Building Inuksuit

Learning about Inuksuit

We began this lesson by reading Mary Wallace's I is for Inukshuk. Next, we looked at pictures of life in the arctic and of the Inuit people. We talked about how the Inuit collaborated to build these stone structures and how we would work as a team to build our own!

This lesson was a collaboration between the FI and regular kindergarten classes, and as such was taught in English. We divided into small groups and rotated between centres where we used lego to build our own small Inuksuit, cut and pasted paper stones to create more Inuksuit, and finally, worked as a team to build giant Inuksuit together!