| Verbal |
- Share quality children's literature about dogs, dogsledding and survival
- Learn musher vocabulary
- Correspond with mushers
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| Logical |
- Develop a strategy for your dog team that includes the number of dogs and provisions you will need and when you will take layovers
- Conduct experiments which teach concepts of climate, temperature and insulation
- Measure trail distances and figure elapsed time between checkpoints
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| Visual |
- Create a wall-sized map of the Iditarod trail
- View images of the aurora borealis
- Survey Inuit arts and crafts
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| Kinesthetic |
- Carve animal figures out of soap
- Build igloos out of sugar cubes
- Craft dogsleds out of popsicle sticks
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| Musical |
- Find patterns in musher data
- Identify trends in how each team is moving along the trail
- Sing and dance to Iditarod songs, poems and cheers
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| Intrapersonal |
- Research how animals are cared for during the race
- Select a musher to follow during the race
- Follow your musher's dogteam throughout the race
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| Interpersonal |
- Work cooperatively in following your class's musher selection
- Share interests and ideas with other classes following the race online
- Send an email to your class musher at each project checkpoint as he or she progresses in the race
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| Naturalist |
- Sort musher data in order to determine which musher to follow in the race
- Categorize mushers by home state
- Track your musher's progress on the class wall map of the trail
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| Existential |
- Study the Great Serum Run of 1925; the tradition behind this race
- Share stories of heroes who survive on their own in the wilderness
- Research the totems of the native peoples of the northwest
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