Curated OER
Primary Sources in the Classroom: A Gold Rush Perspective
Students develop and hone their historical inquiry and analytical abilities. They draw up a list of 20 essential items they would have to bring to survive one year as a Gold Rush stampeder.
Curated OER
Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike
Students explore the impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska. Lesson can be used in units on western expansion, late 19th and early 20th-century commerce, and urban history.
Curated OER
Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories
Students complete a history and research lesson about the Gold Rush using selections from Jack London. In this Gold rush research lesson, students research the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush and use details from the history in their own...
Curated OER
Klondike Fever
Students consider the geographical aspects of the gold rush. In this gold lesson plan, students research just what gold is and where it has been found. Students create maps that highlight the regions of the world where gold has...
Curated OER
The Gold Rush: Guided Writing and Publication
Students read about the Alaska Gold Rush, its characters and the impact on the history of Alaska. They write a response as if they are a Klondike Stampeder in the late 1900s.
Curated OER
Gold Rush Quiz
In this Gold Rush activity, learners answer multiple choice questions about the Gold Rush. Students answer 20 questions total.
Curated OER
Yukon Gold Rush
Seventh graders explore the background information for the book, Call of the Wild. They use electronic and video resources to establish the background. Students discuss the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and the Yukon Gold Rush.
K12 Reader
Call of the Wild
Using a paragraph from Jack London's Call of the Wild, readers demonstrate their ability to identify the main idea and supporting ideas in a passage.
Penguin Books
A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
The Yukon provides plenty of opportunity for adventure. A study guide for The Call of the Wild by Jack London, also the author of White Fang, helps readers navigate the novel which is set in Yukon, Canada. Chapter summaries give a...
Curated OER
Adventures in the Alaska Economy Today: Enduring Understandings
Students research the campaign to win statehood for Alaska and the constitution which was in place before statehood was approved.
University of Washington
Klondike Gold Rush: The Perilous Journey North
An easy-to-understand exhibit highlights the stampeders' journey north to the Klondike gold fields.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Klondike Gold Rush
A learning module that begins with "Klondike Gold Rush," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: As Precious as Gold
"As Precious as Gold," is an online exhibit from the National Postal Museum which explores the rich history of the Alaskan/Klondike gold rushes. Find stories on extraordinary women, the trails, the Palm Sunday avalanche, the U.S. Postal...
Other
Alaska Gold Rush Centennial Photographs
This resource has posted numerous gold rush images with a brief description. Click on the various subjects to view historic photos of these early Alaskan towns and folks.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories
In this lesson plan, learners will consider "Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Other
Valdez Museum Anbd Historical Archive: Valdez Gold Rush Images
This site documents the struggle that gold prospectors had to undergo. Images, their description, a timeline, majors events, and other links can be found on this.
Other
State of Alaska: Department of Education: Alaska's Gold
Information, stories, historical images, and documents about the discovery of gold in Alaska in the late nineteenth century.
Other
Klondike Kate
Biographical information on "Klondike Kate" Ryan who played a role in Canadian history by becoming the first female gold inspector during the Klondike gold rush. She was also a nurse, political figure, and business woman.
Other
Explore North: John Leonard, Klondike Balloonist
This is an interesting tidbit of Yukon history about a balloonist who put on public shows in Dawson City around 1900 during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Mysterious 36
The Mysterious 36 were a group of men who went to the Yukon to prospect for gold at the time of the Klondike rush. They were looking for other strikes, however, that they might produce a rich claim. They became known as the Mysterious 36...
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: First Lady of the Yukon
Martha Black was an adventurous woman who left a comfortable life in Chicago to live in the Yukon during the Gold Rush. She became the second female Member of Parliament in Canada. This site describes the making of a television...
History Link
Panic of 1893: Seattle's First Great Depression
This detailed article on how the 1893 Depression affected Seattle focuses mainly on the Northwest, but does bring in information about the depression in general.
Other
Saylor Academy: Panic of 1893 [Pdf]
Article explaining the causes and impact of the Panic of 1893 which took place at the beginning of Grover Cleveland's presidency. It became an economic depression that lasted until the start of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Will Hobbs
Resources for teaching four of Will Hobbs's novels: Bearstone, Downriver, Jason's Gold, and River Thunder.
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