Oral Traditions

Project:     ATEP: Alaska Tsunami Education Program
Subject:Seismology
Theme:Tsunamis
Grades:K-4

In this lesson, students listen to an account of the tsunami that struck the Alaskan coastline in 1964 in the book The Red Cedar of Afognak: A Driftwood Journey based on a story by John P. Pestrikoff, an Alutiiq elder, then they illustrate a scene on a storyboard and sequence the events to retell the story.

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