Math
Idita Math, a project from Larson Elementary School, Wasilla, Alaska. Quick summary of the project: Students were challenged to complete math goals at home and ‘race from Anchorage to Nome’ as they practiced their math basic skills. Teachers created math goals according to the needs of the students. Overall, the project goal was to help …
Annual Idita-math Competition By Jared Cochran Having 96 students, I decided to break students up into 6 equal teams. Each team had 16 students and each team is given a team name based on one of their favorite mushers. 2009 teams were: Team Buser, a Team Mackey, a Team King, a Team Seavey, a Team Swenson, and a …
by Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Read this to find out about making blankets for the Iditarod race checkpoints to use for dogs staying there who have been dropped from their teams. Students can apply a host of educational skills while working on this project.
Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant How does it start? This dream of running sled dogs, running teams in long distance races. Is it in your family, like the Mackeys, or in your culture, like John Baker, Paul Johnson? Did you move north and fall in love with the land, the dogs, their abilities? Or, did …
Measuring an Iditarod Sled Dog Measurement – Using non-standard and standard measurements for length, volume, weight, and time, using customary and metric units (Appropriate, with adaptations, for Kindergarten through 5th grade) Click to view the PDF Lesson Plan Deanna Blazejewski Special Education Teacher Mount Iliamna Elementary Anchorage School District Original Posting Date: May 27, 2009
My name is Andy Johnson and I am teacher in Brandon, SD. We have followed the Iditarod since I have been in Brandon and have been Iditarod Insider members the last several years. We have created our own version of the Ikidarod that we have done since 2007 in which the students actually form teams …
Math Lesson: IditarodAnimal Weights and Measures Area (or easily adapted to only use Length) – Sled Dog Footprint (adapted from Audubon Zoo workshop) Skills: Number sense, estimation, standard and non-standard area, polygon shapes, problem solving, graphing, and multiplication/division Literature connection: Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy (focus on part where dog paw prints widths are being …
Enjoy this math activity article written by Annalise Lecher. We did the activity in the 4th Grade accelerated math class I teach. Students created an example of the Iditarod Trail in circular form. The picture is of the entire student body in our Central Gymnasium taken on March 20th, during our “Iditarod Central” Day! …
FINNEY’S PROBLEMS of the DAY By Finney (Andrea Auf der Heyde) 1. Three pieces of equipment were in the snow…..a gangline, a sled bag and a harness. They belong to Joseph, James and Jeffrey. James does not own the harness or the gangline. Joseph’s equipment goes on the dog. Who owns the gangline? 2. Two …
By Sally, Indiana I use a cross-curricular approach to teaching the Iditarod. I begin this unit in January using many of my own photographs and personal knowledge of Alaska (I’ve been there several times and LOVE it) Language arts includes the children reading chapter books such as “Balto”, “Stone Fox’, and “Snow Dogs! Racers of …
