The Inuit People
Resources
Extraordinary or unique resources (human or material) needed to successfully complete this experience:
  • For students:
  • Books:

Alexander, Bryan, and Cherry Alexander. An Eskimo Family. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1979.

Canizares, Susan. The Northern Lights. New York: Scholastic, 1998.

Canizares, Susan, and Pamela Chanko. Who Lives in the Arctic? New York: Scholastic, 1998.

Canizares, Susan, and Daniel Moreton. Arctic Winter, Arctic Summer. New York: Scholastic, 1998

Cohlene, Terri. Ka-ha-si and the Loon. Vero Beach: Watermill Press, 1990

Darbois, Dominique. Achouna Boy of the Arctic. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1962

Dawson, Zoe. Postcards from Canada. Austin: Raintree Steck Vaughn, 1996.

George, Jean Craighead. Arctic Son. New York: Scholastic, 1997.

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Arctic Hunter. New York: Holiday House, 1992.

Jackson, Mike. Clothes from Many Lands. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1995.

Jenness, Aylette, and Alice Rivers. In Two Worlds: A Yup’ik Eskimo Family. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.

Johnson, Anne Akers. String Games. Palo Alto: Klutz, 1995.

Johnson, Mike. Homes Around the World. Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1995.

Kendall, Russ. Eskimo Boy - Life in an Inupiaq Eskimo Village. New York: Scholastic, 1992.

Kusugak, Michael, and Robert Munsch. A Promise Is A Promise. Toronto: Annick Press, 1988.

Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk. Baseball Bats for Christmas. Toronto: Annick Press, 1990.

Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk. Hide and Seek. Toronto: Annick Press, 1996.

Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk. My Arctic 1,2,3. Toronto: Annick Press, 1996.

Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk. Northern Lights The Soccer Trails. Toronto: Annick Press, 1993.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. If You Lived in the Alaska Territory. New York: Scholastic, 1998

Murphy, Claire Rudolf. A Child’s Alaska. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1994.

Pandell, Karen. Land of Dark, Land of Light. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 1993.

Reynolds, Jan. Frozen Land Vanishing Cultures. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.

Smith, J. H. Greg. Eskimos - The Inuit of the Arctic. Vero Beach: Rourke Publications Inc., 1987.

  • Software:

My First Amazing World Explorer: DK Multimedia

Eyewitness Children’s Encyclopedia: DK Multimedia

Student Writing Center: The Learning Company

KidPix Deluxe: Broderbund

Crossword Companion: Visions Technology

Teacher’s Helper Plus: Visions Technology

  • Video:

What’s It Like Where You Live? from the Missouri Botanical Garden Learning Network and the Evergreen Project (1-800-927-9229)

  • Materials:
  • For snowflakes: aquariums, borax, salt, pipe cleaners, string, pencils
  • For mukluks: brown paper bags, cotton balls, crayons or markers, twine
  • For masks: paper plates, feathers, markers, string, construction paper
  • For creating clues for the crossword puzzle: Franklin Bookman Dictionaries
  • For teachers:
  • Books:

Keewatin Inuit Association. Inuit Games, Rankin Inlet: Keewatin Divisional Board of Education, 1995. (Order from Keewatin Divisional Board of Education Teaching and Learning Centre, Rankin Inlet, N.W.T., XOC 0G0 (819) 645-2344)

Keller, Mary Jo. Polar Regions Activity Book, Dana Point: Edupress, 1995.

DeWeese, Bob and Jo Ellen Moore. A Unit About the Arctic & Antarctic, Monterey: Evan-Moor, 1993.

  • Software: same as for the student
  • Internet:

http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/canhist/frobisher/frint01e.html

The Canadian Museum of Civilization provides a virtual exhibit including Inuit clothing, toys, musical instruments, kayaks, and umiaks.

http://teelfamily.com/activities/snow

This site provides a number of snow related activities, including an Acrobat document of all of the snow activities.

http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/fga/academy/k1ak.htm

This site is part of the Geographic Education and Technology Program from the Florida Geography Alliance’s collection of lesson plans. This is the Alaska Mini-Unit and there is also a Canada Mini-Unit.

http://www.arctic-travel.com/home.html

This site provides information about the new territory of Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic. There is plentiful information about the land and the Inuit people.

http://www.learnnet.nt.ca/Inuuqatigiit/1/index.htm

This site contains the Inuit curriculum used in Canada to teach the Inuit way’s to today’s children.

http://www.arctic.ca/LUS/

The Leo Ussak Elementary School in Rankin Inlet provides this site with lots of information about the Inuit.

http://www.nsbsd.k12.ak.us/PROJECTS/NUNAMUSE/Nuna1.htm

The North Slope Borough School District and the Nunamiut School in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska maintain a page titled, "The Nunamiut Project" which includes information about the Nunamiut Eskimo culture of the past and present.

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