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Snow and the magical trees

By Antoine Lanciaux and Sophie Roze Created by Azadée Tolooie Translated by Andrew A. Rosado

Created by Azadée Tolooie. Translated by Andrew A. Rosado SNOW AND THE MAGICAL TREES by Antoine Lanciaux and Sophie Roze

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TABLE OF CONTENTS I UNDERSTANDING THE FILM Information about the film .............................................................................3 The directors ................................................................................................4 About Folimage Studios ................................................................................5 Summary ...................................................................................................... 6 Snow’s universe ........................................................................................... 6 The magical trees: 3 short stories ............................................................... 7 Papercutting animation ............................................................................... 8 II UNDERSTANDING THE FILM: BEFORE THE FILM ........................................10 Student worksheet 1: Understanding the themes........................................ 11 Teacher worksheet 1: Understanding the themes ....................................... 15 Student worksheet 2: Understanding the film .............................................. 17 Teacher worksheet 2: Understanding the film ............................................. 19 III UNDERSTANDING THE FILM: AFTER THE FILM ..........................................20 Student worksheet 3: Understanding short films ......................................... 21 Student worksheet 3: Understanding short films ......................................... 23 Student worksheet 4: Motifs and colors of the film ..................................... 25 Student worksheet 4: Motifs and colors of the film ..................................... 27 Student worksheet 5: Reconstructing the film ............................................ 28 Teacher worksheet 5: Reconstructing the film ........................................... 30 Student worksheet 6: Make your own papercutting short film .....................31 Teacher worksheet 6: Make your own papercutting short film ................... 32 Student worksheet 7: Playing with vocabulary ........................................... 35 Teacher worksheet 7: Playing with vocabulary .......................................... 37 SITOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................... 40

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I UNDERSTANDING THE FILM: BEFORE THE FILM INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM Title: Snow and the magical trees Year: 2015 Country: France Duration: 51 minutes Cinematic release: November 25, 2015 A film by: Antoine Lanciaux and Sophie Roze Graphic design: Sophie Roze Script: Antoine Lanciaux and Pierre-Luc Granion Production: Folimage Studio, Nadasdy, Bayard Jeunesse Animation. With participation by France Télévisions. Supported by CNC and the Région Rhône-Alpes.

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THE DIRECTORS

Antoine Lanciaux

Sophie Roze

Antoine Lanciaux joined Folimage in 1991 as a traditional animator. After having trained with directors such as Michael Dudok and Michel Ocelot, he collaborated on the drawing and writing of L’enfant au grelot, The Frog Prophecy, and Mia and the Migou (JacquesRémy Girerd). Subsequently, Antoine wrote and produced The Four Seasons of Leon, including L’Automne de Pougne with PierreLuc Granjon.

Sophie Roze was born in 1979. She studied history and later turned to animation when she joined La Poudrière in 2003. In 2009, she directed her first feature film, Les Escargots de Joseph (live-action puppet film), then L’Oiseau-Cachalot (papercutting) in 2010.

She also illustrates children’s storybooks. In 2015, she co-directed the film Snow and the Magical Trees with Antoine Lanciaux.

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ABOUT FOLIMAGE STUDIOS

Created in 1981 by Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Folimage Studio is a pioneer in animation, particularly for short films directed at younger audiences. Their artistic preferences are represented by their original stories that unfold in a remarkable universe. Such as is the case for Snow and the Magical Trees. Folimage Studios is also a place of development and a residence for authors. This is how La Poudrière, a school of animation in 1999, and L’Équipée, an association for the development of animated film in 2004, were born. Many successful films are to be credited to Folimage Studios: La Prophétie des grenouilles, Mia et le Migou, Une vie de chat, L’Enfant au grelot, Petites z’escapades ou 1, 2, 3 Léon. Snow and the Magical Trees reflects the diversity of their talents.

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SUMMARY On the eve of her vacation, Prune leaves her parents for the traditional end of the year field trip.

However, the city is hit by a terrible snowstorm.

This beautiful winter tale is preceded by three charming stories, Tigers in a Single File, The Little Sprout, and One, Two, Tree, a story where trees some to life and play an unexpected, but important role.

SNOW’S UNIVERSE

The magic in the film is due to the fantastic encounter of two worlds: our world as we know it, with the world imagined by the people of the Great North. Two cultures sit side by side. The Inuit family refers us to “a part of ourselves we have put aside and forgotten, a deep fantasy, though a bit archaic” (Antoine Lanciaux). The Inuit culture appears as precisely and justly represented, including their language and clothing. The film also discusses the issue of climate refugees. It is impossible to pinpoint precisely where the film takes place since all the elements that compose the background and landscapes are blurred. Like the story, the universe has a hyperrealist background that flows from symbolic to imaginary. The script illustrates the story with a refined narration: filled with long periods without dialogue that allows the audience to fully submerge themselves in the stories told 6 Created by Azadée Tolooie. Translated by Andrew A. Rosado SNOW AND THE MAGICAL TREES by Antoine Lanciaux and Sophie Roze

by the images themselves. The animation style is characterized by the combinations of textured, torn, and cut papers that give both the character, and the vehicles, a gliding effect on the snow and ice. The soft textures of cloth and wood contrast the roundness of the igloo and the curated shapes in each scene.

THE MAGICAL TREES: THREE SHORT STORIES Tigers in a Single File by Benoît Chieux - France – 2014 - 6 min.

A very lazy boy, often scolded by his mother who only sees him sleep and eat, decides to get to work and reveals an unexpected use of imagination, inventiveness, and perseverance.

The Little Sprout by Chaïtane Conversat - France -

2015 - 10 min.

Each day, a young girl makes a different dress with different flower patterns and colors that she captures with her magical sheets. One day, a seed brought by the wind lands in her mouth and starts sprouting all the way through her belly button. She replants it in a small pot with dirt, and the sprout continues to grow and grow until it turns into a big tree. One morning the young girl

discovers that her house is on the top of a tree!

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One, Two, Tree by Yulia Aronova - France - 2014 - 7 min.

A story about a tree just like any other. One beautiful day, the tree puts on its boots and starts walking.

Shaking up traditions, he invites other trees to follow him and their daily routine turns into a joyous farandole!

PAPERCUTTING TECHNIQUES

Papercutting consists of creating characters whose body parts are formed by cutting paper into different and separated pieces. Those pieces are then used to articulate and create different positions for the character.

Pieces for a character

The character reconstructed in different positions

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The puppets are created this way so they can be animated frame by frame from pictures taken by a rostrum camera. To animate the characters, the animator moves the pieces of each character little by little and takes two photos with the camera. The animator then slightly moves the character’s positions and proceeds to take another two photos and continues this process over and over again. This technique allows the animator to create an original universe with different kinds of papers and colorations, or by using the photos to create different characters, decorations, and scenery.

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II UNDERSTANDING THE FILM: BEFORE THE FILM

The following activities were created for kids between the ages of 4 and 6 in order to prepare them for the presentation of the film in its entirety. This lesson plan can be taught in English or in French, per the student’s linguistic profiles and the objectives of the foreign language teacher.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 1: UNDERSTANDING THE THEMES Level A1.1/ A1

TREES ARE OUR FRIENDS! With a tree, ONE CAN…

Pick fruit

Make a swing

Find nests

Build a tree house

Park your bike

Hang laundry

Look at the images above and circle which of the activities do you normally do with trees.

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Draw yourself with your tree, what are you doing?

MY OWN TREE With my tree, I like to…

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THE MAGICAL TREES The trees you will see in the film are magical!

Can you guess why!?

Look at the images above and guess why and how are the trees magical!

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UNDER A SHADY TREE Do you really want to know what is magical?

Laying on the grass under a big shady tree!

Lay under a tree and observe. Close your eyes and remember what you saw. Draw in class what you saw!

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TEACHER WORKSHEET 1: UNDERSTANDING THE THEMES Level A1.1/ A1

These activities aim to prepare students for the presentation of the short films that precede the main film. They address nature and especially its relationship to people and children with trees, and it focuses on the fun and magical aspects of nature.

TREES ARE OUR FRIENDS! Students will discover the first images of the short films in order to write down the daily activities people do with trees, as either a tool or a fun object.

It is also possible to discuss the role trees play within our ecosystem, and its important role in our survival.

All answers are acceptable. The teacher can also hold a discussion about other possible uses for trees in kid’s lives, and ask them about what other roles trees play in their daily lives, whether it be fun or as a useful tool.

MY OWN TREE After reflecting on the activities that the students enjoy doing with trees, they can draw what they imagined. The drawings can later be discussed in class and presented in the classroom.

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THE MAGICAL TREES Students must make hypotheses based on the title of the film with help of the provided images. All responses are acceptable since they are hypotheses and will not be confirmed until after the film.

Possible answers: trees grow fast, they are very big, they walk, they are alive, they have a face, etc.

UNDER A SHADY TREE This activity can be done on school premises, at a park, or at home as homework. It will allow students to establish a connection between the images and the real world. Lastly, this activity can serve to end the lesson in a calm manner.

The teacher can ask students to meditate and concentrate on the sensations they are feeing based on the five senses to answer questions like: What do you feel with your hands? What do you see? Is it bright? What colors do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? Etc. Upon returning to the classroom, students can then compare with the rest of the class and recall what they can remember, and proceed to draw it in their notebooks.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 2: UNDERSTANDING THE FILM Level A1.1/ A1

SNOW Snow can be magical and fun, but it can also be dangerous!

Circle in blue fun snow activities, and in red dangerous snow activities.

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In the film Snow, everything is round and white like snowballs!

Circle round elements in red. With an X mark the ones you have

= X

counted. How many are there in total?

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TEACHER WORKSHEET 2: UNDERSTANDING THE FILM

Level A1.1/ A1

THE SNOW The goal of this activity is to make children aware of the main theme of the film: snow.

Each circle contains an image of the film that represents a fun or dangerous aspect of snow. The teacher will highlight this duality within nature that, although admired by people, can be something scary and dangerous. Similar comparisons can be made with other elements in nature such as the sea, the wind, etc.

Before this activity, it is important to ask students to describe the image in order to verify their understanding of the situations presented in the images.

Answers: Fun aspects of the snow: Building a snowman, watching snowflakes fall, riding sleighs.

Dangerous aspects of snow: car accidents, the village is blocked and the cars are buried under the snow, communication is cut and telephone lines are not working.

SNOWBALLS The teacher can help students recall simple geometric shapes the students know (circle, triangle, square, rectangle), and then ask the students what shape snowballs are. It is important to then remark that the film Snow is composed mainly by circles that give the film a soft and kid-friendly aspect.

The teacher can also invite students to draw a winter landscape composed only by circles.

Answers: There are about twenty circles (the trees, the igloo, the faces of the two characters, the signs, the small hill‌)

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III UNDERSTANDING THE FILM: AFTER THE FILM

The following activities were created for kids between the ages of 4 and 6 in order to prepare them for a discussion after the presentation of the film in its entirety. This lesson plan can be taught in English or in French, per the student’s linguistic profiles and the objectives of the foreign language teacher.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 3: SHORT FILM Level A1.1/ A1

WATCH IT GROW! In the short film, the magical trees grow very fast! Do you know what makes plants grow?

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Label the images from 1 to 7 the stages from seed to tree.

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LET’S GROW SOME SEEDS!

In groups of two, classify what the teacher gives you Seed on the left and anything else on the right.

When seeds germinate, they become plants. Seeds or grains?

Can you differentiate between them?

What will happen if you plant the items? With your teacher’s help, put them in dirt, water them, and see what happens after a few days.

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TEACHER WORKSHEET 3: UNDERSTANDING SHORT FILMS Level A1.1/ A1

WATCH IT GROW! The teacher can take advantage of this activity as a way to discuss or review the plant cycle in its entirety. The teacher can also explain how young and small sprouts will eventually become big and tall trees!

Answers: 1: The character sows the seeds-> 2: the roots start growing underground -> 3: the seeds start to germinate-> 4: young sprout pops out from the ground-> 5: the sprout grows-> 6: the sprout grows into a tree -> 7: the tree becomes larger and grows fruit.

LET’S PLANT SOME SEEDS! This activity will allow students to develop their investigative and observational skills by watching the seeds grow.

Materials: • • • •

Seeds (beans, lentils, peas, corn, etc.)

Small objects similar to seeds (pearls, beads, rocks, etc.)

A seedbed Soil

The teacher must explain the instructions in detail: "When I arrived at school my bag fell and all these similar objects got mixed together.

Can you help me sort them all out?"

Then, distribute the materials and, in small groups, ask the students to sort out the seeds and the small objects: Seed/Other- on the activity sheet provided.

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Then ask students to compare their results .

To conclude, the teacher can ask the students, “How can we make sure that these are real seeds?” In order to read the following conclusion, “To verify, the possible seeds need to be sowed, if we see sprouts, then they are seeds!” In order to verify, each group must have a seedbed or small pots that they must fill with soil, sow the seeds, and water daily.

After a couple of days, the students will be able to confirm their hypotheses.

Note that the students must label their seedbeds or pots to differentiate them!

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 4: PLAYING WITH MOTIFS AND COLORS Level A1.1/ A1

MOTHER NATURE In the short film “The Little Sprout,” there are rich motifs and colors. The character’s dresses are inspired by the scenery that she sees through her window.

Your turn to color the character’s dress.

Look outside for inspiration!

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THE MAGICAL PLANT Make your own magical plant!

Color the plant and the pot. Cut around the circles and glue them on a stick.

Rub the stick between your hands to make the images appear as one.

It’s magical!

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TEACHER WORKSHEET 4: PLAYING WITH MOTIFS AND COULORS Level A1.1/ A1

MOTHER NATURE The students will have most likely have appreciated the color contrasts in the short film, “The Little Sprout.”

The teacher can invite students to look through the window, and then close their eyes to draw motifs inspired by the landscape they saw (leaves, grass, and anything they saw or imagined). They can let their imagination flow when drawing and coloring the motifs.

THE MAGIC PLANT In this activity, students will make their very own thaumatropes that will make it seem as if the plant will sprout right before their eyes!

The Thaumatrope (Gr. thauma, wonder and tropion, turn) is an optical toy that exploits the retina persistence.

After cutting their thaumotrope, the students can paste it on a stick, or even a pencil, and then rub it quickly in their hands to create the “magical” effect.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 5: RECONSTRUCTING THE FILM Level A1.1/ A1

SNOW DAY! What magical event happens during this first snow day?

In small groups, cut the images from the movie and place them in the correct order as they appear on the film.

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Create their own fieldtrip.

It’s time to say “goodbye!”

Cut around the lines and make the puzzle.

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TEACHER WORKSHEET 5: RECONSTRUCTING THE FILM Level A1.1/ A1

SNOW DAY! This activity encourages students to reconstruct the story of the film Snow in chronological order. Students can also recall the film and its main events. The teacher will ask the children to cut out the pictures and then, in groups of two, put them in chronological order, from left to right, from bottom to top or from top to bottom on their desk.

Answers:

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Prune leaves for her fieldtrip The students watch the snow fall in school The accident due to the snow Meeting with the Inuit family Visiting an igloo The rescue The birth of the youngest Inuit child Farewells

WE’RE GOING ON A FIELDTRIP IP! The students must cut the puzzle pieces in order to build it. Depending upon their levels, the students can also describe the characters seen in the main picture. They can describe their physical appearance, clothes, the family, professions, etc.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 6: CREATE YOUR OWN PAPERCUTTING FILM

Just like the animators did in the papercutting film, you’re going to animate your very own bear.

Cut out, draw, and attach the parts to the bear.

Is he going to be a kind bear or and angry bear?!

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 6: MAKE YOUR OWN PAPERCUTTING FILM

AN ANGRY BEAR! Just like the animators in the papercutting film, the students will make their own animal and animate a bear.

The bear: Materials: •

Cut out bear (page 31)

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Black marker (for eyes)

• A Hole puncher •

3 paper fasteners

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Scissors

Students must cut the different parts of the bear’s body and make a hole in the small circles found on each piece. Then connect each body piece with the paper fasteners and lastly draw the eyes (angry or happy!).

The background: Materials: •

White poster board

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Salt (for the sky)

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Paint

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A big brush

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Plastic wrap (for the ice)

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Scissors

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A cup and paper towel (for

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Glue

the sun)

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Paint the poster board.

Add a bit of salt for the sky while the paint it wet.

Wrap the cup with paper towel before carefully applying over the wet paint so it can absorb the color to make a sun.

Glue the plastic wrap on the dry paint to create an icy effect.

And voila!

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How to create a short film with papercutting Students can give their characters different poses on the polar background. They must then think of movements and draw them out before making their polar bears “move” (example: walk, dance, raise arms, etc.). Then, the students must take a photo of each step and movement with a camera or a camera phone. Students can then make their photos appear to move by scrolling the images quickly or by making a slideshow in PPTX format, they will see their characters come to life.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 7: PLAYING WITH VOCABULARY

Philemon meets a family of Inuits.

Do you know how their houses are called?

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The language spoken by the Inuit is called Inuktitut.

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Animals play an important part in the film.

They alert Philemon of the dangers that Prune and her class are facing.

Connect the animals with their shadows.

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STUDENT WORKSHEET 7: PLAYING WITH VOCABULARY THE HISTORY OF THE INUITS The students will have noticed that the family encountered in the film at the village of Philemon is not a family like the other families. This will be an opportunity to discuss the topic of immigration (climate immigrants, for example) and the notions of difference, tolerance, and mutual aid. They will be able to talk about differences in clothing, food, family systems, houses, animals, rituals, etc.

Students can then connect the points to form the outline of the igloo and complete the word by plotting the letters that the teacher will have written on the board.

Answer: Igloo.

About the Inuit The Inuit are a people from the Artic.

For a long time, they were nomadic fishers. Today, the Inuit are sedentary. There are more than 125,000, with over 40 ethnicities. They are spread mainly around Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (Denmark), and Russia. Although they are separated by great distances, they retain a remarkable sense of homogeneity.

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Inuit or Eskimos?

The word "Eskimos" means "raw meat eaters" in the language of the Algonkins Indians – as reported by French settlers in the seventeenth century. Today, local names (Yupik, Inupiat) or the general appellation of Inuit (or Inuk in the singular), "Inuit" is used to refer to all groups, as decided by the First Inter-Inuit Conference (CCI, Alaska, 1977).

Perfectly adapted to the climate The Inuit have learned to use what their harsh environment has to offer: polar bears, ice, and stones. Their diet is made up of fats and seal met rich in iron and Vitamin A which helps resist the cold. But their true adaptation is cultural: clothing, snowshoes, sleighs, kayaks, hunting strategies, etc.

The Inuit language: Inuktitut The language of the Inuit was spoken without ever being written until the 18 th and 19th centuries when missionaries arrived in the Far North. It is an agglutinative language.

Ideas, or words, are joined together instead of creating a sentence. These words are joined together parting from a stem word, for example “We would like to build a big house” is said “iglualuliurumatsiaqtugut”, which roughly translates to “home-great-build-reallywant us”.

This agglutinative language is very rich, and describes nature and its elements exhaustively. Thus, there are a dozen words used to define snow due to its different qualities and atmospheric conditions. There is not a single Inuit language, but many dialects due to its wide geographical distribution of the Inuit, and difficulties in communication. However all the Inuit dialects are mutually intelligible.

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The Inukshuk There are many moments during the film that we can find a typical Inuit symbol, the Inukshuk.

The word “Inukshuk” is composed of inuk (human being) and -suk (substitute), which means “that which is capable of behaving like a human.” Moreover, the word “inukshuk” was later used to describe Inuit art in the 1960s. Later, in pop culture, it took the form of a human like statuette made of rocks

ANIMAL MESSENGERS Answers:

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SITEOGRAPHY •

Documentation about film

https://www.reseau-canope.fr www.folimage.fr www.neige-lefilm.fr •

Documentation about the animation

www.centrepev.com http://upopi.ciclic.fr/ http://ww2.ac-poitiers.fr/ •

Information about Inuits

www.espace-inuit.org http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com •

Craft ideas

Pinterest.fr http://learncreatelove.com/ •

Ecology in class

123dansmaclasse.canalblog.com

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