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.
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember;
I do and I understand.”
--Chinese
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High 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)
High School Hub
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/english.cfm
Excellent source for most common high school English and writing needs, from
literature guides to grammar information
Newspapers in High School
http://litsite.uaa.alaska.edu/workbooks/highnewswrite.html
One of the shared lesson ideas in the resource LitSite
Samples of High School Writing
http://www.swc.utexas.edu/samples/highschool/index.shtml
A Texas web site with excellent writing samples
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)
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