LINKS and other RESOURCES
for Arctic Studies

(updated October 2011)

CURRICULUM (Social Studies) Saskatchewan gr.3 - compare life in different communities (far north) - link gr.5 - Canada's North, Inuit peoples - link British Columbia gr.4 - Aboriginal Cultures (Inuit) http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/social_studies/2006ssk7_4.pdf gr.3 - Communities (northern Canada) http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/social_studies/2006ssk7_3.pdf Alberta gr.5 - Physical geography of Canada and lifestyles (Far North, Inuit) - http://education.alberta.ca/media/773693/ss5.pdf gr.2 - Communities of Canada - http://education.alberta.ca/media/456082/sockto3.pdf Manitoba gr.2 - Communities in Canada - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr2/index.html gr.4 - Canada's North - http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr4/index.html Ontario gr.4 - Canada's provinces, territories and regions - http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/sstudies18curr.pdf INFORMATION links Arctic A-B-C Scholastic Instructor - Life in the Arctic Tundra Through Mala's Eyes a learning resource from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Nunavut communities Images of the aurora by Jan Curtis Arctic Animals for (K-3) and (4-8) ARCTIC ANIMALS birds, mammals, and sea mammals of the Arctic Arctic birds animal facts at nature.ca Hinterland - Canadian Wildlife Service Animal printouts to color For more detailed info about the arctic/tundra plants Tundra Plants (moss, willow, floral) Tundra plants BOOKS AND STORIES Some books/stories that I have used with gr.3 students An Arctic Community by Bobbie Kalman and William Belsey The Arctic: what lives there by Lee Pennock Huntington Canadian Arctic Animals by Colleayn O. Mastin A Northern Alphabet by Ted Harrison Children of the Yukon by Ted Harrison Mama, Do you Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews Arctic Memories by Normee Ekoomiak The Girl Who Became a Reindeer retold by Ronald Melzack Pitseolak:Pictures out of my life recorded interviews by D.Eber A Gift for Kuni by Elizabeth Kastner A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munsch & Michael Kusugak A Northern Nativity by William Kurelek