Alaskan Cultural Resource Kits

Traditional Foods: Literacy Unit for 3-4th grade

Complete standards-aligned literacy unit focusing on tradional Alaskan foods.  Kit also includes 30 students copies of "Mary's Wild Winter Feast."  

Harry Okpik Book Set - 3rd Grade

Class set of 25 student books and a NEW complete standards-aligned teacher's guide/unit of study, combining literature and sled dog science for 3rd grade students.  Also included are classroom manipulatives, Lego Dog Musher and sled, etc.    

Little Whale: A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe - 3/4th 

Classroom set of 30 books including a book study. This chapter book for young readers (3rd-4th) retells the story of Roy Peratrovich's grandfather and his voyage on a Tlingit war canoe when he was young.  

Iqsani's Trout Hook - Alutiiq Fish Camp Story 

3rd-4th Grade

Classroom set of 25 books, including a standards-based Literacy Unit.  Accompanying the fish camp story are pictures and documentation of real excavations on Kodiak Island. 

Uswitusqaq's Dream - 4-6th

Classroom set of 30 books including a book study. This chapter book for intermediate readers (4-6th) follows Alutiiq youth on a journey where they discover a hidden bay of sea otters.  Alutiiq culture and history are expertly woven into this novel.  

Native Americans in History - 5-8th

Set of 30 student books.  Learn about Indigenous heroes throughout history.  A great companion to any middle school history class.  Each section ends with questions that can be used for comprehension and extension.  Also includes supplemental Indigenous hero lessons,

My Name Is Not Easy - Mid/High School

Classroom set of 30 books including a complete teacher's guide/unit of study. This middle/high school novel tells the story of residential boarding schools in Alaska/Canada.  

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Elizabeth Peratrovich Kit - Mid/High School

If you only want part of the kit (for instance, you do not need the book set, but want the video and picture set), sign up for the full kit, and then email Rachel Pioch, letting her know what specifically you would like.

Code Talker - High School

Classroom set of 30 books including a complete standards-aligned teacher's guide/unit of study. This high school novel tells the story of the Navajo Marines who use their Indigenous language as code, sending crucial messages back and forth in WWII.  

The War Canoe - High School 

Classroom set of 30 books including a complete standards-aligned teacher's guide/unit of study. This high school novel capture both authentic Native traditions and beliefs and the flavor of contemporary Alaska.  Follow Mickey Church, a Tlingit teen from Wrangell, AK, as he secretly builds a war canoe, and learns the history of his hometown.

Forage Unit 

Developed by the Anchorage Museum, this unit combines the Dena'ina Plant Identification Cards/Deck with a unit on foraging in Alaska.  Teacher guide and student booklet masters are included.

Gathering Plants We Eat

Developed by Chugachmiut, these field cards show Sugpiag/Alutiiq names and uses for plants. This set includes two laminated field card sets, the books "Tanaina Plantlore," and "Alaska's Wild Plants," as well as 15 copies of "Alaska Wild Foods."

Traditional Foods - 5-8th Health

This amazing cookbook provides not only recipes, but in-depth nutritional information.  This kit includes 25 cookbooks, 1 Traditional Food Guide Activity book (for copying) and answer key , and 30 copies of AK Wild Foods, and a middle school health unit.

Traditional Foods: Literacy Unit for 3-4th grade

Complete standards-aligned literacy unit focusing on tradional Alaskan foods.  Kit also includes 30 students copies of "Mary's Wild Winter Feast."  

Unigkuat - Alutiiq Legends

This book shares 62 traditional tales from the Kodiak Archipelago, compiled from stories told by Alutiiq Elders over the past 150 years.  In each legend, readers learn about Alutiiq world.  This is a single book, not a classroom set.  

Dena'ina: Nat'uh  

Perfect for Middle and High school (even upper elementary)  this easy to understand history of the Dena'ina people of the Cook Inlet region includes quotes from elders, timelines, and local history.  30 student copies,1 teacher guide included, and laminated "timeline" is included.  

Children of the First People

Class set of 30 Books!

Profiles of current Alaskan middle school students from the 12 cultural regions of the state.  Includes an abbreviated teachers guide.  

Earthquakes: 1964 and 2018

Developed by the Anchorage Museum, this unit looks in depth at the 1964 and 2018 earthquakes that rocked southcentral Alaska.  Teacher guide and student booklet masters are included.

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Developed by the Anchorage Museum, this unit looks in depth at ANCSA on its 50th anniversary through primary sources and photographs.  Teacher guide and student booklet masters are included. For more information, see https://ancsaregional.com/

Kodiak Alutiiq "I See It" Posters

Your students can hunt for artifacts in these five posters that show the history of Kodiak Island through what was left behind.

Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska

 1 large, laminated, classroom wall map.

Oil Spill Cleanup Kit - Elementary Grades

To see full kit, please click on the link: https://www.kiwico.com/us/store/dp/oil-spill-project-kit/3513

Salmon Life Cycle Kit - Elementary Grades

Supplement your salmon units with the great manipulatives and books.

Out on the Ice

For early elementary classrooms, this kit includes the book, Out on the Ice, a large abacus/rekenrek and six mini student  abacus/rekenreks.  For use in whole group or centers, the book walks students through counting, composing and decomposing numbers, and parts of ten, through an ice fishing story.  One page teacher guide is included.  Two kits are available.

Birds of Alaska Kit

Supplement your Alaska bird lessons with plush toys, books, and great Audubon booklets and activities.  Includes 10 laminated "Winter Feeder Birds in Alaska" guides.  Great for identifying the birds outsite your classroom.

Alaska Animal Tracks Kit - Elementary Grades

Your students can learn to identify animal tracks and practice writing animal names on the laminated placemats included in this kit.

Alaskan Wildlife Kit 

Full of Alaskan plush toys, books, and puzzles, this kit will bring AK animals into your classroom - safely

Fur of Alaska Mammals

This teacher's guide is a perfect companion to AK Wild Wonders: Fur, Fluff, and Other Stuff.  The guide goes in-depth on all things fur.  Worksheets and student activities are included in the guide.

Skulls of Alaskan Mammals

 The in-depth teacher's guide includes worksheets and student activities for elementary and middle school students.

Alaska's Ecology

This K-12 Wildlife Curriculum Guide shares teacher background information, illustrations, student activities, investigations, and more.  It also comes with a laminated set of Alaska Ecology Cards.

Alaska's Tundra and Wildlife Curriculum

This K-12 Wildlife Curriculum Guide shares teacher background information, illustrations, student activities, investigations, and more.  

Alaska's Forests and Wildlife

This K-12 Wildlife Curriculum Guide shares teacher background information, illustrations, student activities, investigations, and more.  

Alaska's Wetlands and Wildlife

This K-12 Wildlife Curriculum Guide shares teacher background information, illustrations, student activities, investigations, and more.  

Wildlife for the Future

This 5-12 Wildlife Curriculum Guide shares teacher background information, illustrations, student activities, investigations, and more.  

Wild Wonders - Skull Detective

Set of 25

Great companion to the "Skulls of Alaskan Mammals" unit below.

In this issue: 

Become a Sherlock Bones

Solve This Skull Mystery!

Wild Wonders - Bears 

Set of 25

In this issue: 

Alaska's Three Bear Types

Bear Behavior and Bear Research

Living and Traveling in Bear Country

Wild Wonders - Counting Wildlife

Set of 25

In this issue: 

Animal Behavior and Counting the Herd

Using Estimation when Counting Animals

Using Clues to Count Hidden Wildlife

Wild Wonders - Fur, Fluff, and Other Stuff

Set of 25

Companion unit "Furs of Alaska Mammals."

In this issue: 

Fur Helps Mammals Survive

What is Fur Anyway?

How Are People Connected to Fur?

Wild Wonders - Animal Tracks 

Set of 25

In this issue: 

Be a Track Detective

Learn about Tracks and Trails

Match Alaskan Animals to Their Tracks

Wild Wonders - Mighty Migrators

Set of 25

In this issue: 

What is Migration?

Animal Adaptations for Migration

How to Track Migrations

Native Youth Olympics Kit

For the KPBSD corresponding website (complete with event videos), click on the link: https://sites.google.com/g.kpbsd.org/kpbsdnyo

NYO Kick Ball Craft Kit

Everything you need for your students to make their own NYO Kick balls.  Kits comes with Google Slide instructions, patterns, felt, stuffing, needles, and thread.    

Chickaloonies: An Alaskan Graphic Novel

Students will love this comic book based on Ahtna culture.  This 30 book set also includes two different Sequential Storytelling Strategy Guides, teaching students how to draw their own comics.  Perfect for an art and AK Culture unit.  First check out available mid April.

Birch Bark Canoe

Classroom Set of 30 consumable paper "make your own" canoes.  Comes with instructions and lesson.

Bentwood Visor Kit

Classroom Set of 30 consumable paper hats.  Comes with instructions and lesson.

Life in Southeast Alaska Collection

Learn about life and legends from indigenous sources in Southeast Alaska.  This 8 book sets also comes three puppets.  All were created by the Sealaska Heritage Institute.

Life on the Tundra Collection

Learn about life on the tundra from indigenous sources.  This 5 book sets also comes with a unit for the book "A Walk on the Tundra."

Molly of Denali: An Alaskan Adventures 

Contains five books:

"Little Dog Lost," "Party Moose," Berry Itchy Day," "Crane Song," and "A-maze-ing Snow."