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Animals
Olympic Medalist Trading Cards
Olympians
The Olympics: Ancient & Modern
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Your school library has an excellent collection of books on animals. Be sure to write down the title, author, and call number. The call number will help you locate books about your animal in any library!
http://nell.chicousd.org/webopac/main?siteid=ND
Grolier On Line
An excellent collection of Encyclopedias, Multimedia, and Periodicals . Also includes more recommended web links.
See your librarian or teacher for the user name and password!
URL: http://go-kids.grolier.com/
Animal Diversity Web
An "online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology." Covers mammals, birds, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, sharks, bony fishes, and other animals. Includes audio of selected animals, resources for teachers, and links to related sites. From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
National Geographic: Animals
Browse or search for your animal in the brown box to the right. Includes profile, fast facts, multimedia photos, sound, and video, and a printable fact sheet page.
All About Birds
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Includes summary and detailed pages with descriptions, sounds, conservations status, other names, and cool facts.
BirdWeb
BirdWeb offers extensive profiles of the 350-plus species of birds that occur regularly in Washington, along with shorter notes on more than 100 species of rarities. For each bird species, users will find color photographs, range maps, and information about the bird's habitat, behavior, diet, nesting, distribution, and conservation status.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Online Field Guide
Includes descriptions, pictures, video, and animations of the habitats and inhabitants of Monterey Bay, California.
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|  Lighting of the 2008 torch in Olympia (© Getty) | |  Olympic Medalist Michael Phelps |
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Your school library has an excellent collection of books on Olympic Medal Winners in both thee sports and biography collections . Be sure to write down the title, author, and call number. The call number will help you locate books about the Olympians in any library!
Grolier On Line
An excellent collection of Encyclopedias, Multimedia, and Periodicals. Also includes more recommended web links.
See your librarian or teacher for the user name and password!
URL: http://go-kids.grolier.com/
From Ancient Greece to Modern-Day Australia
Scholastic Electronic Learning Activity
URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/olympics02.htm
EdGate Summer Games - Olympics
Educators! Keep the spirit of the Games alive in your classroom with cross-curricular Olympic-themed lesson plans. For official USOC-approved Olympic-themed lesson plans developed by Griffin Publishing Group. For more official USOC-approved Olympic-themed lesson plans created by EdGate educators and Griffin Publishing Group. EdGate's newest partner, efg Educational Resources, Inc., presents their "Olympic World" themed lesson plans.
URL: http://www.edgate.com/summergames/
Olympic Games Medallists
Olympic medalists organized by event.
URL: http://www.gbrathletics.com/olympic/
World Olympians Association
Search by athlete name, sport, country, and Olympic Game
URL: http://www.woaolympians.com/index.php?action=oly_search_big
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
To access an athlete's medal tally, you can either search by name or consult the complete results database of Olympic medal winners by using the medal winners search.Discover more than 300 athletes! To access an athlete's profile, you can either use the search engine or search by name (by clicking on the first letter of its last name)
URL: http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/index_uk.asp
Olympic Records Search
Olympic & World Records Discover all current Olympic records and their historic evolution.
URL: http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/records/results_uk.asp
OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS
The Olympic medal winner database is compiled using data taken from official publications containing Olympic results produced by the Organising Committees at the end of each edition of the Games. As the information is not yet fully standardised, we recommend that you search by nation, sport, Olympic Games, etc.
URL: http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp
Olympic Women
This site is dedicated to women sporting pioneers, many of whom are Olympians. The year 2000 marked the centenary of the official participation of women in the Olympics and we celebrate their achievements here. With a few fine exceptions, women's Olympic sporting history is not well documented and so a quest began to find and record the memories of the world's oldest women Olympians.
URL: http://www.olympicwomen.co.uk/ | |
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| | Search Your School Library Catalog
Your school library has an excellent collection of books on The Olympic Games both Ancient & Modern . Be sure to write down the title, author, and call number. The call number will help you locate books about the Olympics in any library!
Grolier On Line
An excellent collection of Encyclopedias, Multimedia, and Periodicals. Also includes more recommended web links.
See your librarian or teacher for the user name and password!
URL: http://go-kids.grolier.com/
EdGate Summer Games - Olympics
Educators! Keep the spirit of the Games alive in your classroom with cross-curricular Olympic-themed lesson plans. For official USOC-approved Olympic-themed lesson plans developed by Griffin Publishing Group. For more official USOC-approved Olympic-themed lesson plans created by EdGate educators and Griffin Publishing Group. EdGate's newest partner, efg Educational Resources, Inc., presents their "Olympic World" themed lesson plans.
URL: http://www.edgate.com/summergames/
The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
Brought to you by The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
URL: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicintro.shtml
Ancient Olympics Guide
Our Ancient Olympics Guide includes comprehensive coverage by leading scholars published in Archeology Magazine a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/olympics/
AIA News - The Olympics
History of the Olympics brought to you by the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL: http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10198
Olympics Through Time
A history of early athletic competitions and the Olympic Games from prehistory (ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, and Greece) through its revival in the 19th century. Includes descriptions and rules of the early athletic contests, a history of attempts to revive the Olympics, excerpts of interviews with historians, a bibliography, and a glossary. Includes 3D reconstructions and primary sources. From the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW).
URL: http://www.fhw.gr/olympics/ancient/
The Ancient Olympics
Members of the Perseus Project created this exhibit on the ancient Olympics in 1996, as a tribute to the Centennial Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia. In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.
URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
Origin and History of the Olympic Games Go for the Gold Student Activity Scholastic.com
Origin and History of the Olympic Games From Grolier Online’s New Book of Knowledge
URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/history.htm
Modern Olympic Games Go for the Gold Student Activity Scholastic.com
The Modern Olympic Games From Grolier Online’s New Book of Knowledge
URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/modern.htm
The Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World: A Virtual Museum
Welcome to the lobby of the Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum. Here you will find a plethora of information about these contests that are the forefathers of our modern Olympic Games. Click on a room below to enter.
URL: http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/home.php
Poynter Online - Links to the News on the Olympics
Directory of Olympic websites
URL: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=1136 | |
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