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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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03/09/2008

Trail Mail Project Update

School Projects Head to Nome
by Diane Johnson
03/09/2008
Trail Mail School Project Update

What is in the musher’s sled bag? You know that there are required items that must be in each musher’s sled. Did you know that one…

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