Resources
- For Teachers
- Target® Teacher on the Trail
- Here’s What’s Happening!
- Zuma’s Paw Prints
- Traveling Iditarod Quilt
- Take Virtual Field Trips
- Pod Casts
- Educator Insight Newsletter
- Iditarod Insider for Educators
- Teaching Resources
- Mission Statement and Goals
- Books About Iditarod and Alaska
- Mentor on the Trail: Stay on Track
- Writing to Mushers? READ THIS
- For Students
Curriculum Connections
Website Links
Math
- 10/12/2009
- Iditarod 101 Data Collection and Analysis
Iditarod 101: Data Collection and Analysis You Don’t Have to be a Geek, but it Helps By Sally R. Simon
Filed under Math
Math – Data Collection, Graphing, and Analysis, Grades 5 and up. Companion to this article, Lesson Plan (PDF Doc.)
Video…
- 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
Filed under Curriculum Challenge Lessons, Curriculum for the Classroom, Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts, Math, Science
Math: Ryan’s Dog Expenses Technology/Math, Using Excel Spreadsheets, 7th grade…
- 09/20/2009
- Math and Science Activity Packet
Create an Iditarod Trail, design a catapult, work with maps, play a math-science game, and complete other activities.
Filed under Math, Science
The Scale of It All! Math and Science Activity Packet is for elementary and middle school students and was created by Julie…
- 09/12/2009
- Math and Science Game
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School and beyond. (Math and Science Formulas)
Filed under Games and Activities, Math, Science
Research to complete before playing the game.
Math or Science Game (PowerPoint)
- 07/20/2009
- 30 Problems to Solve
FINNEY’S PROBLEMS of the DAY
By Finney (Andrea Auf der Heyde)1. Three pieces of equipment were in the snow…..a gangline, a sled bag and a harness. They belong to Joseph, James and Jeffrey. James does not own the harness…
Filed under Math
- 06/05/2009
- Pick a Math Standard: Design a Lesson
View a PDF documents showing how Alaska educator, Deanna Blazejewski, Special Education Teacher from Mount Iliamna Elementary is creating math lessons for students.
Filed under Math
Click here!
- 05/29/2009
- Daily Math Challenge!
3rd Annual Idita-math Competition I currently have 96 students in my 6th grade math class. This year, I decided to break them up into 6 equal teams.
Filed under Math
Each team had 16 students and each team is given a team name…
- 05/28/2009
- Ikidarod Math! Racing Sleds in South Dakota
My name is Andy Johnson and I am teacher in Brandon, SD. We have followed the Iditarod since I have been in Brandon and have been Iditarod Insider members the last two years.
Filed under Idita Reads and Races, Math
We have created our own version of…
- 05/27/2009
- Idita-Math: Measurement of an Iditarod Sled Dog
Measuring an Iditarod Sled Dog
Filed under Math
Measurement – Using non-standard and standard measurements for length, volume, weight, and time, using customary and metric units (Appropriate, with adaptations, for Kindergarten through 5th grade)
Click to view the PDF Lesson Plan
Deanna Blazejewski…
- 05/27/2009
- Idita-Math: Iditarod Animals: Weights and Measures
Math Lesson: IditarodAnimal Weights and Measures
Filed under Math
Area (or easily adapted to only use Length) – Sled Dog Footprint (adapted from Audubon Zoo workshop)
Skills: Number sense, estimation, standard and non-standard area, polygon shapes, problem solving, graphing, and multiplication/division
Literature connection:…