Technology in our classroom






         Using Web 2.0 in Miss Wyatt’s room

May 8, 2008

Websites for Inuit research

Filed under: activities — Miss W. @ 10:38 am

www.arctic-travel.com

The Nunavut people of Northern Canada have put together this travel site.  Covers the topics: Inuit people, wildlife of the Arctic as well as a photo and virtual tour of the Nunavut area.

www.explorenorth.com/native-inuit.html

Site about many aspects of the Inuit people. Includes legends, history, animals, travel.

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/inuit.html

This site allows you to print using Inuit script or font.

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/inuit.html

Allows you to learn the languages of the Inuit people as well as links to interviewing elders and other Arctic sites.

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hbc/index1.htm

Pictures of many objects used by the Inuit people.  Good for studying technology.

http://www.nfmuseum.com/notes4.htm

The Inuit in Labrador and lots of interesting information about housing, clothes and technology.  Includes some pictures.

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources.php?name=Inuit&type=1&nation=171Good database of various sites especially of Inuit artists.  Some sites links are broken though and some sites are better than others.

http://www.nunanet.com/~jtagak/resources/

Good site for history, culture and legends of Inuit people.  Site organized by a local resident in Northern Canada.

http://www.nunavut.com/culture/english/Culture and language centre relating to Inuit people of the world.  Includes info on animals etc as well as elders.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=netsilik&w=all

Excellent photos from flickr with permission to use

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