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Grade 3 Social Studies · World 3: First Nations · Level 17
The Arctic
How the Inuit used the cold land and sea for food, clothing, and shelter.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 17
- The Arctic: very cold, with long, dark winters, ice, snow, and almost no trees.
- Arctic peoples hunted seals and walrus through holes in the ice, and caribou on land. Hunters paddled kayaks and traveled over snow on dog sleds.
- They made warm parkas and boots from caribou fur and sealskin. Many families lived in sod houses of earth and whale bones. On winter hunting trips, some Inuit built snow houses called igloos.
- Nations of the Arctic include the Inuit and the Yupik. They are still here today, keeping their languages and traditions alive.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS3H1.a — Locate the regions where American Indians settled in North America: Arctic, Northwest Southwest, Plains, Northeast, and Southeast.
- SS3H1.b — Compare and contrast how American Indians in each region used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.