2012 Iditarod Race

First Grade Mushers, it's the last great race!

Go to Iditarod Insider!

Click the button below and then the web back button or use the Iditarod Site.

Updates

Race Standings: **Where is your musher now?

GPS Tracker: Track your musher in real time on a map! Follow your musher team through valleys, along rivers and high mountain passes from Willow to Nome!

Weather: Is your musher team shivering in a blizzard or warming to the Alaska sunshine!

Video Updates: Daily video updates from the trail. Find out how your dogs are doing!

Iditarod Home Page and Insider Home Page

About the Race

2012 Musher Profiles: Here is a list of all of the mushers and a little bit about each one.

Trail and checkpoints: About the trail from Willow to Nome

Balto Statue and The Balto Page: Learn about Balto and his heroic mission to save children!

Iditarod Google Earth Tour: download and open in GE

Map

Things to Do

  1. Iditarod History Quiz Need Help? Look for the "correct" and "incorrect" messages.
  2. Talk Like a Musher Crossword Need Help? Use the Hint menu to show letters or words.
  3. Iditarod Puzzle
  4. New Musher Jigsaw Puzzle
  5. Trail Jigsaw
  6. Musical Iditarod Quiz
  7. Serum Run Game!
  8. Find more things on the Iditarod Kids Page

Polar Bears!

  1. All about Polar Bears
  2. Build a Polar Bear habitat
  3. Polar Bears Crossword Puzzle

Video

2012 Video

Iditarod Links

Site Notes
Race history Read about the race history

Official Iditarod Website

 Race Coverage, Maps, lessons
Scholastic Iditarod Site Friendly layout and text for younger students. Maps, lessons, and online activities.
Iditarod WebQuest Create a broadcast while learning about the race.
Cabela's Iditarod Education Page This is the link to the education page. There are lesson plans for graphing weather and mushers, timeline activity, and language arts lessons. Easy to follow lessons written by teachers.
Balto Statue at the Heritage Preservation Biographical information about Balto
Surfaquarium Iditarod Pages Iditarod Lessons and Activities, including directions for making a wall map for the race
Link Collection More links to Iditarod information for students
More Iditarod Activities: Links to more things to do

Activity Ideas: study the trail and musher biographies, create a wall-sized map of the trail, select a musher to follow in this year's race , track the selected musher's progress as the race occurs, track the weather at each checkpoint, create a circle graph (using GraphClub) of the mushers' experience, have the class write on a forum about a musher or dog (teacher on projector).