world, find out what it was like to grow up in Athens or Sparta, learn more about Greek culture, gods, and heroes, and of course, do take a look at the Olympic Games.

GLOBAL TREK -- GREECE - Your destination is Greece in this online world tour, where students will learn about the history of Greece, take a guided tour through its myths, and find research starters for the Olympic Games.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Education World Gold Medal Olympics Activities! - Let the Games begin! Get into the Olympic spirit with Education World's ten lessons about the Olympics.

EdGate Summer Games - Features fourteen Olympic lessons that are integrated with the skills necessary for life and work in the 21st Century.

Summer Olympics printable worksheets - Lined journal pages, concentration games, and links to more printable pages about China and the Olympics.

Official Beijing mascots - Five colorful mascots -- Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni -- that say "Welcome to Beijing," when you put the names together. This page tells all about them.

Teacher Planet Summer Olympics Theme Page - Links to even more lesson plans and activities.