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Teacher's Resource Books

The Iditarod is set against the (much) bigger backdrop of Alaska. This category includes some selected general-purpose reference works to assist non-Alaskans (or even for Alaskans who are not quite familiar with their home state) to better understand the Last Frontier.

Iditarod Curriculum: The Last Great Race to Nome

by Shelley Gill
Illustrated by Shannon Cartwright

Pages: 112

Publisher: Paws IV Publishing, Homer, AK (1993)

ISBN: 0934007330

Intended Audience: Grades 2-6

Large-format softcover with spiral binding. Shelley Gill was one of the first women to run the Iditarod. She has used her experience to create a superlative teacher's resource book for the Iditarod. It is loaded with facts, activity ideas, reproducibles, and songs.

Iditarod’s Guide to The Last Great Race

by Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc.
Compiled by Lois Harter

Pages: 201

Publisher: Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc., Wasilla, AK (2001)

Intended Audience: All grades

This is a "must have" for the serious Iditarod fan or teacher. Full of history, statistics, diagrams and much much more . This Guide, compiled by Lois Harter, contains reams of facts, history, rules, trivia, and everything you ever wanted to know about the Iditarod.

Iditarod Activities for the Classroom - Book 1

by Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc.
Compiled by Lois Harter

Pages: 212

Publisher: Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc., Wasilla, AK (2002)

Intended Audience: All grades

The activities in this book are adaptable over several grade levels. Lessons were submitted to the Iditarod for this book. These activities cover math, logic practice, problem solving, science, language arts and much more. Spiral bound so that they will lay flat on the copy machine for making copies for student participation. (Book 2 coming in the winter of 2004)

The Great Race To Nome--An Alaskan Adventure Across the Curriculum

by Karen Krupnick
Illustrated by Bev Armstrong

Pages: 72

Publisher: The Learning Works, Santa Barbara, CA (1995)

ISBN: 0881602469

Intended Audience: All grades

A highly useful book of activity reproducibles.

1992 Women in the Iditarod

by Peg Stout

Pages: 72

Publisher: State of Alaska Dept of Education, 1992, Juneau, AK

Intended Audience: All grades

Created under the auspices of the State of Alaska's Equity in Education program and the Alaska Project, this is a teacher's resource book with biographies of the women mushers in the 1992 race and plenty of activities and reproducibles.