We traveled to several places where humans lived in Canada and Greenland. This video is quite popular with my students, and features a man dancing all around the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit.
Notice as you watch that most of the houses are raised from the ground. This is to prevent the foundations from cracking with the freezing and thawing of the earth.
This was the safety card from the charter flight we took to Iqaluit. It shows English, French, and Inuktitut in both traditional writing and in the English alphabet.
Stop sign in Inuktitut.
Prices for food were very high in the Arctic. This gallon of milk was $12.09 in Canadian dollars.
The polar bear was proudly displayed in many places, including on these two license plates.
Due to the cold weather, people sometimes plugged their cars into heating units like this to keep the engines from freezing while they went shopping.
In Greenland, the houses showed a more European influence.
The people of Greenland seemed to be in better spirits than those in Canada. Below is a photo of some 5th grade students petting a sled dog puppy on their way back from a sporting event.
Other parts of Greenland are uninhabitable, like the Greenland Ice Sheet, which we are standing on below.
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