Sleds

As you can see from the video, the sled is a really important piece of equipment. A lot of mushers build their own sleds. There is different reasons they do this but one reason is so if their sled breaks on the trail they know how to fix it.

After we watched the videos about sleds, Mrs. B had her class use a lesson created by Linda Fenton, 2013 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail .

We used a small paper plate, 3"X6" piece of tin foil, two straws, 1 paper clip, and 4 rubber bands. Most of the students convinced Mrs. B that they really needed to use scissors but that was the only other thing she let them us. After the kids worked in pairs, we went outside to the a frozen snow drift to test their sleds. 

Mrs. B and I took some video of their work. Check it out!