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Dear friend,
If you’re looking for a secondary social studies curriculum that’s designed for real classrooms, real students, and real constraints, this overview is for you.
This is a comprehensive, place-based social studies curriculum for grades 6–12, built to help students make sense of the world by starting where they are. It emphasizes inquiry, civic thinking, historical reasoning, and geographic understanding that connect learning to students’ lived experiences—locally, regionally, and globally.
While the curriculum was developed in Alaska and aligned with Alaska standards, its core approach is intentionally place-based, not scripted or one-size-fits-all. Teachers are encouraged to adapt content, examples, and case studies to reflect their own communities, regions, and instructional realities.
This curriculum was created with secondary teaching in mind: mixed readiness levels, limited prep time, uneven access to technology, and the need for flexibility across course structures and schedules.
Inside, you’ll find:
clear conceptual progressions across grades 6–12
flexible lesson structures that support teacher judgment
materials that work in both low-tech and tech-supported classrooms
an emphasis on relevance, critical thinking, and student voice
opportunities to connect history, geography, civics, and economics to place
This is not a script. It’s not a pacing mandate. It’s a practical framework you can use as a full course sequence or draw from as needed, year after year.
Designed by an educator who understands place-based learning.
Aligned with standards.
Built to be adapted—because classrooms are.
— Wild North Consulting
Dear friend,
If you’ve ever wanted to teach Alaska Studies in a way that’s rigorous, meaningful, and actually engaging for students, this overview is for you.
This free Semester Overview lays out how Wild North Consulting’s High School Alaska Studies course works—what students study, how the semester is structured, and how inquiry, projects, and performance tasks fit together. It’s the big-picture map, without the binders, bells, or busywork.
Inside, you’ll find:
the purpose and essential questions of the course
the four-unit semester structure
the learning domains and assessment philosophy
how portfolios, problem solving, and performance tasks work
where teachers provide direct instruction (and where students take the lead)
What you won’t find here are daily lesson plans or student worksheets. This is the orientation, not the entire toolkit.
If it feels like a course you’d actually want to teach, the full curriculum provides the student-facing tools and teacher supports to make it real.
Think of this as the trailhead.
The rest of the gear comes next.
— Wild North Consulting
Dear friend,
If you’ve ever opened a standards document and thought, “Well, this is technically correct but not especially helpful,” these might be for you.
These PK–5 Social Studies Standards were built to support teachers—not overwhelm them. They focus on what young learners actually need: curiosity, belonging, a sense of place, and the earliest skills of civic life.
Instead of dense, compliance-driven language, this framework uses clear, developmentally appropriate standards that make sense in real classrooms. They’ve been classroom-tested and designed to work across a wide range of settings—from traditional schools to rural classrooms and mixed-age environments.
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
a clear PK–5 scope and sequence for social studies
standards language that’s easy to understand and apply
an emphasis on community, culture, history, geography, and early civic thinking
support for project-based learning, discussion, and inquiry
natural connections to ELA, art, and place-based learning
What makes these standards different is what they don’t try to do. They aren’t publisher-driven. They don’t prioritize memorization over meaning. They’re flexible enough to support neurodivergent learners and varied pacing, and they’re future-ready without centering screens or technology.
This is not a scripted curriculum. It’s a strong foundation teachers can adapt to their students, their community, and their instructional style.
These standards are a good fit for:
PK–5 classroom teachers
rural and mixed-grade settings
curriculum leaders who want clarity without rigidity
families and educators seeking meaningful, child-centered social studies
They’re free to download and share, offered openly in the belief that social studies should help children understand who they are, where they live, and how they belong in the world.
— Wild North Consulting