The Winter games are here and it's a great chance to energize your classroom with all the possibilities for Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Health and Science. "How?" you might ask. Check out the Engaged Learning 2002 Winter Olympics Trip Planning Unit at http://www.op97.k12.il.us/instruct/EL/projects/olym.htm as an example. The possibilities are as endless as your imagination!

My Summer Olympics edition can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Innovative-Teaching/message/277. Also, Kathy Schrock recent short list of 2002 game sites <http://kathyschrock.net/olympics.htm> hits the major web resources for 2002. My intention is to avoid duplication and offer you further resources to enrich and extend what's already available for you. Since there is such a wealth of sites, I opted to categorize rather than annotate. Thanks to Tina Crane and Jerry Blumengarten for their recommendations!

I noted that YahooGroups had modified their links for my older archived newsletters (1998-2000), and I have updated those links on my Innovative Teaching Archive Page <http://surfaquarium.com/news.htm>. So if you haven't been to the archive lately it may be worth the trip. And now, here's the Innovative Teaching edition of the Winter Olympics 2002-style!

News Coverage

• 2002 Olympic Torch Relay - http://www.2002.coke.com/index_flash.html
• Anchorage Daily News: 2002 Winter Olympics - http://24hour.adn.com/sports/olympics/
• CBS Sportsline - http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/Olympics/
• CNNSI Winter Olympics - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/Olympics/2002/
  
• NBC Complete Olympics Coverage - http://www.nbcolympics.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=/news/nbcomain_front.asp
• The Road to Salt Lake - http://www.ktvb.com/roadtosl/
  
• Sportserver 2002 Olympic Coverage - http://www.sportserver.com/Olympics/
  
• Olympic Weather Support Project - http://www.met.utah.edu/Olympics/
• US Olympic Team - http://www.usolympicteam.com/

Olympics Overview

• Brain Pop - http://www.brainpop.com/specials/Olympics/
• Fact Monster - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0115110.html
• Forest Service 2002 Planning - http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/2002/
• Information Please Almanac - http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0115111.html
• Official Site of the 2002 Winter Games - http://www.saltlake2002.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=/news/slocmain_front.asp
• Salt Lake 2002 Paralympics - http://www.paralympics2002.com/
• Symbols of the Olympic Games - http://www.southcom.com.au/~jennifert/Games/rings.html
  

Olympics Activities

• ABC Teach: Olympics - http://www.abcteach.com/Olympics/olympicsTOC.htm
• AIMS: Classroom Olympics - http://www.aimsedu.org/Activities/cOlympics/colympics.pdf
• Amateur Athletic Foundation Web Games - http://www.aafla.org/6oic/WebGames/web_frmst.htm
• Celebrations: Olympics - http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/olympics.html
• Enchanted Learning Olympics Activities - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Olympics/
• Global School Net: CyberTorch - http://www.globalschoolnet.org/programs/torch02/
• Learning About the 2002 Winter Olympics - http://www.kusd.edu/lessons/ellessons/willkomm_project.html
• New York Times Learning Network - Winter Olympics 2002 - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/2002olympics/
• Nutrition Science and the Winter Olympics - http://btc.montana.edu/Olympics/nutrition/default.htm
• Salt Lake City CyberHunt - http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/Olympics/saltlake.htm
• Scholastic Electronic Learning: The Olympic Games - http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/olympics01.htm
• Sports Science meets the Olympics - http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/
• Teacher's Corner Thematic Unit: 2002 Winter Olympics - http://www.theteacherscorner.net/thematicunits/current.htm
• Teachervision Winter Olympics Lessons - http://www.teachervision.com/tv/tvsearch.php?keywords=Olympics&sitesearch=1&in=TV_all
• ThinkQuest: Unusual Sports in the Olympics - http://library.thinkquest.org/J002862/
• Utah Education Network Olympics 2002 - http://www.uen.org/2002/
• WebQuest: So you Want to Host the Olympics?- http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq158/
• Winter Olympics Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles - http://www.edhelper.com/olympics.htm
• Winter Olympics for Kids - http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/Olympics/winterolympics.htm

Online Sports Simulations

• Kids Domain Online Sports Games - http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/sports.html
• NabiscoWorld Sports Land - http://www.nabiscoworld.com/SportsLand/default.htm
• Nickelodeon Gas Interactive Games - http://www.nick.com/your_world/gamesandsports/play/index.jhtml
• ***Sandbox Online Interactive Games - http://www.adveract.com/games/sports.shtml
  

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