Overview of the Course Web Design
Narrative Units
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- The course contains six narrative units written by authorities in the field: Geography, Alaska's Cultures, Russia's Colony, America's Territory, Governing Alaska, and Modern Alaska. Collectively, these units present the story of Alaska's history, ...

Instructional Guide for History Units
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- This portion of the Teacher's Guide includes the enduring understandings, essential questions and lesson plans related to each unit. The enduring understandings and essential questions are those identified as most important by the historians who aut...

Overview of the Course Web Design
The Home Page
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- A visit to the course home page www.akhistorycourse.org, will introduce you to some of the main elements of the course. Timeline The Six Narrative Units Regional History Map Search Feature To return to the h...

Overview of the Course Web Design
Sidebar
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- A sidebar is associated with each narrative unit. The History Units, Regional History Map and Teacher Guide links on each sidebar bring you to those resources. The Related Stories, Field Trips, and In the News sidebar features are related to the h...

Teacher's Guide
Chart of Alignment
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- This chart indicates the alignment between the Alaska history performance standards and the enduring understandings, essential questions, and the assessment questions contained in the Alaska Humanities Forum’s Alaska History and Cultural Studies cour...

High School Graduation Requirement
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- After a statewide advocacy effort, led by the Alaska Humanities Forum, the State Board of Education amended 4AAC 06.075. This regulation now requires that as of January 1, 2009, the three units of social studies required for graduation must includ...

Teacher's Guide - Table of Contents
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- INTRODUCTION History of the Alaska History & Cultural Studies Curriculum Project High School Graduation Requirement Alaska History & Cultural Studies Curriculum Professional Development in Alaska History Acknowledgements OVE...

Alaska: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
ANILCA
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- Conservation and environmental protection and regulation are important issues in Alaska. Before World War II, conservation of Alaska lands did not affect Alaska’s economic development very much - only 54 million acres of Alaska’s total of 375 million...

Alaska Content Standards
Geography D
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- D A student should understand and be able to interpret spatial (geographic) characteristics of human systems, including migration, movement, interactions of cultures, economic activities, ...

Interior Alaska
Introduction
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- Interior Alaska is a concept more than an area precisely defined by physical boundaries. Its borders have been established by cultural differences and political ideas. To the north and west, Interior Alaska ends where Athapaskan villages give way to ...

Teacher's Guide
Assessments
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- Note: The following documents are for teacher use and are password protected. The assessments include a pretest and final exam. Additionally, there is an assessment associated with each of the six units, an answer key for the teacher, and anchor pap...

Alaska: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
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- Probably no other legislation in the history of Alaska had a greater impact on the state than the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. ANCSA made Alaska Natives the largest private landholders in Alaska and empowered Alaska Natives as shareholders in...

Teacher's Guide
A New State Seal
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- Enduring Understandings The enduring understandings related to this lesson include those from each of the six units students have studied. Estimated Time: Five class periods Materials needed: All six u...

Teacher's Guide
Adventures in the Alaska Economy Today
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- Enduring Understandings The enduring understandings related to this lesson include those from each of the six units students have studied. The Adventures in Alaskan Economy was developed to increase students' understanding of basic eco...

Modern Alaska
ANILCA
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- In November 1980 the U.S. Congress passed an act that has been called "the most important environmental legislation in the history of the nation" the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act or ANILCA. The act made 104 million acres of Alaska...

Alaska Content Standards
Geography
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- A A student should be able to make and use maps, globes, and graphs to gather, analyze, and report spatial (geographic) information. A student who meets the content st...

Modern Alaska
Subsistence
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- One of the important parts of the Alaska lands act, ANILCA, was a federal guarantee of a rural preference for the subsistence harvest of traditional resources fish and game. Native Alaskans in particular, but also non-Natives living in rural are...

Alaska Native Heritage Center
INUPIAQ AND SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND YUPIK
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- Who We Are The Inupiaq and the St. Lawrence Island Yupik People, or “Real People,” are still hunting and gathering societies. They continue to subsist on the land and sea of north and northwest Alaska. Their lives continue to evolve ...

The Geography of Alaska
Physical Geography
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- Four separate, yet interrelated components make up Alaskan environment: Lithosphere Atmosphere Hydrosphere Biosphere processes The processes operating in these four spheres are interlinked to varying degrees. Together t...

Teacher's Guide
Cause-Effect Relationships
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- Estimated Time: This lesson will take one period to introduce and demonstrate. Time may be spent in subsequent periods to share and critique the cause-effect statements. At the conclusion of a unit of study on Alaska's American period, student...

Alaska's Cultures
Military in Alaska
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- The military forces of the United States have a large presence in Alaska. The military bases, the thousands of service men and women and the employment opportunities for civilians impact the State in far more ways than the traditional military role ...

No limits
Women achieve equal footing in outdoor sports
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- MOUNT McKINLEY -- Three miles high on the West Buttress of North America's tallest mountain, Heather Thamm and Betsy Young are the shining faces of the new feminism. The recent graduates from Alaska Pacific University don't make a big deal about w...

Northwest and Arctic
1920-1945 THE AIR AGE
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- In this section you will learn about: Introduction of aviation Revival of gold mining and reindeer industries Reservations World War II impact Aviation breaks Northwest and Arctic Alaska's isolation In 1920 four U.S. Army aircraft arrived...

The Aleut Evacuation
Bibliography
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- Primary Sources Books Kirtland, John C. and David F. Coffin Jr., The Relocation and Internment of the Aleuts During World War II, Volume VII-Depositions of Persons Evacuated from St. George Island. Anchorage, Alaska: The Aleutian/Pribilof Island...

Alaska's Heritage
CHAPTER 4-21: HEALTH AND MEDICINE
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- Medical care in early American Alaska is limited Euroamerican explorers and traders introduced diseases against which Alaska Natives had no natural immunity. Smallpox, measles, and various strains of flu decimated the Natives. The population of ...

Southcentral Alaska
1915-1930 THE RAILROAD YEARS
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- In this section you will learn about: Alaska Railroad construction Fisheries development Copper mining industry Katalla petroleum development Aviation Ballaine's dream comes true In 1912 the U.S. Congress passed the second Organic Act wh...

Southwest Alaska
1912 1924 Lessons From The Land
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- In this section you will learn about: The effects of disease upon Native populations Effects of World War I Development of the fishing industry Conservation efforts Agricultural experiments are tried Dr. Charles Georgeson of the U.S. Depa...

Alaska's Heritage
CHAPTER 4-3: POPULATION AND SETTLEMENTS
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- Alaskans live near lines of transportation and resources At the time of the purchase in 1867, an estimated 2,000 people lived within Alaska's borders. By 1910, nearly 65,000 people resided in Alaska. Forty years later, 128,643 people lived in Al...

Alaska's Heritage
CHAPTER 4-11: RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
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- Alaskans look to railroads Railroads, providing relatively low-cost, versatile, and rapid transportation, opened the American west in the nineteenth century. Those railroads had an impact on Alaska. They were, for instance, responsible for rel...

Southcentral Alaska
1900-1915 FIGHT FOR A RAILROAD
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- In this section you will learn about: Railroad development Copper discoveries Conservation issues National forest establishment Talkeetna Mountains gold discoveries Ballaine plans a railroad During the summer of 1900, Seattle real-estate...

Alaska's Heritage
CHAPTER 4-7: ALASKANS AND THE WORLD
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- International boundaries and waters affect Alaska Alaska's nearness to two foreign countries, Canada and Russia, has caused Alaska to have more contact with foreign nations than many other states. This activity has been increased by the fact tha...

Northwest and Arctic
1945-1980 WEALTH OF THE ARCTIC
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- In this section you will learn about: Military development after World War II Petroleum development Emergence of Native movement Bering Sea fisheries Marine mammal management controversies National interest lands Cold War brings more con...