The IDITAROD

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The IDITAROD

• Materials Compiled and Developed by Roxanne
  Everhard

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The Iditarod - The Race

• The Last Great Race on Earth
• Over 1000 miles
• Anchorage to Nome
• First Saturday of March
• Role models

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• You dont realize what it takes in time and
  commitment to run. Its like any professional
  sport. The mental side is just as big as doing
  the Super Bowl.
• -Lessons My Sled Dog Taught Me

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Alaska Where men are men and women win the
Iditarod.
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Evolved from

• Interest in Alaska
• Interest in Technology
• Interest in shaking things up

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The Iditarod- The Unit

• Integrates technology
• Multi-disciplinary
• Adaptive to different grade levels
• Supplementary lessons or replace the regular
  curriculum
• Teaches state content standards and ISTE
  standards

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Preparing for the Race

• Study origins of the Iditarod
• Prepare wall map
• Pick a musher to follow

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Preparing for the Race (continued)

• Learn about and prepare spreadsheets
• Prepare temperature graphs

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Following the Race

• Track progress on wall map
• Check and graph the weather

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Following the Race(continued)

• Track the number of dogs each day
• Spreadsheet
• Graph

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Following the Race(continued)

• Track miles run each day
• Spreadsheet
• Graph

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Language Arts

• Literature
• Stone Fox
• Writing
• Emails to Zuma and mushers
• Iditarod chat rooms
• Letters to/biographies of mushers
• Mushing Vocabulary

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Social Sciences

• Geography skills
• Map skills
• Mushers hometowns
• Alaska Scavenger Hunt
• Compare Alaska and South Dakota
• Native culture of Alaska

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Science

• Temperature
• Below zero
• Wind-chill
• Weather conditions
• Animals of Alaska sea and land
• Camouflage

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Math

• Graphing
• Coordinates
• Temperature
• Counting by fives
• Negative numbers

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Math (continued)

• Averages
• Military Time
• Adding/ Subtracting
• Problems of the Day

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Additional Activities

• Iditarod, The Game
• Poster for Wells Fargo contest
• Make snow goggles
• Stick and Cup game
• Dakotarod Trail

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Additional Activities (continued)

• Word Searches/ Crossword Puzzles
• Make Polar Bear Pops
• Make and race sleds
• Timelines

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Additional Activities (continued)

• Use drawing software to design Northern Lights
• Make Alaskan Flags
• Mushers Mall
• Mrs.Everhards Iditarod quiz

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Additional Activities (continued)

• Iditarod.com
• Teachers Students page
• Teacher on the Trail
• Cabelas.com
• UltimateIditraod.com

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Website http//re014.k12.sd.us/

• Email
• Roxanne.Everhard_at_k12.sd.us
• everhard_at_gwtc.net

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Thank you for stopping by! If you have any
questions, comments or suggestions please contact
me!
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