Nature is fundamentally important to Inuit culture, serving as the basis for their food sources, clothing, shelter, transportation, language and spiritual beliefs. In each seasons we can build shelters. Ex: During winter, we can use Snow to make an igloo through spring. Spring and summer we can use tent and during fall, we can make qarmaq with moss and seal skins.

2- we cannot stay in, it is good for mental health by having fresh air. It’s also important for children because they can explore about our weather, skies and what there is around their surroundings. They can learn science, about weather, they can learn math by counting how many object,animals or anything they see. Social studies by learning where the building is (locations)

-Debbie

1. The environment is the foundation of their identity, survival, and traditions.

2. Food, traditional knowledge, clothing, tools, respect.

   -Annie

   
   

Being outdoors is very important in our daily life, it reconnects our mind to Nuna, we can use anything from Nuna to teach our kids.

You can bring outside to inside by bringing what you found outside like rocks, plants shells glass snow and sand. And you can use them at art time to make beautiful art with what you found from Nuna.

-Joan

Nature in deeply connected to Inuit culture in so many ways!

It provides a lot of things like art, food and fresh air. You can build anything possible you see out there, shelter, inukshuk and igloo.

It is also important to include ECE classroom out there to learn to teach children the nature and what it provides! We can teach any children what we learn out there on the land, how it can provide us the basic life skills. It is also good for children to go out and play cause they need hands on learning experiences.

Deanna

Nature is deeply connected to Inuit culture because the arctic environment is the foundation of their entire way of life, traditional knowledge, physical survival, and spiritual beliefs.

Nattiq can provide the families of 7-8 people, they can eat it raw, saatujaq (fried) or uujuq (boiled). NUIM!

They can have them rotten too (igunaq) or if they go too bad can fed the dogs too

-Aileen

Nature is deeply connected to Inuit Culture in so many ways, The Nuna provides food for Inuit, and it provides homeland. Our ancestors had to create everything within from scratch, making clothing and making threads out of fat. Our ancestors had to acknowledge how the weather changes in each season, which animals to hunt in each season, and how the snow is in each season. The land contributes food and herbs, it provides so many things. We could bring in rocks, mosses, leaves, anything that’s outdoors inside the classroom and talk about what it is and or what it does to help the land and us. We could connect the nature into our ECE classroom by bringing in outside to inside, like bringing in mosses, flowers, rocks, snow and soil and talk about how it’s help to be informative about our nuna, for instance, we could bring rocks and talk about how we can make an inukshuk to make a landmark and inform other people that that’s its a hunting ground or to inform that someone has been buried along the area. We could bring in snow and talk about how there’s different types of snow to have knowledge about before going out on the land or walking through the snow, to see which snow is too soft to walk on or drive on, or if it’s too hard to use the ice auger through the ice for ice fishing. -Jean

1.Nature is deeply connected to Inuit culture

Being outside with the kids and be on the land with them And sled down the hill with sled

2. We can bring outside to inside we can can bring snow to play with or art with it arts and craft with the snow in the inside have fun with Inuit traditional clothes

-ooloota