2017 Alaska Cross Content Conference

Some of our students travel extensively and some only rarely. But not all see our country by visiting national parks. By recruiting and training staff to meet educational goals, the National Park Service now provides a wide range of engaging cultural and science-related resources for students and educators on-line as well as in print. There are many lessons available to teach topics such as the internment of Japanese in World War II, Custer's Last Stand, limiting factors in an ecosystem, diversity of a subtropical natural community, effect of plate tectonics on western landforms, and more. We will take some time to link these ideas and others you suggest to the grade level standards for the science and cultural history topics we are teaching and to share lesson ideas that correlate with what we discover. Students (you) will share discoveries with each other and we will compile some ideas to be sent by e-mail to each participant for future consideration.

In this session, you will find it handy to have a laptop or tablet so you can explore the web sites that contain content that interests you most. We will also be building models using clay, so be prepared to get a little messy!