5 Feb 18

Winter Olympics Unit Study Resources...And Free Notebooking Pages

The Olympic Winter Games begin on February 9th.. I’m so excited! I love the ice skating, skiing, and luge. I love keeping up with certain athletes and tracking which medals they win.

And of course, as a homeschool mom, I love capitalizing on the learning opportunities that the Olympics brings. Want to get some Winter Olympics-themed learning going in your homeschool? These resources will help you to learn about South Korea- host of this year’s games-, the history of the Olympics, and some of the sports that make up the Winter Games. 
Never created your own unit study? Make sure you pick up my free Create Your Own Unit Study planning packet. It’s got everything you need to take some of these resources to create your own unit study.

Winter Olympics Unit Study Resources
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This resource post is first posted for the 2018 Games. Many of the resources, however, can be used during any Winter Olympic Games year. Only the South Korea resources are specific for this year. Make sure to pick up the free notebooking pages I’ve created to go along with this study. Kids can use these for written narration, to record facts they’re learning throughout the study, or for their own creative writing.

Olympics History Activities and Links

Learn the history of the Olympics with this FreeSchool video.

Activity Village has information about the history of the Olympics, as well as some printables here.

National Geographic Kids has some great information- and photos- about the history of the Olympic games.

The British Museum has an interactive site that will take kids through the five days of the ancient Olympic games.

At this site, kids can learn more about the history of the Olympics, take a tour of ancient Olympia, compare modern and ancient games, and more.

This is a great Ted-Ed video about how the Olympics started.

The BBC has a fun, interactive website about the ancient Olympics.

Make an Olympic wreath like the one in this picture.


Winter Games Activities and Links

Keep up with everything that’s going throughout the games at this official site.

You can find information, videos, coloring pages, and more about this year’s winter games at Activity Village.

This is the official kids’ site from CBS for this winter’s games. Kids can find information and interactive activities.

These Science 360 videos will help kids explore the science behind some of the Winter Games sports.

Use this free worksheet to keep track of countries and the medals they’ve won throughout the games.

These flag coloring pages will help kids learn about some of the countries that will attend the Winter Games.

Make your own Olympic medals with the craft activity.

This isn’t free, but this printable would be a cute way to have kids make a daily “report” of what’s going on in the Olympics.

South Korea Activities and Links

Read about South Korea at National Geographic Kids.

Activity Village has facts, videos, pictures, and printables all about South Korea.

Easy Science for kids has a great page of facts all about Korea– including the division between North and South Korea.

This Scholastic page has information about South Korea for upper grade kids.

Kids can play this fun- and challenging- Korean Rock Game.

Make a Korean paper doll and clothes with this free printable.

Already Created Unit Studies and Lapbooks


If you want an already created resource to make things easier on yourself, here are a few I’ve found.

Homeschool Techie Mom has a great Online Unit Study all about the Winter Games.

A Journey Through Learning has an Ancient Olympics labook and study guide for grades 2-7.

Homeschool Helper has a free lapbook to help kids learn all about the history of the Olympics.

Sonlight has a free Winter Olympics activity book that features South Korea.

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