Are you looking for an activity to help students read, research, and summarize? Join the hundreds of schools around the world. Assign students to create Musher Trading Cards.
Design your class Musher Trading Cards in a way that meets the needs and abilities of your students.
Each student can design one card about their favorite musher, or students can design a specific number of cards. Students can ‘trade’ cards or students can use the cards as part of other projects. No matter how you design your class project, this is a successful way to encourage students to read, research, and summarize information while being creative and having fun!
Ideas for you:
Students create and design musher trading cards for their favorite mushers.
Template and Activity Idea, Click Here!
Lesson on Musher Trading Cards and additional ideas by teacher, Linda Fenton, click here.
Lesson on Habits of the Mind, by Judi Roach, click here for project information. For a lesson plan with additional information, click here.
*Note to teachers: Keep in mind, not every musher releases the exact same personal information. For example, birth dates are not always provided. Not every musher wishes to share a lot of personal information while some mushers have websites that contain a great deal of personal information. Do NOT expect students to find the exact same information about each musher. Encourage students to be flexible and creative.
Do you have a musher trading card project that you do with students each year? Send us information about your project. Send us images of student work samples. We’ll post and share so others can enhance their projects. Send an email.
