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Skills for Healthy Living
Iditarod PE Challenge Hey amazing teachers, check out this PE unit that was designed for virtual education by Alaska teacher and prior Iditarod Teacher on the Trail Finalist Lisa Wiley. Let the enthusiasm of the mushers and sled dogs inspire your students to complete all the Iditarod PE Challenges while they learn about the trail …
Lesson Summary: Cover the distance to Nome by counting laps jogged for warm-up as miles. Students decide how many days it will take the class to finish the race. They create a strategy to reach their goal much that same as the mushers do for the race. The class keeps track of their progress on …
“How do sled dogs know where to go?” This simple question has been asked often in my classroom this year as my students learn more and more about the Iditarod. Mushers and their teams have a very special and trusting relationship, but how do they communicate on the trail with each other? For help …
Many people record and track the number of calories they consume daily since an increasing amount of tools and apps have become available. It seems like everyone knows the exact number of calories they should consume and burn per day. Why are they tracking calories? Why are calories important to your body? Through this lesson, …
What qualities do you feel an Iditarod musher displays? My students recently came up with a lengthy list of qualities that they felt described an Iditarod musher. There are plenty of them and they’re unique. My school currently has the most recently created Iditarod Traveling Quilt, which was designed this summer by teachers at the …
This year, two mushers will be carrying special packages on their sleds to make a special delivery in Nome. In order to promote vaccine awareness, Martin Buser and Aliy Zirkle will carry vaccine from Anchorage to Nome. Vaccines are given to children to help prevent various diseases. This event is being organized by Lisa Schobert, …
The champions of the Iditarod are true icons. They embody the enormous accomplishment that we aspire to within our own individual passions. We look at them and we see success. Although these amazing examples inspire us, we often feel very small around them, as though we could never do what they do because, after all, …