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- 6th - 8th
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Students interact with the mushers and gather actual race data during Internet research. The Iditarod usually takes place during the first three weeks in March. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students watch a video about mapping distances and then calculate the distance their individual mushers travel each day. This occurs each Monday through Friday until each musher has crossed the finish line in Nome Alaska. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research and read about the Iditarod Trail and then make a presenation showing their findings. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students plan and create a dog sled out of craft sticks, buckskin and hot glue after reading Gary Paulsen's novel, Woodsong. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students read and identify the sensory details from Gary Paulsen's memoirs. In small groups, they read and analyze various excerpts, and list the sensory details on a Sensory Details Diagram. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students listen to story The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto for background information on the Itidarod, research, follow, and log a musher's progress throughout the Iditarod Dog Sled Race, and take part in a survival course at a local gym. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students use the Iditarod Sled Dog Race as a vehicle for exciting, authentic studying tasks that meet content standards in reading, writing, and communication. They access that people can achieve their goals in spite of age, gender, race, disabilities, mistakes, or adversity. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students, after reading "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen, explore/research what an Iditarod is and then create a speech about their selected musher and present their new found information to their classmates. In addition, they participate in a Word Wall, write a Musher Bio Poem and get involved in a Scavenger Hunt. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students describe the origins of the Iditarod Race and identify the defining characteristics of the Iditarod - what it is, where it takes place, when and why it takes place, its rules, and its participants. After gathering information, students describe the training and preparation that is required by an Iditarod musher and their dog team. Information is presented in journals, flow charts, interviews, and fictional stories. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students read "The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto" and "Woodsong" to study about the Iditarod. Students journal electronically, reflecting upon the reading. Students save this information to the file server. Students also examine how to save information from the Internet to a file server. Students complete different genres of writing. Full Review »
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