This Alaska Library Lesson is for libraries serving Grades 2-5.
This is an Alaska Library Lesson for Grades 2-5. It includes a differentiated scavenger hunt activity, answer key, and standards-aligned lesson plan.
This is an Alaska Library Lesson for Grades 2-5. It includes a differentiated scavenger hunt activity, answer key, and standards-aligned lesson plan.
This is an Alaska Library Lesson for Grades 2-5. It includes a differentiated scavenger hunt activity, answer key, and standards-aligned lesson plan.

Alaska Library Lesson

$7.00

This Alaska Library Lesson features Alaska state symbols, places of interest, wildlife, landforms, and more! Students learn about Alaska through fun facts, would you rathers, vocabulary words, trivia questions, and history! Designed as a library lesson, but can also be used in the classroom.

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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS ALASKA LIBRARY LESSON

  • Recommended for: Grades 2-5
  • Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
  • Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
  • Editable: YES, all text is editable

 

THIS ALASKA LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES:

  • 47-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
  • List of 22 recommended read-alouds that are set in Alaska (1 page)
  • Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
  • Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
  • Prep, set up, tips (6 pages, PDF only)
  • Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
  • Instructions on how to set up PPT and Google Slides timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF only)

 

ALASKA LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES

  • sign language: “Alaska” (fingerspell A-K) and “seal”
  • Alaska postal abbreviation (AK)
  • Alaska on a map of the US
  • What is Alaska known for?
  • Alaska state flower (forget-me-not)
  • Alaska state bird (willow ptarmigan)
  • Alaska state nickname (“The Last Frontier”)
  • Alaska state flag
  • capital city (Juneau) + other important cities
  • Alaska climate
  • Mystery animal (beluga whale)
  • information about beluga whales
  • moose, Kodiak bear, Dall sheep, sled dogs, wolverine, caribou
  • Places of interest: Denali National Park, Anchorage mudflats, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau
  • Aleutian Islands
  • Bering Strait
  • Diomede Islands
  • Iditarod
  • Balto and Togo (sled dogs)
  • Alaskan foods – King crab legs, baked Alaska, wild berries
  • Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights
  • Alaska purchase
  • Alaska US statehood
  • Alaska Native Americans
  • 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
  • Library Skill: where to find books about wolverines (500 section)
  • Word of the Week: Seward’s Folly, Aurora Borealis, and mudflats
  • other vocabulary words: strait, archipelago, pod (group of whales)
  • All slides are illustrated with real photos and colorful clipart for Grades 2-5.

 

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