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Summer Olympic Games 2008- Beijing

• 2008 Summer Olympics - Beijing
  http://www.olympic.ca/Beijing2008
  Use the menu at the top of the page to access: Athletes, Sports, Schedules, Results, Multimedia
  
  
• Canadian Olympic Association
  http://www.coa.ca/default.htm
  
  
• Canadian Olympians
  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/olympians/index-e.html
  The history of Canadiian Olympic Sport from the 1900s to 2004
  • For current information of athletes go to COC
    
    
• Official Site of the Olympic Movement
  http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp
  • Sports
  • Athletes
  • The Movement
    • Education
    • Olympic Express - first Olympic Games “e-journal” for young people from all over the world.
    • For Teachers printable resources in English, French and German
      • Beijing 2008 - Educational Kit - 78 pg. pdf file
      • Photos to download
      • The Modern Olympic Games 18 pg pdf file
      • The Olympic Flame and Torch Relay 12 pg. pdf file
      • The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece 14 pg. pdf file
      • Olympic Games Posters 14 pg. pdf file
        Media Literacy resource
      • The Olympic Movement 12 pg. pdf file
      • The Olympic Symbols 10 pg. pdf file
        Wonderful background information
      • Educational Kits by Theme
        • The Mind Makes a Champion : Training my mind at school 46 pg. pdf file
        • Educational kit : Finding the Roots of Sport (coming soon)
        • Fair Play- Where Does It Come From?- What is It? 5 pg. pdf file
        • Sailing the World - 28 pg. pdf file
          
• Team USA
  http://teamusa.org/
  • Sports
  • Athletes
  • Events and Results
    
    
• Officaial Site Australia Olympics
  http://www.olympics.com.au/
  
  
• NBC Olympics
  http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html
  Coverage of the olympics. Get up-to-date results and schedules.
  
  
• ESPN
  http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/index
  
  
• Around the Rings
  http://www.aroundtherings.com/
  Independent source of world sports.

Lesson Plans

• Canadian Olympic School Program
  http://www.olympicschool.ca/default.aspx?PageID=1000
  You must register to this site priot to accessing the teacher resources. It is free.
  English or Francais
• Staff Room - featured videos, lesson plans and printable resources
  Excellent character education resources
  • Olympic Stories
  • Olympic Game Project Packs
  • Olympic Values
• Student Lounge
• Library
  • Canadian Olympic Timeline
  • Olympic Origins and History
  • Fairplay and Ethics in Sport
  • Beijing Olympics and Beijing Travel
  • Exercise Science
  • Canadian Olympic Information
  • Canadian Olympic School Program Archives
  • Media Library

• Wacky Olympics
  http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=2247
  Stations for a field day are provided.
  
  
• Olympic Curriculum Guide
  http://www.aafla.org/6oic/curric_frmst.htm
  Lessons in pdf files for Social Studies and Geography, math and science, language arts, and art. Some activites are specific to winter games but they can be adapted to the summer games quite easily.
  • Online Games
    
    
• Gold Medal Olympic Activities - Education World
  http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson201.shtml
  Excellent collection of ready to teach lessons and actvities for research or the active classroom.
  
  
• Go For the Gold
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/index.htm
  Online activities with easy reading resources.
  • Teacher's Guide - Lesson plans with pdf worksheets and assessment and evaluation.
    
    
• Summer Olympics Resource Page
  http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/summerolympics.php
  Massive collection of lesson plans and worksheets.
  
  
• The Gateway to the Summer Games
  http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/
  • About Athens
  • Healthy Bodies
  • Creative Zone
  • Lesson Plans - Literacy and cross-curricular lessons with printable resources
  • Olympic Facts
  • Parade of Nations
  • Paralympics
  • Spotlight Sport - Summer sports explained
    
    
• Gateway to the summer games - Olympic World
  http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/lesson_plans/efg/
  14 lesson plans.
  
  
• Sport & Science
  http://btc.montana.edu/olympics/default.htm
  Winter Olympics
  Interesting lessons with online reading material connecting scince, health and the biomechanics of physical education.
  
  
• Olympic Poster Design
  http://www2.edgate.com/summergames/lesson_plans/lp/?lp=lp8
  Students design their own poster to celebrate the Olympics.
  
  
• Action Figure Collages
  http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/7-desles.htm
  Art activity and links for more ...
  • Art About Sports
  • Olympics Reduction Linoleum Prints -with assessment
  
  
• Cretan or Classical Maze
  http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/cretan.htm
  History of classical mazes and and explantion of how to make your own maze.
  
  
• Summer Olympic Sports
  http://www.pocanticohills.org/olympics/summerolympics2.htm
  Student research explanations of sports at the summer Olympic Games.
  • Ancient Olympic Cyberhunt - printable worksheet with clickable links.
    
    
• A toZ Teacher Stuff - Olympics
  http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Olympics/index.shtml
  Lesson plans listed some with links and worksheets attached. Lots of literacy lessons included.
  
  
• Time for Kids - Covering the Summer Olympics
  http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2004S/040507NS.pdf
  4 page pdf file lesson plan.
  
  
• Mr. Donn's Sumulation Unit- Ancient Greek Olympics
  http://members.aol.com/MrDonnUnits/GreekOlympics.html
  Lessons and online information (easy to read).
  
  
• Olympic Friends
  http://www.makingfriends.com/friends/f+olympic.htm
  Printable activities.
  

Ancient Olympics

• The real story of the ancient olympic games
  http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicintro.shtml
  • The Games
  • The Athletes
  • The Women
  • The Politics
  • Commercialism
    
    
• Olympics Through Time
  http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/olympics/preview/
  Use the menu on the left to access information.
  • Prehistory
  • Antiquity
  • Revival
    
    
• The Ancient Olympics
  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
  • Ancient Olympic Sports
  • Tour of Olympia
  • Context of the Games and the Olympic Spirit
  • Athletes' stories
    

Past Olympics

• Athens 2004 Olympics - ABC
  http://abc.net.au/olympics/2004/default.htm
  • Features
  • Online Games
    

• BBC Sport- Olympics 2004
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/default.stm#
  Schedules and sports listed.
  
  
• Factmonster _ Olympics 2004
  http://www.factmonster.com/spot/04olympics.html
  Olympic facts including online quizzes.
  
  
• Summer Olympic Sports
  http://www.pocanticohills.org/olympics/summerolympics2.htm
  Student research reports with explanations of sports at the summer Olympic Games.
  
  
• Official Site of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
  http://www.saltlake2002.com/saltlake2002_sites.html
  
  
• Summer Games in Syney 2000
  http://www.acn.net.au/articles/olympics/
  Quick facts
  

  

  Winter Olympics in Torino, Itally 2006

  • Canadian Olympic Committee
    http://www.olympic.ca/EN/index.shtml
    • Olympic Sports
    • Send an e-greeting to the Candian Olympic Team
    • Olympic Schedule for the Canadian Team
      
      
  • Factmonster
    http://www.factmonster.com/spot/winter-olympics.html
    2006 Olympics
    

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Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Wednesday August 20, 2008 11:28 PM