Bring the trail into your classroom, explore it with your family, or follow a question of your own. The places and people along the Iditarod are a good place to start.
Find something to explore ↓
Learning begins with the ground beneath your feet. Meet the programs that connect classrooms, families and curious travellers with the trail.
Discover iTREC! ↓Documentary trail photograph above; no claim that the pictured children participate in this program.Begin with the Junior Trailblazer booklet, then follow a place or a story together. Activities can start at home; a remote trip is not required.
Open the activity booklet ↗No names or personal details needed.
Connect local history, ecology and community service. Start with the Alliance’s iTREC! approach and the original sources, then build a lesson around a place your students know.
For workshops and professional development, consult the Alliance’s current program information. No future event or registration is announced by this demo.
Check the official educator program ↗Iditarod Trail to Every Classroom (iTREC!) helps educators connect lessons with the communities and public lands along the trail. Its approach brings ecology, local history, recreation and civic participation into hands-on learning.
The original workshop cycle began with a summer introduction, continued with autumn curriculum development and finished with spring implementation. Teachers developed their own lessons around the places their students know.
Service-learning links classroom goals with a community need. Students investigate their surroundings and find ways to care for them.
The Junior Trailblazer booklet introduces children and adults to the trail’s history and present-day uses. The Alliance developed it with BLM Alaska and Chugach National Forest.
Open the Junior Trailblazer booklet ↗Ask the Alliance about current completion rewards and availability.
Original Alliance source ↗The trail joined the Passport stamp program in July 2014. The Alliance describes nine stamps at locations along the trail, giving visitors another way to record their connection with public lands.
Check the official program for stamp information before a visit. The Passport book also includes a national trails section.
Find Passport stamp information ↗Original Alliance source ↗Follow the homepage journey from Seward to Nome. Look at how the landscapes and connections change.
Explore historic documents and photographs in the ARLIS collection. Ask who made a record and what it can tell us.
Open the historic collection ↗Find oral-history collections at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Make room for knowledge beyond the written page.
Visit Project Jukebox ↗