Alaska Lessons

• Each day I will post one or two questions about Alaska that my students will have to “hunt down” the answers using internet and other resources (an Alaska scavenger hunt).  They will build an Alaskan portfolio with the answers and pictures.  Feel free to do the same, extend on this lesson, or design  your own lessons with your students.
• My students will also make a chart where they will track and compare the tempeture, weather conditions, and sunrise and sunset of Fairbanks, Alaska and Pomona.

Students, go to the Alaska Science Forum at http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum. Use the information you find at that Web site to answer the questions that follow:

Questions:

1. What is the official state insect of Alaska?

2. What causes red auroras?

3. Anthropologists believe the Americas were originally populated by nomads from Asia who migrated across a land bridge connecting Alaska with Siberia. How many migrations were there?

4. What causes solar eclipses?

5. Does polar bear hair conduct light and, therefore, heat?

6. What causes thunder?

7. What effects of Alaskan volcanoes pose the greatest threat to humans?

8. Where is the Denali fault?

9. How fast did the Black Rapids Glacier of 1937 move?

10. Why is gold used in electronic equipment?

Log into the Team Garey "Road to Alaska" Facebook page to post your answers.

More questions will be added as Mrs. LeAnce and Mrs. Dinger change locations.

Article by Linda Starr
Education World®
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Originally Published 01/18/1999

Links updated 03/12/2003