1. People living in the Cold -
Arctic
L/O: What is life like for people
inside the Arctic Circle?
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

2. Where is the Arctic?
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

3. Where is the Arctic?
• It is in the northern
most part of the world.
• Officially the Arctic is
north of 60⁰ Latitude,
the Arctic Circle
• The Arctic ocean
surrounds it, the
majority of it freezes
during the winter.
• Label it in your
passport map
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

4. Who lives there?
• Other than different
animals such as polar
bears not that many
people live in the Arctic
circle.
• People from the
countries that are inside
the circle do live there,
such as people from
Russia, Greenland and
Canada.
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

5. What do they wear?
• Have a look in your
passport p16-19 to
see what keeps them
warm!
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

6. People living in the Cold - Arctic
Watch Human Planet – Arctic (up to 17.37) – and make
notes in your exercise books about the two tribes you see!
1. Greenland
What is it like hunting for
food here?
2. Northern Canada
What is it like hunting for
food here?
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

7. Challenge –
BBC Newsround Special report
• You have been asked to produce a report
for newsround on the people in the Arctic.
• You can choose either the Greenland tribe
who go fishing with their houses OR Inuit
tribe in Northern Canada who collect
muscles under the ice.
• Complete the 2 pages from your passport
showing what images you would cut to at
different times of your report.
• For example …
L/O: What is life like for people inside the Arctic Circle?

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