School Olympic Projects/Activities - A Sampler

Sample Olympics-themed school projects from California teacher librarians:

• Elementary School: "I do a simple poster project with my 3^rd and/or 4^th graders – we use an almanac to find the sites of the Winter (Summer) games in various years, and then an atlas to locate those on a map. The students create a poster (Title: Winter Olympics 2010, for example) that labels the location on a world map and draw/color a flag of that country." - Rusty T., Palo Alto
• Middle School: "We have an Olympic display that highlights the medal standings, daily events and whats in the news. It changes daily and we have Olympic questions almost daily in announcements. The display also has free schedules, the Olympic rings, books on winter sports events and pic's of US athletes." -- Teresa E., Santa Rosa
• High School. "Don’t have a camera right now but my tech has done a really great bulletin board with the Olympic mascot in the center, a 3-dimensional torch on one side and the Olympic rings on the other. The rest of the board is filled with 3-dimensional book covers of books about sports, focusing on the winter sports. She’s also done a ‘Books about Sports” bookmark with images of the bookcovers and call numbers of the books." Diana J., Sonoma