Instructional Video0:50
Curated Video

Keely Hodgkinson: ‘There’s no gender inequality in track and field’

9th - Higher Ed
Keely Hodgkinson: ‘There’s no gender inequality in track and field’The Independent
Instructional Video1:28
Curated Video

Alice Coachman: the First Black Woman to Win an Olympic Gold Medal

9th - Higher Ed
Alice Coachman Davis was an athlete who specialized in the high jump. She was the first black woman selected for the U.S. Olympic team and went on to become the first black woman of any nationality to win a gold medal at the Olympics...
Instructional Video0:45
Next Animation Studio

Achilles tear explained

12th - Higher Ed
Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang suffered an Achilles tear when he was running the 110-meter hurdles in the London Olympics on Aug. 7. The achilles tendon is attached to the calf muscle and heel bone. Tears or ruptures can be caused by sudden...
Instructional Video2:24
Curated Video

Jim Thorpe: Native American Olympic Hero

9th - Higher Ed
Football, baseball, basketball player – he was one of America's most talented sportsmen and the first Native American to achieve Olympic Gold glory! So why don't we see Jim Thorpe's name up in lights?
Instructional Video3:39
Biography

Jesse Owens- Mini Biography

8th - 12th Standards
Discover how Jesse Owens paved the way for African American athletes as a track and field legend, while still challenged by the obstacles of a segregated American society during the mid-twentieth century.
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Science for Kids

Science Kids: Sports Videos: Learn About Pole Vaulting

9th - 10th
Learn all about pole vaulting, and how the technology of the poles used has chagned over the years.