Gold Rush Alaska. Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park - Activities Lesson Plans. Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories. Activity 1.
The Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush: Background for Students Show your students, in order, the following photographs from the University of Washington Digital Collections, a link from the EDSITEment resource Links to the Past. Have them brainstorm what each image reveals about the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush. Tell students they will be gathering images and information (often from first-hand sources) about the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush as research for writing original stories of historical fiction.
Provide some background from Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, an online exhibit of The National Park Service, a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Links to the Past. American Experience.