Culture and the Embera

We are going to learn about culture by using the Embera culture as a mirror for ours. The Embera live in the rainforests of Panama and live a more traditional lifestyle. These sheets will help students understand what every culture has. We are going to do a lot of it in class together. The last bits that do not get finished will be assigned for homework. They will not be due until Friday or Monday.

Couple odd pics from Panama this summer to go along with our unit

Website to help with Tic Tac Toe

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listrainforemr1.html

This site could help students with their projects. I put this together as a list of website.

There are also simulations and actions to help protect rainforests.

The site is under construction so it should keep changing.

Let me know if you find a good site I could add.

Tic Tac Toe Notes

The purpose of this project is to get the students to explore alternative ways to present information. Quality will be another goal.

*One note I made was to not allow students to take pictures off the internet. I was trying to keep with the copyright discussion we had. Students CAN take pictures from the internet but they must site their source. They need to reference the photographer if possible and list the web address.

I would like to see as much of their work as possible, so please balance using pictures off the internet and the student's own creations. I feel developing their own skills is better than using someone's already proven skills.

Look at the rubrics for grading and the suggestions for expectations.

Have fun. If it isn't fun, find something else.

RF Tic Tac Toe-Due Dec. 13

The mini Project Rainforest Tic Tac Toe is due Dec. 13. Students have to complete ONE. They must follow the Tic Tac Toe rules if they want to do extra credit.

Ecotourism assignment

Day 1-Due Tue
Day 2-Due Wed

The students must design a eco-resort using the principles of ecotourism. The camp must be drawn from a bird's eye view.

Plants of the rainforest

We have been studying about the basic principles of rainforests. We are contrasting that with our Wisconsin ecosystem.

Plants of the rainforest is due on Monday for Day 1 and Tue. for Day 2. There will be a short check quiz to see if they understand the main ideas. One will be what a niche is and another big concept is how plants are adapted to living in the rainforest.

They were given about 30 minutes in class to work on the answers and were allowed to work together on this one.