Model Lessons

This section of the Frameworks provides information for teachers at particular grade 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.

All Grades

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Math.html
Organizes the Web with 23,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

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

Best WebQuests.com
http://bestwebquests.com
Links to dozens of standards-based, rated WebQuests for use in the classroom.

Alaska Models - High School (9-12)

Triscience Disease Unit
http://pec.jun.alaska.edu:16080/~larsona/
Standards: Science, Technology, Health
"Students produce a documentary on a member of their community who lives with a disease/illness or food allergy, and experience through this individual what it is like to live with a medical condition day to day. Through research, interviewing techniques, and multimedia, students (in small groups) will create PowerPoint presentations documenting the human perspective as well as the scientific basis (cause, effect(s), treatment, to name a few), of the disease/illness in front of a panel of professionals (medical, educational) and peers."

Earth History Unit Project
http://pec.jun.alaska.edu:16080/~burgesm/
Standards: Science, Language Arts, Technology
"This project is an examination of the evidence that scientists use to explain the major changes in geology, climate, and biology that have occurred throughout earth’s history. Student teams work together to create a timeline exhibit that illustrates and describes these changes. Student created multimedia presentations describe the evidence used to develop the timeline. By the end of the unit, the students understand that the geologic and climate changes that have occurred over time have also caused changes in the organisms that inhabit earth. Humans, in addition to being affected by these changes, have also elicited changes in geology, climate, and the evolution of other organisms."

Alaska's Gold
http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/
Standards: History, English/Language Arts, Technology, Cultural
"The purpose of this website is to make historic primary source materials more available and to demonstrate to students and educators the value and usefulness of primary source materials."