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Mountainview Elementary – Grade 5 Corvallis, Oregon
Mary Lynn Roush from Corvallis, Oregon explains what she is doing with her Grade 5 class. We're getting excited for the big race. Thought I'd describe what we are doing. 1) math students "draft" mushers entered in the race, and dogs from kennels that post dog info online. Then, they buy and supply their sleds…
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Musher’s Gear
In 2012, Brent Sass won Rookie of the Year at the Iditarod, one of the planet’s most extreme competitions. The dog musher, who's run almost a dozen 1,000-mile races, knows the right gear can mean the difference between life and death. These are the items he deems worthy of going on his sled. Did you…
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Dog Team Positions
Different dogs have different jobs on a dog team. But everybody works together to make a team. Drag and drop the different functions to the correct boxes and then check your work. (It's OK if you make a mistake. You can try again.)
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Walkerton Community School
Ruth Loucks' Grade 3/4 class at Walkerton Community School in Walkerton, Ontario followed the Quest this year. They put together a great Quest wall: Here are a couple of examples of using the whiteboard to brain storm writing activ ities.
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Queen Elizabeth Elementary – Calgary
Here are some photos, resources and ideas sent along by Stephanie Washbrook from Mrs.Godman's grade 1/2 class at Queen Elizabeth Elementary in Calgary, Alberta. (You'll find many of these resources in other parts of this site. Thanks so much for sharing and making this site that much better!) The class followed Normand Casavant throughout the race. We set…
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St. Mary’s Bay Academy mock TV news
As promised, here are the news reports prepared by the Grade 7 class at St. Mary's Bay Academy. (Great idea for a project!) These students' teacher – Andrena Teed – wrote the following: In five work groups, the grade 7 students prepared TV-style news/sports casts about an aspect of the Yukon Quest that interested them. There was…
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Homework Page Examples
We give the students a homework page each week using math, vocabulary, social studies, science and bits and pieces and encourage them to work with their families on it. Here are the homework pages we've used for the Quest weeks. (I've left them in Word format so you can edit them easily for your classroom.…
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3D Dog Sled Cutout
Here's a simple art project. Cut out and fold to make a paper dog sled. http://www.distlearn.ca/yukonquest/sites/default/files/files/sled%20craft.pdf
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St Mary’s Bay Academy – Weymouth, NS
Andrena Teed, a grade 7 English teacher at St Mary's Bay Academy in Weymouth, Nova Scotia is following the Quest this year. Her students are each following a musher, tracking his or her progress, writing a profile about the musher, and preparing a feature-type mock television programme about the Yukon Quest. (It will be great to see the final…
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Photo Blog
Bill Beard is a handler for Normand Casavant for this year's Quest. He's agreed to take a few pictures on the trail and send them in to be posted here. It'll provide a "behind" the scene look at the Quest from a handler's perspective. Here are some of his photos: Day 12 (Feb. 18) Normand…
