The
Alaska Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Alaska. We have created a
FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click
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The Alaska Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The
Alaska Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Alaska.
The 20
Alaska Primary Sources are:
• Illustration of Fort Yukon – located just north of the Arctic Circle – 1867
• Map of Alaska – 1895
• Book poster promoting Heart of the Klondike – 1897
• Board game entitled Going to Klondyke – 1897
• Cover for Klondike: A Manual for Gold Seekers – 1897
• Photograph of miners and prospectors ascending the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush – 1898
• Photograph of James Wickersham in council with tribal chiefs in Fairbanks – circa 1900
• Photograph of men with ancient mastodon bones found in Alaska – circa 1915
• Photograph of workers in an under-sea mine shaft – Treadwell Gold Mine on north side of Douglas Island – 1916
• Photograph of totem pole in Old Kasaan – 1916
• Photograph of miner panning for gold – 1916
• Photograph of Eskimo family – 1917
• Photograph showing bombing of Aleutians Islands after Japanese invasion – 1943
• WPA poster depicting Alaska as a death-trap for the Japanese in WWII – between 1941-1943
• Photograph of earthquake damage in Anchorage – 1964
• Photograph of workers using high-pressure, hot water tools to clean oiled shoreline after Exxon Valdez oil spill – 1989
• Photograph of musher at the Willow, Alaska, start point of the 2005 Iditarod sled dog race – 2005
• Population density map of Alaska – 2010
• Photograph of Balto statue in New York City’s Central Park – Balto was lead dog on final relay team delivering medicine to Nome in 1925 to combat diphtheria outbreak – 2010 photo
Your students will:
- think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
- participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations.
- integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
- experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.