Kids & Students Contents:
Educational Resources AAF Olympic Lesson Plans & Activities
page provides a resource of lessons and activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Lessons are available by content area.
http://www.aafla.org/6oic/curriculum2.htm EdNA Online's Olympic Games Page
highlights a selection of sites on Olympic themes and issues, to support school sector research and learning activities related to the Olympics.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/publish/system/edures/olympics.html Faces of the Olympics
is a school-based project from Victoria which aims to develop students
aged 10-16 skills in researching the stories behind the Olympics, and promotes oral history involving people who have had all kinds of experiences with the Olympics.
http://www.mtpleasps.vic.edu.au/olympics/ The Olympic Studies Center
provides a page of links to various Olympic Education sites. Short explanations of what is available at each site are also provided.
http://blues.uab.es/olympic.studies/education.html
Olympic Studies Centers The International Centre for Olympic Studies includes details on conference information, lecture
series, publications and related sites. The site, which is part of the University of Ontario, is housed in Canada, but is reasonably fast to download.
http://www.uwo.ca/olympic/ The Olympic Studies Centre manages the International Chair in Olympism which was created
in 1995 by agreement between Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the International
Olympic Committee. The website reflects the objectives of the chair, which are "to promote
research, education and the dissemination of the Olympic Movement's ideals at university level". A
directory of international research, the proceedings of the 1998 Olympia Internet Seminar and access
to a wealth of information on topics including: Olympic education; forums on Olympism and sport; and adapted sport and paralympics are accessible via the home page.
http://blues.uab.es/olympic.studies/ University of New South Wales Centre for Olympic Studies
provides information on activities, research, publication and teaching carried out at the University. It includes contact details of Centre
staff and links to Official Olympic sites and Study sites.
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/olympic/
Photographs SPORTSHOOT PHOTOGRAPHY provides an opportunity to view many action shots of
Olympic high spots and of other sporting events. Due to the photographic content on these pages they may take a long time to download.
http://www.sportshoot.com.au/
Quizzes, etc AAF Web Arcade
provides children of all ages with an opportunity to learn about the Olympics by playing a range of interactive games. There are five different games which are best played on
Windows95, NT or Mac PCs. Each one takes between 30 seconds and a minute to load. The page
is part of the Amateur Athletics Foundation (Los Angeles) site which links to numerous other useful and informative pages.
http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/WebGames/WebGames.htm Good Trivia Facts
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0771580.html XIX Olympic Organizing Committee
(Salt Lake City 2002) provides a page for children which includes printable puzzles and pages for coloring in. The site can be slow to download and requires
a frames capable browser.
http://www.slc2002.org/sloc/get_involved/education/education_index.html |
