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Engage your young learner in learning about how we enrich the lives of the animals at the Anchorage Museum. Build your own enrichment toys out of recycled materials.
Engage your early learner in discussion about rainbows. Create a weather mobile as a reminder of the science behind rainbows.
Engage your young learner with innovative games to grow their balance abilities. Create medals and play games designed to increase and challenge their sense of balance.
Engage your young learner with creative problem-solving prompts. Build an inventor kit and use the materials inside to invent solutions to STEAM prompts.
Engage your young learner in discussion about inventors. Create your own inventor puppets with moveable arms and legs made of different sized straws.
Engage your early learner in investigations about spacecraft. Learn about the International Space Station and design your own spacecraft out of recycled materials.
Engage your early learner in investigations of flight. Create a kite to fly outside or using the power of a fan indoors.
Engage your early learner in investigations about the aurora borealis. Look closely at photos of the aurora and use them as inspiration to create your own aurora art.
Investigate the artworks Native Looking by Erica Lord and Wat'sa with a Pearl Earring by Alison Bremner. Intended for ages 12 and up.
Teach and learn from over 30 digital education collections from the Smithsonian.
Examine the untitled artwork by Carl Saxild with K-6th grade students
Engage your early learner in an investigation of the outdoors. Practice scientific skills such as counting, making observations, and sketching what you see.
Engage your early learner in the creation of homemade paint. Practice color and shape identification and investigate how colors mix together.
Engage your early learner in the investigation of shapes and colors in quilts. Create a collaborative paper quilt using tangram shapes.
Engage your early learner in the investigation of weather. Participate in science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities about rain and the weather.
Engage your early learner in making art with nature. Try these three different art activities incorporating nature.
Engage your early learner in art making challenges. Roll the die to determine which colors, patterns, and shapes to include in your art. Create your own custom art dice for your favorite art making challenges.
Investigate your early learner’s feelings. Try several different activities designed to process, express, and work out big feelings trapped in a little body.
Engage your early learner in investigating shadows. Why are shadows the shape they are? Can you control the size?
Engage your early learner in number games. Practice counting and number identification skills and look for hidden images of animals from the museum’s live collection.
Create animal-inspired art using the following simple materials: foam board, push pins, and colored string.
Learn how an electrical circuit works and create your own paper circuit using colorful LEDs, a coin cell battery, and copper tape on a regular paper.
Learn how to create simple cardstock roses. Experiment with various sizes and colors of paper to create a beautiful paper flower bouquet.
Learn how to create crepe paper roses with this step-by-step guide. Perfect for a single lasting rose or creating entire bouquets.
Learn the basics of Smythe binding. Create your own custom hardcover journal to fill with your thoughts, stories, or drawings.
Learn the basics of paper quilling. Combine the shapes and techniques to create your own beautiful paper quilled cards and art.
Learn how to bind a beautiful hardcover journal with an exposed ribbon binding with these step-by-step instructions.
Learn how to make colorful paper baskets using simple materials with these step-by-step instructions..
Learn how to make plant hanger using macramé techniques and hang your favorite plant in your favorite spot in this step-by-step guide.
Explore the museum with these virtual field trip videos and supporting resources.
Explore 2 primary sources to learn about how people stay connected in the North through objects from the museum collection with 2nd-12th grade students.
Learn some Dena’ina words and uses for plants found throughout the Dena’ina homeland.
Discover the sounds of your place by listening outside and learning about soundscape ecology.
Learn about the properties of water at home with activities that will connect with the Anchorage Museum’s Science Passport: Home Edition.
Learn about the Anchorage Museum’s Marine Tank and the animals that call it home.
Build an Eco-friendly pot out of newspaper and use it to grow your food. Learn the basics of seed starting at home with step by step instructions.
Discover the art, science, navigation, and astrophotography of stars with 6-8th grade students.
Stargazing at Home is a blog that brings space and astronomy news to you.
Use objects found inside your drawers in creative ways with activities that will connect with the Anchorage Museum’s Science Passport: Home Edition.
Perform a trash and recycling audit using the Anchorage Museum Trash Audit guide.
Learn how to make Pom-pom at home using simple materials. Step by step instructions provided.
Learn basic Japanese Stab bookbinding techniques with our step-by-step guide. Includes Binding Patterns for three journal styles.
Learn basic embroidery techniques using this step-by-step guide. Includes two sampler projects and guides for nine beginner embroidery stitches.
Learn how to create homemade buttons with this step-by-step guide. Show your passions with custom buttons.
Learn about the environment outside your window and the study of phenology with activities that will connect with the Anchorage Museum’s Science Passport: Home Edition.
Explore the world of science in and around your home. Use this passport to mark the scientific adventures you discover in your everyday spaces.
Learn about the details waiting to be observed in ground outside your home with activities that will connect with the Anchorage Museum’s Science Passport: Home Edition.
Increasing exposure to the Dena’ina language to all who are curious, one word at a time.
Learn about repeat photography and then be a citizen scientist by participating in the Anchorage Museum’s repeat photography project.
Engage your early learner in the investigation of robot design. Create robots out of PlayDoh and found objects around your home.
Engage your early learner in the creation of a collage using recycled materials.
Examine the artwork Denali/Denial by Chris Jordan with 7th grade students
Examine the artworks Float (Slip) & Float (Noatak) by John Grade with 8th grade students.
Examine the artwork Unloading by Rie Muñoz with 9th grade students.
Examine the artwork The Col by Bill Brody with 10th grade students.
Examine the artwork Attungaruk the Third’s Whale by Simon Koonook with 11th grade students.
Examine the objects, peg calendars, with 12th grade students
Audio/visual descriptions for a selection of pieces in our Art of the North galleries for visitors who are blind or partially sighted.
Examine the Women of the North series by Rebecca Lyon with 2nd grade students.
Examine the artwork Radio Babies by George Ahgupuk with 5th grade students.
Explore 4 primary sources to learn about Anchorage and its place names through photographs and maps with 2nd-12th grade students.
Explore 2 primary sources to learn about how salmon canneries have influenced Alaska Native land and harvesting rights, and impacted human migration and immigration in Alaska with 2nd-12th grade students and up.
Examine the relationship of language, culture, and identity through the poem Shaawatke’é’s Birth by Emily Wall and X’unei Lance Twitchell and works of art from the Anchorage Museum with 9th-12th grade students.
Share this guide with anyone attending a Sensory-Friendly and Access Morning at the museum.
Examine the artwork Punk Nanuk Inua by Lawrence James Beck with 4th grade students.
Examine the artwork Neqeniighta by James Temte, Michelle Xiao, and Jon Burpee with 6th grade students.
Examine the artwork Marie Rexford by Brian Adams for Kindergarten or 9th-12th grade students.
Examine the artwork Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill with 3rd grade students.
Examine the artwork Everything I Love is Here by Alvin Amason with 1st grade students.
Examine the artwork Blueberries by James Robert Schoppert for 9th-12th students.
Learn about the impacts of earthquakes on landscapes and communities by analyzing primary sources from the Anchorage Museum’s archives with 5th-12th grade students.
Explore objects and ideas connected to foodways in the North with K-12th grade students.
Share this guide with students to let them know what to expect on their museum field trip.
Share this guide with anyone to let them know what to expect when they visit the museum as a member of the public.
Learn about the practice of foraging and related museum objects with 2nd-12th grade students.
Share these maps with anyone who would benefit in a museum map in one of the nine languages provided.
Learn more about contemporary artists who examine identity through their artworks with 9th-12th grade students.
Dive into the objects and ideas connected to the bowhead whale with 3rd-12th grade students.
Delve deeply by using this deck of twenty questions to ask any museum object with K-12th grade students.
Dive into the northern waters of Alaska with K-12th grade students.
Explore objects, images and ideas connected to surviving and thriving in the North with K-12th grade students.
Explore the idea of belonging through artworks created by artists who have made Alaska their home with K-12th grade students.
Use this book with K-12th grade students to explore the I AM INUIT exhibition.
The museum education team is available to provide support as you plan your teacher-guided visit. Contact the Education and School Group Coordinator for an informational visit to the museum or discussion of resources. Email fieldtrips@anchoragemuseum.org or call (907) 929-9280.
Educational resources at the Anchorage Museum are made possible with the support of the Hearst Foundation, the Atwood Foundation and the Alaska Humanities Forum.
