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Track & Field News
Track and Field News provides viewers with high school, college, and elite track and field information and news.
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Usa Track & Field
This resource delivers the most up-to-date information and news regarding track and field.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Track and Field Throwing Events
Kids learn about track and field throwing events including shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer throw.
ESPN Internet Ventures
Espn: King Carl Had Long, Golden Reign
This site discusses the life and career of legendary track & field Olympian Carl Lewis. It offers several links to other informative sites and includes a great picture.
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National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (Naia)
This is the official website of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. A wealth of information can be found on all college sports, including cross country, football, baseball, track and field, basketball, and swimming....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Guide: Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion
Part of Houghton Mifflin's excellent Scientists in the Field series Tracking Trash introduces Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a "trash tracker", who studies where trash goes when it is "spilled" in the ocean, to determine the direction of ocean...
International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee: Athletics
Learn about the track and field events that take place during the Summer Olympics competition: races, jumps, throws, and combined events. Using colorful drawings and animations, this site provides a good introduction to the various...
Curated OER
2009 Usa Masters Track & Field Championships Logo
USATF delivers the most up-to-date information and news regarding track and field.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Animal Sign Guide
Use this guide to help you identify signs from different animals in the wilderness. Identify tracks, chew marks, signs from animals that build, eggs, and the like.
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Jesse Owens: Track and Field Legend
The official website for Jesse Owens, who almost single-handedly undid Hitler's propaganda plans for the 1936 Olympics by winning four gold medals.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Jesse Owens
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1998 to commemorate Jesse Owens, who won four Olympic gold medals in track and field. With a short biographical passage.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Build a Magnetometer
Hands-on project where the learner constructs a magnetometer to monitor and measure changes in earth's magnetic field. These changes can then be used to track solar storms.
BBC
Bbc: Animal Field Guides
Can you identify animal tracks, animal droppings, nests and homes? Use this excellent resource to help you learn.
Scholastic
Scholastic: New York Times Upfront: 1936: The Nazi Olympics
Hitler's plans for the 1936 Olympics didn't turn out exactly like he had planned due to American track and field star Jesse Owens. Read about the beginning of the politicization of the Olympics.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Wilma Rudolph
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 2004 to commemorate Wilma Rudolph, the first African American woman to win three gold medals for track and field in a single Olympics. With a short biographical passage.
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Catching the Light: Astrophotography
Author and astrophotographer, Jerry Lodriguss, offers up tips, techniques and various images that he's taken both with and without the use of digital enhancement. An amazing amount of detail is provided to explain his approach towards...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Science Today: Clearing the Bar
In this activity, students will explore the effects of two critical physical factors on potential success in the pole vault event in track and field.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Straights and Curves
Young scholars develop speed and stamina as they vary their running (and walking) speeds while on the track. Students may choose to "stride the straights and walk the curves" of the track or "[sprint] the straights and [walk] the curves"...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Swine Flu in Finland
In 2009, an outbreak of swine flu in Finland resulted in significant damage to the economy. Researchers investigated the potential cause of the disease. Through scientific experimentation, they were able to identify the disease as a new...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Olympics Content: Math and Science Behind Olympic Sports
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This group of resources use interest in Olympic sports to teach math and physics concepts. Students learn about velocity, the role of gravity, the importance of...
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Courir en Ardenne
In French. Resource presents information about the running association in the region of Champagne-Ardenne.
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Runner's World: Kids Running
A resource for kids and parents to promote kids running with advice, lists of races, essays and guest columns, and much more.
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