This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners to: Demonstrate an understanding of the civil rights movement in Alaska and the role Elizabeth Peratrovich played in making that happen during the territorial days in Alaska.

Short Description:
Alaska Criminal Law, 2022 Edition is an exploration into the basic principles of criminal law as viewed through an Alaskan lens. Alaska is a very unique state and its criminal law is no exception. Alaska has developed its criminal laws over a relatively short timeframe; Alaska has only been a state since 1959. But in that short amount of time, Alaska has built a robust criminal justice system unique to itself. This engaging and interactive textbook will enhance your ability to be successful in academics or an Alaskan career in criminal justice. For questions about this textbook please contact the author at alaskacriminallaw@gmail.com.

Long Description:
Alaska Criminal Law, the 2022 Edition is adapted from an earlier work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

This adaptation has been edited and revised to focus on Alaska and the Alaskan criminal justice system. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

For questions about this textbook please contact the author at alaskacriminallaw@gmail.com.

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In this two-part activity, students/participants first:
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Complete a Hazard Inventory for their city or area of interest in the event of a magnitude 7 or larger earthquake and tsunami.
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Identify what critical structures and infrastructure will be affected.
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Write a summary statement assessing strengths and vulnerabilities of essential services or infrastructure.
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Propose actions for mitigating vulnerabilities.
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Create an Action Plan to address identified needs.

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This activity introduces students to high precision GPS as it is used in geoscience research. Students build "gumdrop" GPS units and study data from three Alaska GPS stations from the Plate Boundary Observatory network. They learn how Alaska's south central region is "locked and loading" as the Pacific Plate pushes into North America and builds up energy that will be released in the future in other earthquakes such as the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

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This video from First Alaskans Institute spotlights the Alaska Native community of St. Paul and its hands-on commitment to care for the land and animals on which it depends.

In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather.

Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.

In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native students contribute to research on how their environment is changing as a result of global warming.

As reduced sea ice conditions bring increased shipping and development opportunities to the Arctic, Alaska Native Village Corporations are at the table with resource developers, representing the interests of their people and land.

Students use 19th-century illustrations of Sitka, Alaska to explore what the town might have been like during its time as an administrative center of the Russian empire, as well as asking how...

Highlights from the past and present of Alaska, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964.

Tribal communities in southeastern Alaska are partnering with federal and state agencies to investigate increasing harmful algal blooms—events that pose human health risks to subsistence harvesters.

Alberti, Façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1470. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.

This informational text describes how paleontologists continue to investigate unanswered questions about dinosaurs.

This illustrated guide to Albian (Cretaceous) fossils provides an extensive photo collection of fossils from the Anglo-Parisian basin. Additional information, high resolution photos and illustrations can be accessed by clicking the fossil icons located on the globe, the time scale or along the top of the page. Although the site is written in French, a non-French-speaking visitor will find this page easy to navigate and the photos well worth the visit. Fauna featured on this site include ammonites, nautiloids, belemnites, gastropods, crusteceans, echinoderms, marine vertebrates and corals.

In this art history video discussion Beth Harris and Steven Zucker look at Albrecht Durer's "Self-Portrait, 1500." (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).