Winter Olympics 2014 Unit Study Resources

It feels like the other day that we enjoyed meeting the Australian Summer Olympic Champions at Federation Square and studying the Summer Olympics .  This year it's time to take a look at the Winter Olympics.

The very first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France in 1924.  This event is held every four years. The 2014 Winter Olympic Games host city was selected on the 4th of July 2007 and is Sochi, in Russia.  There will be 98 events in 15 winter sports.

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well." Olympic Creed

At the Library

• List of Children's Books about the Olympics over at I Can Teach My Child.
• The Winter Olympics 
• Winter Olympics: White Band 10/Copper Band 12 

To Print

• Winter Olympics Pack 2014 In this 100+ page pack there are a lot of activities for your PreK through 6th grade child or student. All elements focus on something related to the Olympics, the hosting city/country, or the sporting events themselves.  
• {FREE} Winter Olympic Themed Printable Pack for K-3rd 
• Olympic Champion Notebooking Page 

  

  Source

• Winter Olympics Colouring Pages 
• Winter Olympics Printables 
• Winter Olympics Puzzles 
• Winter Olympics Worksheets 
• Winter Olympics Crafts 
• Winter Olympics Alphabetical Order Worksheet 
• Winter Olympics  over at abcteach.
• Winter Olympics Themed Math Pages
• Winter Olympic Sports Word Seach over at Printables 4 Kids
• Winter Olympic Sight Word Roll and Color-Kindergarten TPT
•  Winter Olympics 2014 Lapbook with Study Guide This is a 58 page resource for $1 !

On Pinterest

• Info graphic
  
• The Winter Olympic Games {A Book for Emergent Readers} TPT
• Character Olympics Reading Literature Lesson Activity TPT
• 2014 Winter Olympic Games pictograms 
• Winter Olympic Snowball Ring Toss 
• Free Winter Olympics Bingo Game 
• Winter Olympics ~ Birthday Style 
•  Wonderful Winter Olympics Party Ideas
• Ski Jump 3-D Art 
•  Easy and fun winter olympic crafts and activities for kids
• 5 dashing Olympic desserts 
• Roskelley Olympics, Children’s Style 

On YouTube

• Science of the Winter Olympics 13 five minute clips
  
• Jamaican Bobsleigh Team Debut At Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics 
• Torvill & Dean 1994 Winter Olympics  
• Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean Piers Morgan's Life Stories {Part 1-4} 
• Winter Olympics - History Of The Torch Relay 
• Best Of The Winter Olympics  

On the WWW

• 2014 Winter Olympics  on Wikipedia
  
• Official 2014 Olympic Site Sochi 2014
• Mascots' Home For video clips and the story behind each mascot go here:
  The Ray of Light and The Snowflake
  The Polar Bear
  The Hare
  The Leopard
• Olympic Mascot History Did you know that Olympic Mascots were approved for the first time in 1972 ? Did you know that mascots are traditionally revealed three years before the official Olympic event ?  Be sure to read about other trivia and pictures from mascot history.
• Paralympic Mascots
• History of the Winter Olympic Games.{History and Interesting Facts} Did you know that the oldest Olympic medalist was 72 when he won two gold medals ?
• Science of the Olympic Winter Games 2010  
• Teachers First Winter Olympics Resources 
• Teacher Vision 2014 Olympic Winter Games: Russia
• The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
• Info Graphic 50 Crazy Facts about the Winter Olympic Games
• Winter Games Lesson Plans
• The Olympics
• Winter Olympics at teAchnology.
• Olympics Lessons and Teacher Resources
• Olympic and Paralympic Homeschool Shareon Facebook.  Every day they share links to resources they discover.
• The Winter Olympics  Huge List of Unit Study Resources!
  
  list of resources, printables, and other fun things to help us in our unit study. - See more at: http://www.mamaslearningcorner.com/winter-olympics-huge-list-unit-study-resources/#sthash.OkWcWbLC.KCCvSpMb.dpuf

Russia

• ~Country of the Week~ Russia
• Russia Country Lapbook
• Russia Unit Study
• Russia Unit Study Resources
• Russia Unit Study!

Have you found any good resources to use to teach about the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics ?? For more resources the Schoolhouse Review Crew (15 January 2014)  are sharing their favourite resources for the Winter Olympics

Blessings
Chareen

"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter