How Does Climate Affect What We Wear?
Cindy Fry, Sandy Kelnhofer, Barbara Quintasket
Paschal Sherman Indian School, Omak, Washington

Required Materials

• Okanogan Salish words for clothing (JPG)

Web sites
Canadian Museum of Civilization – Excellent historic photos of traditional clothing of the peoples of the southern interior of British Columbia, including the Okanogan people www.civilization.ca/aborig/threads/thred06e.html

Native Tech – Maps and drawings of clothing for native people throughout North America
www.nativetech.org/clothing/regions/regions.html

NASA Kids – Spacesuit information
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Rockets/Spacesuits.asp

Space Suits at NASA’s Starchild – Diagram of a space suit
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/wardrobe.html

Future Space Suits at NASA Quest
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/suited/8future.html

How Spacesuits Work at HowStuffWorks –
http://www.howstuffworks.com/space-suit.htm