Integrated Curriculum

10/12/2009

Curriculum Challenge Lessons

Congratulations to the 2009 Curriculum Challenge Winners!
Seven teachers provide lessons for elementary, secondary, and university level teachers to use with students.

Lesson packets are in PDF.

Susan Flahive, Virginia
Math: Ryan’s Dog Expenses Technology/Math, Using Excel Spreadsheets, 7th grade…

Filed under Curriculum Challenge Lessons, Curriculum for the Classroom, Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts, Math, Science

04/03/2009

Teacher from NY Explains Project Objectives

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…

Filed under Integrated Curriculum, Teacher Tips and Tools

03/08/2009

Trent Herbst: Bringing the Classroom to Life with Iditarod

By: Nikki Allen 2010 Teacher on the TrailTM Finalist
Building sleds, packing food drops, sewing booties, and researching the weather at checkpoints. If you were at fourth grader in Trent Herbst’s class, these are only a few of the exciting…

Filed under Integrated Curriculum, Places, People, or Dogs, Target Teacher on the Trail

02/18/2009

Following the Race from Washington

Hello Iditarod Education Department!
My class annually follows the Iditarod. We put up a map and bulletin board in the hallway at our school so that all of the students in our small school can follow along. Each student chooses…

Filed under Guest Speakers, Integrated Curriculum, News and Information, Student Work Samples

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,…

Filed under Art, Music, FACS, Indust Arts, Integrated Curriculum, Math, Teacher Tips and Tools

06/05/2008

Following the Race from Ohio

by Carol Manfull
During the Iditarod we divy up biographies of all of the mushers to our 3rd grade students (ave. 100). They follow the race on computers and check on their musher(s) throughout the race. The teacher copy stories…

Filed under Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts

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…

Filed under Art, Music, FACS, Indust Arts, Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts