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Creating an ABC book is an excellent way to combine research, writing, and technology skills. Each year, hundreds of teachers assign students to create ABC books about Alaska and/or the Iditarod. Here is an example of one such book. If you have examples of student made books such as this, we’d love to share them …
Team Baker, both John Baker and Katherine Keith bootie in a similar and very unique manner. The dog lays on its back and extends all four feet into the air. The musher slips the booties on and secures the elastic velcro all while looking at the belly and chest for harness rub. Kill two birds …
Alaska races sled dogs. In Maryland we race horses. Alaska has stories about heroic dogs. We have stories about heroic horses. My school and I wanted to send greetings to the schools along the trail as a way to kind of let our schools meet each other and to show a connection between schools that …
A is for Iditarod! “What?” you ask. A is for Iditarod. Because the Iditarod awesomely takes place in Alaska and starts in Anchorage! One of my favorite books to share with my students is A is for Musk Ox by Erin Cabatigan. My third grade boys always roll their eyes when I tell them I …
This week we are focused on calculating area and perimeter… and what better tool to do that with then dog yards! This week the students are presented with a scenario where they have been sponsored by a local fencing company who offers them fencing for their dog yard. Instead of traditional sled dog yards, the …
Today my son and I introduced a whole new generation of Baltimore kids to mushing and the Iditarod at a toddler play date that our school was involved in. The kids had great fun standing on the runners of the sled, trying on the headlamp, playing with all the stuffed dogs, and yelling command to …
There is quite a history behind the Burled Arch. When the first musher reached Nome during the first Iditarod, there was no specific marker to show the end of the race. As legend has it, someone ran out into the street when the first musher was arriving and drizzled a package of Kool-Aid across the …
A short distance from the checkpoint is the hub for dropped dogs. Dogs dropped at smaller checkpoints are flown to this hub via bush plane. From here the dropped dogs are loaded onto a larger plane and flown to Anchorage. Currently there are about 130 canine athletes waiting to show their boarding pass for the …
It’s the harness that connects the dog power to the sled and there are a variety of harnesses out there. Mikhail Telpin uses a harness called the half harness. It’s really a musher, dog choice as to what harness is used. This style harness is good for preventing harness rub. It’s also sometimes used for …
Hi Boys and Girls, What an exciting day. 4th Avenue is full of snow, the dog trucks will be arriving soon and setting up for the day, the iditariders are beyond excited for the opportunity to ride in their favorite mushers sled and fans are waking up and looking forward to an exciting ceremonial start …