In the Arctic Topic Enrichment Pack

Explore the freezing yet fabulous Arctic with this cross-curricular pack designed to delight and engage your Year 1/2 children! This In the Arctic KS1 Topic Enrichment Pack offers six engaging lessons spanning Art, DT, Music and PE, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Create artwork inspired by Arctic landscapes and the Aurora Borealis, and explore Inuit sculptures and prints
• Design, make and test an Inuit-style boat
• Explore Inuit throat singing and echoes
• Create dance sequences inspired by Inuit dance.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Arctic topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

You might also be interested in our KS1 Geography scheme, Let's go to the Arctic, which includes six engaging and ready-to teach lessons.

Arctic Landscapes

In this lesson, your class will explore Arctic landscapes in summer and winter and discuss the differences in colours between the two seasons. They will learn about colours and how they can make us feel, linking their ideas with the Arctic landscape. Your class will have fun making colourful marbled paper with shaving cream and paint to use in their very own Arctic landscapes.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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Aurora Borealis

Amaze your class with the colours and sights of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). Your children will learn about what the Aurora Borealis is and see images of the different colours and formations they make. Watch your children create lovely chalk pastel Aurora Borealis pictures using stencils and cotton buds. There is even an opportunity for your children to make swirly wax paper paintings to represent the Aurora Borealis.

This Aurora Borealis Art Lesson Pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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Inuit Sculptures and Prints

This lesson allows your class to investigate the different art techniques used by the Inuit. Inuit art represents the harsh life in the Arctic and your class will begin to see the subjects Inuit worked with and why they chose them as the focus of their artwork. This lesson shows your children types of Inuit sculptures and, of course, the very famous Inukshuk. Your class will look at colourful prints of Arctic animals and will learn how to create their own colourful animal print.

This Inuit Art KS1 lesson pack is ready-to-download and includes a plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Making and Testing Model Inuit Boats

This lesson introduces your class to the importance of boats for the Inuit and the different styles of boats they use. Your children will explore the difference between a Kayak and a Umiak and will explore features of boats. They will then design, make, test and evaluate their own Inuit boat and be able to record their ideas in a design booklet.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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Inuit Throat Singing and Echoes

Enjoy the unique sound of the Inuit throat singing in this lesson as your class are introduced to this interesting and entertaining form of singing. Your class will love learning about the throat singing game Inuit women play and enjoy trying throat singing for themselves. They will also learn how to make sounds and echoes for Arctic objects and animals, working together in pairs to create a unique song.

This Music lesson pack includes everything you need: an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Inuit Dancing

Children will get their rhythm on in this lesson as they attempt to perform traditional Inuit dances! Your class will learn about drum dancing and its importance to the Inuit culture. They will also look at square dancing and how it is different to drum dancing. They will have the opportunity to compose their own dance sequence using different movements and body formations, and will begin to tell a story through dance, performing their moves to a given beat or tempo.

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in this downloadable pack.

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