Iditarod

Hello 4th grade! You are learning about the Iditarod Race with Mrs. Peiser, and we are going to continue that lesson here in Computer Class. Each year, we make a brochure with lots of information, pictures, and terms all about the big race. You should make yours as colorful and intersting to the reader as you can.

The Iditarod trail was once a life-saving highway. It was a mail route that was used to deliver medicine to prevent children from becoming very sick. The race is now run to commemorate that life-saving delivery of medicine. Click here for more info. If you want more detailed info about the: LIFE SAVING HIGHWAY

INFORMATION:

1 Official homepage of the race.

2 This has some trivia facts about "The Last Great Race on Earth."

3 We will use this for the race course page.

4 Scholastic's info about Iditarod

4a. Iditarod 2013

PICTURES: See Below...

5 @http://www.google.com/images?q=iditarod&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7HPND_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi Google search for pictures of the race and dogs.

6 @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race Sometimes Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a resource because anybody who wants to make a change to it can. We will take a look at it and determine if the information is accurate.

7 HERE ARE PICS of the race.

7a. Crossing a stream This is what happens when the temps rise just a little bit to thaw the frozen streams and lakes. THE WINNER:

8 [] Under "Join a Family Tradition" look at the last paragraph. It says what the winner received.

2014 Results

http://www.onemansalaska.com/blog/2011/03/08/2011-iditarod-winners-prize-money-purse Click on that link to see what the winner, and the top 10 finishers got as prizes in 2011. By the way...The winner does not get $528,000- that is the total of all prizes!

HISTORY OF THE IDITAROD

9. Here is a nice outline from about.com

10. Here is the history according to the official Iditardod page.

11. Wikipedia's info on Alaska. Note the price we paid for Alaska, what a bargain!


 * "For Joe Redington, the Father of the Iditarod, there were two most important reasons for the Iditarod Sled Dog race. He is quoted in Nan Elliot’s book, //I’d Swap my Old Skidoo for You,// “When I went out to the villages (in the 1950′s) where there were beautiful dogs once, a snow machine was sitting in front of a house and no dogs. It wasn’t good. I didn’t like that I’ve seen snow machines break down and fellows freeze to death out there in the wilderness. But dogs will always keep you warm and they’ll always get you there.” He was determined to bring back the sled dog to Alaska and to get the Iditarod Trail declared as a National Historic Trail."**

VIDEOS: (Not to be clicked on during class by students)

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http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/5266-cool-jobs-iditarod-musher-video.htm

http://goo.gl/forms/je2GPFEUzF