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- Target® Teacher on the Trail
- Here’s What’s Happening!
- Zuma’s Paw Prints
- Traveling Iditarod Quilt
- Take Virtual Field Trips
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- Educator Insight Newsletter
- Iditarod Insider for Educators
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- 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
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For Teachers
- 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
Math – Data Collection, Graphing, and Analysis, Grades 5 and up. Companion to this article, Lesson Plan (PDF Doc.)
Video…
- 10/12/2009
- Reader’s Theater Play
A Reader’s Theater Play is a fun way for students to practice dramatic reading. This play, created by Jennifer Slifer, Connecticut, has been used with middle school students but can also be used with elementary students. Teachers can adapt this…
- 10/12/2009
- 2010 Curriculum Challenge Contest
Attention Teachers! Enter and win a prize for your classroom!
Teachers, you are invited to submit your tried and true lessons to be published on our website. We are seeking standards aligned lessons and activities that bring the race to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 10/07/2009
- Rookie Report: Middy Johnson
By Joy Davis, Educational Journalist, IN
Community minded is certainly a trait that describes Middy Johnson of Unalakleet, Alaska. He is the mayor of the city of Unalakleet. Middy also manages the Unalakleet fish processing plant for Norton Sound Seafood…
- 10/07/2009
- Educator Insight is a Newsletter for You
The Educator Insight is a newsletter designed to provide information to educators.
The October issue of Educator Insight was emailed on October 6, 2009. If you have signed up to get this educator’s newsletter and didn’t get your copy, check…
- 10/06/2009
- Rookie Report: Kim Darst
Kim Darst: Determination!
by Valerie Orner, Educational Journalist, New York
Heading into the 2010 Iditarod, Rookie Musher Kim Darst is feeling many of the same feelings she had last year. Kim was a rookie musher in the 2009 Iditarod and…
- 10/04/2009
- 2010 Virtual Quilt Begins
The Traveling Iditarod Quilt is a very popular project. The quilt helps teachers not just cover curriculum but ‘uncover’ it in unique ways. You can read about the journey that each of the quilts take. The quilts can’t visit every…