News magazines (e.g., Scholastic News Weekly Reader, Newsela, Tween Tribune).

http://www.TeachingTolerance.org

Alaska holidays and events (e.g., Seward Day, Alaska Day, Iditarod, Yukon Quest, Elizabeth Peratrovich Day, Indigenous People’s Day)

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

Voting for Student Council

Visit Borough Assembly chambers and/or have city and borough mayors visit classroom

Invite an elder or pioneer to speak to the class.

University of Alaska – Fairbanks Museum of the North

Interview an older family or community member to see how their community and lifestyle changed over time (changes in technology or other events).

Alaska Native Education Program

Alaska Room

Invite an elder or pioneer to speak to the class

Host a potlatch

Village Journey by Justice Thomas Berger

Study and create art inspired by Alaska Native artifacts

Present a wax museum on an Alaskan pioneer

UAF Sustaining Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Arts, and Teaching (SILKAT) (https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/silkathome?scrlybrkr=69b1fedb)

Arctic Today news blog (https://www.arctictoday.com)

FNSBSD Picturing Fairbanks

FNSBSD Goldmines and Pipelines

Create a 3D map of Alaska and paint water and landforms.

Look at a variety of maps, and classify them according to purpose.

Create and color a physical and political map of Alaska.

Explore Google Earth

Timelines

Library of Congress primary resource website (https://www.loc.gov/)

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich by Annie Boochever and Roy Peratrovich Jr.

Alaska: A Land in Motion by Nancy Warren Ferrell

BrainPOP

BrainPOP Jr.

Molly of Denali

Pen Pals (written, Skype, voice thread) from other schools (rural Alaska)

AK Digital Citizenship Week (https://education.alaska.gov/digital-citizenship)

Google - Be Internet Awesome (https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us)

Constitution Day (September 17)

Study of Elizabeth Peratrovich and William Paul

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

Alaska Native Education website: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/2881

Molly of Denali

Alaska: A Land in Motion

Alaska region study of geography, climate, and people

Learn about the Alaska Railroad, ALCAN Highway, pipeline, and/or Valdez oil spill

Identify natural resources of Alaska

Have learners track the price of Alaska crude oil and make a graph; consider tracking local gasoline/ heating oil prices at the same time.

Track the path of a selected Alaskan export/ import

Take Charge America third grade money lessons (https://www.takechargeamerica.org/financial-education/teaching-resources/third-grade/)

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

Alaska Fish and Game curriculum resources (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=curricula.awc)

Read House Mouse, Senate Mouse by Peter W. Barnes (Little Patriot Press, 1996, 978-0-963-76884-1).

On the Arctic Studies website, visit past artifacts (http://alaska.si.edu/browse.asp) and images from the Alaska Digital Archives (http://vilda.alaska.edu/) of Interior Alaska and compare with modern day life.

Use MapMaker Interactive from the National Geographic website and explore the climate, population density and land cover layers. (http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/interactive-map/?ar_a=1)

From the National Geographic website, use the Why People Live Near Coasts lesson and extend the learning to river settlements. (http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/activity/why-people-live-near-coasts/?ar_a=1)

Using Skype, have a mystery call with a classroom in another U.S. state.

Create and laminate an Alaska Mega Map with the MapMaker kit from the National Geographic website and use it throughout the year as different aspects are studied. (http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/maps/united-states-mapmaker-kit/?ar_a=1)

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

Recognizing Ethnic and Cultural Heritage (REACH) lessons on community

Learn about the pipeline and Valdez oil spill

Pen pals (written, Skype, Voice Thread) from other schools (rural Alaska)

Make different Native Alaskan artifacts (e.g., drum, canoe, fish wheel)

Host a potlatch

Build an Athabascan snow shelter

Visit Borough Assembly chambers and/or have city and borough mayors visit classroom

Track the path of a selected export/import of Alaska

Have students track the price of Alaska crude oil and make a graph; consider tracking local gasoline/heating oil prices at the same time • Identify natural resources of Alaska

Participate in Friendship Day

Present a wax museum on an Alaskan pioneer

Role play interactions between Alaskans and Russians

Thinking Map® Tree using Alaskan primary and secondary sources

Read and discuss:

• • The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill

  • Egg Island by Putt Clark

  • Two Old Women (edited version) by Velma Wallis

  • At the Mouth of the Luckiest River by Arnold Griese

  • Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs

  • Benny's Flag by Phyllis Krasilovsky

Library of Congress primary resource website (www.loc.gov/teachers)

Use various Foldables®