Nunavut Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Nunavut Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Downloadable teaching units for Nunavut classrooms: worksheets at four levels, an editable slide deck, complete answer keys and a lesson plan with timings, ready to print or share the moment the file lands.
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Units for Nunavut classrooms, K–12
Start with the garland craft in a junior room, move through the fiction analysis, concept art and staged photography units with senior students, and take the complete art bundle when you want a full course.
Why teachers here use these
Why Nunavut teachers use these
Nunavut's education program is guided by the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Education Framework, and IQ is not a course on a timetable — it sits underneath everything the Department of Education publishes, shaping how knowledge is shared, how learning is judged and how a classroom is expected to run. A new Inuktut-language curriculum is being rolled out alongside the existing K–12 program, so the material a teacher works from is changing while the school year is already moving. Anything brought in from outside the territory has to be adaptable rather than fixed: examples get swapped, prompts get rewritten, and the local context comes from the teacher and the community rather than from a publisher in the south. That is the practical argument for editable files. Every unit here opens in Word and PowerPoint, so you can replace an image, change a name or cut a page before a student sees it, while the parts nobody enjoys building — the four worksheet levels, the answer keys, the timings — arrive finished.
A sequence you can run
Five lessons out of one file
The unit is written as a sequence rather than a single activity, so one download carries a class through about a week and a half of teaching with spare work for the students who move fastest.
- Begin with what students noticeThe opening sheet asks for description before terminology. Students who would say nothing in an open discussion have a written starting point, and you learn what the room already brings.
- Give them the words for itThe slide deck introduces the vocabulary their notes were missing. Because they have already looked closely, each term attaches to something real instead of to a definition on a board.
- Hand out the right levelFour versions of the same task let a mixed class work at four depths on one idea. Nobody waits, nobody copies, and the sheets are not labelled by difficulty.
- Try the method again aloneA second artwork or text, no support from you. This is where you see who carried the approach across and who was following the shape of the first example.
- Write something worth keepingThe closing task produces a piece you can mark against the key and file. Written work is what the record rests on when a course credit is finally awarded.
What's covered
What comes in the download
Every unit is a full teaching package rather than a set of loose worksheets, and each part of it can be edited before it goes anywhere near a class.
- Worksheets at four levels
- Editable slide deck
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
For small budgets and cover days
Four levels of the same task matter most where one room holds a wide range of readers. Give everyone the identical sheet and part of the class copies while part of it waits, and neither group leaves behind work you can judge fairly. Hand each student the version pitched at them and every one of them writes something, on the same underlying question, so the set is still comparable when you sit down to mark it. That is worth more here than a mark on its own. No universal graduating examination runs across the territory; graduation follows a credit-based system administered through the Department of Education, so finished, dated coursework is the record a student carries forward.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these official Nunavut curriculum materials?
No. These are independent teaching resources, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Education (Government of Nunavut). Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the territory's curriculum describes for its subject and grade band rather than to any framework of our own. Look through the preview and hold it against your own course outline and school plan before buying — that comparison is the only fit test worth trusting.
How do these fit Nunavut's graduation requirements?
There is no universal territory-wide graduating examination we can point to; graduation in Nunavut follows a credit-based system administered through the Department of Education. What these units give you is course material — sequenced lessons, subject vocabulary, practical tasks and written work with answer keys — that can sit inside a credit course you already teach. We make no claim about outcomes, marks or credit decisions, which stay entirely with your school.
How much am I allowed to print or photocopy?
Print whatever your own students need, with no page cap and no per-copy fee. The worksheets are laid out for photocopying, and the file stays on your computer, so a class next year costs nothing more. Where paper or toner is short, teachers commonly project the slide deck and print only the two levels a given class actually uses, which brings a five-lesson unit down to a couple of sheets each.
Can I share a unit with the teacher next door?
One purchase covers one teacher and every class that teacher takes, this year and afterwards. A colleague teaching their own students needs their own copy. When several of you want the same material, the bundles cost less per teacher than buying units one at a time, and a small school can put through a single order rather than a series of little ones.
What file types arrive, and will they work here?
Each unit includes editable Word and PowerPoint files along with print-ready PDFs. The PDFs can be posted into Google Classroom or whichever learning platform your school uses, and the Word files let you rewrite a prompt, delete a question or add your school heading. Once downloaded, nothing needs a connection, a subscription or a login to open, which matters if you are working offline.
Does this material reflect Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit?
Not on its own, and we will not pretend otherwise. IQ is embedded across Nunavut's curriculum as a foundational principle, and it comes from Inuit knowledge holders, families and communities rather than from an outside publisher. These units supply the structure — a sequence, four levels, keys, slides — and leave the framing to you. Because every file is editable, you can replace examples, change prompts and connect the task to local knowledge and language before teaching it.
One bundle, a full art course
The complete art education bundle gathers the senior units into a single download you can teach from all year.
See the complete bundle →