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This month's Surf Report focuses on Olympic and other sports sites. Using
sports as a springboard can be a great way to get students excited
about a lesson in any subject area. |
Athens 2004 is the official Web site of the Summer 2004 games. |
Salt Lake City 2002 is the official Web site of the Winter 2002 games |
2002 Olympics Education from the Utah Education Network provides information tailored for students about Olympic sports, this year's games, the countries participating and more. The site also contains an extensive collection of activities worksheets and lesson plans designed to integrate the Olympics into the K-12 curriculum. |
Winter Olympics 2002: Ready Reference Resources from Direct Search lists links to sites with reference information such as Olympic statistics, history, news and more. |
The United States Olympic Committee provides information about the U.S. Olympic team and U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, as well as history, rules, and videos for each sport. |
The Olympic Museum site includes art, videos of Olympic ceremonies, and exhibits featuring past Olympians, such as Eric Heiden and Javier Sotomayor. |
The Special Olympics explores sports and events included in these games and links to local and national groups involved in the Special Olympics movement. |
Unusual Sports in the Olympics, created by elementary school students, highlights several lesser known sports, such as fencing and curling. |
Olympics through Time from the Foundation of the Hellenic World provides a complete history of the Olympics from the 5th century BC to the present. |
The Ancient Olympics, from the Classics Department at Tufts University, lets students compare ancient and modern Olympic sports and spirit, tour Olympia as it looks today, and read about famous Olympic athletes of ancient times |
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum, from Dartmouth College, features information about games played in the original Olympics, virtual tours of ancient Olympic sites, a glossary, and more. Need to know who won the boxing competition in 300 B.C. or what the Pankration was? This is the site for you. |
International Sports Federations, from the Olympic National Committee, lists federations. Links to their official Web sites provide rules, history, current events and tournaments, and more for various sports. |
Sport! Science @ the Exploratorium combines photos and video clips of athletes with solid physics explanations designed to appeal to sports fans and science nerds alike. This site from the Exploratorium in San Francisco includes the Science of Baseball, the Science of Cycling, Skateboard Science, and the Science of Hockey, as well as answers to common sport science questions. |
Basketball Explorations, created by students, explores how math, physics, and art, vectors, statistics, color theory, and other subjects relate to basketball. |
The High Boskage House Baseball Analysis Web Site examines the use of statistics in sports, presenting statistical tables and explaining statistical analyses. |
Baseball Cards: 1887-1914 is a Library of Congress exhibit that includes 2,100 cards showing such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing in his Cleveland uniform. |
Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights: 1860s-1960s, from the Library of Congress, uses text and historic photographs to explore early baseball history, the color line in baseball and the Negro Leagues, and Robinson's career and civil rights activities. |
The National Baseball Hall of Fame Web provides photographs and biographies of all inductees and primary source materials about baseball and World War II, Jackie Robinson, Negro Leagues, and women in baseball designed for use by elementary and middle school students. |
The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame site includes information about famous women players and a timeline about women in basketball. |
The Pro Football Hall of Fame profiles famous players and discusses the sport's history. |
Mad about Hockey, from Quebec's Museum of Civilization, examines hockey’s history and role in society from the Canadian perspective. |
Propelled by Pedals is a student-created guide for elementary students on choosing a bike, bicycle safety, how bicycles work, and more. |
M-[art]²-ial explores different aspects of the martial arts, such as their effect on learning and health. This student created site contains many interactie features and a guide to choosing a martial art to study. |
TaeKwonDo: The Dream Becomes Reality, created by students, highlights the history, philosophy, and practice of one of the newest Olympic sports. |
Diving: Human Contact with the Underwater World is a student-created site that details diving history, physics, equipment, techniques, training and more. |
Surfing the Web, then Surfing the Waves shows how math, science, weather studies and other fields relate to surfing. This site from the Exploratorium and Public Radion International includes information on physics, weather prediction and more. |
Math Olympics integrates history, physical education, and information literacy skills into a middle school WebQuest focused on math standards. Using information they find on the Internet, students create spreadsheets and graphs that will convince the International Olympic Committee not to drop their chosen sport from future games. |
Olympic Curriculum Guide, from the Amateur Athletic Foundation, supplies lesson plans for grades 3 to 5 that address standards for language arts, social studies, geography, mathematics, science, physical education, and health. |
Winter Olympics: Sport and Science is a set of online minicourses designed to help teachers show how science illuminates human activity. |
Researching Colleges via the NCAA Pairings describes an interdisciplinary middle school unit encompassing science, math, technology, English, and careers. |
Databases, Spreadsheets and More describes a fourth-grade unit on statistics, probability, and math percentages in which students create their own sports cards. |
PE Central includes lesson plans, performance tips, assessment ideas, book and music suggestions, professional development information, and more for health and physical education teachers. |
The New York Times Learning Network offers sports-related lesson plan for grades 6 to12, including It's How You Play the Game: Examining the Ethics of Gamesmanship and In the Global Ballpark: Debating the Globalization of Baseball. You can find additional lesson plans in the Lesson Plan Archive by entering the words sports, baseball, or another key word into the search box. |
Behind the Numbers, from the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), features a mathematician's articles about sports. |
Top North American Athletes of the Century contains biographies of 100 athletes selected by ESPN as part of its SportsCentury retrospective. |
Sports news from CNN (Cable News Network) and Sports Illustrated |
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Created 6/2005
Last updated 08/24/2006
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