Invite legislators, mayors, military, and school board members to speak in your class about specific issues or about the power of local government.
Kids Voting: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8808
Field trip to Museum of the North at UAF
PowerPoint project on native cultures
World Eskimo Indian Olympics demonstrations
Class potlatch
Student created skits
Activities from Alaska History and Cultural Studies online lessons (www.akhistorycourse.org)
Field trip to the UAF Archives
Examine the Gold Rush in photos, State Library: http://library.state.ak.us/hist/goldrush/table.html
PowerPoint on an aspect of a Russian-American Company
Read a book on the Gold Rush and develop a class presentation, colonization, and the economic impact of the Russian-American Company.
Trace Russian exploration and student created skits.
Alaska newspaper on World War II
Journal/letter writing on Aleut Evacuation
Roundtable discussion on subsistence issues
Sourdough interview: students interview someone who lived in Alaska 30 years ago, 20 years ago and present day; compare and contrast.
Socratic discourse: students articulate, develop and defend essential questions related to territorial days.
Constitutional Convention simulation
Posters on rights protected by the Alaska Constitution
People of the Alaska poster project.
Project Chariot investigation
Trial simulation: Molly Hootch
Field trip to Fort Knox Gold Mine
Class debate: The Pipeline and the Oil Industry
Between Two Worlds series, published in the Juneau Empire
Alaska case study: students work together using materials they have developed to solve a current Alaskan problem.
Adventures in the Alaska Economy
by Jackstadt & Huskey
Alaska Council on Economic Education
2006 (www.acee.alaska.edu)
Alaska: A History of the 49th State
by Naske & Slotnick
University of Oklahoma Press. 1994
(978-0-806-12573-2)
Alaska: An American Colony
by Stephen W. Haycox
University of Washington Press, 2006
(978-0-295-98629-6)
Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past
by Haycox & Mangusso
University of Washington Press, 1996
(978-0-295-97495-8)
Alaska Atlas and Gazetteer by Rand McNalley
DeLorme Mapping, 2010
(978-0-899-33289-5)
Alaska’s Elections, 1958-1984
by Thomas A. Morehouse
Institute of Social and Economic Research,
1985 (978-0-883-53036-8)
Alaska’s Engineering Heritage
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1976
Alaska’s Heritage by Antonson & Hanable Alaska Historical Commission 1986
(978-0-943-71216-1)
Alaska’s History: The People, Land, and Events of the North Country
by Harry Ritter
Northwest Books, 1995 (978-0-882-40432-5)
Alaska’s Land: Facts and Issues
by League of Women Voters of Alaska
1974 (www.lwvalaska.org)
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Selected Student Readings
by Paul Ongtooguk
Alaska Department of Education, 1986
Alaska’s Past: Regional Perspectives
by Marjorie Cochrane (6 volumes)
Alaska Historical Society, 1982
Alaska Politics and Government
by McBeath & Morehouse
University of Nebraska Press, 1994
(978-0-803-28149-3)
Athabascan Games by Cora Maguire
Doyon Foundation, 2003 (www.doyonfoundation.com)
Athabascan Stories by Alice Brean
Methodist University Press, 1975
Athabascan Traditional Values
by Rebecca Gallen
Doyon Foundation, 2003
Because We Are…. By Linda E. Wiggins Theata Magazine (UAA), 1979
(www.worldcat.org)
A Citizen’s Guide to the Constitution of the State of Alaska by Gordon Harrison Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2012
(http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/docs/pdf/citizens_guide.pdf)
The Cornerstone on College Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Alaska Fairbanks by Terrence Cole University of Alaska Press, 1994
(978-0-912-00657-4)
Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp, Fairbanks, Alaska
by Terrence Cole
University of Alaska Press, 1991
(978-0-912-00653-6)
Dena- The People by Linda E. Wiggins
Theata Magazine (UAA), 1978 (www.worldcat.org)
Dying for Alaska Gold: Gold Miner Deaths and Injuries in the Fairbanks Area 1904-1916 by Rex G. Fisher
Graphic North, 2002 (www.worldcat.org)
Fairbanks by Alaska Geographic Society
1995 (www.worldcat.org)
Fairbanks: A Goldrush Town that Beat the Odds by Dermot Cole University of Alaska Press, 2008 (978-1-602-23030-9)
Fairbanks: A Pictorial History
by Claus-M Naske
The Donning Publishers, 1995
(978-0-898-65933-7)
The Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neill
St. Martins Griffin, 1995 (978-0-312-13416-7)
Historic Fairbanks: An Illustrated History
By Dermot Cole
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, 2002
Introduction to Athabascan Culture
by Carol Lee Gho
Doyon Foundation, 2003 (www.doyonfoundation.com)
The Klondike Fever by Pierre Berton
Martino Fine Books, 1977
(978-1-578-98964-5)
Know Your State Alaska: A Handbook of the Government of the State of Alaska
by League of Women Voters of Alaska, 1975
Letters to Howard: An Interpretation of the Alaska Native Land Claims
by Bigjim & Ito-Adler
AK Native Knowledge Network (UAF), 1974
(www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/ancsa/letters.html)
The Native People of Alaska
by Steve J. Langdon
Greatland Graphics, 2002
(978-09936-42581-8)
Old Yukon: Tales, Trails, and Trials
by James Wickersham
Literacy Licensing LLC, 2012
(978-1-258-49442-1)
People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo by William A. Oquilluk, 2nd Edition
Alaska Pacific University Press, 1981
(978-0-935-09407-7)
Russian America: The Great Alaskan Venture, 1741-1867 by Hector Chevigny
Binford & Mort Publishers, 1979
(978-0-295-97495-8)
The Tlingit Indians by Aurel Krause
Epicenter Press, 2013 (978-1-935-34725-5)
Tlingit Stories by Maria Ackerman
Alaska Methodist University Press, 1975
The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska by Kathy Price
Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, 2004 (www.usarak.army.mil/conservation/CR_LaddField_WWII.htm)
The 49th Star: Creating Alaska from KUAC University of Alaska Fairbanks
2006 (60 minutes/DVD)
Alaska: Alaska at War
Alaska Historical Commission
Alaska Video Publishing, 1993
(58 minutes/DVD)
American Experience: Building the Alaska Highway from PBS
PBS Video, 2005 (60 minutes/DVD)
The Harriman Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change from PBS Video
Bullfrog Films, 2002 (113 minutes/DVD)