Plan: Review: • When and where will your Expedition Team • What do you know now that you did Igloo Camping Environment & Outdoors share this adventure? not know before? • What do you know about building igloos? • How did you feel before, during and How can you find out more? after this adventure? The Adventure: • What equipment do you need for building • What would it be like to make your An igloo is a snow shelter made by stacking bricks of snow into a hollow dome. Building an your igloo? For sleeping in your igloo? home in an igloo? igloo can be a lot of fun, but knowing how to make one is also an important winter survival skill. • How should you dress for this adventure? • How did your Expedition Team get along? Snow is an effective insulator, and on a cold day an occupied igloo is significantly warmer than • What would you do differently in Do: the air outside. the future? • Ideally, build your igloo over the space from Form an Expedition Team and learn to build igloos. When your igloos are built, your Expedition which its bricks were cut. This will make Team can sleep in them overnight. While spending time in a snow shelter can take some getting building go faster. The snow should be firm used to, a well-built igloo can be as comfortable as your summer tent. but light. Safety Note: • Stack bricks of snow upward in a spiral • What should your Expedition Team do to Online Resources: around the depression you are creating as stay safe while building and spending time you cut your bricks. in igloos? • That sweet pile of fresh snow • How to Build an Igloo (video) • Cap your igloo with a perfectly-trimmed • Be sure to destroy your igloos when you are • Winter Camping Sleeping Systems • How to Make a Perfect Igloo key brick or “capstone.” done with them. • How to build an igloo • A Boy Among Polar Bears • Finish your igloo with a windbreak near the • Canadian Polar Commission: door, a vent and beds. How to Build an Igloo Canadianpath.ca

Plan: Review: • When and where will your Expedition Team • What do you know now that you did Igloo Camping Environment & Outdoors share this adventure? not know before? • What do you know about building igloos? • How did you feel before, during and How can you find out more? after this adventure? The Adventure: • What equipment do you need for building • What would it be like to make your An igloo is a snow shelter made by stacking bricks of snow into a hollow dome. Building an your igloo? For sleeping in your igloo? home in an igloo? igloo can be a lot of fun, but knowing how to make one is also an important winter survival skill. • How should you dress for this adventure? • How did your Expedition Team get along? Snow is an effective insulator, and on a cold day an occupied igloo is significantly warmer than • What would you do differently in Do: the air outside. the future? • Ideally, build your igloo over the space from Form an Expedition Team and learn to build igloos. When your igloos are built, your Expedition which its bricks were cut. This will make Team can sleep in them overnight. While spending time in a snow shelter can take some getting building go faster. The snow should be firm used to, a well-built igloo can be as comfortable as your summer tent. but light. Safety Note: • Stack bricks of snow upward in a spiral • What should your Expedition Team do to Online Resources: around the depression you are creating as stay safe while building and spending time you cut your bricks. in igloos? • That sweet pile of fresh snow • How to Build an Igloo (video) • Cap your igloo with a perfectly-trimmed • Be sure to destroy your igloos when you are • Winter Camping Sleeping Systems • How to Make a Perfect Igloo key brick or “capstone.” done with them. • How to build an igloo • A Boy Among Polar Bears • Finish your igloo with a windbreak near the • Canadian Polar Commission: door, a vent and beds. How to Build an Igloo Canadianpath.ca