ThinkQuest : Library : Alaska: A Nation Within A State This small community is much like other small locations within Alaskawith no roads connecting it to other cities or communities. http://library.thinkquest.org/22550/barrow.html
Extractions: Index United States Alaska The great U.S. state of Alaska covers a vast area, encompassing many diverse geographical regions. Visit the main towns in Alaska, such as Juneau, Anchorage, and Nome. Learn about Alaskan wildlife like polar bears, caribou, walrus, and humpback whale. Read about the different Alaskan Native tribes who inhabit the area. Hey, is that a moose over there? Visit Site 1998 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Languages English Students Todd BYU High School Correspondence Independent Study, Provo, AK, United States Jay Barrie School, Silver Spring, MD, United States Steven Juneau Christian School, Juneau, AK, United States Coaches Christopher Diana Barrie School, Silver Spring, MD, United States Boyd AK, United States Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy
Unidata - Participating Universities City University of New York, Hunter College, Department of geography. Nassau CommunityCollege, http//www.sunynassau.edu/. University of alaska Fairbanks, http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/community/participatinguniversities.html
Extractions: Data Tools Community Projects ... About Participating Sites Sites represented are those who registered through the Unidata Web Portal. Air Force Institute of Technology http://www.afit.edu/ Arizona State University Department of Geography Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Bureau of Meteorology Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory http://www.cmich.edu/ California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory California State University, Chico Department of Geosciences California University of Pennsylvania http://www.cup.edu/ Calvin College (Michigan) Geology, Geography and Environmental Studies departments Carnegie Institute of Washington Observatories home page Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania) School of Computer Science Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies http://www.uah.edu/ Central Connecticut State University http://www.ccsu.edu/ Central Michigan University Geography Department CIRA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) CIRA - NOAA/NESDIS/RAMM E-RA2 Department of Atmospheric Sciences City College of New York Division of Science City University of New York, City College
RIEDC - Communities - PROFILE: City Of Woonsocket Race 41,865 White 35,935 Black of African American 1,920 American Indianand alaska Native 139 Community Links. Link to the City of Woonsocket Website; http://www.riedc.com/riedc/ri_databank/31/269/
Extractions: Link: Provided by The Office of Municipal Affairs , Rhode Island Department of Administration Find Woonsocket's State Senator and Representative Population : The population count for The City of Woonsocket as of April 1, 2000, was 43,224. This represented a -1.49% decrease (653 persons) from the 1990 population of 43,877. Rank : In 2000 Woonsocket ranks 6th in population among Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns. Median Age : In 2000 the median age of the population in Woonsocket was 34.8.
RIEDC - Communities - PROFILE: City Of Cranston American Indian and alaska Native 236; Asian 2,599; Native Hawaiian and CommunityLinks. City of Cranston; Greater Cranston Chamber of Commerce; Area points of http://www.riedc.com/riedc/ri_databank/31/255/
Extractions: Provided by The Office of Municipal Affairs , Rhode Island Department of Administration Find Cranston's State Senator and Representative Population: The population count for The City of Cranston as of April 1, 2000, was 79,269. This represented a 4.22% increase (3,209 persons) from the 1990 population of 76,060. Rank: In 2000 Cranston ranks 3rd in population among Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns.
Extractions: Preparing Teachers to Support American Indian and Alaska Native Student Success and Cultural Heritage by Don Trent Jacobs and Jon Reyhner EDO-RC-01-13 (January 2002) This Digest briefly summarizes literature related to preparing educators to bring about American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) student success and discusses what success in life means for Indian students of all ages, and their extended families. We draw our information from both Native and non-Native sources, with the idea that educators need to prepare AI/AN students to live in and give back to both local and global communities. Nearly 30 years after Fuchs and Havighurst concluded that schools "should follow the Indian voice" (1973, p. 306), Deloria and Wildcat echo the idea that Indian education must become a process "that moves within the Indian context and does not try to avoid or escape this context" (2001, p. 85). This is the expressed, yet unmet, goal of the federal government's policy of Indian self-determination, one that shapes the content of this Digest; which is in two parts. The first part points to the goals of Indian education, and the second part focuses on how to reach them. Valuing Interconnectedness High expectations.
IVC Library Videos Community development Nepal Indians of North America - alaska. Power of Place Regionsand Economies, The Japanese Paradox Small Farms and Mega-cities, 30 min, http://www.ivc.edu/library/vdetails.aspx?c=67
Alaska - Namibia Internet Gateway - Namibia Link To The Internet Other Incorporated communities Population 3,000 3,999. alaska and literature. TCBOYLE s latest novel DROP CITY tells the story of a group of Hippies who http://www.namweb.com.na/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Alaska
Extractions: A Geography Place Game garyradley@standard.net.au Capital of the Northwest Territories,on Yellowknife Bay at the mouth of the Yellowknife River. The economy of the city is based primarily on government operations, two major gold mines, construction, retail trade, and tourism. Population (1991) 15,179.
Alaska Studies Galena City School District. from periodicals, newspapers, maps, graphs, and mediaabout alaskas economy on a map and compare the communities, rivers, climate http://members.ideafamilies.org/curriculum/sshs/akstudies.htm
Extractions: IDEA staff are creating definitions for many of the terms below. Galena City School District Standards and Skills SS.AK Alaska Studies Government SS.AK.01 State Constitution SS.AK.01.01 - read the Alaska Constitution. SS.AK.01.02 - compare the Alaska Constitution to another state constitution. SS.AK.01.03 - compare the power and roles of federal and state governments. SS.AK.01.04 - identify the roles and relationships among federal, state and tribal governments. SS.AK.01.05 - analyze issues which reflect conflicts among the three. SS.AK.02 Politics SS.AK.02.01 - analyze the diversity of political opinion in Alaska. SS.AK.02.02 - discuss differing issues espoused by a variety of tribal, business, environmental, political, and social groups. SS.AK.02.03 - identify the political orientation of different regions of Alaska, railbelt-urban, rural, and Bush communities. SS.AK.03
Extractions: CITY OF HOMER HOMER, ALASKA LADD RESOLUTION 03-30 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, ENCOURAGING THE STATE OF ALASKA TO PROPERLY SUPPORT THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT THROUGH CHANGING THE STATE FOUNDATION FORMULA TO MORE FAIRLY REFLECT THE PENINSULAS UNIQUE GEOGRAPHY, CULTURAL NEEDS, AND RESLUTING IN KENAI PENINSULA STUDENTS HAVING THE SAME OPPORTUNITY AS OTHER ALASKA STUDENTS TO MEET CONTENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. WHEREAS, the State of Alaska has adopted content and performance standards that represent what Alaskans want students to know and be able to do as a result of their public schooling, and WHEREAS, standards adopted in December, 1995 have shifted educational emphasis from what goes into our education system to what comes out of it, and WHEREAS, the opportunity for a student to successfully achieve an Alaska educational standard is dependent upon his or her time and energy dedicated toward learning as well as support from family, educators, community, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the State of Alaska, and WHEREAS, students within the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, including all public students in the Homer area are placed at a distinct disadvantage due to an unfair State of Alaska foundation formula used to calculate the distribution of funds to schools throughout the Kenai Peninsula, and
LISD Elementary Schools' Social Studies Links - United States Wild alaska National Parks Conservation Association provides gives an overview ofthe communities, people, history Carolina Maps View state, city and historical http://www.lockhart.k12.tx.us/~elemresource/socialst/states.html
School Of Geography Postgraduate Students Baloch Three kachi abadis in Quetta City of Pakistan Sabita Thapa Gender dynamicsin community forestry in impact on floral biodiversity in southeast alaska. http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/postgrads.html
Extractions: The School's 63 present research postgraduates are listed below, along with their project titles and any other relevant information. A number of them have personal homepage links from their names. All other links are to email addresses. If you can't find the person you are looking for here, please try the list of staff or ex-staff and postgrads Roslan Ahmad
Quality Counts '97: Alaska Summary, Part I say the schools in these urban communities are not different from schools in smallcities or small alaska only began participating in the National Assessment http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc97/states/ak.htm
Extractions: Unusual economics, diverse population make Alaska hard to compare. laska's unique geography and sparse population are both a blessing and a burden for the state's school system. The oil reserves under its Arctic Ocean coastline give educators a level of per-pupil resources their colleagues in the lower 48 can only dream about. But that uncommon revenue source is accompanied by uncommonand uncommonly expensivedemands. The state's 127,000 students include about 23,000 rural children scattered across 500,000 square miles of wilderness and 28,000 Native Alaskan children with unusual educational and social needs. "The biggest challenge we face is bringing a quality learning environment to a very diverse population, both geographically and culturally," says Shirley J. Holloway, the state commissioner of education. There is an obvious divide in Alaskan life, as well as in Alaskan education, separating the cities and towns accessible by paved road from the rural villages that can be reached only by plane, boat, snowmobile, or dog sled, depending on the season. Almost 99,000 of the state's students live in "urban" Alaskan communitiesAnchorage, Fairbanks, and surrounding towns, and the larger cities of the southeastern islands, such as Juneau and Sitkaor semirural towns on the road and ferry system. These communities are 60% to 90% white and contain most of the 14,000 African-American, Hispanic, and Asian children enrolled in Alaskan public schools.
Government Of Yukon, Canada - Yukon At A Glance - Communities alaska Highway). Popular fishing spot. Guides, boats and accommodation available.Back to Top. Carmacks Highway community between Whitehorse and Dawson City. http://www.gov.yk.ca/yukonglance/community.html
Extractions: At A Glance COMMUNITIES The Yukon covers 483,450 square kilometres. All Yukon communities are south of the Arctic Circle and are accessible by road except for Old Crow which is a traditional native community 185 kilometres south of the Arctic coast. Whitehorse : Capital city and administrative, transportation and communications centre of the Yukon. Kilometre 1489, Alaska Highway. Popular tourist attractions include the S.S. Klondike sternwheeler, MacBride Museum, Miles Canyon, Yukon Gardens, log skyscrapers, and Whitehorse fish ladder. Back to Top Watson Lake Highway community 10 kilometres from the southern border of the Yukon. Kilometre 1019, Alaska Highway. Tourism, lumber, mineral exploration and wilderness outfitting form Watson Lake's economic base. Watson Lake signposts and Alaska Highway history display are the major attractions. Back to Top Dawson City Centre of the Klondike goldrush. Placer gold mining and tourism are the major economic activities. Attractions include Parks Canada's restored Palace Grande Theatre, Post Office, Robert Service's cabin and Gold Dredge #4. Diamond Tooth Gerties is also a popular attraction.
Community Policing: Perspectives From The Field in Mountain View has some benefit for the entire city. for more involvement withthe community emerged from Copyright 1997, University of alaska Anchorage. http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/f142su97/b_commpol.html
Extractions: Abstract: Like many other police department, the Anchorage Police Department (APD) is moving from an emphasis on traditional law enforcement practices toward community-oriented policing, an approach that relies on officer-initiated efforts to reduce crime and public disorder. Community policing is a philosophy of policing that requires police officers to act with increased levels of autonomy and professional discretion to solve problems adn to develop partnerships with the community. This article summarizes the results of interviews with APD officers assigned to a community policing project in the Mountain View neighborhood of north Anchorage. An accompanying article, "Mountain View: The Context for Community Policing"
MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Alaska Nome, which was once the largest city in alaska near Point Barrow, is the northernmostcommunity in the Catholic religious order to enter alaska, replacing the http://encarta.msn.com/text_761569148___66/Alaska.html
Extractions: Print Preview Alaska Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Alaska IV. The People of Alaska According to the 2000 national census, Alaska had a population of 626,932, an increase of 14 percent over the 1990 population of 550,043. In 2000 Alaska ranked 48th among the states in population, ahead of Vermont and Wyoming. Alaska is still the most sparsely populated state, and had just 0.4 person per sq km (1.1 per sq mi) of land in 2003. Most of the people live along the coasts and the river valleys. Some sections of the Interior and Arctic Slope regions remain uninhabited. In 2000 some 66 percent of all Alaskans lived in areas classified as urban, where the population is increasing much faster than in the rural areas. Since the early days of settlement, the cities and towns of Alaska have attracted comparatively more immigrants than the rural areas. Whites make up 69.3 percent of the population of Alaska. The largest other group is composed of descendants of the stateâs original inhabitantsâthe Eskimo (also known as the Inuit), the Aleut, and other indigenous peoplesâwho account for 15.6 percent of the total. The stateâs population also includes Asians, who are 4 percent of the total; blacks, with 3.5 percent of the total; Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, with 0.5 percent; and those of mixed heritage or not reporting race, at 7 percent. Hispanics, who may be of any race, are 4.1 percent of the people. The population of Alaska is relatively young. At the time of the census in 2000, 30 percent of the population was less than 18 years old.
Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile Barrow alaska, the most northern US city, is located cc.mn.us/~isk/maps/ak/alaska.html arcticslope Totaldarkness prevails in this arctic community between Nov http://nnlm.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html
Extractions: Medline Plus - Consumer Health Information **NOTE**: When searching for information concerning Alaska Natives you may need to incorporate the term "Eskimo". There are many Indigenous peoples native to the Arctic whom do not consider themselves "Eskimos" and the very term "Eskimo" may be problematic. However, the term Alaska Native or using only a specific tribal name [i.e. Inupiaq], may often yield poor search results.
Alaska Department Of Education Early Development of alaska is to educate and inspire alaska s young people to Elementary School ProgramsOurselves, Our Families, Our Community, Our City, Our Region, Our http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/sstudies/part62.htm
Extractions: HOME Arts Health Language Arts ... Glossary State Professional Educational Associations/Organizations Alaska Anthropological Association Purpose: The Alaska Anthropological Association provides for communication between professional anthropologists, students, and non-professionals with a serious interest in Native and other cultures and languages of Alaska, past and present. Contact: Alaska Anthropological Association, 200 West 34th St., Suite 736, Anchorage, AK 99503 Alaska Association for Historic Preservation Purpose: The Alaska Association for Historic Preservation is dedicated to the preservation of Alaska's prehistoric and historic resources through education, promotion, and advocacy. Offerings: AAHP annually identifies ten of the state's most endangered historic properties during National Historic Preservation Week. Contact: Alaska Association for Historic Preservation, 524 West Fourth Ave., Suite 203, Anchorage, AK 99501 Alaska Council for the Social Studies Purpose: The Alaska Council for the Social Studies engages and supports Alaskan teachers in strengthening and advocating social studies. Offerings: Newsletter, Annual Conference
LookSmart - Directory - Anchorage, Alaska City Government alaska Local government resources from alaska s largest city. Visit the mayor soffice, community service departments for Anchorage Borough, alaska and review http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us1154713/us1154715/us1154783/us896048/
Extractions: Anthems, Flags, Maps, Art, Celebrities Culture, Dance, Storytelling History ... Native American issues Featured Sites Click First Nations logo for Info... The organizers are pleased to announce the Fourth Biennial Boise State University First Nations Conference. We actively invite Community Members, Academics, Students and Educators, Indians from the region, Tribal Nations and Organizations to participate! The conference will focus on issues crucial to indigenous communities in Idaho and the Northwest, as well as concerns pertinent to all Native peoples and community members. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Keynote Speaker and Featured Artist Sandra Sunrising Osawa, Filmmaker and Keynote Speaker For Information, Please contact Co-Chairs: Gretchen L.S. Cotrell, Ph.D., Associate Professor Larry McNeil, Associate Professor Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree Tlingit/ Nisga'a gcotrell@boisestate.edu
