How can we get students to understand other cultures of the world. The activities will take place in the classroom over a period of a month or two. Students will each design their own sled. We as a class will then repeat step two but on a larger scale. When a design is finalized we will then build a half size scale model.
Students work individually, then in small groups, and then as a class.
The strands of Social Studies this lesson includes are culture, change, people, places, environments, individual identity, groups, distribution, consumption, science, technology, and society. I would also have them do research on the web about experimental sleds currently being designed to see what might work for our sled. If possible they could talk to an Inuit who no longer lives the traditional way but could tell them some things they would have liked on their sleds. Students will take their final design and apply it to wood thereby giving them a finished product they can be proud of and display in the classroom.