Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Educators, now is the time to start thinking about Iditarod in your classroom, if you haven’t already started down that trail. The Iditarod Teacher on the Trail website is the starting line for you. Erin Montgomery, the 2015 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™, posts lessons, trivia, and race checkpoint information …
Educators: Start your race training now, just like the Iditarod teams are doing to prepare for the 2015 race. Come to the North Carolina Iditarod Workshop for Educators. Register before September 5 to get special pricing. Click here to get the details. Attend the 2014 North Carolina Iditarod Workshop, Sept. 27-28, 2014, in Asheville, …
Sebastian has mentioned a couple of terms common to mushing, ski-poling and a fan hitch. A musher holds a ski pole and rhythmically swings the arms up and down, pushing against the snow with the pole tip to give the team a little assist with forward motion. Sebastian has nicknamed Aliy “Spiderwoman” because she’s using …
Read this piece by Mike Kinville of Alaska, written for and published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper. Posted here by permission of the author. Anti-mushing Group Paints Unfair Portrait of the Iditarod Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:00 am By Mike Kinville Sled dog mushing as a sport and a recreational activity owes a …
Educators, are you interested in a weekend Iditarod workshop in North Carolina in Fall 2014? Send an email to this address, djohnson@iditarod.com, with this subject: NC Fall 2014 Iditarod Teacher Workshop. Please include your school name, grade or subject you teach, and your contact information in the body of the email. We’ll be in touch …
(View this lesson plan) Olivia’s Story , about a sled dog’s race, provides practice with homonyms, words (which–witch) sound alike, but have different meanings and are spelled differently. Students think about the meanings of the words in order (to–too–two) choose the correct (one–won) (for–four) the context of the sentence. (There–they’re–their) is another homonym lesson …
Get your facts and your fiction here, from young readers to adult, with these three books. Iditarod™ is new, coming out in February, 2014. Carole Marsh adds to her mysteries for children with a mystery set on the Iditarod Trail, and Gary Paulsen’s picture book, Dogteam, isn’t just for the young readers.
Check this book, Iditarod™ by Tricia Brown, for nonfiction information about the historic Iditarod Trail’s role in Alaska’s Native Alaskan’s lives and the gold rush, an early dog sled race called the All Alaska Sweepstakes, the history and beginning of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race™, champs and record breakers, the dogs, and the women …
Two books for your reading pleasure this month; Iditarod Dream, a photo essay of Dusty Whittemore’s championship run in the Jr. Iditarod, and Woodsong, Gary Paulsen’s memoir of his experiences learning to run dogs and his first Iditarod race.With the Jr. Iditarod running the last weekend of February and the Iditarod starting the first weekend …
Two books for you to read! The first is Iditarod Dream: Dusty and His Sled Dogs Compete in Alaska’s Jr. Iditarod. This is a photo-essay of Dusty Whittemore’s 1995 Jr. Iditarod race, his second. Written by Ted Wood, an introduction provides background information for this race for 14 to 17 year olds. Described as a book …
