JANUARY

SOCIAL STUDIES SEQUENCING – NUNAVUT/INUIT COMMUNITIES 1

Date/Time Outcomes Guiding Questions and Activities Assessment Resources

Monday 2.1.2 Where is Nunavut? Discussion • The Old Ways by
Jan 8 Where is the capital, Iqaluit? Community Workbook Susan Chapman
1:15-3:15 What is the land like? • Nunavut by Harry
(2 hours) What is the weather like? Beckett
What types of animals live there?
How do they survive?
• Fill in map of Nunavut as class
• Investigate types of animals and how they
survive
• Book reading about people surviving in
Nunavut’s winter weather
• Draw/explain how their family would
survive
Tuesday 2.1.2 Review: Review • Nunavut by Harry
Jan 9 What is the capital of Nunavut? Writing Beckett
1:15-3:15 What is the land like? Application • Iqaluit: An Arctic
(2 hours) What is the weather like? Community
What types of animals live there? workbook
How do they survive?
• Look at circle story drawing by Inuit artist
of the land of Nunavut
• Write story about the land based on their
observations of the pictures
• Make their own circle drawing of Alberta
(the province they live in)
Wednesday 2.1.1 How is Nunavut significant to Canada’s Review/Catch-up • I Live in the North
Jan 9 2.1.2 identity? Discussion by Margriet Ruurs
1:15-2:15 What similarities are apparent between Inuit Verbal Reflection
(1 hour) communities and our own?
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• Catch up on incomplete work

• Read I Live in the North by Margriet Ruurs
• Make connections between differences
and similarities of the students’ home land
and that of the girl in the story

Date/Time Outcomes Guiding Questions and Activities Assessment Resources

Monday 2.1.2 Who are the Inuit? Where did they come from? Discussion • Lifeways: The Inuit
Jan 15 2.1.4 How did their housing change through the Communities in Canada by Raymond Bial
1:15-3:15 2.2.3 seasons? workbook • Communities in
(2 hours) 2.2.6 What kinds of traditions do the Inuit have? Canada: Looking at
2.2.7 How has the culture changed over time? People (green book)
What’s it like today? • “Following the
• Quick review of natural resources in Inuksuk” cgkids
Nunavut video (25 min)
• Read creation story (Inuit perspective)
• Communities in Canada: Looking at People
(green book with Smart board and work
booklet)
• “Following the Inuksuk” cgkids video
Tuesday 2.1.3 What are some daily tools or objects that were Investigation • Box of items/tools
Jan 16 2.2.1 used by the Inuit? How did they use them? Discussion provided by district
1:15-2:15 2.2.4 • Hands on investigation of Inuit objects
(1 hour) 2.2.6
2.2.7
Wednesday 2.1.3 What are some natural resources used by the Reflection (of previous • Communities in
Jan 17 2.2.1 Inuit? day) Canada: Looking at
1:15-3:15 2.2.3 Communities in Canada Work (blue book)
(2 hours) 2.2.4 workbook
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2.2.6 What are some jobs that the Inuit people have
today in Iqaluit? Are they similar to the ones
they had in the past?
What goods are produced in Iqaluit?
What materials do the Inuit make art from?
How do people in Iqaluit care for the
environment?
• Communities in Canada: Looking at People
(blue book with Smart board and work
booklet)
• Read Magic Words: From the Ancient Oral
Tradition of the Inuit
• Learn how to build an igloo and go outside
to build own snow houses

Date/Time Outcomes Guiding Questions and Activities Assessment Resources

Monday 2.1.3 What is the Inuit language called? Reflection/Review • Communities in
Jan 22 2.2.5 How do we translate English-romanized words Worksheets Canada: Looking at
1:15-3:15 into the language? People (green book)
(2 hours) • Catch up on booklet work. • Communities in
• Learn basics of Inuktitut and how to Canada: Looking at
translate and write it. Work (blue book
• An Inuksuk Means
Welcome by Mary
Wallace
Tuesday 2.1.3 What is an inuksuk? N/A • Magic Words: From
Jan 23 2.2.1 What is its purpose? the Ancient Oral
1:15-3:15 2.2.3 What are they made of? Tradition of the
(2 hours) 2.2.4 Where are they usually assembled?
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2.2.6 • Construct and paint inuksuks. Inuit translated by

Edward Field

Wednesday 2.1.1 What is Nunavut like? Land? Weather? Discussion • Communities in
Jan 24 2.1.2 What can you do in Nunavut? Communities in Canada Canada: Looking at
1:15-2:15 2.1.3 Why did people settle here? workbook Work (yellow book)
(1 hour) 2.2.2 How was the community built? • The Inuksuk: Guide
2.2.4 Who were the Inuit? What language do they in the North by
2.2.6 speak? Laura Edlund
2.2.7 What was their lifestyle like?
What is school like in Iqaluit?
• Review Nunavut’s land and geography.
• Communities in Canada: Looking at Work
(yellow book with Smart board and work
booklet)

Date/Time Outcomes Guiding Questions and Activities Assessment Resources

Monday 2.1.1 How is Iqaluit, Nunavut different or similar to Reflection/Review • The Delta is My
Jan 29 2.1.2 our own community? Worksheets Home by Tom
1:15-3:15 2.1.4 What literature can we find that can help us Macleod and Mindy
(2 hours) 2.2.2 better understand the land, people, and Inuit Willett
2.2.3 culture? • We Feel Good Out
2.2.4 • Review qualities of life in Iqaluit. Here by Julie-Ann
2.2.7 • Brainstorm ideas of what life is like in our André and Mindy
community. Willett
• Investigate cultural literature. • Proud to be
Inuvialuit by James
Pokiak and Mindy
Willett