There is a minit book in the Homeschool Share Olympics lapbook for biographies of athletes. So today, when I went searching for that type of information I found a page on the Beijing 2008 website withbiographies of all the athletes, from every country! We plan to choose several USA athletes, and a couple from Mexico to learn more about. Ben has chosen Mexico has his country to track medals and cheer for, since we’ll be learning about Mexico for the next couple of weeks anyway.
Also, I can’t believe I left out Amanda Bennett’s Summer Olympics 2008 unit study from my first list of resources. It’s not free (but it’s cheap!). If you love unit studies and have never checked outAmanda’s stuff, you need to do that. She has wonderful unit studies on various topics, and you can use them for all of your children at once. The beauty of unit studies at it’s finest.
For a few more items that are not free, but reasonably priced, take a look at the Summer 2008 Olympics Lapbook at Hands of a Child, and from Grace Bound Books, The Olympics unit study/lapbook at Currclick.