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Anchorage & Surrounding
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TEACHER PACKET The Teacher Packet contains wildlife activities, information about Alaska's public lands, an Alaskan Map, a crossword puzzle, addresses for obtaining curriculum specific to Alaska, and much more. Our Alaskan topic files include one-page descriptions of "Alaskan Life", "Alaskan Facts", "Native Alaskans", "Gold in the Klondike", "Alaska's Bears", "Alaska's Marine Mammals", the "Iditarod Trail", "Glaciers", "Alaska's Birds", the "Aurora Borealis", "Volcanoes", and "Alaska's Whales". You may ask for individual topics of interest or for the entire package. Environmental Education Puppet Show  Our K-3
Public Lands Puppet Show is not only fun but it's educational, too! This
show features some familiar fairy tale characters and Alaskan animals.
They both want the students to learn about important wildlife and wildland
concepts. We bring our traveling puppet show to your Anchorage Area school
for free! We only request that you provide an audience of at least two
classes and a room with a 9 foot ceiling to accommodate our portable
stage. We schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays only! Introduction and performance
last about 45 minutes.
Educational Kits are generally loaned for a week at a time and can be scheduled in advance. Call Joanne at 271-2741 for information and reservations. Educational Kits available include: Loon Kit - Check out this kit on our fantastic friends, the loons. Kit includes a loon costume, slides, video, books, and pictures of this distinctive bird. The kit also includes materials for several interesting loon activities. This kit comes from Alaska Science Teachers Association via funds from ARCO Alaska, Inc., the Audubon Society, and Alaska Department of Fish & Game. Beak Adaptation Kit - Imagine a hummingbird trying to gulp down a mouse, or an eagle attempting to sip nectar out of a tiny flower ... Sounds impossible, right? This kit will allow your students to determine ways that birds' beaks are adapted to getting different foods. The kit follows NatureScope's "Fill the Bill" activity and includes foods and various kitchen tools to serve as beaks. Students will enjoy experimenting with the different beaks in this fun kit. Alaskan Animal Scent Kit - Charge your kids up with this tracking adventure. Students follow their noses in this activityadapted from NatureScope's "Sniffing Out a Trail". Kit includes instructions, film canisters, and clue cards. Students must find their scent at five stations, read the attached clues, and determine what Alaskan animal they are. A very active introduction to Alaskan animals. Teachers supply the scents: orange peel, onion, garlic, vinegar and other inexpensive household smells. Wolf Kit - Do you want your students to learn more about wolves? This kit from Alaska Department of Fish & Game includes a resource notebook, activities, Native American stories, reference books, a puppet, videos, cassettes, posters, a wolf hide and skull and more! Prepared with the assistance of biologists and educators throughout Alaska, this kit is designed to be used at all grade levels. Track Kit - Borrow AAPLIC's track kit. The kit includes several tracking activities, track stories and the instructions for making your own plaster casts. Teachers provide the plaster and other materials. Latex molds include red squirrel, weasel, muskrat, snowshoe rabbit, red fox, porcupine, beaver, coyote, dog, wolverine, timber wolf, caribou, moose, bear, magpie, ptarmigan, mallard, gull, goose and eagle. Owl Pellet Kit - Are you studying bones? Try a unique means of differentiating skulls, jaws, shoulder blades, front and hind legs, hips, ribs and vertebrae... by way of dissecting an owl pellet. Owls, hawks, eagles and other raptors swallow their prey whole and later regurgitate a pellet containing complete skeletons of rodents, moles, shrews and birds (the pellets are sanitized). The kids discover each new bone with excitement and fun.... they can even reconstruct a skeleton. Most pellets contain 2-4 animals. This is the only kit that requires a replacement charge .... $1.75 for each owl pellet. Alaska Resources Kit: Minerals - Alaskan educators and industry teamed up to create this kit to help students learn about minerals in our state. The kit includes a teacher's manual with 150 student activities, a box of mineral samples, a testing kit, 15 books, posters, filmstrips and a video. Students use reading, discussion, writing, math, games and experiments to learn science and social studies. The kit materials are flexible enough to be used in classes of fourth grade up to high school. AAPLIC Classroom Puppet Show - This kit is an outgrowth of the AAPLIC Travelling Puppet Show. We had such a response from students to hold and handle the puppets that we decided to make a puppet show for classroom use. This puppet production features the True Story of the Three Little Pigs as told to Jon Scieszka by A. Wolf... the story of the Three Little Pigs from the wolf's perspective. The show features lots of action and props and is sure to be a big hit with players and audience alike! Includes all puppets, scripts and a portable stage.
We have over 100 different films for viewing on topics ranging from the Gold Rush to dog racing to pioneer homesteading to... Some films are loaned for viewing in the classroom. Call or write for a film listing. SUMMER INTERPRETIVE SERIES Speakers from the community and interpreters at the center present weekly programs on topics ranging from bear safety to Alaskan Mosquitos to native dancing. See "What's New" for a current schedule. BIRD TREATMENT & LEARNING CENTER
Alaska Public Lands Information Center has a wonderful library chocked full of curriculum, books, games, tapes, and posters for use in the classroom. Library materials are loaned for 3-4 weeks. Materials in the AAPLIC Resource Library include: Alaska Sea Week Curriculum, Alaska Wildlife Curriculum, the NatureScope series, Outdoor Biology Instructional Series, the Alaska Oil Spill Curriculum, Earth Education series, Keepers of the Earth, Hands-on Nature, Teach About Geese, Learn About Seabirds, and the Outdoor Survival Training series. AAPLIC has also compiled four activity books on "Marine Mammals", "Fish Resources", "Endangered Species", and "Alaska's Birds". THE GREAT ALASKAN MYSTERY BOX
The traveling trunk is expected to be a 2-3 week adventure for students in Alaska and the Lower 48. The Great Alaskan Mystery Box is a partnership between the Loyal Order of the Moose and Parks As Classrooms. It is a prototype program using Alaska's national parks to supplement learning in the classroom. Eight additional Mystery Boxes are under construction. The boxes will be located at various locations throughout Alaska. Check "What's New" for the progress of this exciting project. EDUCATIONAL BROCHURESThe AAPLIC has brochures which may aid in the following topics of study: Endangered Species, Biological Diversity, Migratory Birds,Alaskan Birds, Wetlands, Rainforests, Alaskan Volcanoes, Habitat, The Gold Rush, and Insects. Call or write for more information. E-MAIL SUPPORT Alaska Public Lands Information Center can act as a resource for students studying Alaska. Our center represents over 379 million acres of Alaska's national parks, state parks, national forests, and national wildlife refuges. These lands are the background for some of the most scenic and unspoiled wilderness areas in America. In addition, they are home to active volcanoes, frequent earthquakes, 40 foot tides, one-half the world's glaciers, and animals that are endangered or threatened elsewhere. If you have access to the Internet, are doing an Alaskan unit, or have specific questions on Alaska's public lands... and would like some on-site/on-line support, please contact Joanne Welch at joanne_welch@nps.gov. Home | About
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