Alaska standards alignment

• G&C.F

  Partially covered

  A student should understand the economies of the United States and the state and their relationships to the global economy.

  Covered by

  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Kava — The Root of Peace
  • My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Alaska Civics, Lesson 4 · The Permanent Fund Dividend, and why Alaska has no income or sales tax
  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

  What we do and don't cover: How government and the economy interrelate through taxation, and the features of Alaska's own economy the standard names — natural resources, government ownership and management of resources, and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation — are taught in the flagship's Permanent Fund lesson, and market-economics concepts (economic systems, supply and demand, the role of price) through the commodity course. Partial because the broader survey the standard requires (the Federal Reserve, GDP and inflation, the stock market, international trade) is not taught.

• HS-ESS3-1

  Partially covered

  Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment

  What we do and don't cover: Read this one carefully before you rely on it. This is NOT a science course, it has no laboratory work, no investigations and no scientific modelling. What it does have is precisely the content of HS-ESS3-1: resource availability and climate change shaping what humans do and where. The lessons supply the evidence; the STUDENT constructs the explanation only in the Coffee project (Option B). If your science requirement is assessed on the three-dimensional NGSS performance, this contributes to it, it does not discharge it.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Alaska (2012) mathematics standard.
• Science: partial claims, through the shared NGSS file. Alaska's 2019 K-12 Science Standards reproduce the NGSS HS-ESS3-1 performance expectation verbatim, so our science claims come through the shared NGSS mapping, each partial and with its limit stated on the entry; any NGSS code this state rewords or dropped is listed separately on this page. There is no laboratory work or investigation in this catalog, and we claim no more than the lessons teach.
• Alaska Native communities, ANCSA, and tribal governments (Government and Citizenship, Standard C). Alaska's Standard C requires students to understand the historical and current roles of Alaska Native communities, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impact on the state, and the roles of and relationships among the federal, tribal, and state governments (its items 4, 5, and 8). Alaska Civics teaches Alaska's state and local structure — boroughs, the Unorganized Borough, the strong governor, the Permanent Fund, the courts, and the election system — but does not teach Alaska Native governance or ANCSA, so Standard C is claimed as partial. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
• Alaska's own state structure is taught more fully than Standard C captures. Alaska Civics teaches the Constitution of 1959, boroughs instead of counties and the vast Unorganized Borough where the state provides county-type services, the strong governor with only two elected statewide officials, the 40/20 Legislature with no term limits, the line-item veto with a two-thirds/three-quarters override, the merit-selection judiciary, the citizen initiative/referendum/recall, the 2020 top-four/ranked-choice election system, and the Permanent Fund with no state income or sales tax — all from Alaska's own sources. Standard C hosts most of it, but this lettered content standard is a single broad statement, not an Alaska-government checklist, so the top-four/ranked-choice system, the Permanent Fund Dividend, and the boroughs have no code of their own.
• The international-affairs and economic-decision-making standards we checked and rejected. Government and Citizenship Standard D (the role of the United States in international affairs — foreign policy, U.S. influence on other nations, international organizations) and Standard G (the impact of economic choices and effective participation in local, state, national, and global economies — the economic-decision-making pedagogy of scarcity, costs and benefits, and informed choices) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Alaska's closest frameworks for these (its digital-literacy/technology and world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Alaska claims this pass.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): 5-LS2-1 Alaska's 2019 standards reword 5-LS2-1 (“Develop and describe a model that describes the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.”), so the NGSS wording shown for other states is not this state's. Compared 2026-10-06.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): HS-ESS1-1 Alaska's 2019 standards reword HS-ESS1-1 (“...illustrate that the life span of the Sun is a function of nuclear fusion in its core, and that stars, through nuclear fusion over their life cycle, produce elements and release energy...”), so the NGSS wording shown for other states is not this state's. Compared 2026-10-06.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): HS-ESS1-3 Alaska's 2019 standards have no separate HS-ESS1-3; its content is folded into Alaska's reworded HS-ESS1-1. Compared 2026-10-06.
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): HS-ESS2-2 Alaska's 2019 standards reword HS-ESS2-2 (“Analyze geoscience data to evaluate claims that one change to Earth's surface creates feedbacks...”), so the NGSS wording shown for other states is not this state's. Compared 2026-10-06.