Project Summary: My students follow the race and participate in various learning activities that are cross-curricular as well as standards-based. The students journal their experiences (posting to our Blog) as well as track a musher of their choice and the environmental changes occurring throughout the race.
Project Objectives (Students will…)
- Understand the history of the race and purpose, making cause and effect connections
- Identify and apply musher vocabulary throughout learning experiences
- Track a musher throughout the race
- Write a musher biography identifying interesting facts about his/her life
- Construct three different circle graphs displaying percentages of different gender, residency, and experience in the race.
- Choose and analyze how to pack their own sled by using information from online resources
- Label a diagram identifying the parts of a dog sled/team
- Locate checkpoints and other important places in Alaska using cardinal directions and latitude/longitude coordinates.
- Use a compass accurately, locating objects in their direct environment
- Create a line graph to display changes in the weather
- Analyze miles between checkpoints to calculate the mean, median, and mode.
- Write friendly letters to their selected musher.
- Solve various mathematical word problems that deal with issues a musher faces
- Develop reflections throughout this experience and use a Web Log to publish them for feedback and deeper learning/understanding.
Ms. Marble, New York
