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Preparing Responsive Educators using Place-based Authentic Research in Earth Systems

The curriculum linked here are Alaska based lessons written as a part of the PREPARES grant. These lessons are available for teachers to infuse place-based activities within their science curriculum.

https://sites.google.com/lksd.org/prepares/home

REACH

https://k12reach.org/

Raising Educational Achievement through Cultural Heritage UP (REACH Up) seeks to provide Native students and their teachers with accurate, culturally relevant science curriculum, that improves student achievement on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) assessments, and trains Native youth to propose solutions to local climate change problems.

AK Energy Smart

http://www.akenergysmart.org/lesson-plans/

All AK EnergySmart lessons are now aligned with the Alaska English Language Arts and Mathematics standards as well as the Next Generation Science Standards.

The Goose Project

http://learnscape.org/goose/

The goose project is a 5 year study to help research these questions. The overall research objective is to quantify how an advancing growing season and changes in the timing of vegetation-goose interactions alter the magnitudes and patterns of Carbon and Nitrogen cycling in the Y-K Delta. Scientist hope to learn more about how geese affect the ecology of coastal marshes in Western Alaska. Lesson plans are available to introduce this research to students.

Alaska Native GeoScience Learning Experience

https://serc.carleton.edu/ANGLE/index.html

he primary aim of the EarthScope Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience (EarthScope ANGLE) is to increase Alaskan resilience to geohazards through education and building of an action-oriented learning community. A synthesis of existing EarthScope educational materials and methods, translated to an Alaskan setting, will form the core of the programming

Arctic Climate Modeling Program

http://arcticclimatemodeling.org/

The research-based Arctic Climate Modeling Program (ACMP) is funded by NSF ITEST. Curriculum based resources were designed with input from 21 scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Resources include K-12 inquiry-based classroom lessons, a student network for observing arctic weather, digital lectures, and an interactive multimedia learning system (on DVD).

Alaska k-12 Science Curricular Initiative

http://aksci.org/

AKSCI offers curriculum resources based on Alaska standards and Grade Level Expectations (GLEs). The Curricula tab above lists lessons by theme. The Lesson Bank tab lets you search the database for lessons.

Alaska Native Knoweledge Network

http://ankn.uaf.edu/Curriculum/Units/

A database of lessons and units searchable by content and cultural standards, cultural region and grade level. More units will be available soon. You can use Acrobat Reader to look at the PDF version of the Cover Sheet for the Units and Self-Assessment for Cultural Standards in Practice.