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6th grade place-based lessons
Lesson Overview
Lesson Overview
In 6th Grade, students are ready to move from learning about Alaska Day perspectives to acting on them. In earlier grades, students learned about community and belonging, Lingít presence before colonization, and change over time. They also looked at the 1867 transfer through Lingít, Russian, and American eyes, and proposed more inclusive ways to celebrate. In this lesson, students use real photos of Sitka's Alaska Day and Reconciliation Day events to ask who is represented and who is missing. Then they design a parade contribution for a real community audience and judge it with criteria they write themselves. This fits the middle school focus on identity, systems, and multiple perspectives, and asks students to see themselves as community members who can shape how Sitka remembers its history.
Prep Instructions
Prep Instructions
Read ahead
Alaska Day background sheet, covering the holiday and community perspectives, including Reconciliation Day
Photos 4, 5, 12, 13, and 25 show the Kiks.ádi mourning ceremony and Reconciliation Day. Plan how you'll frame these respectfully. They aren't parade "entries," and students should understand what they are before discussing them.
Gallery walk photos (slides 12 to 33), to hang around the room
Gallery Walk Organizer (slide 8), 1 per student
Parade Float Proposal Organizer (slides 9 to 10), 1 per group
Example Rubric (slide 11), optional: for teacher reference or to project
Hang or project
The gallery walk photos, spaced so students can move between them
Example float images from other parades, so students have design ideas (the lesson links idskids.com/parade-floats-types-and-benefits). Gather these yourself; they aren't in the deck.
Have ready
Paper for the bellringer and rubric brainstorm
Board space to build the class rubric
Art supplies for drawing the floats: colored pencils, markers, extra paper
Decide ahead
Group size (pairs or trios recommended)
One or two periods
Paper or digital gallery walk
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