FNSBSD Picturing Fairbanks

FNSBSD Goldmines and Pipelines

Scholastic News Weekly Reader

Read and discuss:

• • Children of the Gold Rush by Jane Haigh

  • A Walk Through Early Fairbanks by Shirley Kaltenbach’s 3^rd grade class (1997)

  • Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney

BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.

Work together as a class to make a map or mural of the communities of Tanana Valley

Molly of Denali

Fairbanks history play from UA Museum of the North

Develop timelines or multi-flow Thinking Maps^® to represent each group that contributed to the development of Fairbanks, and a local chronological history.

Construct a timeline of major historical events that have influenced Fairbanks area history.

Explain why Fairbanks area holidays and events are important to our communities (a few examples of many possible options: Winter Solstice, dog mushing events, Athabascan Old Time Fiddle Festival, Summer Solstice, Golden Days, and World Eskimo Indian Olympics).

• • Alaska Room field trip

  • Morris Thompson field trip

  • Village Journey by Justice Thomas Berger

Kids Voting (https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8808)

Vote in the classroom

Student Council

Class meetings

Explore the Constitution of the United States and explain that it is the law of the land.

Constitution Day (September 17)

Personal timeline

Beading with an elder

Respecting Ethnic and Cultural Heritage (REACH) lessons on elders

Fairbanks Area Public Schools and Gold Mines and Pipelines (both FNSBSD publications)

Research an Alaskan natural resource, historical event, etc.

Junior Achievement Junior Achievement (https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/home)

Make a Thinking Map^® tree with goods and services provided by local government.

Council for Economic Education (www.econedlink.org)

Play “Twenty Questions” on goods and services

Design your own community with services

Use the Characteristics of Place lesson from the National Geographic website. (http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/activity/characteristics-of-place/?ar_a=1)

Use Google Earth to locate school, city, borough, state, country and continent. (http://earth.google.com)

Use Street View on Google Earth to explore Fairbanks. (http://earth.google.com)

Share and discuss Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World (DK Children’s Books, 1995, 978-0-789-40201-1) and/or Children Just Like Me: Celebrations! (DK Children’s Books, 1997, 978-0-789-42027-5) by Anabel & Barnabas Kindersley.

Borrow the People of the Raven traveling kit from the Anchorage Museum. (http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/learn/SCHOOL_resources.aspx)

Browse the Sharing Knowledge on the Arctic Studies website to learn about Athabascan history. (http://alaska.si.edu/browse.asp)

Use the citizenship lessons from the Constitutional Rights Foundation-Chicago website. (http://www.crfc.org/teaching-materials)

Construct a simple timeline which could include:

• • Athabascan fish camp

  • Arrival of E.T. Barnette

  • Discovery of gold

  • Gold Rush

  • Fairbanks Flood

  • Gold Dredge #8

  • Boreal Forest

Tour downtown Fairbanks, Pioneer Park’s Mining Valley and Native Village, Clay Street Cemetery, museums:

• • University of Alaska-Faibanks Museum of the North (www.uaf.edu/museum/info)

  • Morris Thomson Cultural and Visitor Center (www.morristhompsoncenter.org)

  • Pioneer Museum (www.co.fairbanks.ak.us/pioneerpark/attractions/museums/pioneer_museum.htm)

  • Fairbanks Community Museum (www.fairbankshistorymuseum.com)

Work together as a class to make a map or mural of the communities of the Tanana Valley

Have students pick an Alaskan natural resource to research

Identify natural resources of the Fairbanks area

Layered Foldable® to recognize names and locations of community, borough, state and country and continent

Make a Thinking Map® Tree with goods and services provided by local government