Olympic Educational Activities
Your connection to fun facts and activities about the Olympics. |
 | Mini-Metric Olympics Activity - This is a link to AIMS Education Foundation's "Mini Metric Olympics" page. The site provides activities for estimating and measuring in metric units. The Mini-Metric Olympics activities includes score sheets, badges, and directions for the Paper Plate Discus, Paper Straw Javelin, Cotton Ball Shot Put, Right Handed Marble Grab, Left-handed Sponge Squeeze, and the all time favorite, Big Foot Contest. The site also includes a brief background on the Olympic Symbol, History of Ancient Games, Olympic Motto, Olympic Flame, and Modern Olympic Games. |
 | Sports and Olympic Games Coloring Pages - Download and print sports and Olympic games coloring pages suitable for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten. Activities provided by First-School Preschool and Crafts. |
 | U.S. Olympic Base Camp - An interactive website for children with animated animals and sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee. |
| Flex your math skills by solving Medal Math problems by Education World and Winter Olympic word problems. |
| Teachers... the Math and Olympics: An Inquiry Unit provides ideas and resources for using the Olympic events to apply math concepts while exploring student interest in sports. |
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| This site sponsors a collection of websites providing links to cross curriculum activities with an Olympic theme. Join the fun! |
General Olympic Information |
| Did you ever wonder who held the Olympic Record for skating, cycling, weightlifting, or many of the other Olympic games? Investigate here. |
 | U. S. Olympic Teams - Play Trivia Challenge, learn about the team members, join the U.S. Olympic Fan Club, and other great stuff here at the U.S. Olympic Teams site. |
| Official Olympic Movement site. Enjoy getting an official view of the Olympic program by touring this site. |
| Olympic Games Program - Learn about the sports that make up the summer and winter Olympic games. Meet some of the international athletes that will be participating in the Torino, Italy games this February. |
| General Information on Individual Olympic Sports - An interesting site that provides information on the history of different Olympic sports, the rules, and equipment. This is a large Adobe Acrobat file (pdf) that covers all the sports that participate in the summer and winter games. |
Winter Olympics: Metric units are utilized in measuring the event classes, distances, and sports equipment. |
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Biathlon consists of ten events in the Olympic program. Men and Women compete in a sprint, pursuit, individual and relay.
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Bobsleigh consists of three events in the Olympic program. Men and women compete in two-man/two-woman. Men also compete in four-man.
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Skeleton is considered the world's first sliding sport. Olympic skeleton events consists of four runs timed electronically to 0.01 seconds.
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| Curling is a competition between two teams with four players each. The game is played on ice, and the two teams take turns pushing a 19.1 kg stone towards a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stone as close to the center of the circles as possible.
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| Ice Hockey has a men and womens teams in the Olympics. Women compete in an eight-team tournament whereas men compete in a 12-team tournament.
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| Luge has four parts in which athletes take four runs down the track. Each run counts. The four times are added, and the fastest total time determines the winner.
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Figure Skating historically grew from necessity as a mode of transportation. There are four Olympic Figure Skating events: womens singles, men's singles, pairs, and ice dancing.
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Short Track Speed Skating consists of eight events. Men and women compete in 500 m, 1000m and 1500m. There is a 5000m relay for men, and a 3000m relay for women.
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Speed Skating at the Olympic Games consists of ten events: 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m, for both women and men, 3000m for women, 10,000m for men, and Team pursuit for women and men.
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Alpine Skiing consists of ten events: five for women and five for men. The rules are the same for men and women, but the courses differ. In all cases, the time is measured to .01 seconds and ties are permitted.
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Cross Country Skiing comprises twelve different skiing events. Women compete in the sprint, team sprint, 10km individual start, 15km pursuit, 30km mass start and the 4x5km relay. Men compete in the sprint, team sprint, 15km individual start, 30km pursuit, 50km mass start and the 4x10km relay.
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Freestyle Skiing used to originally be a mix of alpine skiing and acrobatics. The moguls competition consists of a run down a heavily moguled course with two jumps. The Olympic aerial format consists of a two-jump qualification followed by a two-jump final.
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Nordic Combined has its 5,000 year-old roots in Norway. It involves ski jumping, which requires physical strength and technical control, and cross-country skiing which demands endurance and strength. All three Nordic combined events consist of a ski jumping competition and a cross-country skiing race.
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Ski Jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games since the first Games in Chamnix Mont-Blanc in 1924. There are three ski jumping events: Individual normal hill, Individual large hill, and Team Event.
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Snowboarding was developed in United States in the 1960s. There are six snowboard events on the program of the Olympic Winter Games: men's halfpipe, ladies' halfpipe, men's parallel giant slalom and ladies' parallel giant slalom, men's snowboard cross and ladies' snowboard cross.
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