• Getting Ready For the Winter Olympics:
  • Olympic Museum
  • Olympic Trivia
• Vancouver 2010 - The official site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Information on the XXI Olympic Winter Games which take place from the 12th to 28th February, 2010.
• The Olympic Torch Relay - Follow the progress of the Olympic Flame as it makes its way around Canada
• CBC | Road to the Games- The count down in on! Current Olympic Sports Headlines, Photo Galleries, Athlete Blogs, ….They are all covered in this current CBC Olympics site, along with athlete bios and photos, event schedules and more. Follow CBC British Columbia on Twitter.
• CTV Olympics - Check out Canadian Athlete & Team News, Videos, Photos, Games History and much more! Follow CTVOlympics on Twitter, too.
• Canadian Olympic School Program (Available in French and English) - This resource designed to inspire Canadian students to become Smarter, Better and Stronger. The Canadian Olympic School Program aligns lesson plans with information about the Olympic Games and the achievements of Canadian athletes. By calculating hockey goaltender Kim St-Pierre’s goals-against-average, students will learn to handle and manipulate decimals through a real-world application. And by reading about freestyle skiing aerialist Jeff Bean's flights down the mountainside, students will identify a theme in a piece of reading. The lessons are geared to Grades Four to Six, and cover elements of reading, math and physical education that are common to provincial requirements across the country. Enrollment is required for these free resources.
• Sharing the Dream (from Ministry of Education B.C.) - Search the collection of lesson ideas related to Vancouver 2010.
• Winter Olympic Wordsearch - Print out copies of this Winter Olympics student worksheet to review many of the winter sports athletes will be participating in this February.
• Winter Olympic Printables from Tech-nology.com - Acrostic poem, KWL, Research activity and lots more!
• 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games - To get students ready for this special event, Education World offers more than two dozen Olympics-sized classroom activities to help creative teachers capitalize on this ultimate "teachable moment."
• The Winter Olympics at InfoPlease - An excellent research resource for projects on the 2010 Olympics. Includes information on winter Olympic sports
• The Olympic Games - From Enchanted Learning. Lots of information and activities here!
• Vancouver Olympic Cyberhunt
  

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• The Ancient Greeks - 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.
• Ancient Olympic Cyberhunt
• Winter Olympics Memorable Moments - The legends and foibles of the Winter Olympics
• The Ancient Olympics
• Olympic Primer - A guide to the history, symbols, and issues of the Olympic Games.
• Olympic Museum - Great resource!
• Olympics Through Time - Includes prehistory, antiquity, and revival.
• Photo Walkabout: Olympic History - Take a tour of the Olympics through time with music and images, from 1896 to present day.
• What is the History and Meaning of the Olympics? - Essay by a sixth grade student.

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• Official Olympic Lesson Plans
  Are you looking for Olympic-themed lesson plans to use in your classroom? Search no further! Look below for official Olympic lesson plans developed by Griffin Publishing Group and EdGate.
• MORE Olympic Games Lesson Plans - Let the Games Begin - Let the Learning Begin! - from the Games in Torino, Italy
• Olympic World themed lesson plans - presented by EdGate and Griffin Publishing.
• The Olympics Across The Curriculum
  Eventhough these resources were developed around the time of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and you can find several learning resources to explore the theme in this teaching guide. Try mapping exercises, creating your own reading olympics, learning about mythology, responding through writing exercises, and more--very creative suggestions here.
• A Measure of Greatness - Lesson plan from Education World in which students participate in a variety of Olympic-type activities involving measurement.
• Science and the Olympics - From the WhyFiles.
• AIMS Activities – Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science On the Olympics...These are in .pdf format (need Acrobat Reader)
  • Classroom Olympics - provides a set of activities in which students participate in several classroom "Olympic-type" events where they will apply measurement skills. Grade K-3.
  • Water Olympics - is a series of four activities that deal with some of the properties of water. The activities are short and may be done one at a time or all together in an "olympic" format. The activities can be used as an introduction to a water unit.
  • Mini-Metric Olympics - is a set of activities in which students become familiar with metric units by estimating and measuring in a "Metric Olympic" setting. Grade 3-6

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• The Path of the Athlete - Learn which flags belong to which participating country, choose foods for the athletes, decide which training materials each different sport should use, compete in a downhill slalom race, and then take their position at the winner's podium in this interactive set of Olympic learning games.
• Design Your Event Ticket - The events are almost underway... How would your students like to attend the Winter Olympic Games? Which events would they choose to attend? Have them design their own event ticket, based upon a selected event, and addressing the elements of design.
• On-line crossword Puzzle: Olympic Sports
• Scholastic: Go for the Gold Cyberhunt
• Enchanted Learning Olympics Alphabet Hunt
• Olympic Rings Report - Do your students know what the five Olympic rings stand for? Have them do the research on history, color, etc., adding their own illustrations using this student report template.
• Ancient Olympic Internet Scavenger Hunt
  What do you know about the Ancient Olympics? Visit the web sites listed and then answer the questions to learn more about them.
  • Word doc version
  • PDF version
  • Answer sheet
• Olympic Trivia - Choose the Olympic year and a new trivia item appears every ten seconds.
• The Olympics - Theme from KidsKonnect....some good resources, but the music....
• Olympics Flag to color - to print out
• Olympic Crossword - to print out
• Olympic Quiz - to print out
• Color the Flag online
• Olympic Ideas - A collection of Olympic Links for r teachers and students; categories include information for the 2006 games, history of the Olympics, winter Olympic sports, information on Torino, games, teacher resources, and more.
  

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