The e-Iditarod Project
www.surfaquarium.com/eIDITAROD/index.htm
The e-Iditarod project has open registration until Jan. 7th if you would like to join their electronic, collaborative project. Create a course wall map, follow a musher, learn about the race get real time updates and activities to integrate into all your subjects.
Iditarod: Race Across Alaska -
teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod
Scholastic has put together this presentation on the Iditarod with help from veteran mushers Martin Buser and Mitch Seavey. The teacher's guide brings together Standards Correlations, Lesson Plans and Skill sheets to boot. You'll have to ignore the commercial pitches, but the content is fairly good.
Alaskan Iditarod Sled Dog Race, An Interactive Unit Study -
www.oregontrail.net/~thesmiths/iditarod/idit.html
Sue Smith offers this unit that's ideal for teachers just learning the race and needing some structure to find success.
Anchorage Daily News -
www.adn.com/iditarod/
The ADN is a great source of information on the race as it happens - even the Official Iditarod Website links to it. Here is an archive of last year's race, including lots of information of recent dominant mushers and plenty of material on other past races. It is sure to be updated as this year's race gets underway.
Balto Statue -
www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/SOS/4KIDS/arthist/balto.htm
A picture of the famous Central Park statue of the brave sled dog legend; see also
www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/southend/balto/ and
fluke.theicecave.org/realbalto.shtml
Dog Mushing and Iditarod Coverage -
dogsled.com/
Dogsled.com has long been a first class home base for covering the Iditarod. They tend to bend a little more towards the human interest side of the race, so it's definitely designed for use with kids. It's so full of information it can be kind of busy as you scroll down the page, but it's 100% information with little or no filler! The kidzone offers some teacher suggestions as well.
Fascinating Facts -
www.bena.com/lucidcafe/library/iditarod2.html
Lots of trivia and historical facts you may not know yourself, or you may want to use to stump and impress your students.
Goose Lake Kennel -
www.huskyhomestead.com/
Jeff and Cali King's home page dedicated to the sport and their dogs, in particular. A nice up-close-and-personal look at the year-round life of a team.
Iditarod Air Force -
www.iditarodairforce.com/
Get past the tiled backgrounds and you'll find one of the true human interest stories of the race: the pilots who fly in and out of each checkpoint with dogs and supplies.
Iditarod: Fact not Fiction -
sunhusky.com/Facts/
June Price offers this rebuttal to those who allege that the Iditarod is cruel to animals, including pictures, facts and responses from Dr. John Bramante, Dr. Michael Davis and Janet Oates of the Alaska Service Area branch of the Providian Health System
Iditarod: The Last Great Race -
www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson103.shtml
This is an article written for Education World back in 1999 that offers lots of curriculum connections for teachers wanting to make their room come alive this Winter celebrating this unique race. Since it is from 1999 not all links are active still.
Iditarod 2000 Unit -
www.alexandriacentral.org/cove/iditarod.html
A group of fifth graders at Cove Kid Elementary in New York hosted this unit on the race that is easily adaptable to any race year. Links include history, rules, the dogs and sled gear.
Libby Riddles -
quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/riddles.html
Libby was the first woman to win the Iditarod, and this NASA feature is part of their Female Frontiers presentation online.
Mrs. O-VD'st Iditarod Adventure -
home.centurytel.net/vanopst/Iditarod/index.htm
OK so the page transitions are distracting, the instructional information is useful and the links to offbeat resources like Moosecam make it worth the stop.
Schools from the Iditarod District -
www.iditarodsd.org/Pages/schoolwebpg.html
Want to learn more about the schools along the trail? Here's a great collection of the school web sites.
Support Your Musher -
www.madison.k12.wi.us/jefferson/science/idit.htm
Jill Olsen presents this WebQuest with multiple links for each online source, so that even if one link is dead in a particular part of the process you still have options. The assessment tools are a nice addition.
Tilford on the Trail -
www.vinton-shellsburg.k12.ia.us/tms/seventh/rdg7/iditarod/idit.html
Judy Mitschelen brings together a great collection of information for anyone learning about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. There's history, fascinating facts, and in-depth information. The musher's links need to be updated, but if Judy's true to form she'll have them updated before the race is close. Definitely worth a look!
Ultimate Iditarod -
www.ultimateiditarod.com/
This site touts itself as an inside look at the race and may be worth your consideration in planning for this year's event.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? -
webhome.crk.umn.edu/~dlim/Flash/iditarod.html
Great use of Flash technology to create an interactive screen that is modeled after the popular game show format. The questions get tough, so make sure your kids have done their homework
Women of the Iditarod -
library.thinkquest.org/11313/Iditarod/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1206
The good news is ThinkQuest is getting their archive of entries back up. The even better news is this site on Susan Butcher, Libby Riddles, DeeDee Jonrowe and Mary Shields is available once again
