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Olympics - Accessible Resources for Educators

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DCMP has resources to help your students learn more about the Olympics. These videos will get you and your students off to a good start.

Olympics

Group of teenagers getting ready in a gym locker room, some wearing bathing suits, others in shirts and shorts.

Black and white image of Jackie Robinson wearing his Dodgers jersey and sliding on one side towards a base, baseball hat falling to the ground.

Television screenshot of a bobsled turning the corner, time clock at 14.74 seconds. Caption. Kenny, at 54, is a true veteran.

Sweaty basketball player speaks into the camera. Behind him, a court and basketball hoop. Caption. When your offensive man comes into you to get open.

Still image from: Heart of a Champion: Need for Speed

Blackboard background with Nate talking on the right and a black-and-white photo of men engaging in tug of war on the right. Each has a chalk border drawn around it. Caption. "You have to dig pretty deep into history."

Still image from: The Champion Within: Back on Track

Animation of a woman wearing a white sheer dress dancing on a stage for a man wearing a green tunic and gold headband seated behind a small wood desk. Caption. It seems that Paris, a Trojan prince.

Computer rendering of a few Greek statues and artifacts made to look like they have been placed on display on top of a grassy field. Spanish caption. Los griegos se hicieron esa misma pregunta.

Sports

Closeup of a man's legs as he prepares to kick a soccer ball against a black wall. He's wearing a black soccer uniform and black soccer cleats.

Closeup of a man's legs from the side. He is wearing black shorts and soccer cleats. Next to him is a yellow and black speed and agility ladder on an artificial grass field.

Man wearing black soccer clothes looks down at a soccer ball under his right foot while standing in a grass field.

Rear view of a man on an outdoor soccer field wearing black shorts, black soccer cleats, and a light blue shirt. He is using his left foot to guide a soccer ball around 4 small red cones.

Closeup of a boy laying with his head next to another person and smiling with his eyes closed. Caption. Sound of crowd cheering.

Middle-aged woman standing in a kitchen smiles and looks slightly to the side. Caption. We got the T, V connected in March of '88.

Group of teenagers getting ready in a gym locker room, some wearing bathing suits, others in shirts and shorts.

Still frame of people examining produce outside a market on a busy city street. Caption. Have harbored smaller ethnic enclaves.

Painting of a densely populated city with waterways running between sections of the city. Caption: Throughout the '20s and '30s, Rivera painted murals

Woman in a football stadium wearing cheerleader uniform holds pom-poms downwards while cheering. Caption. I don't even realize there are people out there.

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