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04/10/2010

From Virginia, Iditarod, Algebra, and Technology

Iditarod Based Education becomes a format for technology use by students and teachers.
Students use technology:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Research and Information Fluency
Communication and Collaboration
Creativity and Innovation

Teachers use technology as an instructional too:…

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03/14/2010

Jon Van Zyle

by Martha Dobson, Finalist, Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, North Carolina
Jon Van Zyle turns his artistic talent to support the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race every year when he creates the official race poster. Beautifully done, each…

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01/13/2010

Meet the Applicants for Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™

Each year, the Iditarod Education Department accepts applications for the ‘next’  Target® Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™.  This year, five teachers applied for this educational teaching experience.  Meet each applicant and view a sample of their lessons.
Kim Busch, Montana…

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01/11/2010

Iditarod Tunes: Iditarod Pokey and A Musher’s Song

Contributed by Sharyn Allen, PA
Sharyn is a retired Kindergarten teacher.  She wrote this as a gift for her grandson’s classroom.
Sing it students!
Sled Dog Pokey
You put your right paw in.
You put your right paw out.
You…

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01/06/2010

A Human Iditarod in Minnesota

Information and images from Sheryl Cater, Educational Journalist, MN
Third and fourth grade student’s at this Eden Prairie school researched, designed, and built 4 wooden sleds using downhill ski’s as runners.
The classrooms competed against each other using human power.…

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12/29/2009

Yupik Art Project

Yupik Art Project for Classrooms!
Educational Journalist, Joy Davis, of Indiana recently engaged her students in an art project involving Yupik heritage.  Her basic skills class sponsors Mike Williams, Jr. who is a Yupik Eskimo.  To learn more about the…

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12/18/2009

Showing Support for Rookies

Educational Journalist, Joy Davis, of Indiana and her Basic Skills Class recently made support quilts for three rookie mushers- Pat Moon, Middy Johnson, and Tamara Rose.  The students helped in the design work and layout.  They learned about the mushers…

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10/10/2009

Classroom Creates a Traveling Quilt

Inspired by the visit of an  Iditarod Traveling Quilt, Ms. Prather’s students in California have created their own classroom quilt.  Each student designed and created a square.  The squares were sewn together to create the classroom quilt.
Over the next…

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10/09/2009

Table Top Decorating Contest

Enter the 2010 Table Top Decorating Contest.  Win prizes for your classroom.  Be a part of the 2010 Musher Banquet that is held in Anchorage prior to the start of the race.  Teach ‘volunteerism’ through this service learning project.  Submit…

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08/28/2009

Hobo Jim Sings the Iditarod Trail Song to Students

At the 2008 Summer Camp for Teachers, Mrs. Ogintz, New Jersey, video taped Hobo Jim singing the Iditarod Trail Song.  Hobo Jim dedicated this song to her students.  We dedicate this song to students around the world.  Let the Iditarod…

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07/10/2009

Idita Patch: A Project to Remember

By Sally Simon

It all started with a patch.
The patch was Cathy Walter’s Target® Iditarod 2009 Teacher on the Trail™ patch.  It was sitting on my desk at school after I returned from the Winter Teacher’s Conference in Anchorage.  …

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05/11/2009

One Quilt: California and Off to Nome!

Del Sur Senior Elementary, February, 2009, Lancaster, CA
Receiving the quilt was another opportunity for my 7th graders to connect technology to the world around us.  As soon as we opened the box, the students gathered around to discover the…

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02/16/2009

Teacher Creates Totem Pole: A Letter from Pete

Diane,
Many late Hellos!!  This letter has been a year and a half in the making….maybe more.  Your email about using the Iditarod experience is coming back to you.  As a shop teacher, I was always looking for a way…

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02/16/2009

Social Studies and Science: Totem Poles

By Laurie Nakauchi-Hawn, Finalist for Target® 2009 Iditarod Teacher on the TrailTM
First Grade, Friends’ School Boulder
With the Iditarod coming up, my first grade class has been studying the people and animals of the arctic. As a way for…

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02/03/2009

One Quilt: January

Quilt One arrived in Mt. Pleasant, NC, near Charlotte, in early December where it spent time with the sixth grade Cheetahs Team at Mt. Pleasant Middle School. Arriving just in time for the team’s walking field trip to our local…

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02/02/2009

Two Quilt: January in the Cornhusker State

Iditarod Quilt Visits the Cornhusker State
By Judi Roach
The 2006 Iditarod Quilt made its appearance at Central Elementary just as students were finishing up “Iditaround Nebraska”.  Students earned miles on the trail for reading, tracking their nutrition and fitness,…

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02/01/2009

Three Quilt: January

January 13, 2009
Hello to all from Mishawaka, Indiana!
Neither extended holidays, nor fog, nor snow storms, nor ice storms, nor blizzards kept us from spending some time with the Traveling Quilt this year!
 Our third grade buddies at Hums…

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12/28/2008

Iditarod -Iwakuni Style!

Well Hello! My name is Marie Hyson and I am a teacher at MC Perry Elementary located on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. We are a Department of Defense school. This means we are a school for military and civilian…

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12/22/2008

One Quilt… November in Florida: A Lesson Idea for Your Students

Quilt continued on to another school in Florida…… Quilt became a part of a literature lesson. Read this summary to learn how to make your own quilt and connect it to a lesson you are teaching.
Hello Friends!
When Quilt…

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12/16/2008

The Idita-Rider Auction Action in the Classroom

Each year, the Idita-Rider auction is held as a fund raiser for the race. Race fans from around the world bid on line to purchase a ’seat’ in a musher’s sled at the start of the Iditarod.
To race fans,…

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11/17/2008

One Quilt’s Journey… Arizona to Florida

This school year, 3 Iditarod Traveling Quilts are traveling from classroom to classroom around the world. Follow the journey of the Traveling Quilts.
Learn about the history of the Traveling Quilts. Click here.
Traveling Quilt One: From Arizona to Florida….…

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10/16/2008

The Iditarod Classroom Adventure!

Energize your classroom by connecting your curriculum to Iditarod.
November is an exciting month for classrooms around the world as they as they begin to check www.iditarod.com to see which mushers have signed up to run the 2008 Iditarod. To…

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10/14/2008

A Photo Story Project

How do you motivate your students to write? My suggestion: give them a challenge. The challenge is, write for a world wide audience!

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10/13/2008

Flat Mushers Travel the World

Flat Musher Project Update: After the 2008 Iditarod, my Kindergarten students were so engaged and excited about the dogs, the mushers and the race that we decided to extend our learning beyond the race.

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10/12/2008

Students in Spain Follow Iditarod

Students in all 50 states, in many countries, and on most continents get involved in learning basic skills in their curriculum while participating in Iditarod related projects. Here’s a bit about what is going on in a school in Spain!

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09/17/2008

Students Sing Hobo Jim’s Iditarod Trail Song

Follow the link to Teacher Tube to listen to a great Idita- Tune sung by Deb Shaller’s students.
CLICK HERE!
Hey Hobo Jim! This class would enjoy singing on stage with you sometime!

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09/16/2008

Iditarod Trail Song by Hobo Jim

The Words to the Song
Hobo Jim’s: I did, I did, I did the Iditarod Trail
Away up in Alaska
The state that stands alone
There’s a dog race run from Anchorage into Nome
And it’s a grueling race with…

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06/06/2008

Poster Creations: Students in Washington

Student Project from Washington
By Diane Johnson and Joe Walter
06/06/2008
Each year, hundreds of students around the world create posters to celebrate the Iditarod. Here is what teacher Joe Walter has to say!
“I am an English teacher in…

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06/05/2008

Ohio Students Create a Virtual Dog Team

Real or Virtual? It is Hard to Tell!
By Laura Collins, Ohio
One of my gifted 6th grade students’ favorite Iditarod activities is to create “virtual dog teams”. Students produce an informational document about their “kennel”, with highlights about the…

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05/26/2008

Home School Family Shares Ideas

Home School Families Use the Race
by Education Department and Stephanie
An email from one of our families following and using the race shares ideas with us:
One of the projects this year for our homeschool Iditarod study was to…

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05/17/2008

Flat Musher Project Update

A Summer Extension Project

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04/16/2008

Making Dog Sleds and Other Projects

by Melanie Scott
I teach second grade at Rose Park Christian School in Holland, Michigan. This is the second year I’ve followed the Iditarod with my students and they love it as much as I do! This year I subscribed…

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04/14/2008

North Carolina Students Hold Banquet

Students Hold Finishers Banquet by Martha Dobson
To wind up Iditarod in our classroom, we held a Finishers’ Banquet the Friday after the actual banquet in Nome. Since I teach middle school on a block schedule, we held three banquets,…

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04/04/2008

Students Write Poems

Students from a Lemoyne Middle School’s sixth grade reading class completed their Iditarod unit by reading and writing about stories like: Balto, by Standiford, TOGO, by Blake, Where’s the Boss? by Harter for background knowledge of the Iditarod and sled…

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03/30/2008

Marching On: Lessons After the Race

Continue the Race with Lesson Ideas!
by Judi Roach
The month of March is almost gone. As a finalist for Teacher on the Trail 2009, this past March has been full of excitement and adventure unlike any that I have…

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03/28/2008

Summer Idita-Camp for Students

by Cathy Walters
Mush! Iditarod Quest Get on the sled! Come and be a part of the Last Great Race on Earth! Every activity in this camp will revolve around the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. The campers will make…

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03/22/2008

What Next? Iditarod Summer Extension

My class has already made plans for a summer extension involving the Iditarod Mushers, geography and letter writing.

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03/22/2008

Summer Extension Project

Teaching Doesn’t End With the End of the Race
by Laurie Nakauchi Hawn
03/22/2008

Now that the 2008 Iditarod has ended, you and your class might be thinking, what next?

My class has already made plans for a summer extension…

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03/21/2008

Students in Kazakhstan Follow the Race

Iditarod is a Global Teaching Adventure

[singlepic id="51" w="320" h="240" mode="" float="" ]by Mary Allen
I’m an American teaching English in the country of Kazakhstan. I teach at a private language center. I came across all your education info on…

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03/20/2008

Classroom Dog Lot and Brain Research

More Than a Toy….. by Cathy Walters
In my classroom I have a small dog lot. The dogs are 7″ long and come in shades of gray and black with white markings. Each one has its own little house. These…

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03/16/2008

A Service Learning Connection for Kindergarten

Kindergarten Students Collect Donations for the Boulder Humane Society by Laurie Nakauchi Hawn

After learning about dogs, dog care and the Iditarod, Friends’ School Kindergarten students decided to start a dog food and supply drive for the Boulder Humane Society.…

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03/15/2008

Habits of the Mind: Nebraska Students

From Students in Nebraska
by Judi Roach
Iditarod Central: Iditarod and Habits of Mind Quest Project
The kids at Central Elementary, also known as, -Iditarod Central; have been learning and using the Habits of the Mind. The Habits of Mind…

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03/15/2008

Matters of the Heart: Building Relationships

By Cathy Walters
Parents and teachers everywhere desire that their children be responsible citizens. As teachers and parents, we hope and pray that our children make good choices, knowing the difference between right and wrong. Children constantly hear from authority…

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03/14/2008

Opening a Door to Learning: Ohio Project

Meet Wendy Stapleton from Springboro, OH. Each day, her students walked right into ‘Iditarod Headquarters’ thanks to the door decoration created by the art teacher at her school. Imagine the excitement of the students as they worked on their curriculum…

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03/14/2008

Habits of the Mind: Thinking Interdependently

Thinking Interdependently
by Judi Roach

Title: Habits of Mind and Iditarod connection

Developed by: Judi Roach

Discipline / Subject: Self-Regulation/Life Skills

Topic: Teaching the 16 Habits of Mind using Iditarod Insider Clips

Grade Level: 3rd Through 12

Resources / References…

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03/13/2008

The Race Doesn’t End Until the Last Musher Arrives in Nome

When does the race end?

by Laurie Nakauchi Hawn

The Race isn’t Over Yet

“When is the end of the Iditarod?”

For my Kindergarten students, the concept of time is abstract so I get this questionfrequently. While a large portion…

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03/11/2008

A Common Thread Project: Jane Blaile

Designed by Jane Blaile

Educators around the world are ‘uncovering’ curriculum through their participation in the 2008 Target® Iditarod Teacher on the TrailTM project, “A Common Thread”. Jane Blaile, this year’s teacher created this project to connect classrooms through an…

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03/11/2008

Faces of the Last Great Race on Earth: Student Checkpoint

 
 
A Student Essay By Mariah
The Iditarod is a 1,000 mile race in Alaska. This doesn’t sound like a way to learn to me, or at least it didn’t before last year. My fifth grade teacher made it…

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03/10/2008

News from Nulato: Students Welcome Mushers!

Signs Welcomed the Mushers as They Arrived!

by Iditarod Education Department
Along the Iditarod trail, students develop projects to help welcome the mushers to the community. As in many villages, students in Nulato created posters that were hung around the…

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03/09/2008

Idita Learn: Minnesota Project

Connecting Alaska to the World
by Diane Johnson
Educators Sheryl Cater and John Clay, from Eden Prairie, MN, attended the start of the Iditarod as part of their 2008 Iditarod school projects as part of Iditarod’s Educational Journalist project. John…

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