Sports+of+the+Winter+Olympics

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Week #2: Sports of the Winter Olympics
Assignments & Activities: 1. Read about the various sports in the Winter Olympics in the resource links section. Individually or in partners, choose a winter sport to study. Create a [|slideshow], [|video] , [|powerpoint] or [|wikipage] about your sport. Look at [|Winter Olympic Events] for ideas on how to organize your research.

2. Choose an athlete from your country (either the country your school is located in or the country your class is studying) who will be participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics. As a class create a [|VoiceThread] that celebrates Olympians from your country.

Resource Links:
[|CTV Olympics] [|2010 Vancouver Olympics] [|Olympic Sports] [|Olympic Sports Olympic.org] [|Winter Olympic Images] [|flickr 2002 Winter Olympic images] [|LeaderPost Olympics] [|NBC Video Series on the Science Behind the Sports]

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