Searching for Olympics lesson plans and activities? Need a printable map of Canada? Bring the 2010 Winter Olympics to your classroom with these fun and informative lessons and activities for your students.

Reaching for Olympic Glory

Which Olmpic athletes will make the best use of Science? From the physics of a snowboarder's flips, the engineering of a luger's sled, or the biochemical makeup of a speed skater's pre-race meal — science plays a big part in the Olympic Games. Show your students how hard work and determination in the science lab help their favorite athletes go for the gold!

Xpeditions Atlas Map of Canada

Can your students locate Canada on a map? Where in Canada is Vancouver? This printable map from National Geographic is a must have for Olympics projects.

Olympic Competition

This Xpeditions lesson introduces students to the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Students discuss the concept of competition, see pictures of people participating in Olympic sports, and compare and contrast ancient and modern sports. They conclude by drawing pictures of themselves participating in both the ancient and the modern games.

Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers

Highlighting artifacts from the Smithsonian's sports collection, this online exhibition from the National Museum of American History will introduce students to the pioneering men and women who dominated their sports; championed their country, race, or sex; and helped others to achieve.

BioCube

Use ReadWriteThink's BioCube to have your students write a biography of their favorite Olypmic athlete. BioCube is one of the most popular resources on Thinkfinity.

A Race with Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion

Explore the grace and beauty of motion in a variety of sports in this ReadWriteThink lesson. Examining examples from their own experiences and from popular media, students learn about the aesthetic elements of athletics. They then write in reflective journals, view and interpret media, conduct Internet research, take digital photographs and create original poems.

$10 Billion to Host the Winter Olympic Games: Is It worth It?

Teach students about costs and revenues related to the Olympics, using the '98 Winter Games in Nagano for sample data. This lesson from EconEdLink wraps up with students preparing for a city council meeting in which they state how hosting the Olympics could be beneficial even if total revenues do not cover the monetary costs.

Olympic Athletes and Moments in Time

Assuming the persona of an Olympic athlete, students interview one another in this lesson from ARTSEDGE lesson.

Art and Sport

Help students make connections between sports and the arts with this collection from ARTSEDGE. Investigate bike skills through drama, observe Olympic athletes through the visual arts, analyze decades of Olympic emblems and posters, analyzing principles of design and learn about an astonishing connection between rock climbing and ballet.

Jim Thorpe Story

Students can read or listen to the exciting story of Jim Thorpe, an American Indian who won gold medals in the 1912 Olympics. They can find out why his medals were taken away and why they were given back in 1982. Sportswriters named Jim Thorpe one of the top three athletes of the 20th century. Check out the instructor resources and student resources.

Swimmer Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim the English Channel

Learn about the achievements of Gertrude Ederle, the Olympic swimmer who became the first woman to swim the 21 miles of the English Channel in 1926. This ReadWriteThink resource includes a classroom activity about athletes, related lesson plans, texts and other Web resources.

Live from Ancient Olympia!

Develop "live interviews" with ancient athletes that reflect an understanding of the beliefs that underlay the ancient Olympic Games with this lesson from EDSITEment. Students also learn about the city of Olympia and its Games, read stories about ancient athletes, and analyze the qualities to which praise or blame was attached among ancient Olympic athletes.

The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!

Learn the basics of the Greek alphabet, transliterate an Olympic Ode by the ancient poet Pindar, and find out the significance of the inscription on the Athens 2004 Olympic medal with this lesson from EDSITEment.

When the Games Were Held at Olympia

Find comprehensive humanities information related the Olympics with this EDSITEment feature.