Model Lessons

This section of the Frameworks provides information for teachers at particular grades levels about resources for developing lessons that are standards-based. The Best Practices section in this Frameworks also provides specific ideas about the best instructional strategies to use in an Alaska classroom.

Middle School

Alaska's Gold
http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/
Alaska's Gold activities help teachers connect student learning to the mastery of the Content and Performance Standards, in History, Reading, Writing, and Cultural Relevancy. The activities provide a model to help teachers design their own lessons using primary source materials from the Alaska Gold Rush era. (Grades 6-12)

Secondary Content Reading Strategies
http://www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm
This site has lesson plans for teaching content area strategies.

University of Alaska Museum of the North
http://www.uaf.edu/museum/journeys/
Northern Journeys: Dogs in Alaska (ages 8-10) Art images featuring dogs from the museum collection for six learning activities with teacher guide
Sea Migrations (ages 8- above) Art images from the museum with information on object, artist, location, art concept and an art activity
Multimedia Resources (all levels) Video files about Alaskan: Artists and Culture, Animals, and Landscapes/Communities can be viewed online or downloaded

All Grades

Alaska Native Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/
Excellent first-stop resource for information about Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing; curriculum, articles, standards, and links to credible sources

Alaska Studies
http://www.akhistory.org/index.cfm
Alaska's history and cultures online with lessons, maps, timelines and bibliography

Alaska Writes
http://litsite.uaa.alaska.edu/akwrites/akwrites.html
Meet Alaskans who share community through writing. Some of the people you'll read about in Pass the Word are professional writers and writing teachers. Some write only for the sheer joy of it. All are involved in passing on the gift of literacy. In Showcase of New Writers you'll find work by writers of all ages, as well as other Alaskan venues highlighting creative writing.

Alaskool
http://www.alaskool.org/
Online resources about Alaska Native history, education, languages and cultures

Blue Web’n
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/search.cfm
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). Sites are handpicked and are, in our opinion, among the most useful.

Eight Stars of Gold: The Story of Alaska’s Flag
http://www.museums.state.ak.us/EightStars/activities.html
Fifteen student activities with complete classroom lesson plans are ready to download in a PDF format. Activities are interdisciplinary and correlate to the Alaska State Content and Performance Standards in the Arts, English/Language Arts, Social Studies and Mathematics.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
The National Digital Library has over 500 Alaskan items currently online; primary source materials related to history and cultures of the United State; lessons developed by teachers can be searched by theme, topic, discipline or era

Quilts of Alaska
http://www.museums.state.ak.us/QuiltExhibit/index.html
Student Activities are standards-based and use historical quilts from a museum exhibit

Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp
Access to quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content. Begun in 2002 as a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation (K-12)

Writing Workbook
http://litsite.uaa.alaska.edu/workbooks/writing.html
Writing activities and exercises, contributed by educators, parents and students from around Alaska; divided into sections by grade level (K-12 and adult)