| LESSON PLANS
ELEMENTARY: Trade (Alaska)
Teacher Summary
Students spend two days traveling throughout Alaska, trading as
they go. They explore universal principles related to trade and
commerce while learning about Alaska's geography and indigenous
people. By the end of the lesson, students are poised to trade with
others outside of Alaska.
Objectives:
- Students will learn the names and define the geographic locations
of the homelands of five Alaska Native groups.
- Students will experience the physical landmarks necessary to
travel from one region within Alaska to another.
- Students will choose resources from a particular region to be
traded with another.
- Students will negotiate with each other to trade respective
goods.
- Students will formulate a theory of trade based on their experiences.
Content Standards:
Note: The following Alaska State Standards are
very similar to national standards and should be easily adaptable
to teachers in other states.
Geography Standard A: A student
should be able to make and use maps, globes, and graphs to gather,
analyze, and report spatial (geographic) information. A student
who meets the content standard should:
- use maps and globes to locate places and regions
- evaluate the importance of the locations of human and physical
features in interpreting geographic patterns
Geography Standard B: A student should be able to utilize,
analyze, and explain information about the human and physical features
of places and regions. A student who meets the content standard
should:
- know that places have distinctive geographic characteristics
Geography Standard D: A student should understand and be
able to interpret spatial (geographic) characteristics of human
systems, including migration, movement, interactions of cultures,
economic activities, settlement patterns, and political units in
the state, nation, and world. A student who meets the content standard
should:
- know that the need for people to exchange goods, services, and
ideas creates population centers, cultural interaction, and transportation
and communication links
Geography Standard E: A student should understand and be
able to evaluate how humans and physical environments interact.
A student who meets the content standard should:
- understand how resources have been developed and used
- recognize and assess local, regional, and global patterns of
resource use
History Standard A: A student should understand that history
is a record of human experiences that links the past to the present
and the future. A student who meets the content standard should:
5. Understand that history is a narrative
told in many voices and
expresses various perspectives of historical
experience
6. know that cultural elements, including language,
literature, the
arts, customs, and belief systems, reflect
the ideas and attitudes of a specific time and know
how the cultural elements influence human interaction
History Standard B: A student should understand historical
themes through factual knowledge of time, places, ideas, institutions,
cultures, people, and events. A student who meets the content standard
should:
- comprehend the forces of change and continuity that shape human
history through the following persistent organizing themes;
b. human communities and their relationships with climate,
subsistence base, resources, geography, and technology
Assessment rubric
(to be supplied by Ellen of PEM)
Preparation
Log into the New Trade Winds site ahead of time and print copies
of the Native Peoples and Languages map, My Resources Worksheet,
and My Trading Partner's Worksheet for students. Refer to the NTW
glossary for help in pronouncing the names of the groups.
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