RFP Tutorial & Information Curriculum Funded Mini-Grant Projects UAF Clearinghouse 4-H Natural Resources                /Youth Development Contact Information Main College of Rural Alaska Cooperative Extension Service Copyright © 2004, College of Rural Alaska - Higher Education Project, all rights reserved. Designed by WebWeavers Technology Group		Project Funded Curriculum Project Alaska Indigenous Peoples' Academy (Project AIPA) Through the Doyon Foundation - Project AIPA developed mathematics, science, and social studies curricula and materials based on the indigenous knowledge of Athabascan elders of the Interior region of Alaska. Project AIPA conducted an Indigenous Knowledge Seminar involving nine Athabascan elders, selected Alaska Native educators, and Project AIPA staff. The seminar was designed to solicit knowledge from the elders for use by the Native educators in the development of curriculum units written for Project AIPA. Eight Alaska Native educators participated and created those educational units linked to above. For more information, please contact Bob Maguire, Project AIPA Director, at 907-459-2144, or via e-mail at maguireb@doyon.com. For copies of the associated curriculum, please contact Jodie Anderson, Curriculum Specialist via e-mail at ffjma@uaf.edu. "Reindeer and the Land" Curriculum Project (Click Here to View Images) - The Reindeer Research Program (RRP) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, implemented an educational outreach program for grades K - 12 in the Bering Strait region of Alaska. This educational outreach program is designed to use reindeer and the reindeer industry as a platform in which to teach students Alaska history, Alaska Native culture, economics, renewable resource use, sustainable agriculture, northern ecology and biology. Region-specific information and knowledge will be introduced to them and four educators from the region will be subcontracted to write specific educational units for the proposed curriculum. These lesson plans are integrated into the RRP's educational kits, which are available to educators to checkout on a loan basis and housed at the Nome City School District and the Bering Strait School District. For more information, please contact Greg Finstad, Co-Project Leader, at 907-474-6055, or via e-mail at ffglf@uaf.edu. Click Here to View Images For copies of the associated curriculum, please contact Jodie Anderson, Curriculum Specialist via e-mail at ffjma@uaf.edu. Alaskan Curriculum Resources on the Web As the Curriculum Coordinator for this grant and a former biology and chemistry teacher, I am always looking for Alaskan curriculum resources which could be used by and for classroom teachers. I have taken a few of my most frequented websites and written an annotated description for each. All of the underlined titles below are linked directly to that site. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions of sites you like to use. Best of luck, Jodie Anderson ffjma@uaf.edu 907.746.9461 Alaska Native Knowledge Network (http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/) This site should be a bookmark for all teachers in Alaska. Through this location you can view and print culturally-based curriculum resources, cultural standards, search by topic the ANKN publications, articles, and other databases, and link to other online resources. I highly recommend visiting and bookmarking this site as a complete teaching resource. Alaska Native Science Commission (http://www.nativescience.org/) This site gives you many natural resource and environmental research resources. This is bookmarked right under the Alaska Native Knowledge network on my computer. The Alaska Native Science Commission was created to bring together research and science in partnership with the Native community. It serves as a clearinghouse for proposed research, an information base for on-going and past research and an archive for significant research involving the Native community. They provide information, referral and networking services for researchers seeking active partners in the Native community. Alaska Native Curriculum Project (http://www.alaskool.org/) This site is an online resource for Alaska Native history, education, languages and cultures. A unique opportunity to download Alaska Native language fonts for Inupiaq and Unangam Tunuu, online dictionaries for Inupiaq and Tlingit nouns, and online phrasebooks and phrase/word lists for Inupiaq, Cup'ik, and Unangam. This is a great culture and language resource as well as having helpful tools for the classroom teacher. Alaska Department of Fish & Game - Teacher Resources The Alaska Department of Fish & Game has a wide variety of resources available to educators through out this website. Their page was developed to provide a hub for links to educational resources compiled and created by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. Alaska Natural Resource & Outdoor Education Association (http://www.anroe.org/) ANROE is an organization connecting many loose ends in Natural Resource and Outdoor Education throughout Alaska. They have a wealth of resources you can link to from their homepage. For great science curriculum projects ready for use in the classroom, try the "Alaska-specific curricula" link at the bottom left on the homepage. ANROE also has very applicable publications available for their members. Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (http://tea.rice.edu/) The "Activities" link on the TEA homepage sends you to nine curriculum projects designed at the 2003 TEA Transfer Workshop. All projects have detailed information about the student objectives, the National Science Standards met, lesson plans, and contact information on the author. Several projects are designed for elementary students, but could be easily modified for secondary students. Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (http://www.arcus.org) Educating the public about Arctic research and it's important on a global scale is one facet of ARCUS. Through this site, you can subscribe to an education listserve, connect with current Arctic research, and learn about global Arctic issues. Try the "ARCUS SITE NATIGATION" drop-down menu from the homepage to go to some useful educational links. Hoofin' It - Parkwise: Your Alaska National Parks eClassroom (http://www.nps.gov/akso/ParkWise/Teachers/Nature/WEAR_HoofinIt/overview.htm) This unit explores the natural resource management of Dall sheep in the national parks of northwest Alaska. Students will learn about Dall sheep, where they live, how they have adapted to their environment, and how wildlife biologists study them to understand how to proect their populations within national parklands. This unit is designed for grades K-12. Many of the activities included in the unit, and the earlier concepts are appropriate for younger grades, although the later part of the unit and the final activity are geared towards middle and high school. High school math and science teachers can focus on the last guiding question and the final activity. UAF College of Rural Alaska, PO Box 756180, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6180 Ph: 907.474.7246 Fx: 907.474.6971 The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educational institution. For claims of infringement pursuant to Section 512(c) of the Copyright Act contact the UA Claims Agent. "This material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under special project number 2001-38426-11488 and supported by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and College of Rural Alaska."