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WARM HEARTS MAKE WARM DOGS Iditarod 2025 Calling all classrooms! Our students are the biggest fans and supporters of the race, especially of the dogs! The Iditarod Return Dog Team is in need of 500 fleece dog blankets to be used at checkpoints AND to have on hand for dogs returned to Anchorage during …
**Feel free to scroll to the bottom if you want to jump straight to the attached math lesson plan for September! Learning how to read a map and covering basic US geography is my favorite way to start the school year in social studies. Students look at maps more often than they realize such as …
Create! Send! Be an important part of the Iditarod! Provide your students with an opportunity to be involved in a service learning project. You can’t always be somewhere ‘physically’, but what you can do is help to create an environment for this exciting event. Be with us through your students’ art and creative endeavors. Remember, …
As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, autumn gently makes her debut. With the school year in full swing, there’s a shift in energy at school, too—both excitement and anticipation fill the air. Whether you are deep in the transition of seasons, or have yet to see a leaf turn yellow, I …
Annual Iditarod Education Department Trail Mail Design Contest Attention 5th – 12th Grade Artists, Teachers, & Parents: It’s time again for our student art contest to create the 2025 Iditarod Trail Mail envelope design. What is the Educational Trail Mail Project? To honor the Historic Iditarod Trail’s use as a mail trail, the Educational …
Linda Fenton and Jim Deprez will be sharing the broad spectrum of duties that fall under the heading of Iditarod Education. Coinciding with the beginning of a new school year, Iditarod announced the co-directorship effective the first of September. Likely their names sound familiar. They’ve both served as Teacher on the Trail™ and have taken …
**Feel free to scroll to the bottom if you want to jump straight to the attached math lesson plan for September! The checkpoints along the Iditarod trail are more than just pit stops for the mushers and their teams. They’re like little hubs of life and energy in the middle of the vast, frozen wilderness. …
Teachers everywhere are either busy preparing for a new school year or recovering from the first weeks of school. Our first student day was on August 5th, so I am past the preparation phase and currently recovering. 🙂 As I have mentioned before, I teach in Indiana, where the interstate welcome signs say “More to …
**Feel free to scroll to the bottom if you want to jump straight to the attached SEL lesson plan for August! It’s a new school year, which means a new group of students who get to learn through the world of mushing. I love new beginnings and each year I enjoy growing from the previous …
The Iditarod Teachers on the Trail™️ Celebrate the Newly Created Anchorage Mushing District by Jen Reiter, 2014 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™️ The area of Fourth Avenue, located around the Iditarod Starting Line, has been getting a facelift. The newly created Anchorage Mushing District is a cooperative project between the Anchorage Mushing District and the …