Resources
- For Teachers
- Target® Teacher on the Trail
- Here's What's Happening!
- Zuma's Paw Prints
- Traveling Iditarod Quilt
- Take Virtual Field Trips
- Pod Casts *Update February 2010
- Educator Insight Newsletter
- Iditarod Insider for Educators
- Teaching Resources
- Mission Statement and Goals
- Books About Iditarod and Alaska
- Mentor on the Trail: Stay on Track
- Writing to Mushers? READ THIS
- For Students
Curriculum Connections
- 2010 Race Season
- Alaska Bound? Read This!
- Books to the Trail
- Curriculum for the Classroom
- News and Information
- Teacher Tips and Tools
- Technology-Information Highway
- Traveling Quilt Journal
- Traveling Quilt: Virtual
- Zuma's Paw Prints
Website Links
- 2010 Target Teacher on the Trail
- Email Education Director
- Four Paws for Logan
- Idita – Tunes by Cathy Walters
- Jr. Iditarod
- Map and Estimated Miles to Checkpoints
- Maps and Almost Accurate Miles to Checkpoints
- Mushers Racing in 2010
- Mushing Dictionary
- Race Champions
- Rules for Mushers
- Stay on Track: Drug Prevention
- Zuma's Paw Prints
For Teachers
- 03/12/2010
- Picture of the Day
- 03/12/2010
- This is a GPS Tracker
Enjoy the images of GPS Trackers on sleds. Click the picture to view a larger image.
- 03/12/2010
- GPS Trackers Help Race Fans Follow the Mushers
On the Sunday of Start Day, March 7, 2010, at Willow, GPS Trackers were placed on each musher’s sled.
GPS Trackers make it possible for race fans to follow the mushers more closely by viewing their journey along the Iditarod…
- 03/12/2010
- What Do GPS Trackers Do When Not on a Sled?
These GPS Trackers are sitting outside the Millennium Hotel (Race Headquarters) while the Ion Earth team tests them so that they can be sent back out on the trail to replace a tracker that is not working.
Each musher’s sled…
- 03/11/2010
- Follow Herb Brambley, Target® 2010 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™
Don’t miss a minute of the 2010 Iditarod! Follow Herb Brambley, Target® 2010 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ as he travels from checkpoint to checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail.
Herb is traveling by plane with the Iditarod Air Force. He…
- 03/11/2010
- Rookie Musher Update: Pat Moon
Click on the image for a larger view.
Back from the Iditarod Trail, out of the hospital after his crash and scratch from the 2010 Iditarod, Pat Moon and one of his lead dogs wandered around the hotel visiting with…
- 03/11/2010
- A Picture Tells A Story: Looking into the Future
By Martha Dobson, Finalist for Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail,™ North Carolina
Standing on the runners of his future with his history and culture for a foundation, this young boy embodies Native Alaskan lifestyle. His story is where…
- 03/11/2010
- A Picture Tells A Story: One Picture
By Blynne Froke, Finalist for Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail, California
Choosing just one picture to represent the Iditarod and all that the experience means is next to impossible. There are so many faces intent on the experience,…
- 03/11/2010
- A Picture Tells A Story: Portrait of Mentor and Student
by Sally Simon, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail ™, New York
I used to think the Iditarod was all about dogs. Dogs and the relationship between dog and human. Man against nature. Overcoming obstacles.
The Iditarod…
- 03/11/2010
- Poetry from Students in New York
I am a student teacher in a fourth grade class in Geneva, NY. For one of my units, I am having my class follow the Iditarod, one musher in particular, and we are doing a variety of activities and assignments. …
- 03/11/2010
- Meet the Volunteers! Grandpa Phil
By the Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™ Finalists: Martha Dobson (NC), Blynne Froke (CA), and Sally Simon (NY)
Grandpa Phil holds a special place in the hearts of the family of Iditarod volunteers. His volunteer job is to…
- 03/10/2010
- How Far is it From Checkpoint to Checkpoint?
Remember, the total miles along — the miles from checkpoint to checkpoint, are estimated miles.
The Last Great Race® — 1049
1000 is something GREAT!
Alaska is the 49th State!
Here is a chart showing estimated miles from checkpoint to…
- 03/10/2010
- A Picture from Restart Day! Booties on the Feet!
Location: Willow, Alaska
March 7, 2010
Getting booties on paws can be so relaxing!
Click the image for a larger view!
- 03/10/2010
- Picture of the Day
Celeste Davis
Restart Day
Booties on the doggies feet!!
Warm hat on the musher!
(Click on the image for a larger view)
- 03/10/2010
- Behind the Scenes: Meet the Volunteers
Martha Dobson, Finalist, Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, North Carolina
Dogs and mushers run the Iditarod Trail, but it’s the one thousand and more volunteers who run the race to make it happen for them. There are the…
- 03/10/2010
- Behind the Scenes: Meet Our Volunteers
The Life Blood of the Iditarod – Volunteers
By Blynne Froke, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail, CaliforniaThe spirit of the Iditarod is the spirit of volunteerism, one of the most basic American qualities and one…
- 03/10/2010
- Behind the Scenes: Meet Our Volunteers
There are No Small Volunteers
By Sally Simon, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, New York
Everyone loves a souvenir. Race fans visiting the Iditarod are no exception. For those who stay at the Millennium Hotel in…
- 03/09/2010
- More Than I Bargained For: Start Day
By Blynne Froke, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail, California
Sometimes life just shines on you and you get more than you bargained for and that is just what happened to me today. What an amazing day! …
- 03/09/2010
- Re Start Day
By Martha Dobson, Finalist, Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, North Carolina
This is IT! Today counts, it’s the one, the clock starts, it’s time to go to Nome!
And to pull IT off for the teams, a lot…
- 03/09/2010
- From Tradition to Tradition: Musher Banquet
Do you wonder about the Musher Banquet that is held before the start of the race?
by Sally Simon, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™
The Thursday night before the Iditarod is full of traditions. The dictionary…
- 03/08/2010
- Picture of the Day: Start Day!
- 03/08/2010
- Bernard Harris: Dreams Do Come True
by Sally Simon, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, New York
Bernard Harris was a boy with a dream of becoming an astronaut. Now he’s a man of accomplishment giving back to others so that their dreams…
- 03/08/2010
- The Dog Doctor, Stuart Nelson, Jr., DVM
By Martha Dobson, Finalist, Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, North Carolina
Twenty-four years of Iditarod dog experience. That’s what Dr. Nelson, the chief vet for the Iditarod has under his belt. Starting as a trail vet in 1986…
- 03/08/2010
- A Fork in the Trail
By Blynne Froke, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail*, California
On Friday, March 5, 2010 four time Iditarod Champion Jeff King shared with an attentive crowd at the Millennium Hotel stories of thirty years of dog mushing.…
- 03/05/2010
- Get Ready! Track the Mushers! Record Race Data!
The race is about to begin!
All of the musher’s data (time in and out of checkpoints, etc.) will be easy to find on the front page of the website when the race begins. This is FREE. You can also…