2002 Winter Olympics at Dixie!

Teacher Resources

from "The Classroom Flyer" Friday, Feb. 8 2002

2002 WINTER OLYMPICS . . .

A MEASURE OF GREATNESS
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2148.shtml
Early elementary students can practice measurement skills with these "soft" Olympic activities for the classroom. Let third grade students create conversion charts for metric versus standard measurements.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES:
http://library.thinkquest.org/27528/main.htm
Third grade students can use this site from Thinkquest to explore memorable Olympic events, people, and the history of the games. Let your students work in teams to each take one category from the listings here to create a multimedia presentation for the class--try using Kid Pix.

WINTER OLYMPIC ACTIVITIES:
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/olympics/activities.htm
Wordsearches, puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, quizzes, and lots more... print some out for your students while you are covering the Winter Olympics.

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/goldmedal.html

Students can craft their own gold medals (or silver or bronze) for your own Olympic events. Try using gold paint instead of spray paint in the classroom; you might also consider incorporating a lesson on paper (and tree resources, recycling) by making your own paper and papier mache for the project. If not planning an Olympics Day or event at your school, then have student teams choose a country, chart their progress
with bulletin board graphs (decorate the top of your bulletin board with the Olympic rings), and award the medals to the student team/countries accordingly as the Olympic games unfold.

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