May 19, 2013

Education Portal

Welcome to the Iditarod Education Portal! 

Get on the Iditarod Trail with us for an educational journey to academic success!  Pack your sled with lessons, projects, activities, and information.  Take your students on an adventure of a lifetime!  Use the menu on the left to locate information that you need!  Read our 'Welcome Message' to learn more about the Education Portal and Iditarod in the classroom!

2013 Summer Camp for Teachers!  Learn more about how you can join us for this event!  Register today!

2014 Winter Conference for Educators!  Feb.25 - Feb.28 - Anchorage, Alaska                           

Join us in Alaska.  Attend the Teacher Conference.  See the Start and ReStart of the 2014 Iditarod!  *Registration Materials

Learn more about the 2014 Winter Conference for Educators, "Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them"

Follow the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™

Meet Linda Fenton, the 2013 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™

LindaLinda is the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ for the 2013 Iditarod. Linda, a 3rd grade teacher from Waupaca, Wisconsin, shares her journal and lessons at this  website link.  

The announcement of our 2014 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ will be in April.

View an interview with Blynne filmed by the Insider video crew.  Blynne was our 2012 Teacher.

 

Iditarod Insider - Video and GPS Tracker!  Don't miss out on our real time coverage!  Subscribe or Renew TODAY!

ATTENTION TEACHERS:  The time is now to renew to Iditarod Insider or to purchase a subscription if you are not an Insider!  The fastest way to renew or subscribe is by doing so on line.  Visit the link.  Choose classroom or school wide, depending on the needs of your school.

A classroom subscription is for one teacher and that teacher's students.  The subscription can be used on one computer or the number of computers that there are for that teacher and that teacher's students.  (25 -30 computers)  Purchase JUST video or JUST GPS Tracker for $39.95 or both video and GPS Tracker for $67.95.  One user name and password allows Insider use.

A school subscription allows all students and staff in one building to access Insider using one password and one user name.  The price is $99.95 for just video or just GPS Tracker or $169.95 for both video and tracker.  One user name and password allows everyone easy access to Insider!

 *An Individual subscription is not licensed for  for use in schools.

If you are subscribing or renewing an Iditarod Insider subscription and you can not purchase using a credit card on line,  please click here for information on subscribing using a purchase order.  Please note, using a purchase order takes time to process, so begin this process soon.  Once mid February comes around, you might miss some of the race if you haven't begun the purchase order process!

Recent Posts

Iditarod Museum

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Date: April 23, 2013 7:59 pm

We are ‘building’ and Online Iditarod Museum!  Watch us during our building process.                                                                                      …


Idita-Read™ Project – Students Read Along the Trail

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Date: April 18, 2013 3:07 am

Race to Nome on a Reading Challenge! Like students around the globe, these students from Wisconsin participated in a classroom reading challenge during the 2013 Iditarod. An IditaRead™is a reading project that challenges students to read more books.  IditaReads™ are often held during the Iditarod, but some schools opt to use a longer period of …


Meet Jennifer Reiter- 2014 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™

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Date: April 9, 2013 5:20 pm

 Announcing….   The 2014 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ —-   Jennifer Reiter   Jennifer Reiter has been selected as the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ for the 2014 Iditarod. Jen Reiter is currently a teacher at Gilman School, an independent boys’ school in Baltimore, Maryland.  She began her teaching career in 1993 in public schools and …


Iditarod Landscape and Jon Van Zyle

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Date: April 8, 2013 7:42 pm

Congratulations to the artists at Gastineau Community School and Auke Bay Elementary! Thanks for sharing your artwork with classrooms around the world. These students, teachers, and Iditarod’s Education Department challenges other classrooms to complete this lesson and send art work for inclusion in this online art show entitled:  Iditarod Landscapes and Jon Van Zyle Lesson:  Iditarod …


Highlighted Awards

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Date: March 18, 2013 11:44 am

by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Did you check the awards results from the Finishers Banquet in Nome last night? If you did, you know that Jake Berkowitz won the Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award, sponsored by Alaska Airlines. Read the article titled Winning Dog Care to find out about this award and how the winner …


Winning Dog Care

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Date: March 14, 2013 7:22 pm

by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Everyone‘s been focusing on the race winner and who’s coming in next at the finish chute on Front Street. But, in the dog lot, where teams rest, eat, and wait for their airplane rides home, another winner is being determined. Every dog on the top 20 finishing teams is …


2013 Summer Camp for Teachers

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Date: March 12, 2013 11:41 am

Join us June 22 – 30 for the ultimate summer camp experience.  An experience for educators!   That’s right, summer camp isn’t just for kids these days.  Iditarod’s summer camp is an experience that challenges educators to experience the Iditarod and Alaska in a unique way.   Campers spend 3 days and nights at a …


Dropped Dogs Are…

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Date: March 5, 2013 5:07 pm

by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant supervised, examined, kept safe, fed, loved on, and are the dogs that mushers drop from their teams when they arrive in checkpoints along the race. A dog can be dropped for a number of reasons–perhaps it has a sore wrist or shoulder, perhaps it isn’t feeling 100 %, perhaps …


What Those Mushing Words Mean

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Date: March 4, 2013 10:34 am

by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Birdie. Go to the hoop. Shutout. Driver. Southpaw. Like every sport, mushing has its own terminology, too. Gangline, tug, bootie, haw, gee, HEET, trail, and more. Until you know what they mean, it’s like trying to make sense of a new language. Gee and haw are directional voice commands. …


Getting the Race to You

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Date: March 3, 2013 10:25 pm

by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant It’s challenging to get the race information and sights to the fans–the location, the snow conditions, the weather, the amount of internet access all contribute to the challenges. At the restart on frozen Willow Lake,  GCI’s RVs parked on the ice with satellites and generators to provide the power …


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