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BrainPOP - Olympics - Learn about the origins of the Olympics from Tim & Moby, with plenty of cross-curricular interactive activities that will bridge Ancient Greece to 2010.

Olympic Science videos are for students who are forever asking the question “how am I going to use this?” (and shouldn’t they all be asking this!). In the bottom right hand corner of the Olympic Science site you will find more science data.

Tim Learns About The Olympics is a short story that provides audio support for the text.

nice interactive on the Winter Olympics. From weekly reader, it can also provide audio support for the text.


nice interactive from the International Olympic Committee — click on the name of the sport, and it will show you a lot of multimedia related to it.

Olympic Torch Relay heads to Vancouver is a series of photos from The Big Picture.

This interactive will show you the different locations in Vancouver of the competitions, as well as a history of medal winners from previous Winter Olympics.

short Internet Scavenger Hunt on the Vancouver Olympics.

interactive on “medal counts” from different countries.

accessible history of the Olympic games.

The Best Of Us Challenge
lets you see “challenges” (strange and fun competitions like balancing a stick on your foot) that Olympic athletes have created for ordinary people to beat them at. You can record your attempt at their challenge and post it at the site. In addition, you can create your own video challenges.

Vancouver’s Olympic Venues is a neat interactive from The New York Times.

Passing the Torch: An Evolution of Form
is an update of another great interactive from The New York Times.






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