March (Grades 6-8)

The Iditarod

The Iditarod is a dogsled race run each year between Nome and Anchorage, Alaska, tracing a route used by dogsled teams to carry freight across Alaska more than 80 years ago. Racers, called “mushers,” must brave the elements of harsh weather and the Alaskan wilderness to complete this race, which has taken racers anywhere from eight days to over a month to complete.

The chart below shows the names of the first 5 checkpoints in the Iditarod race, as well as their distance from the race’s starting point, in Anchorage, Alaska. Using a ruler and paper, draw a map of the first 5 checkpoints. Use the following scale: 1 inch= 50 miles.

Checkpoint Distance from Anchorage

Campbell Airstrip: 11 miles

Yentna Station:      53 miles

Skwentna:             83 miles

Finger Lake:         123 miles

Rainy Pass:          153 miles

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St. Patrick’s Day

Counting and recounting their gold each night, it took each leprechaun 3 hours to count 4 pots of gold.  At this rate, how many pots of gold could be counted in 21 hours? How many hours would it take to count 48 pots of gold?