Perhaps the ideas of modern vs primitive clothing systems for cold weather could be introduced.

There was a PBS program on the sailing technology of the Viking era Scandanavians a few years ago. They gave attention to the ships and the clothing.

They recreated the clothing and compared performance of this to modern cold weather sailing clothing with high tech fabrics. It was found that the ancient clothing designs performed well in comparison.

In addition, there are the stories of polar explorers who took the time to study the Inuit indians living in the polar areas. Some aspects of these cold living peoples were put to good use in the initial successful expeditions to the South Pole.

Us "moderns" tend to ignore much of history. Sometimes, to our great loss.