Materials for Teachers
Online Lesson Plans
The USOC, Griffin Publishing Group and Education Gateway teamed up in 2000 to put together a comprehensive set of online lesson plans for grade school through middle school classrooms. To see online lesson plans, visit Education Gateway.
Books
Griffin Publishing has produced an extensive number of USOC educational products for grades K–10 using the excitement of the Olympic Games to help motivate students to learn:
2008 Beijing Olympic Games
New books for Beijing include: Journey To Beijing: Grades K-3, and Journey To Beijing: Grades 4-6.
Olympic Thematic Unit Series
Bring the Olympic Spirit to life for students with information and activities related to the Olympic Games. Learn from Olympic history, traditions, sports, sites and events. This series of thematic units are cross-curricular, cooperative learning tools filled with lessons and fun activities that foster team spirit.
Olympic Activity Book Series
Accompanying the thematic units is an ever-expanding series of student activity booklets. Each booklet complements the thematic units by encompassing fun-filled activities such as mazes, puzzles, word finds, and much more – all designed around an Olympic theme.
Personal Leadership Through the Olympic Ideals
This series is about success and how it can be achieved by young people! It is designed to help students identify what maters most in their lives – at home, at school, and in their communities.
Easy Olympic Sports Readers
These colorful and fun-to-read books help students in the primary grades discover some of the most exciting Olympic sports while learning to read. With full color illustrations and professional photographs, these readers are popular with students, teachers, and parents.
Olympic Classroom Accessories
For classroom teachers and home school parents, accessories include bulletin boards, classroom borders, stickers, awards, mobiles, notepads, nametags, incentive charts, name plates, postcards, and classroom decorations.
U.S. Olympic Sports Series
This basic guide series examines the sports of both the summer and winter Olympic Games. The books are written for the novice in grades four and up, and include the history, rules, objectives, how the sport is played, what to watch for as a spectator, equipment, safety, and how to get actively involved as a participant.
Olympic Motivation Series
This business-oriented motivational series includes short essays from 29 Olympians and 40 of our finest motivational speakers talking about ways you can tap into the same motivational energy that drives Olympic athletes.
For more information and to place orders, visit Griffin Publishing.
Newspaper in Education, NIE, is an international program begun in 1955 to advance the use of newspapers in schools. NIE and the USOC have partnered on several educational projects over the years.
Guidelines for using Olympic symbols, marks and terminology
