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

Volunteers…  Clothing = India and China  Food = Tacos from Mexico, rice from China  Holidays = Hanukkah and Christmas  Music = 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 9 th  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: 

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 picture Location

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 walking  Traveling 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 Factors  Food Availability  Shelter  Breeding - Nesting sites  Predators  Temperature (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