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It is not long now before the Last Great Race on Earth®, and my students are spending time getting to know mushers and their teams. We learned a lot from Mary Helwig and her kennel, named after her beloved lead dog, Bravo. Mushers name their kennels for very personal reasons, and their kennel logo or brand …
Without further ado, my 2016 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ patch is here! The tradition for designing and wearing a patch on the trail has always been a special part of the Teacher on the Trail™ program. The teacher creates a personal logo on an embroidered patch to commemorate his or her year, and it …
Puppies are the future for an Iditarod kennel. As the 2016 Iditarod draws near, we have been spending a great deal of time talking about husky dogs and learning all about them. We fell in love with veteran musher Matt Failor’s puppies this year after his Insider interview when Iditarod veteran “Cool Cat” gave birth to …
Visiting a musher’s kennel in Alaska is an amazing experience. I remember the first time I saw a dog yard full of huskies. I had never seen so many happy, wagging tails at one time, but I also noticed the unique design of the doghouses. I had never seen any built quite like that before: …
As the year comes to a close, we have been organizing, cleaning up, and preparing our classroom for the new year. One of these tasks involves bringing down our Iditarod calendar from the wall. Old calendars can be recycled into a fantastic art project I like to call “stretched art” using basic art supplies and …
We have been spending some time in class this last week learning about some of the people behind the scenes of the Iditarod that help bring The Last Great Race® to people around the world. When my students see the amazing photographs of the mushers and their dog teams along the trail, they ask …
The 2016 Iditarod class has been learning about mixtures and solutions in our science class, and I wanted to try combining our demonstrations and experiments with our amazing connection to Alaska this year. I decided to bring my fascination with the aurora borealis to class and combine it with some science magic, a good book, and a …
What is a parky? A parky is quite simply, the northern term for a parka. In the Aleutian Islands the word simply means “animal skin”. They are longer coats with a hood, usually lined with fur. Most are decorated with lovely fabrics and decorative trim. I remember seeing many parkys in the winter in Alaska, and wanting …
Lessons by Cathy Walters Preschool and Kindergarten * Music (Idita-Tunes) for some of these lessons can be found at this link. Lessons: Water the Huskies Relay Summary: Students will run traditional relays with the intent of working as a team to water their huskies. The focus is on the chores necessary to take good care …
The Iditarod race has many great stories to tell by the many men and women who help plan it, and travel the trail to help make it successful. Joe Pendergrass is one of the many people who make The Last Great Race on Earth® what it is. Joe is a member of a very special …