The Official Site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games for Kids
http://www.olympics.com/eng/kids/teachers/index.html?/eng/kids/teachers
Here you will find a set of six Learning Centers for you to use in your classroom.The variety of tasks from the Kids site of the Official Sydney 2000 Olympic Games website cover learning areas including English, mathematics, science, studies of society and environments, technology, music and visual arts. This site is rich in content and offers plenty of suggestions on how to effectively incorporate its use into your classroom activities.
Olympic Information Center
http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicInformationCenter.htm
This resource contains "one of the world's largest collections of materials pertaining to the Olympic Games...from digitized copies of Olympic Official Reports to Java-based Web games for kids of all ages." This site also features an Olympic curriculum guide. Use this resource, with its many fascinating links, to tie lessons to the world of amateur athletics.
Olympics Research Project
http://www.highlands.vic.edu.au/olympics
This online project is designed for teachers and students doing research on the Olympics and includes materials that will guide students through six research steps.
The Official Site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
http://www.olympics.com/eng
Visit this official site for up-to-the-minute information on the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. The site also features in-depth information on sports, games and competing athletes.
History - Olympics
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/u/olympics/2000/history
Learn about the history of the Olympics from the1886 Athens games representing 14 nations and 245 athletes to the 1996 Atlanta games where 197 countries and 10,310 athletes participated in. Browse by year and location or by sport.
Science and the Olympics
http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/index.html
This informative site examines how advances in technology have had an impact on and improve the performance and achievements of athletes around the world.
The Ancient Olympics
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics
Based on information from the Perseus Project at Tufts University (a digital library on Ancient Greece), this instructional site includes a comparison of ancient and modern Olympic sports, a tour of Olympia as it looks today, information on the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, and stories from Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times. Also featured are answers to frequently asked questions about the Ancient Olympics.
The Olympics
http://www.ausport.gov.au/olymenu.html
Compiled by the Australian Sports Commission, this site provides an extensive collection of links to topics that include the history of the ancient and modern games, discontinued and demonstration sports, and issues such as women, politics, drugs, and technology and the Olympics.
The Olympic Web Site
http://www.olympicwebsite.com/index.html
This site contains interesting historical information on the Olympic Games from 1896 through the present.
The Ancient Olympic Games
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html
This site explores the role politics, nationalism and commercialism played in the Olympic Games from Ancient Times through the present.
Sports History - Index to the Olympics
http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olympix.shtml
This site contains a list of Olympic records, indexed by sport; history of the modern and ancient Games, and links to other Olympic Games information sites.
Olympic Heroes - Then and Now
http://people.aol.com/people/sp/olympics/index.html
This People magazine site features legendary Olympians.
96 Years of Women in the Olympics
http://www.feminist.org/archive/olympics/intro.html
This site explores the impact, progress, and problems faced by and overcome by women at the Olympics.
The Olympic Hall of Fame
http://www.usoc.org/usoc/share.htm
From the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Olympic Hall of Fame honors outstanding American Olympians. The site features an overview of the history of games as well as concise biographies of Olympic heroes.
The Olympic Museum
http://www.museum.olympic.org
This excellent site is the online component to the Olympic Museum, located in Ouchy, Switzerland. The site contains historical information on the games, a virtual art gallery that features pictures, audio clips and movie clips, and much more.
The First Modern Olympic Games - Athens 1896
http://www.orama.com/athens1896/descr.html
This site takes an in-depth, day-by-day look at the first Olympic Games held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
Olympic Sports
http://espn.go.com/oly/index.html
This ESPN site will have daily coverage of the games while they are in progress.
The site also features headline news as well as other interesting information about the Olympic athletes and the sports they participate in.
United States Olympic Committee
http://www.olympic-usa.org
The official site of the USOC includes sections on the Olympic, Paralympic, and Pan American games, the competing athletes, up-to-the-minute news headlines, and useful education resources.
