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Lesson
Title/Focus
Iqaluit shelter/transportation/Inuksuk
Date
Subject/Gra
de Level
Time
Duratio
n
60 minutes
Unit
Iqaluit-Dynamic Communities
Teacher
DeAndra Sullivan
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will identify Iqaluits past and present forms of shelter, modes of transportation,
and will identify Inuksuks.
ASSESSMENTS
Key Questions:
Products/Performan
ces:
PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Time
7 minutes
Body
Discuss Iqaluit past and present shelter and
transportation
Notebook Iqaluit Shelter and Transportation
-Ask students questions to generate conversation and thinking.
-Why are we learning this? Why do you think this is
important to learn?
-Show snowshoes and hide-discuss how hide is made from skin,
that it is durable, long lasting, and COULD BE FOUND FROM
NATURE: NATURAL RESOURCES!!
-Discuss caribou
-What is a caribou?
-Why would the Inuit have made their houses out of caribou
skin? (natural resources were all the Inuit had)
-What else could you do with caribou skin tent if that was your
house? I want you to imagine you ran out of berries to pick and
you ate all of them.. what could you do with your house to help
you find more berries? (take it apart and move to a new
location)
-Engage in a class discussion to promote INQUIRY BASED
LEARNING
-Students may touch deer hide and snowshoes to feel their
texture and interact with the artifacts that I brought in
Does it feel soft?
Do you think this would be warm if you had a jacket made out
of it?
-Promote class discussion, student questions
Time
35
minutes
Learning Activity
#2
15
minutes
Consolidation of
Learning:
Time
3 minutes
Transition to next lesson: Art Project, get ready for art, etc.
Sponge
Activity/Activities
Students could draw their own Inuksuk on back of Social studies Iqaluit
booklet
What went well:
Self/TA Evaluation:
What to improve on for next time: