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=etTeam #: Your musher is Gary Paulsen.=

=ASSIGNMENT #1: HISTORY OF THE IDITAROD=

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BRETT ASSIGNMENT #1

Balto was a dog who saved lots of children. They were 20 dog team to get the medicine for the dieing children. The name of the medicine was called anti toxin and they traveled 674 miles. They couldn’t get the serum because of deadly storms. The disease was diphtria cause a deadly cough, lung disease. They had to get the medicine in 27.5 hours. The medicine was in Anchorage and they put the medicine on a train to travel to nenia then dog teams took it back to Nome. The medicine arrived at Nome in 5 days,5hours.

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HARDSHIPS It would be freezing outside of Alaska no place to warm up walking threw deep snow and the mountains. It would be freezing cold with huge winds and mountains rages. You’d be freezing with a dogs and sled in the middle of nowhere.

1900-1940-mail hauled by dog sled 25 miles/days for 1925-serum run (Nenana to Nome)1973-first race to Nome 1946-the open north American sled dog race 1946- the fur rendezvous world championship sled dog race 1967-(1969)-2shorter Iditarod races 1972-sled racing Alaska sport 1973-First race to nome

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Iditarod Trail Map

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COLD When the weather is cold you will get frost bite from being outside too long. You will have frost on your scarf from breathing to hard. You can get rosy cheeks from being outside for a long time. Yours glasses can get foggy because your glasses would be cold and when you enter a warm house they will get foggy.

FREEZING ROSY OUTSIDE SIDE TEMPERATURES BITE ICE TEMPERATURES EVERYDAY

PARAGRAGH Doug swingley pulled out the 2004 Iditarod race because he froze eyes. Frostbite to his eyes would have caused him blindness and frostbite is the body attempt to stay warm. The cold temperature and poor blood flow can cause severe tissue injury by freezing the tissue. Frostbite is most likely to happen farthest to the heart. When exposed to very cold temperatures, skin and underlying tissues may freeze. Resulting in frostbite

HEATH AND SAFETY -FOOD (DOG FOOD) - GLOVES (MITS) -TUKE -JACKET -GOOGLES -SUPLIES -TENT - WOOD FOR FIRE

=ASSIGNMENT #3: GEOGRAPHY OF THE IDITAROD=

1southwest 2

3east

4wassila

5unalakleek kailtag ophir

6eagle river anchorage

7a map and compass can really help you

Question 1 The journey from Kaltag to Unalakleet will take you in which direction? __Southwest__ Question 2 Although the journey from Anchorage to Nome is mostly northwest, there are some parts of the trail that will take a musher northeast. Between which checkpoints on the trail will the mushers head northeast? __From Ophir through Cripple to Ruby__ Question 3 As you check in at Skwenta, Mt. McKinley is about 50 miles due north of where you are. You then travel the 45 miles to Finger Lake. As you check in at Finger Lake, Mt. McKinley will be in which direction? __North __  Question 4 According to the map, which checkpoint is farthest east? __Wasilla __  Question 5 Which consecutive checkpoints appear to be the farthest from each other? __Anchorage to Nome __  Question 6 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Which consecutive checkpoints appear to be closest to each other? __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">McGrath and Takotha __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Question 7 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Something to think about: How could a compass and a map save a life in the Alaskan wilderness? This lesson plan was prepared by New York Middle School teacher Terry Burton. __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">It could save a life if the person knows where they is because then they could navigate to the nearest town. __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Sabrina

BRETT ASSIGMENT #3

1.From kaltag to unalakleet you would travel in a south westerly direction 2.Nome is north west to abchorage 3.takotna to cripple travels thought ophir 4.wasilla 5.Ophir and Cripple are the farthest from each other. 6.McGrath and Takotna are the closest together. 7.A compass and a map would help you because a map tells you what is where and a compass tell you which way where you want to be are.

=ASSIGNMENT #4: DOG SLED TEAMS=

BRETT ASSIGEMENT # 4 Gary Paulsen,68, was bron in Minnesota he began mushing in 1979 and first ran the Iditarod in 1983 and again in 1985. He moved to Alaska to train and compete in the Iditarod race. stuff you need Tent Tarp Pillow Sleeping bag Water Fire wood Kindling Food: Meat Veggies Water Stuff to cook with: Pot Pan Kettle

Final Writing Assignment

Final Writing Assignment Dear Mom and Dad, For our trip we should go to Alaska. Why Alaska? There is cool scenery, interesting activities but most of all; I want to watch the Iditarod Race. What is the Iditarod? The Eskimos and Inuit people were the first humans that traveled the course known as the Iditarod trail. It started back when gold was found in Nome Alaska. Later a terrible disease spread in Nome. This disease was known as Diphtheria. The only cure was a medicine known as Anit-Toxin. A team of sled dogs was sent to get the medicine from Anchorage and back to Nome. The trip was more than 1000 miles. In 1973, Joe Reddington thought that to honor the dogs that had saved Nome, there should be a race from Anchorage to Nome. The race is known as the Iditarod Race. The weather in Alaska is really unpredictable. It could be freezing cold with blizzards or warm, which is dangerous because the ice could melt. Anything could happen on the trail. Along the trail, mushers and dogs face many challenges together. They must work as a team. The Yukon River is one of many. On the trail there is a checkpoint on top of a mountain. That checkpoint is known as Rainy Pass. There are also many hills and rivers to complicate things. The mushers and dogs risk all to win the race. Mushers and dogs work completely as a team. At the beginning, mushers must knit at least 1000 booties for the dogs. Booties are like shoes that dogs wear to protect their feet. A team is usually one musher and 17 to 18. Sometimes if a dog is sick of injured, then the musher leaves that dog at the next checkpoint. Over all there are usually about 70 racers. This year there were about 100. My musher is Lance Mackey. He won the 2007 Iditarod and this years Iditarod race. Once again the reason I want to go to Alaska is to watch the Iditarod race. I would learn about sled dog racing, history and have FUN!!!!!! From Sabrina