Our goal is to provide current health and science activities to inspire students about the possibilities of a career in science as well as a better understanding of their bodies and environment.
Activities are appropriate for grades 4-8 and can be modified to suit your student group.
Brain In-A-Box Teacher Guide (PDF) |
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Eye In-A-Box Teacher Guide (PDF) |
Guts In-A-Box Teacher Guide (PDF) |
Bones and Muscles-In-A-Box Teacher Guide (PDF) |
What do we ask of teachers who borrow the boxes?
We make every effort to arrange a local scientist visit to your classroom (if requested) to share his or her career with your students.
All materials may be copied or downloaded from this web site to preview or use in the future.
A DVD player is needed for parts of the Box activities, but not essential.
Once Were WarriorsBy Alan Duff
Alan Duff's ground-breaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and is now the basis of a major New Zealand film.
This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. It is a raw and powerful story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new life. It's advised that you not view this alone and that you have someone to talk with about it.
Spirit Moves: The Story of Six Generations of Native Womenby Loree Boyd
Six generations of Native American women are revealed in an intense chronicle which explores how one family survived the transition from traditional to modern life-style. Beginning in 1886, this charts a family's recovery from an invasion by an abusive society. -- Midwest Book Review
Do Alaska Native People Get Free Medical Care?* (and other frequently asked questions about Alaska Native issues and cultures)This has been prepared by UAA/APU faculty and Anchorage community members as a companion to the Books of the Year. It provides responses to common questions about Alaska Native issues (the answer to the title question is “no; they paid in advance”) and includes recommended readings on a wide variety of topics including identity, language and culture; subsistence; ANCSA; the effects of colonialism; education and health care; and the future.
You will find PDF Downloads of this book in this page and you can also find a hardcopy in our Lending Library.
For the Rights of All“For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska” is a one-hour documentary profiling the struggle for Alaska Native Rights.
The movie has its own website: http://www.alaskacivilrights.org/
For the Rights of All portrays Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich in this dramatic portrayal of a critical time in Alaska history.
Photo Courtesy of Blueberry Productions.
Gumboot Determination: the Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortiumby Peter Metcalfe
This remarkable book ... tells the complex and often engrossing story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium ... [reflecting] the struggle of all Alaska Natives for health services appropriate to their local needs. – Dr. Robert Fortuine, author of Chills and Fever
More information about the book: http://www.searhc.org/patient/foundation/foundation-gumboottoc.php
In Sisterhood: THE HISTORY OF CAMP 2 of the ALASKA NATIVE SISTERHOODEdited by: Kimberly L. Metcalfe
In Sisterhood, the first book-length history of Alaska's Tlingit women, recounts the remarkable lives of the women of Alaska Native Sisterhood's Camp 2, who grew up in towns and villages along Alaska's southeast coast, fishing in canoes with their grandmothers and helping their families gather seaweed, pick berries, and smoke fish.
If caught speaking Tlingit in school, their mouths would be taped shut, their hair tied in white rags, and their hands beaten with wooden rulers. They suffered ongoing discrimination, as schools and hospitals in the Territory of Alaska remained segregated, and signs prohibiting Natives from entering could be found hanging from businesses well into the 1940s.
Since the founding of their organization in 1926, the women of Juneau's Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 2, alongside their brothers in the Alaska Native Brotherhood, have fought for equal education, health care, and voting rights, and helped to win an historic settlement of claims to their traditional lands. In these pages, the women of Camp 2, and three men with close ties to the organization, tell the story of how the Alaska Native Sisterhood touched their lives and helped to change the course of Alaska's history.
Culture Card: American Indian and Alaska Native: A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness (SMA08-4354) (PDF)The purpose of this guide was originally to provide basic information for federal disaster responders and other federal health providers who may be deployed or otherwise assigned to provide or coordinate mental health services in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. After one year of availability to only federal employees, the value of this guide to non-federal employees who work with AI/AN communities in a variety of settings was acknowledged and the Culture Card is now available to the general public.
The guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance cultural competence while providing services to AI/AN communities. (Cultural competence is defined as the ability to function effectively in the context of cultural differences.) It provides basic information on common AI/AN issues. Due to the diversity of tribes in the nation, the authors suggest users keep in mind that it should be supplemented by a more specific local orientation or training provided by a member of the particular community which user of the card is preparing to interact with.
This is a pocket sized guide with fold out sections that cover the following topics: About This Guide, Myths and Facts, Tribal Sovereignty, Regional Cultural Differences, Cultural Customs, Spirituality, Communication Styles, Role of Veterans and Elders, Strengths in AI/AN Communities, Health and Wellness Challenges, Self-Awareness, and Etiquette Do's and Don'ts.
