Alaska, a landscape in motion: Looking out your classroom window -- Focusing in on Alaska -- Alaska's climates -- Permafrost -- Tundra -- Mountains -- Rivers, valleys, and plateaus -- Lakes -- Glaciers, rivers of ice -- Islands -- Oceans and seas -- Suggested reading -- Alaska's people in motion: Ice family -- First Alaskans -- Yupik and Inupiaq Eskimos -- Aleuts and Alutiiqs -- Athabaskan and Eyak Indians -- Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Indians -- Russian explorers enter the new world -- Whale hunters move north -- United States buys Alaska -- Fish cannery connection -- Rush north for gold -- Connecting up -- Alaskans take to the air -- Military in Alaska -- Statehood, land claims, and the oil boom -- Importance of timber -- Tourism -- Providing services for Alaskans -- Suggested reading -- Five regions of Alaska today: Why regions are important -- Far North Region: Where is it? -- What is there? -- Northern tundra -- Animals there -- Oil in the Arctic -- Old ways and new -- Suggested reading -- Western Region: Where is it? -- Tour by bush plane -- Seward Peninsula -- St. Lawrence Island -- Along the Bering Sea Coast -- Alaska's largest island -- Disasters and rescues -- Alaska Peninsula -- Aleutian Islands -- coming back home -- Mix of lifestyles -- Suggested reading -- Interior Region: Where is it? -- Weather extremes -- What is there? -- River "Highways" -- Interior's other highways -- Alaska's second largest city -- Weath problems -- Rural villages -- Suggested reading -- Southcentral Region: Where is it? -- What is there? -- Alaska's largest city -- Matanuska and Susitna valleys -- Kenai Peninsula -- Living in an earthquake zone -- Living close to volcanoes -- Oil spill in Prince William Sound -- Towns and rural areas -- Suggested reading -- Southeast Region: Where is it? -- Weather -- Glaciers -- What is there? -- Moving around in Southeast -- Harvest from land and sea -- Alaska's capital city -- Towns of Southeast Alaska -- How towns grow -- Suggested reading -- North to the future -- Suggested reading -- Glossary -- Index.