I present my Sled Dog Activity around the country at various workshops from grades K-12. My Sled Dog Harness System and Activity Guide is distributed through SporTime, LLC. Their on-line catalog has a direct link to the Iditarod website! Our main emphasis is as a physical education activity but we also want classroom teachers to piggy back off of our activity to make an integration connection to the classroom through various readings and Iditarod projects. We refer our teachers to your website for readings that pertain to the various grade levels. What I am most interested in getting out of your workshop is more information about checkpoints and the various challenges that mushers and teams face during the race. I utilize this information in developing “physical challenges” our mushing teams must solve in order to move on to various checkpoints during our activity. These activities are done for grades 6-12 as part of their adventure challenge units. I also use many ideas for the grades 1-6 both indoors and outdoors. Many of these activities are based on readings from books like, ‘Elim, The determined Athlete”
Bob FitzPatrick
VP Physical Education-MAHPERD
fitzpatrick@peproviders.com
www.peproviders.com
