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Loading... Alaska: A Land in Motionby Nancy Warren Ferrell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A geographical book with topics ranging from culture to history formatted alongside historic photos, depictions, and maps to add clarity to the text. Accurately covering a wide range, readable while detailed, the text shows respect to readers by building basic knowledge foundations that can be expanded upon with further research. Organized by overarching topic the book merges other ways of thinking with traditional western methods to create on cohesive image of Alaska’s past and present. Related Activity: Delve deeper into a topic presented in this text, such as Aleuts and Alutiiq’s, by finding additional research or a first-person narrative that is informative on the subject. Compare the information presented in the text to information found and write a summery about the differences and similarities between the descriptions. The author of this informational text lists and describes many different aspects of Alaska in regards to its geography, economy, people, and environment. This text is designed to educate Alaskan students and possibly others on everything they need to know about Alaska and its history. It is filled with many pictures that are organized in a manner that which isn’t overwhelming o the reader. It is details and straightforward on what it is teaching. Highly recommended and well organized. An overview of the different landscapes, people, and regions of Alaska. By using maps, diagrams and many different facts, the book tells all about Alaska in a simple yet extremely informative way. The book gives a lot of information without being overwhelming. Ages 6-12. Alaska Connection: Landscape, People, Places in Alaska no reviews | add a review
Do you know that the world turns round and round? Lots of things go round and round. What do you know that goes round and round? Do you go round and round sometimes? How? Fiction Reading Level 2/F&P Level B No library descriptions found. |
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Alaskan Connections: All the information in this book directly relates to the state of Alaska and its people.
Related activity: Introduce the book when learning about Alaska. Break the class up into five groups and have them each research a region of the state. This book could be a tool in projects, presentations, and discussions about Alaska as well as the people, language, animals, and art of this state. ( )