Welcome to the Iditarod Club!
Here is what we will be doing each of the four weeks that the club meets. Hope that you can join us!
February 3rd- We will introduce the Iditarod race by reading a book or watching a movie about it. Afterwards we will make a map of the trail and its checkpoints and come to understand what the sled dog teams are up against as they run the Iditarod. Finally, we will discuss the different sled dog teams and be given instructions on how to learn more about the different mushers that are running this year's race. At home study: Read the blog to learn about and choose your favorite musher and be prepared to play the sled loading game next week.
February 17th- We will be playing a Iditarod sled loading game. Each team will answer questions about the race and a correct answer will allow that team a chance to load something on their sled. The team to load their sled first wins. The questions and answers to this game will be pre-loaded onto this blog before we meet to play this game. We will also be picking the two mushers that we will follow during the Iditarod race. At home study: Read about the care and treatment of the sled dogs and be prepared to discuss if you feel the dogs are treated ethically during the race.
March 3rd- Discuss the treatment of the dogs that run the Iditarod and also make a homemade movie showing the different components of the race. The race begins on March 3rd so we will learn about how we can post comments to our musher's blog at the various checkpoints. At home study: Check the blog frequently throughout the race and see how our two mushers are progressing.
March 17th- Snacks and final recap
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