The students also need to look at the trail and what the trail is like in spots. Students will be teamed up to follow a musher during the Iditarod race. Students will use the internet to keep a daily update of the musher's standing, Fort Wayne and Alaska's weather. At the end of the unit students will graph the weather information. The first novel is Silver.
Silver is an easy read and can be completed in three days.
Students will learn additional information about Dog racing from this book. This is a good book is do character webs with and develop character paragraphs. Also setting should be looked at and developed into paragraphs. The next book is Black Star Bright Dawn. This book is more difficult so most of the reading needs to be done in school.