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