Classroom Projects using the Language Dictionaries
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Students of all ages can participate in the Language Dictionaries
The level of technical expertise and independence can vary due to student age, availability of computers, etc.
Integrate Inupiaq and cultural relevance into any unit you are teaching
- Use this Amazing Word List that contains words and ideas for many content areas and levels.
Project List
Language Dictionaries: Space and Time Project
Making a Traditional Basket Sleigh
Community-Based Research Paper
Photography Lessons related to the Language Dictionaries
Language Dictionary Standards and Ideas
- Add your ideas to this page!
More project Ideas: Check out the UAF Project Jukebox!
- The UAF Jukebox has an amazing collection of digital information to use for project ideas.
- Take a look at this huge project, and try to imagine some scaled down ideas that might be appropriate for your classroom
- Any of these projects would be a great resource to link to the Language Dictionaries
- You can use the Language Dictionaries as starter ideas for your projects too.
The Language Dictionaries are fertile ground for many projects.
- Expanding knowledge of a students own language.
- Expanding knowledge of another language.
- Understanding culture, and comparing elements of culture.
- Finding ideas for classroom projects:
- For example the study of traditional tools, traditional clothing, traditional foods, traditional values, etc.
- Researching traditions, and working to pass them on.
- Expanding the depth of a students knowledge of traditions.
- Connecting all classroom learning to local language and culture.
- For example if your are studying First Aid:
- Students brainstorm local words that they already know, or would like to learn on the topic of first aid.
- Words might include blood, help, accident, don't move, etc.
- Students can research the words, add them to the dictionary, and continue to expand their knowledge of their language while connecting traditional knowledge to modern knowledge.
- Help turn the Language Dictionaries pages into Encyclopedia Pages
- Students can use their interviewing and writing skills to write articles about items in the dictionary
