Curriculum Resources for the Alaskan Environment
Subject Areas: science,
language arts
Timeline: one week to one
month (depending on the weather)
Grade Levels:
4-12
Purpose: to use students'
knowledge of their environment as a resource for
classroom study; to practice writing; to use group
decision making skills
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Sharon Moore
Freeze-Up
Essays
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Activities
Resources
- local radio weather reports and forecasts
- thermometers and weather maps
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Variations
- Include a broad study of weather
and weather prediction.
- Include in the descriptions
freeze-up dates for the last five
years.
- If the river freezes but thaws
later on, begin all over again.
- Predict breakup.
- Choose another natural event of
interest to the students: caribou migration, berry
season, salmon run, etc. Write descriptions of the event.
Make predictions about the harvest.
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