These links will bring you to lesson plans, worksheets and sites with ideas for teaching the Winter Olympics. Use the Olympics page for links for information.

Click for the Introduction to the Olympics Scavenger Hunt in MSWord or Adobe Acrobat.

Click to go to the links page for kids to use for the Introduction to the Olympics Scavenger Hunt.

ATHLETES:

Click here for a lesson plans to guide your research about the Canadian Olympic team.

For the worksheet for this section in MS Word click here. In pdf format click here.

SPORTS:

Click here for a lesson on researching the Winter Olympic sports

Click here for worksheet in MS Word or here for Adobe Acrobat version.

GENERAL OLYMPICS:

Educator's Guide to the Olympics - The is an EXCELLENT site to get Fact Sheets, Questions for your class, activities, neat worksheets, lesson plans and more!

Winter Olympics for Kids - Here you will find some Scavenger Hunts for the kids that are really well done (Ancient Olympics and Salt Lake City Olympics) plus information written in kid-friendly language.

abc Teach Olympics - Lots of lessons and ideas here.

Learning Network - Olympics links, lessons and vocabulary sheets.

Kid's Colouring Pages - Good for primary students.

Scholastic Teaching Online - 2002 Winter Olympics- Lots of information and ideas here for teachers!

HISTORY:

Click here for a lesson plan with worksheets for studying the history of the Olympics.

RECORD KEEPING:

Click for a sheet to use for keeping track of athlete's scores in MSWord or Adobe Acrobat.

Click for a sheet to use to keep track of the medals won by different countries and compare to each country's population in MSWord or Adobe Acrobat.

Click for a sheet to use to keep track of the medals that Canada receives in MSWord or Adobe Acrobat.

MASCOTS:

Click for a sheet to use for kids to learn about the mascots for this year's Olympics and the symbolism of the 5 rings in MSWord or in Adobe Acrobat.