Folklife Resources for Educators
Materials Related to Alaska
There are 8 items in this list. Oral Traditions
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/127/sections/193
Curriculum resources for the study of Tlingit oral traditions for grades 5-8. The materials focus on the interconnections of story and dance in the Tlingit culture of Southeastern Alaska and include a video that features Tlingit oral tradition. Topics covered include how oral tradition tells us who we are, where we came from, and how it serves to communicate important cultural values. It also focuses on how the Tlingit people use art, song, dance, and storytelling to express their identity. Curriculum suggestions conform to National Standards for English Language Arts.
Grade Level: 6-8 |
Curriculum: Performing Arts; Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Celebration; Tales; Dance; Music; Intercultural communication; Storytelling; Oral tradition; Alaska--Social life and customs; Tlingit Indians; Clothing and dress; Material culture; Indians of North America
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Performing Asveq (The Walrus Hunt)
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/129/sections/195
Curriculum resources for grades 5-8 focused on how young people of Inupiaq and Yupick heritage express their cultural identity through song and dance. Topics covered focus on performing arts that provide a direct way to participate in one’s cultural community, to preserve culture for future generations, and to express joy in being a part of a culture. An accompanying video illustrates a song and dance describing a walrus hunt developed by students from an Anchorage high school. Curriculum suggestions conform to National Standards for English Language Arts and can be used in the classroom to teach social studies, music, and performing arts.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies; Language Arts; Performing Arts; Music |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Yupik Eskimos; Hunting; Indians of North America; Dance; Music; Alaska--Social life and customs; Storytelling; Tales; Inupiat; Walrus hunting
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Alaska Native Dance
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/285/sections/709
Curriculum resources for exploring similarities in the midst of diversity by introducing students to native dances performed by Alaskan cultural groups. Accompanying videos document a variety of dance forms performed by five native groups, with background about the characteristics of the dances and the cultural contexts and restrictions governing their performance. Curriculum ideas can be used in the classroom for teaching social studies, music, fine arts, geography, and physical education.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; Geography; History and Social Studies; Music; Performing Arts; Sports and Recreation |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Video recordings |
Language: English |
Subjects: Music; Intercultural communication; Storytelling; Aleuts; Indians of North America; Tlingit Indians; Inupiat; Alaska--Social life and customs; Dance; Yupik Eskimos; Tsimshian Indians; Haida Indians
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Iñupiaq Whale Hunt
by Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations http://www.echospace.org/articles/137/sections/207
Curriculum resources for grades 5-8 that explore the role of the whale hunt among the Inupiat people along the Chukchi Sea of northern Alaska. Topics covered include how the whale hunt nourishes the Inupiaq people and sustains and builds community. An accompanying video with discussion questions illustrates Inupiaq subsistence hunting and fishing and demonstrates how whaling fulfills many of the nutritional, economic, social and cultural needs of Inupiaq life. Curriculum suggestions can be applied to the areas of social studies, history, language arts, and geography.
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8 |
Curriculum: History and Social Studies; Geography; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Video recordings; Lesson plans |
Language: English |
Subjects: Geography; Hunting; Whaling; Alaska--Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Inupiat; Food; Foodways; Celebration; Environmental sciences; Fishing
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Echo: Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
http://www.echospace.org/
Indivisible Educator's Guide
by Center for Creative Photography http://www.indivisible.org/resources.htm
An educator's guide for K-12 students that combines photography and first-person narratives to explore community life, identity, and civic action (72 p. PDF). Lesson plans are available on taking documentary photographs, collecting oral histories, and analyzing gathered fieldwork documentation. It includes descriptions of twelve community documentation projects undertaken throughout the United States. Created in 2000 in connection with a national documentary project called "Indivisible: Stories of American Community." A selection of slides and an audio cd of excerpted project interviews accompanies the lessons.
Sponsoring Organization: Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona Libraries Tucson AZ 85721-0103
(520) 621-7968 http://www.creativephotography.org/
Other Organizations:
Center for Documentary Studies Duke University Durham NC 27705
(919) 660-3663 http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Culturally-Based Curriculum Resources
by Alaska Native Knowledge Network http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/course/view.php?id=2
Culturally responsive curriculum resources for the study of Alaska native knowledge systems and ways of learning. Database includes units, lesson plans, activities, and background material for use in the K-12 classroom, geared primarily for use in the curriculum fields of math and science. The materials are created within a culturally aligned curriculum framework reflecting indigenous knowledge systems, and incorporate oral tradition, learned skills, traditional practice, folk medicine, and native ecological perspectives which make them valuable for application in social science and humanities curricula.
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Science; Performing Arts; Music; Math; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Land use; Traditional medicine; Environmental sciences; Alaska--Social life and customs; Plants; Human ecology; Material culture; Indians of North America; Maritime culture; Oral tradition; Weather; Fishing; Animals
Geographic locations: Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: Alaska Native Knowledge Network University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756730 Fairbanks AK 99775-6730
(907) 474-1902 http://ankn.uaf.edu/
Native American Dolls
by National Museum of the American Indian http://smithsonianeducation.org/images/educators/lesson_plan/native_dolls/native_dolls.pdf
Teaching guide for K-12 education with lesson plan and activities on diverse traditions of Native American dolls and dollmaking. Native doll makers describe how their work keeps old traditions alive and helps in developing new traditions. Includes examples of Navajo, Inupiat, Ojibwe, Seneca, and Seminole dolls exhibited in the National Museum of the American Indian and transcripts of interviews with their makers. The lesson is useful for teaching about cultural differences where students are encouraged to compare and contrast Native dolls with those from their own background. It meets national curriculum standards for History and Geography. Lesson plan originally published in the fall 2004 issue of "Smithsonian In Your Classroom." (28 p. PDF)
Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Geography; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Geography; Seneca Indians; Inupiat; Seminole Indians; Dollmaking; Indians of North America; Indian dolls; Navajo Indians; Women artists; Oral history; Ojibwe Indians
Geographic locations: United States; New York (State); New Mexico; Minnesota; Florida; Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: National Museum of the American Indian Fourth Street & Independence Avenue, SW Washington DC 20560
(202) 633-6996 http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Other Organizations:
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies 600 Maryland Avenue, Suite 1005 Washington DC 20024
(202) 633-5330 http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions
by National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/quilts.pdf
Study guide developed by the National Museum of the American Indian to accompany a 1997 exhibition of the same name. It can also be used as an independent resource for educators. Includes four lesson plans that correspond to the exhibition sections: Origins, Honoring, Design, and Community. Curriculum focuses on quilters from eight Native American communities and has accompanying study questions, handouts, and activities. (36 p. PDF)
Grade Level: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 |
Curriculum: Art and Culture; History and Social Studies; Language Arts |
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities |
Language: English |
Subjects: Indian women; Hawaiians; Tlingit Indians; Wasco Indians; Mohawk Indians; Osage Indians; Cherokee Indians; Textile fabrics; Maryland--Social life and customs; Hawaii--Social life and customs; New York (State)--Social life and customs; Oklahoma--Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Quilting; Alaska--Social life and customs; Oregon--Social life and customs; South Dakota--Social life and customs; Canada--Social life and customs; Veterans; Anishinabe Indians; Oglala Indians; Quiltmakers; Yupik Eskimos; Needlework
Geographic locations: South Dakota; Oregon; Oklahoma; New York (State); Maryland; Hawaii; Canada; Alaska |
Sponsoring Organization: National Museum of the American Indian Fourth Street & Independence Avenue, SW Washington DC 20560
(202) 633-6996 http://www.nmai.si.edu
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