Brain Metaphors - Three Block Model



Writing in Role

Choose a character who might have lived in an ancient Inuit community. You could be a child, or an elder. Write a diary entry for an exciting day in your life.

Poems

Write a poem about a symbol of Inuit culture or experience! Poems do not have to rhyme!

|R is for Residential Schools | |

|R is for Residential Schools - that were very, very sad. |I is for Inukshuk |

|When the Europeans came it was very bad. |I is for Inukshuk that rise in the sky. |

|There were so many different words in other languages they had |Rock mounds like a human body |

|to learn to say. |Show where others have passed by |

|They got taken away from their mom and dad all night and all | |

|day. | |

Contact Songs

Become a composer and create your own song about the experience of contact. Either create your own music or change the words to a song you know.

Make A Drum

THE RITUAL OF CREATING A DRUM

In some Inuit cultures, the ritual of creating a drum begins with the person writing a secret wish for the earth on the inside of their drum.  Every time they play it, the wish is sent out to the world in sound.  The artist then decorates their instrument with images that reinforce its power for change.

Village Models

Create a model of an Inuit village from the past and present by using plasticene, styrofoam, recyclables, food, etc. Show the habitat, housing, and activities taking place. Use different colors to indicate different structures. Be as creative as you can!

Inuit Technology

Brainstorm examples of Inuit technology (e.g., dog sled, snow shoes, hide scraper, kayak, umiak). Using materials found in the centre, build a working model of one form of the technology. Be prepared to explain its uses, and how you constructed it.

Me and the Environment

Think about the environment, and what it means to you. Are animals important to your life? What do trees give you? What value do you give to them?

Create a piece of art, a song, poem, or essay to demonstrate the environments role and value in your life.

Images of Inuit People

Find pictures of Inuit peoples in texts, magazines, movies, and/or on the internet. How are Inuit people depicted? How do you feel about the stereotypes you find?

Write a journal entry reflecting on your thinking.

Act It Out!

Work with a partner. Research exchange values, goods available, and other information about what fur traders and Inuit people used to trade. One partner can role-play a fur trader, the other an Inuit person. In the role-plays, the fur traders should try to get the best deal for the company and the Inuit people to get the best value for their furs.

Then switch roles.

Interdependence

Research exchanges between Inuit and non-Inuit people today. What do we give each other? What have we learned from each other?

Population Graphs

Research the population of Inuit people in Northern Canada before contact. What is their population soon after? What about now?

Create a graph to show the changes in population.

Timelines

Create a timeline to show the arrival of explorers to Northern Canada. Be sure to put names, dates, and places of arrival on the timeline.

Compare and Contrast

How do Inuit cultures compare to modern urban cultures in their relationship to the environment? What is the same? What is different?

Create a piece of art, a song, poem, or role-play to show your comparison.

Habitats

Choose a Canadian habitat to study (e.g. prairies, forests, coast/seashore, tundra). Research how plants, animals, and people adapt to this habitat.

What do they eat? How do they live?

Build a diorama to show the animals, plants, and people of your chosen habitat. Write a short (two page) report explaining what you found out.

Creation Legends

Read the creation legends in the centre. Choose one to role-play with your group. Create props and backdrops for your role-play. Afterwards, write a journal entry reflecting on how Inuit beliefs about the creation of the world fit with or differ from your own.

Animism

Many Inuit cultures believe in Animism: the belief that "everything is alive", "everything is conscious" or "everything has a soul". They believed animals, plants, rocks, stars, water – everything had feelings, and everything was inhabited by a spirit.

Imagine yourself as an animal, tree, plant, rock, star, or body of water. What do you see? How do you feel? What would you choose to be if you could? Why?

Write a journal entry reflecting on your thoughts, and illustrate it.

Line Drawings

Research traditional shapes and colors in Inuit art. Inuit artists often showed animal spirits within their drawings. Choose an animal spirit, and draw it in a line drawing to represent its spirit.

Carvings

Traditional Inuit sculptors used soapstone to carve animal figures. Most figures had little detail, mostly just a smooth form.

Using bars of soap, carve an animal figure in traditional Inuit style.

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For Example:

Twinkle, twinkle little star

New people have come from afar

Up above their ships they fly

Flags from countries way up high

To find new land and gold they sail

And have found us on the trail

Using a can, ice cream pail, or cereal box and other materials you can find, create a drum. Write your message on the inside, and decorate the outside with images that show how your message can change the world.

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