Awesome Arctic Animals


Wild on the tundra
Awesome Arctic animals
Hidden in haiku

Welcome to Awesome Arctic Animals, featuring 31 animals of the north camouflaged in snowy haiku. Read the haiku, then click the snow goose to see and read about the animal. Have a fun journey--and stay warm!

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During your trip, click on the ear next to the title to hear how the animal's name is pronounced in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people. Click on the snow goose to go forward, the polar bear to go back and the igloo to return to the index of poems below.


Index of Awesome Arctic Animal Poems

#1 - Aivik
#2 - Tiriganiaq
#3 - Tuktu
#4 - Nanuq
#5 - Agparaq
#6 - Pamiuqtuuk
#7 - Qugjuk
#8 - Aarluq
#9 - Ukaliarjuk
#10 - Umingmak
#11 - Amaruq
#12 - Tulugak
#13 - Kigiaq
#14 - Arvik
#15 - Nirliq
#16 - Nuvalqiq
#17 - Siksik
#18 - Qilalugak
#19 - Nattiq
#20 - Imiqqutailaq
#21 - Aqiggiq
#22 - Qilaluga Tuugaalik
#23 - Kakilaak
#24 - Naujavaaq
#25 - Avingak
#26 - Sulukpaugaq
#27 - Ukpik
#28 - Aklaq
#29 - Iqaluk
#30 - Kiggaviarjuk
#31 - Qimmiq

Awesome Arctic Animals

Photo Credit: © The Chicago Zoological Society Used w/ permission. Background: © Photodisc®  All rights reserved.

Thank you to the following students at Maani Ulujuk Ilinniavik Middle School in Rankin Inlet for recording the Inuktitut pronunciations of the animal names: Evan, Roger, Graham, Marilyn, Nicole, Donovan and Sheena.

Student to Student Language Lab

 

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