Summary: Here are the lyrics to The Iditarod Checkpoint Song. Write them on a song chart or overhead transparency to help students learn the names of the checkpoints as they sing aong with the music. (See the link on the left hand menu bar for the music.)
Download Lesson Plan: The Iditarod Checkpoint Song
Summary: Students will create their own 12″ x 12″ Alaskan quilt.
Summary: During the study of Alaska’s Arctic animals and where they live students will be able to tell the teacher one cold fact about each animal. A cold fact is anything that tells how these animals survive in such a harsh environment. Two facts, for example, that help the willow ptarmigan survive are that he turns white in the winter (his camouflage) and that he grows extra feathers in the winter, even on his feet (for warmth). This information is reviewed and reinforced by playing the Arctic Animal Memory Game and Arctic Animal Bingo.
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Summary: At the end of a three-week study students will draw and label a map of Alaska from memory.