The Inuit People

Today in Social Studies, we watched a video about what is the same here and what is different between us and in Nunavut. A difference is that we don't break ice to get water - we get it from a tap. We both have snowmobiles to travel in snow (if we want to). - Joey

We both have boats, but we don't hunt polar bears and caribou to eat here. - Braylin

In Social Studies, we were talking about the North, and we were talking about Nunavut - what are differences, and things that are the same to here. One of the same is we hunt for animals, and they hunt for animals, too. Something that is different is that they have to hunt to their food, and we can either hunt or get food from the market - we get most of our from the market, and they get most of their from hunting with rifles. - Gal

Today we did Social Studies, and we watched a video about what life in Nunavut is like. Something the same here as the Inuit is that we both fish, and something different is that we have a bunch of electronics, and it doesn't look like they do. - Evan

We continued our study of Canada's North in Social Studies today, by watching a film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) called People of the Ice. The students' job was to compare and contrast the lives of the Inuit people featured in the film to their own. And while some were joking that the weather here today (with the blizzard that has blown in) made it feel like there wasn't that much difference between life in Nunavut and life here, there definitely are huge differences. I've embedded the video below, for any who'd care to see it - enjoy!