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Winter or summer, the Olympics provide teaching opportunities across the curriculum for students of all ages. Browse these options for curriculum connections to light the Olympic flame in your classroom.
If you wish to narrow this list of Olympics-related resources for a specific topic and grade level, try entering your topic and Olympics as search terms in the TeachersFirst keyword search, setting the grade level you seek, as well.
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History for Kids - history-for-kids.com
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K to 6
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Join lyrical rhyming adventures of history in poetry! Find poems summarizing famous people or periods from history. Explore the topics in the left sidebar: Ancient History, Middle Ages,...more
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Join lyrical rhyming adventures of history in poetry! Find poems summarizing famous people or periods from history. Explore the topics in the left sidebar: Ancient History, Middle Ages, British History, American History, Myths & Legends, and Pirates. The American History poems include: The California Gold Rush, The Statue of Liberty, The Moon Landing, The Voyage of the Mayflower, The Boston Tea Party, and a few others. Each poem includes additional facts about the event or people, along with drawings submitted by students. You will also find coloring pages, interviews, jokes, and more. Be aware: this site does include a lot of advertisements. At the time of this review, all advertisements were completely "kid-appropriate." However, it may be wise to advise students not to click on any of the links/pictures.
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tag(s): boston (15), california (24), dinosaurs (36), england (51), gold rush (15), greece (22), myths and legends (12), olympics (40), romans (23), vikings (5)
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Make history (and mythology) come alive in your classroom with a little rhythm and rhyme! Use the poems to supplement your instruction while even adding tambourines, clapping, tapping, or toe tapping reaching all learners. Share the actual poem on your projector or Interactive whiteboard. If you want students to have a hard copy of the poem (to use as a study guide), print it out. Otherwise, save paper and share the link on your class website. If you can't find the history or mythology topic you are studying, it is time for your students to make their own rhymes. Have students create poems for photos and images using either the computer or cell phones using Yodio (reviewed here). To find Creative Commons images for student poems (with credit, of course), try PhotoPin, reviewed here. Have a poetry day featuring what you have studied in history. Be sure to add your students' projects to your class website or blog. Gifted students will enjoy the challenge while struggling learners will enjoy the reinforcement of the main ideas.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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The Olympics: Math Puzzles and a Game - Lets Play Math!
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1 to 8
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Find a collection of wonderful math resources for elementary students related to the Olympic games. Although the blog was originally created in 2008, many of the activities and sites...more
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Find a collection of wonderful math resources for elementary students related to the Olympic games. Although the blog was originally created in 2008, many of the activities and sites have been updated. Find word games sorted by event and grade level (such as Summer Olympic Swimming for grades 1 and 2). Many of the lesson plans include national math standards. Some great research ideas are also offered, such as exploring the Olympics through time. Explore previous medal counts before predicting this year's medals through the Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger link.
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tag(s): charts and graphs (159), data (118), estimation (40), logic (185), mean (16), median (18), mode (10), olympics (40), operations (84)
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Explore previous medal counts with your students and ask them to predict this year's counts and graph as the games occur. Compare all three sets of data to find trends and abnormalities. Have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here or PicLits (reviewed here. Create posters of favorite Olympic athletes, sports, or competing nations. Create a link on classroom computers to the Math Playground Olympics game and challenge students to find out how much they know about the Olympics.
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Long Jump Challenge - eChalk
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3 to 6
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Practice math facts with this easy to use interactive featuring long jumpers (perfect during Olympic years). Choose from three different levels of difficulty and from addition, subtraction,...more
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Practice math facts with this easy to use interactive featuring long jumpers (perfect during Olympic years). Choose from three different levels of difficulty and from addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or a mix of all operations. Before beginning, decide to play with 5 or 10 questions for each round and you are ready to begin. Correct responses move the jumper one meter and quick responses add an additional meter to score. When finished, the length of the jump is displayed along with a prompt to play again at the same level or move up in difficulty.
tag(s): addition (180), division (113), multiplication (159), olympics (40), operations (84), subtraction (145)
In the Classroom
This site is great for using on the interactive whiteboard or classroom computers as a center activity. Use during the Summer Olympics as a fun way to incorporate math into current events. Create a chart of long jumps performed during the Olympics and compare student results from the game to actual jumps. Create a class chart of students' scores at different levels of difficulty and challenge students to move up in difficulty levels for each concept. Create a link to the site on your classroom website or blog to share with parents for at-home practice.
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Virtual Field Trips - Utah Education Network
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1 to 12
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Save hundreds of dollars spicing up your curriculum with virtual field trips! This site has "field trips" to take, instructions for creating, and resources for other virtual field trip...more
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Save hundreds of dollars spicing up your curriculum with virtual field trips! This site has "field trips" to take, instructions for creating, and resources for other virtual field trip sites. Field trips for; Career, fine arts, foreign language, health and PE, language arts, math, library, media, professional development, science, social studies, and technology are given. There is a plethora of topics - perfect for research and "virtual" travel. The topics are too broad to list all of them, but some include tessellations, dinosaurs, water cycle, medieval times, Civil War, oil painting, and much more! Receive a detailed tutorial for finding instructions on asking permission for field trips, creating virtual field trips, and evaluating the experience. No bus required! At the time of this review, three of the links under "Visit Related Sites" were not working.
tag(s): animals (197), baseball (38), biomes (112), business (45), charts and graphs (159), civil war (113), dinosaurs (36), egypt (60), field trips (8), immigrants (7), immigration (40), japan (57), maps (194), mayans (8), medieval (20), mexico (29), multiple intelligences (7), musical instruments (18), nutrition (116), olympics (40), painting (58), probability (85), religions (38), rocks (35), russia (24), sports (65), statistics (90), tessellations (5), test prep (72), virtual field trips (26), volcanoes (48), water cycle (26)
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Immerse your students into your studies with a close up in depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Create a personalized field trip to meet your every need with the detailed tutorials given. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ESL/ELL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides to their own learning. Make your class go global!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Get Set London - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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2 to 12
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This site offers games, resources, and other information about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. WIth a free registration, even more information is available, but there...more
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This site offers games, resources, and other information about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. WIth a free registration, even more information is available, but there is plenty to look at without it. Check by clicking on "Resources" to choose age-appropriate activities for students throughout the K-12 range. The site is focused on students from the UK, but it is certainly exciting and complete for any student. Other offerings, besides resources, include links to relevant movies, cooking tips for the international games crowd, ideas about how to be a team player, and even opportunities to become contributing members of teams.
tag(s): olympics (40)
In the Classroom
Assign your students important dates in the history of the Olympics; use this site in conjunction with The Olympic Games from Enchanted Learning reviewed here to discover the difference between the Olympics then and now.Have small groups of students use Preceden,reviewed here, to create a timeline for the history of the Olympics, and since Preceden will allow students to make a timeline that is multi-layered have them investigate what else was happening in the world for the time period they were assigned. Have students present their timelines to the class using your interactive whiteboard and projector.
Have students use facts from this site to make Bingo cards, or board games for small groups to enjoy.
Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on values on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Ask your students to visit the site and create a multimedia presentation about teamwork. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.
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Vancouver 2010: With Glowing Hearts - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic
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K to 12
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This eclectic site has something for everyone about the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. For younger students, be sure to meet the mascots of the site, view the interactives, and more. Students...more
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This eclectic site has something for everyone about the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. For younger students, be sure to meet the mascots of the site, view the interactives, and more. Students of all ages can use this site to learn about the schedule, view photos and videos, learn about each sport in the winter 2010 Olympics, trace the torch relay, view a spectator guide, meet the athletes, view the interactive map, and more.
In the Classroom
Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Introduce the mascots to your students and discuss their relevance. Have students research various athletes or sports and create a multimedia presentation. Use the Olympics as the theme for your study of world geography. Have students create online posters on paper or do it together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here). Have cooperative learning groups create online books using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here.
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Virtual Body
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4 to 12
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Here's an animated and narrated tour through the major body systems that could be useful as an individualized study resource or for group presentations. Unlike many similar efforts,...more
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Here's an animated and narrated tour through the major body systems that could be useful as an individualized study resource or for group presentations. Unlike many similar efforts, the images for these tours are of medical illustration quality, which increases the instructional value of this content. Learn about the human brain, human heart, skeleton, and digestive track. Well worth a look. Narration allows you to listen and read -- both in English and Spanish!
tag(s): body systems (42), heart (34), olympics (40)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for an interactive whiteboard or projector. Use this site during a biology unit on the heart, brain, skeletons, or digestive system. Use the site during a unit on the Olympics, while you discuss how all systems work together. Assign small groups to investigate one particular system of the body and prepare a multimedia presentation to share with the class. Have students create online posters on paper using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here).
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All About Snow - National Snow and Ice Data Center
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3 to 12
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Everything you wanted to know about snow can be found in this informative site. The site is divided into easy to use sections containing facts, questions and answers, a gallery, ...more
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Everything you wanted to know about snow can be found in this informative site. The site is divided into easy to use sections containing facts, questions and answers, a gallery, and other useful links. The range of topics goes from blizzards to snow formations. Especially informative is the question and answer section where readers can find the answer to questions from "How big can a snowflake get?" to "Is it ever too cold to snow?"
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Ask students to write their own questions about snow and research the information on this site. This is a perfect site to include with any winter activities. Ask students to locate the places mentioned in the gallery on a map. Have students research a historic snowstorm from a specific geographical location and use an online mapping tool to tell the class about the winter event (and location). Try a tool such as MapSkip (reviewed here). Use the site when teaching a unit on weather (or winter Olympics) for factual information about snow using the resources link. Extend the snow "storm" with snowflake interactives such as Make a Flake, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science of the Olympic Winter Games - Nantional Science Foundation
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3 to 12
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This site hosts 16 Olympics-related videos from NSF and NBC. Learn about the science of the Olympics available without a membership. Any science teacher can find something related to...more
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This site hosts 16 Olympics-related videos from NSF and NBC. Learn about the science of the Olympics available without a membership. Any science teacher can find something related to your curriculum: from Newton's Laws of motion, to concepts of physics, chemistry, biomechanics, and physiology. Math teachers can also find applied math concepts from basic arithmetic to calculus.
tag(s): olympics (40)
In the Classroom
Share these videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector, being sure to have student use the whiteboard tools as you pause the video so students can draw lines to illustrate forces and other concepts. Have student groups watch different videos and report back on the theoretical science AND the actual results from that sport, connecting the science concepts to the actual results they see in competition. Even younger students can benefit from the videos as an overview of more advanced concepts, provided you preview vocabulary, then stop and discuss more challenging words during the video. Your students will want the link to this site, so share it on your class web page. You can also embed the videos right in your web page, blog, or wiki. Have students write about the embedded piece, adding their own commentary of the actual Olympics based on the video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games - Associated Press
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K to 12
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Follow the latest Vancouver Olympics news from AP. The site includes profiles of legendary athletes from other Olympic years side by side with the latest results and highlight videos....more
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Follow the latest Vancouver Olympics news from AP. The site includes profiles of legendary athletes from other Olympic years side by side with the latest results and highlight videos. The interactive Venues section provides map skill practice as you gain a much better sense of the "layout" of the Vancouver games.
In the Classroom
Use this site side by side with other coverage to see varied reporting on the games. As students follow a specific sport in connection with curriculum or for current events, consider using your class wiki to make your own "Olympic News" features with a curricular angle, such as articles analyzing the physics of bobsledding or the physiology of elite athletes. Use the Olympics as writing prompts for more athletically-minded students: Ex. "The most important preparation any athlete can have is..." or "If I were in the Olympics..." or "The most important lesson of the Olympics is..." Have student reporters select and share daily 30 second "Olympic moments" to practice speaking skills.
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Mathwire.com - Terry Kawas
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K to 6
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This fabulous site provides seasonal math activities that are high interest and supported by National Math Standards. As the site states, "What we learn with pleasure, we never forget!"...more
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This fabulous site provides seasonal math activities that are high interest and supported by National Math Standards. As the site states, "What we learn with pleasure, we never forget!" There are a plethora of games, templates, links to Internet sites, and downloadable templates that provide teachers with ready to use materials for the classroom.
tag(s): census (17), holidays (117), literature (210), olympics (40), presidents (87), symmetry (38)
In the Classroom
Use the archives to find activities sorted by season and math strands making it easy to find just the right activity for whatever strand you are teaching. Then allow students to learn through exploration and constructivist learning. Mark this site in your Favorites as a regular stop to look for seasonal alternatives. Consider sharing some areas of the site with parents for students to find math activities that are fun to retain skills over long breaks. Take photos of the completed projects and have students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts by narrating one of the photos using Voicethread reviewed here.
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Gail Skroback Hennessey's Winter Olympics 2010 - Gail Skroback Hennessey
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3 to 6
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This site offers a 10 question fact quiz all related to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Links are provided to research the answers to each question. Most of the questions include ...more
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This site offers a 10 question fact quiz all related to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Links are provided to research the answers to each question. Most of the questions include multiple blanks to fill in (and research). Learn about the mascots of the games, history of the games, geography skills, locations of past games, information about Vancouver, the Olympic flag, and more.
In the Classroom
Have cooperative learning groups complete this activity together. If you don't have time for each group (or individual) to research all 10 questions, why not assign groups 2-3 questions each. Move beyond just the facts by challenging the groups to create a multimedia presentation about some aspect of the Olympics to share with the rest of the class. Use measurement connections in math, geography connections in social studies, etc. to determine the topics. Have groups create an Olympic podcast using PodOmatic (reviewed here).
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NBC Learn Olympics - NBC Universal, Inc.
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K to 12
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This choice website is loaded with high quality videos! The content is professional, and very well presented. There is a free trial, however, it is only available for thirty days. ...more
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This choice website is loaded with high quality videos! The content is professional, and very well presented. There is a free trial, however, it is only available for thirty days. Act fast! During the trial, the video originals and the science of the Winter Olympics can be streamed, but they cannot be downloaded. The five minute clips are perfect and very well suited to the concepts of beginning physics. Younger and older students alike will be able to make the connection between current events and science. Plus, the added bonus of sports and science is great! There are also grammar videos and mini documentaries that would be useful in language arts, English, and history classes. Clever users will use a 30 day trial to preview and perhaps a separate trial (using another email address or from another teacher) for teaching during the Olympics. Thirty days go by quickly. [Ed note: thanks to one of our TeachersFirst users, we are pleased to let teachers know that the same videos are available without a membership requirement through NSF's own site, reviewed here.
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Use these video clips to review information or to begin a discussion. Present the clips on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students do an information scavenger hunt by asking them to note as many scientific concepts from the video as they can. Have students think, pair, and share ideas and then have the pairs collaborate to create a class list of science concepts. The video link could be made available to the students on the class wiki, and students could be asked to choose a different sport and create their own explanation of the science behind it. Have student groups create their own videos and share them using a site such as Teachers.TV reviewed here. The possibilities are virtually limitless. With the Olympics videos, the resource easily lends itself to cross-curricular units. History, health, physical education, and science could all easily be combined. Music and English could also be incorporated with enough creativity. Enjoy, but act quickly!
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TeachersFirst's Vancouver Olympics 2010 Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12
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Whether you have a few minutes or a few days to light the Olympic torch in your classroom, TeachersFirst offers these resources to guide the way to medal-winning lessons. This ...more
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Whether you have a few minutes or a few days to light the Olympic torch in your classroom, TeachersFirst offers these resources to guide the way to medal-winning lessons. This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers and students learn more about the Vancouver Olympics, 2010, and to plan curriculum-related projects and classroom activities around the Olympic winter games in Vancouver. These links may also be helpful to compare the Vancouver games with other years.
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Use these resources to plan a special lesson or unit within your curriculum during the Olympics or share the link on your class web page for students to access both in and out of class for enrichment or individual projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Olympic Games - Enchanted Learning
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K to 5
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Although some of the printables are available to members only, this site does includes some excellent FREE information on the history of the Olympics, maps, flags, Greek alphabet, writing...more
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Although some of the printables are available to members only, this site does includes some excellent FREE information on the history of the Olympics, maps, flags, Greek alphabet, writing activities, graphic organizers, "Invent a New Olympic Sport" challenge, and more. If nothing else, the printables offer some great ideas to implement in your classroom (for example, "Write a Sentence for Each Sports-Related Word").
tag(s): olympics (40), poetry (193), puzzles (164), sports (65)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the ideas presented at this site (if you are a member or not). Share certain maps or handouts on your interactive whiteboard. Use this site to teach your students more about the history of the games.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Olympic Crafts and Fun - Kaboose
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Although this site isn't highly interactive, it does offer some theme based printables, crafts, and more. The three main links include: Olympic Crafts (Bingo Cards, Olympic Torch, and...more
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Although this site isn't highly interactive, it does offer some theme based printables, crafts, and more. The three main links include: Olympic Crafts (Bingo Cards, Olympic Torch, and others), Sports Printables, and Q & A with Julie Foudy. This site is geared more towards families (and moms in general), but many of the activities would be ideal in the elementary classroom.
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List this link on your class website for families to explore at home. Take advantage of the free craft ideas and printables.
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NBC Vancouver 2010 - NBC
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If you are looking for a general informational site about the 2010 Olympics, this is the site for you! Learn about the sports (alpine skiing, curling, freestyle skiing, snowboarding,...more
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If you are looking for a general informational site about the 2010 Olympics, this is the site for you! Learn about the sports (alpine skiing, curling, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and more), view video clips, watch a countdown (with days, hours, minutes and seconds), and more. Be aware this site does include unobtrusive advertisements.
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This is a great site to use for research about the 2010 Olympics. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have individual students view different video clips and then write about what they learned on your class Olympic Wiki. Not comfortable with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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xtimeline - Famento, Inc.
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2 to 12
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Xtimeline allows you to view, create, share, and discuss interactive timelines. The sample, user-created timeline topics vary greatly: History of the Olympic Games (perfect during Olympic...more
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Xtimeline allows you to view, create, share, and discuss interactive timelines. The sample, user-created timeline topics vary greatly: History of the Olympic Games (perfect during Olympic years), Google Company History, Biography of Mozart, Pregnancy Timeline, Timeline of Harry Potter Series, Eleanor Roosevelt, Darfur, and countless others. There are search options to help you find the timeline that you are looking for. Of course, there is also the option to create your own unique timeline and share it by URL or by embedding in your class blog, wiki, or their web page (see example below).
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If you only plan to VIEW timelines, no extra skills are needed at all! If you plan to comment or add a timeline, you must register. Registration requires a username, password, email address, and marking the box stating that you are OVER 13 YEARS OF AGE. To create a timeline, click on the Create link and follow the step-by-step directions. The next page will be a "fill in the blank" activity asking for the title of your timeline, language, photos, categories, tags, descriptions, and the security options for the timeline (who can edit, who can view, who is able to discuss).To protect the identity of your class and individual students, you may want to mark the boxes private (on the timeline create/edit screen). By marking the boxes private, others can't view, edit, or discuss your timeline. This eliminates many of the dangerous aspects of the public viewing your class information. If you make the timelines public, you may receive comment from outsiders("discussion"), ratings ("likes"), etc. These tools can be used within groups or privately with those you specify as having permission to view your timeline. These options could provide a controlled way for students to interact safely with each others' work.
There are many uses for the already created timelines: use your interactive whiteboard or projector to learn about the history of the Olympics, famous people, events, literature, and more. Have students create timelines for research projects using Xtimeline. Use this tool to make a timeline of your class' school year for younger classes who are just learning the graphical representation of time. Create animal life cycles, author biographies, or even timelines of the events and causes leading to a war. Make a time line using local, national, or international current events. Or look back in time and create a historical time line, scanning old pictures or using copyright free images from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Other ideas: artists, musicians, writers from a certain period in history, the twentieth century in different countries, World War II timeline, Civil War timeline, timeline of insect stages, timeline of the rock cycle, of a plant or tree, timeline or life cycle of migratory animals, personal timelines-- suitable for younger students only if they work with a teacher account. Have them create a timeline of the plot of a novel, interspersed with the ways themes appear throughout the novel. If you read Dickens, be SURE to create a timeline of the many intertwined characters, such as Estella and Pip in Great Expectations! If you teach chemistry, have students create illustrated sequences explaining oxidation or reduction (or both). Elementary students could even interview grandparents and create a class timeline about their grandparents' generation for Grandparents' Day. For collaboration, link up with another classroom in another town (or another country) to build a time line that shares events in each local area so students can see what was happening at the same time in another location, maybe in the opposite hemisphere (compare weather and seasons!). In world language classes, have students create a timeline of their family in the language to master vocabulary about relatives, jobs, and more (and verb tenses!).
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Human Anatomy Online - MyHealthScore.com
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Human Anatomy Online is so packed with information, students could spend hours maneuvering through the text. This site provides detailed information about the entire body as well as...more
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Human Anatomy Online is so packed with information, students could spend hours maneuvering through the text. This site provides detailed information about the entire body as well as common procedures and interesting facts. The simple, colorful visual aids make it very easy to understand the make-up of all of the systems as well as many of the body processes such as reproduction, muscle strength, cardiovascular health and much more. Be careful to keep students focused on the area of concentration. Otherwise, they could become overwhelmed with the quantity of information and get off track. Great for research projects and health units. Make sure to check out the fantastic tutorials, animations and description index.
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This site gives wonderful opportunities for visual, interactive lessons and enrichment. Include an in-class activity based on this site in your unit on body systems and/or list the link on your teacher web page for students to review before the unit test. If you have an interactive whiteboard, consider using the site as the unit introduction, as well. Share this site during the Olympic games to learn more about the muscles and systems required for the various sports. Have cooperative learning groups investigate a specific body system and complete a multimedia project. Have groups create online books using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here.
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Official Website of the Olympic Movement - Olympic.org
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This website offers a one-stop destination to all of your Olympic information. There are links across the top to learn about the athletes, sports, countries, and even a media player...more
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This website offers a one-stop destination to all of your Olympic information. There are links across the top to learn about the athletes, sports, countries, and even a media player offering video clips and more. At the time of this review the media player had over 1,000 videos and nearly 10,000 photographs! This is an excellent site for research about the Olympics (both summer and winter). There is also a link to go back and learn about the past 46 Olympic games. Although there are no "student" or "classroom" links, this site truly has something for everyone: maps and geography, science behind the sports, research about events and countries, athete information, and more.
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The possibilities at this website are endless. Use your interactive whiteboard or projector to share the MANY videos, information about the athletes, and many other activities. Use the site for research purposes about specific athletes or sports. Have students create multimedia presentations about events, athletes, or countries using this site. Create a class Olympics Wiki! Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries - check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through.
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