5 THE CULTURE PROJECT
A poster
Everyone loves posters.
They can decorate any
room or space and they
look great.
How to design a
poster
Remember to think about the
following ideas.
• Organise your information
and remember to select the
most interesting ideas.
• Include a short but
interesting title for your
poster.
• Give your poster a border to
make it more attractive.
• Include photos, maps and
drawings.
• Make sure your handwriting
is clear and use bright
colours if possible.
• Check your grammar,
spelling and punctuation
before you finish.
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1 Work in groups. Choose a traditional home from around the
world, for example stilt houses in Thailand, caves near Granada,
Spain. Find information about this home and make a spidergram.
Then complete the steps.
History / Background Today
made for hundreds of years still sometimes used by
no building materials available in Arctic Inuit, but not often
2 different types: family igloos, hunting other building materials now
shelters used for permanent homes
warm inside (snow = good insulator)
How to build it
Where? large blocks of snow
Igloos built into a dome shape
The Arctic
snow – dry and hard
Interesting facts
People
igloo roof – can support weight of a person
Inuit in Canada/Greenland
entrance – colder than the rest of the igloo
once moved around but not usually now
inside – warm and comfortable
• Decide who will prepare each section.
• Decide the design of your poster.
• Prepare your own section. Use photos, maps, drawings, etc.
• Give your section to someone in your group to check.
• Work in your group to put the whole poster together.
PRESENT
2 Present your poster to the class. Remember to include facts from
your spidergram and photos, maps, drawings, etc.
CHECK
3 Look at your classmates’ posters. Which is your favourite? Why?
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 Igloos: warm homes of ice
History Where?
The Inuit people
live in the Arctic.

How to build it
The Inuit make igloos
The igloo is a small house made of snow. The Inuit from large blocks of
Spiral pattern
people in the Arctic started making igloos hundreds snow. They put the
of years ago. There were two different types: family blocks in a large circle Entrance
igloos and temporary homes used for hunting. The and then keep adding tunnel
Inuit made igloos from snow because there were blocks in spirals to
no other building materials available in the Arctic. make a dome shape.
Although snow is cold, igloos are warm because air is To enter an igloo, you
trapped inside. go through a tunnel
which is lower than the rest of the home. The Inuit
build the tunnel in this way because the cold air
People stays in the tunnel, and this makes the rest of the
home warmer. The snow has to be dry and hard to
make a good igloo.

Today
The Inuit people still
sometimes use igloos,
but not often. Today,
most Inuit live in
permanent homes
The Inuit who made igloos are from northern made of different
Canada and Greenland. They used to move around materials. However,
a lot, but this way of life has mostly disappeared. other traditional parts
of the Inuit culture,
including storytelling
Interesting facts and the use of native
port the weight of a
• A well-built igloo can sup languages continue to
per son standing on the roof. be strong.
is colder than the rest of it,
• The entrance to an igloo
ich goes under the wall
because there is a tunnel wh
cold.
– the air inside the tunnel is
e, it is warm and
• Even if it is freezing outsid
comfor table inside an igloo.

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