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Back | Student Research | Arctic Game | Art Gallery | Hotlist | Arctic Poetry | Suggested Print Resources Grassroots 2002 |
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We are learning about Inuit. We am researching on the environment. We will be talking about the environment up in the Arctic. The land is flat at the Arctic. The Arctic has NO big trees at all. It is not easy to insulate buildings in the Arctic. The Arctic is the coldest place. |
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The Inuit live in small communities or villages up in the Arctic. There might be some mountains up in the Arctic. Spring arrives late in May and June. The snow melts by May or June. Snowfall still occurs in May and June. The temperature gets to – 40 degrees Celsius or colder in the winter time. The temperature gets to 15 degrees Celsius or warmer in the summer time. There are two months of darkness where sun never comes up in the winter. In summer the sun stays for two months. It never sets. Sometimes the Arctic is called “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” The Arctic is frozen and snow covered. Lakes and rivers are covered with a thick layer of ice. We hope you all liked learning about the environment of the Arctic. By: Christina & Kendra |
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These are my facts about Inuit homes now so you can sit forward and read. Now the Inuit live in houses but they cannot build a downstairs because of permafrost. They still make igloos when they go hunting. They still build tupeks in the summer, too. The Inuit used to live in igloos and tupeks. Tupeks have animal skins on the top. There are sticks inside and rocks to hold the tupek up. Igloos are just ice blocks. Up to 20 people can go in an igloo. Some igloos are connected so more people can be in them. By Jesse |
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We are learning about the Inuit and I have researched the clothing they wear. The Inuit people have to dress very warmly because of the climate they live in. The Inuit make clothes using animal skins like polar bears and foxes. The men, women and kids used to wear the same clothes.
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They preferred to use caribou skin for most clothing because it was lightweight and warm. It was the only material they had for making clothing and to make tents. They scraped the fur of the animals like the polar bear, seal, whale and fox. The Inuit turned their inside clothing inside out with the fur touching their skin. This would help to keep them very warm. Their outside layer they wore the fur out, to help protect them more. They used seal skin for making boots. They would wear hooded jackets and pants made out of skins, and fur with close-fitting socks and boots. The clothes they wore were decorated with beads and fox fur. The Inuit clothing was sewn by hand and made of animal skins. The sinew would swell and fill the holes made by the needles. This made the seams watertight. They wore boots that were called kamiks. These were made of seal skin. By Brenna |
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We are learning about the Inuit. Some of the food they ate a long time ago was moose, caribou, seal, snow geese, fox, polar bear, ptarmigan, char, salmon, narwhale, whale, codfish and walrus. They also ate different kinds of berries, roots and plants. The Inuit relied on nature to give them all the food they needed to live. They ate certain parts of seals and caribou to get their vitamins. Inuit know that polar bear liver is poisonous, too. |
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Today the Inuit still hunt for a lot of their food, like, salmon, fox, whale, polar bear, caribou, snow geese and walrus. They also eat plants, berries and roots. They buy some of their food but it is very expensive. Though they have mostly the same kinds of food today, they still hunt for a lot of their food. By Robbie & Riley |
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We are learning about the Inuit. You will be learning about how the Inuit traveled now and then. A long time ago the Inuit used kayaks, frame sleds, dog sleds, umiaks, (which is an Inuit whaling boat) and a one dog dogsled (the children practiced on them but the parents used real dogsleds). Sometimes they even walked but not much. Today the Inuit use snowmobiles, quads, bombardiers, samaks (snowmobiles just for Arctic travel), and school buses. They also still use one dog dogsleds, umiaks and dogsleds. And the most boring of all is just plain walking. I hope this tells you how the Inuit travels then and now. By Liam |
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Customs, Religion & Recreation We are learning about the Inuit or as you might them, call Eskimos. You can read all about their customs religion and recreation…so lets get started.
Someone named a shaman has special powers that he uses a lot. When Inuit die they are wrapped in animal skins. Inuit try to please the spirits so the spirits don’t punish the Inuit. The Inuit like to play games especially in the winter. They played games like AjaaQ, Nullattartuq, unummijuk, Arsaarartuq, Qumuaqataijut, Ajjagatuk, Ajutatut, Kilauuatut, kalivititatutqnd, Lukitatuk. Some of the Inuit people began living in small groups. They live in small communities these days. They sometimes get into larger groups to hunt seals. Some Inuit women or maybe all Inuit women are great at sewing kayak covers. Inuit treasure their children and rarely punish them. By Brittany |
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We are learning about the Inuit. For the next few minutes you will learn about Inuit ways of hunting. The Inuit used to hunt with a bow and arrow, spears, knives and harpoons. The weapons they used were made of stones and bones or wood. The Inuit used dog sleds, kayaks and umiaks. An umiak is a whaling boat. They use kayaks for hunting walrus and for fishing in the summer. |
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They traded the skins for money or supplies, depending on what was available. Mostly the Inuit hunted seals and caribou. Sometimes they hunted polar bears, whales and birds. The seal is the most important animal. They used seal fat for oil, the meat to eat and skin to make clothes. An example of how they hunted a seal was to tie a bone to a line and cast it into the water. If it jiggled the hunter threw his harpoon into the seal. Today the Inuit still hunt and trap. They use snowmobiles, dogsleds and vehicles now. They also have rifles for hunting. Most things are still the same; they are becoming modernized like the rest of the world. By Carter |
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We are learning about the Arctic. We are learning about polar bears. The average polar bears weighs 1,600. The male polar bear is 2.5m to 3m long. The female polar bear is 2m to 2.5m long. The polar bear eats seals and fish. The polar bear waits by the seal's breathing hole until a seal comes up and then the polar bears grabs the seal. Polar bears are one of them many Arctic animals that live with the Inuit. By Ryan & Lyndon |
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We are learning about Arctic animals. The animal we are researching is the Arctic Wolf. The wolf looks like a German shepherd dog but it has longer legs and bigger feet. It also has a wider head and a longer bushy tail. Wolves are a silver gray color. The wolf hunts for its food by chasing it until it is tired and then attacks. The wolf eats caribou, deer, elk, moose, musk oxen and hare. It also eats lemmings, birds, fish, fox and garbage if it is really hungry. Wolf pups are born in the spring. There are usually 6 or 7 in a litter, but they can have up to 14 pups. The wolf lives on the tundra. The tundra has no trees. Wolves live in the wilderness parts of Canada and in Alaska. Some are different and live in forested areas. The wolf has no real enemies except man. We hope you enjoyed learning about the Arctic wolf as much as we did. By Eric & Travis |
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We are learning about the Arctic. The Arctic fox lives in the Arctic with the Inuit. You will be reading about the appearance, food it eats, enemies, the migration, habits and young. The Arctic Fox is pure white in winter and brown gray in the summer. The Arctic fox is 43 inches long and weighs about 6-10 pounds. It eats small mammals, birds, bird eggs, garbage and dead animals. The enemies of the Arctic Fox are humans, polar bears and wolves. |
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The Arctic fox lives in Northern and Western Alaska, Canada, Russia and Greenland. It migrates in search of food so it travels a lot. The Arctic fox has six babies or kits. The Arctic fox is one of the many Arctic animals that live with the Inuit. By Matthew & Jordan |
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Did
you know….. Inuit are given 2 names: Inuit and English? They might
speak
