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FIRST… Sit in your assigned seats
Get out your green card and put it on the desk
Warm Up You are in the middle of
a unit on culture in Social Studies…
Write all the words that come to mind when you see the word CULTURE
Culture
Now on your sticky, write 1 word from your list that you feel best describes the word CULTURE
Volunteers…. Bring up your sticky and put it on my paper when I call your row
Write in notebook Culture: characteristics of
particular groups of people language, customs, art,
religion, traditions, beliefs, music,or social habits
Video on culture…
When watching the video, list all the items you recognize from the video along with the country you associate with them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRE6poh1O9c
Volunteers…Clothing = India and ChinaFood = Tacos from Mexico, rice from
ChinaHolidays = Hanukkah and ChristmasMusic = Mariachi band
These are all examples of culture
Culture and Biomes?
Do you think these things are related?
How?
Announcements
Biome Projects due Wednesday April 9th
Course selection cards back???
Today….We are going to focus
our studies on the culture of a particular group of people found only in the Tropical Rain forest biome of South America
Today’s Agenda Stations: you will rotate around
the room to learn about this tribe found only in the rainforest biome of South America
Homework: Complete a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast your culture with this tribe’s culture Due Wednesday
Tomorrow: A look at the environmental impact of Gold Mining on their culture from outsiders
Write in notebook
The Yanomami:
http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/amazoniii.htm
First you will complete…
Stations: you will rotate around the room to learn about this tribe found only in the rainforest biome of South America
Stations… I will count off from 1 to 7
You will start in the station that matches your number
You will be recording information into your notebook or drawing pictures
You will have 3 minutes in each station
Expectations in stations = working and not wasting time
Station 1 – Write this information
The Yanomami are an indigenous (native) tribe
Live in the tropical rainforest of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil.
Divided into 4 groups each with their own language.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Station 2: Draw the pictureLocation
Station 3 – Write this information
The Yanomami live in villages with 40 to 300 individuals
Grouped by families in one large communal dwelling called a Shabono
Round-shaped structure with an open-air central plaza (Earthy version of their gods' house)
HOUSING
Station 4 – Draw the picture
Shabono
Housing
Station 5: Write this information
Travel by walkingTraveling between villages
may vary from a few hours walk up to a ten day hike
Living deep within the forest has helped their survival.
Transportation
Station 6: Write this information
Herbivores: Eat plants and animals
Women: Gatherers
Tend gardens : grow sweet potatoes, bananas, sugar cane and tobacco.
Men: hunters and fishermen
Spend 60% of their time walking in search of food; hunts van last up to a week
Diets
Station 7: Write this information
They believe that nature creates all and is sacred.
They believe that their fate is linked to the fate of the environment.
When the environment is destroyed, humanity is committing suicide
Beliefs about the environment
Station 8: Write this information
Villages go to war often with about 40% of adult males having killed another person
Trade is important: villages will trade wives in return for the goods of another village
Surprising Facts
Venn Diagram Homework
You will now complete a Venn Diagram by comparing your culture with the Yanomami culture
You must compare at least 5 types of information
Who wants to share…
Homework:
Environmental Impact of Gold Mining on the Yanomami Tribe
Read the article Answer the questions in
complete sentences
Write in Notebook
# ______ Factors that Affect Survival
Write in notebook
Limiting Factors— conditions within the environment that limit the growth of species
Write this down…
Limiting Factors— can be any biotic or abiotic factor that prevents an organisms growth
Write this down…
Limiting Factors—Also reduce or limits an organisms ability to find food (consumers) or make its own food (producers)
Write this down… Limiting FactorsFood Availability ShelterBreeding - Nesting sites PredatorsTemperature (too cold, too hot)
Water availability (too dry, too wet)
Biotic= living
Abiotic = nonliving (sun, soil, water, temperature, rainfall, wind)
Ability to withstand fluctuations
Fluctuations= too much rain, too little rain
Finish Biome Project
Posters must include the following:
Include two native animals and details about them (include pictures which will be drawn)
Include two native plants and details about them (include pictures)
Average daily temperatures
Average daily precipitation
Geographical (where is it?) location on a world map (explain and draw)
Three recreational activities for visitors (what could people do there for fun?)
Appropriate clothing for visitors (think temperature and how much it rains)
Three fascinating facts about the biome (something you found interesting)
Draw a picture of what your biome looks like (do your best)
A brief description of any endangered or threatened species within your biome
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