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Sarah Mishlera and students at Chestnut Ridge Middle School in Pennsylvania received notification this week that their Iditarod project is a winner in curriculum contest to demonstrate 21st Century Teaching and Learning. During this year’s Iditarod, Herb Brambley, Target® Iditarod 2010 Teacher on the Trail™ communicated via Skype with this classroom as part of the …
Real or Virtual? It is Hard to Tell! By Laura Collins, Ohio One of my gifted 6th grade students’ favorite Iditarod activities is to create “virtual dog teams”. Students produce an informational document about their “kennel”, with highlights about the 16 dogs on their “Iditarod team”. We do all of this on the computers, so …
Iditarod is successfully used in all 50 states (and many foreign countries) as a tool to help students meet academic goals and learn their basic skill. Preschool through university level teachers use the race with students. Private schools, public schools, and home school families use the race as a teaching tool. Take a look at …
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 …
Dog Mushers Legacy by William Miller, AK IDITAROD To Ancient peoples a far away place Now it’s Alaska’s greatest race Joe and Dorothy’s race you see This is their legacy Many mushers will gather to see The fresh faces of people from so many places Hundreds of dogs they will gather Willing to run in …
At Larson Elementary School, in Wasilla, Alaska, Idita-Math is an important family event! On February 1, the school kicked off a month-long event that is designed to helps students improve math skills through an Idita-Math project. More than 100 students, their parents, and teachers attended the event, a ‘Family Game Night’ which partnered math practice …
Idita-Kennel by Nancy Carroll Students bring in a stuffed animal (dog) to place in our Idita-Kennel. We use the dogs for all kinds of lessons throughout the race. In ELA, after researching ‘Sled Dogs’ we write about different positive personality traits of the Iditarod Dog. Students use their stuffed dog as a guide when writing …
More Than a Toy….. by Cathy Walters In my classroom I have a small dog lot. The dogs are 7″ long and come in shades of gray and black with white markings. Each one has its own little house. These miniature Alaskan huskies are gifts to my pre-kindergarten students from their fourth grade buddies. The …
Are you interested in reading about the activities going on around the world? How do other teachers connect the race to their curriculum? Find out! Here is a small sampling of ideas that come to us from teachers. “Learning to follow the Iditarod is not just a classroom experience. An entire school can be involved. …
My class did a modified version of Idita-Read. I copied all of the materials from the web-site for each of my students. On the first page of the packet, the students had to set goals. Our goal as a class was to read for 15 minutes everyday during Language Arts class. This could be any …