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The Arts
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 …
Here is a cute, easy project for elementary students. These dog teams were made using thumb and index fingerprints. The sled is clip art. Students added legs, facial features, and a gangline. The idea for this piece of artwork was created by my friend and colleague, Missy Durrant. Students in her class each made one …
A Triangle Poem is a quick, easy poem students of any age can do. The first line of the poem states the subject and an action. Line two describes the action and the third line tells where the action takes place. Ava’s poem in the picture is about the dogs on the Iditarod trail; some …
A Reader’s Theater Play is a fun way for students to practice dramatic reading. This play, created by Jennifer Slifer, Connecticut, has been used with middle school students but can also be used with elementary students. Teachers can adapt this script to the appropriate reading level. PDF COPY to download Reader’s Theater Play: Rules …
Martha Dobson, Iditarod Educational Consultant Dramatic scenery, dramatic race events, dramatic finishes—the Iditarod boasts drama. Your students can be dramatic, too, using theater arts skills to connect their Iditarod knowledge to performance. This link, http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/dbi/content/trials-running-iditarod, is a drama lesson providing students the opportunity to explore the trials of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Developed …
I love it when on that rare occasion I start a project with my class, finish it, and actually get a bulletin board up on the same day. That happened Friday with my lesson on the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Explaining the Aurora can be as simple or as complicated as you want to …
Join us for a Virtual Adventure! Design a Quilt Square. Submit your quilt square via Internet and be a part of a quilt that wraps planet earth — Idita Style! Design and create your own quilt square(s). Take a digital image of the quilt square. Send it to us and we’ll add it to the …
Contributed by Sharyn Allen, PA Sharyn is a retired Kindergarten teacher. She wrote these as a gift for her grandson’s classroom. Sing it students! Sled Dog Pokey You put your right paw in. You put your right paw out. You put your right paw in and you shake it all about. You do the sled …
Yupik Art Project for Classrooms! Educational Journalist, Joy Davis, of Indiana engaged her students in an art project involving Yupik heritage. Her basic skills class sponsors Mike Williams, Jr. who is a Yupik Eskimo. To learn more about the culture the class did some reading and research. Please refer to the follow site for more …
In an ‘Iditarod’ classroom, students are always busy on a variety of projects throughout the year. Classroom teacher, Diane Pollock, integrates Iditarod and sled dogs into her curriculum in many ways. In past years, Diane worked with another teacher, Mary Owsley, (FACE) on a project that resulted in students creating book markers with the ‘I …