Brazil -- Second Grade
Units Additional Resources Standards
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Nowhere on Earth is the rainforest more fascinating to children than the Amazon. In this unit, children will explore the rich culture of the Yanomami and compare their situation to the Amazon rainforest's newest arrivals: settlers seeking a better life. Students will learn about the work that IMAFLORA, a dedicated Brazilian conservation organization, is doing to help the people of Boa Vista do Ramos improve their lives while ensuring the long-term health of the forest. |
Units
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Key Concept: Maintaining interdependence and diversity among plants and animals is essential in sustaining rainforests.
Essential Question: How can so many plants and animals share such a small space?
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Key Concept:Things change in all environments. The impact of one loss or disturbance may not be visible until the rate of change and impact on diversity threatens the habitat of a particular species so much that their food source, shelter, health or safety disappears. What is the critical threshold?
Essential Question:
Does it all collapse when one block is pulled out?
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Key Concept: Bananas, cocoa, coffee, wood and many more products originate in the rainforests of Latin America. As demand for products from the rainforest increases, more pressure is exerted on these precious ecosystems. With 90% of the world’s forests outside of protected areas, the Rainforest Alliance works to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. For instance, companies and communities in Brazil work with the Rainforest Alliance and their partners to harvest wood while ensuring the forest will remain healthy and productive for generations to come.
Essential Question: Is this table someone’s old climbing tree?
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Additional Resources
Don't forget to check out our Great Resources page for easy access to the many supplemental materials tailored to complement these units.
• Slideshow – Click here for a slideshow and script about Brazil that includes
background information about the animals, people and landscape of this region.
The slideshow can be downloaded for viewing in the classroom, printed out and
read as a story, or viewed online with the students.
Download as PDF [~2.6M] View On-Screen
Download script as PDF [~18K]
• Unit-Specific Story - The Rainforest Alliance has developed an original story
for use with this unit. The story is available to download and print or can be
viewed on-screen.
Brothers of the Rainforest
English: View On-Screen Download [PDF ~1.1M]
Spanish: View On-Screen Download [PDF ~275K]
Portuguese: View On-Screen Download [PDF ~275K]
• Species Profiles – Profiles include: photos, habitat, foraging behavior, group
relationships, threats, etc.
− Heliconia View on Screen Download [PDF ~110K]
− Tapir View on Screen Download [PDF ~46K]
− Kapok tree View on Screen Download [PDF ~75K]
− Leafcutter ant View on Screen Download [PDF ~36K]
− Amazon river dolphin View on Screen Download [PDF ~25K]
• Rainforest Poster - A colorful two-page poster is available for you to use in
explaining the layers of the rainforest, its products and the environmental
threats facing many rainforests around the world.
Inside the Canopy – Structure and species of the rainforest
Download 8.5x14 (legal size) [PDF ~2.3M]
Status Report – What is happening to the rainforest
Download 8.5x14 (legal size) [PDF ~356K]
• Rainforest Products – Click here for a summary of products
found in our homes and supermarkets that either originated in tropical forests
or are currently produced there.
• IMAFLORA - Check out the Adopt-A-Rainforest pages for more information
about the Rainforest Alliance’s partner group in Brazil.
• Profiles in Sustainability – Click here for case studies on companies who
work closely with the Rainforest Alliance to ensure that their practices protect
wildlife, workers and communities.
• Venn Diagram Template – Click here for a photocopy-ready Venn diagram for
use in this unit.
• Certificate of Accomplishment – Click here to download colorful rainforest
certificates you can print out for your students to commemorate their
completion of these units.
• Great Resources – Check out this page for easy access to additional
supplemental materials that complement these dynamic units.
Standards
Writing
Standard 3 Level 1: K-2
1. Generates questions about topics of personal interest.
2. Uses a variety of sources to gather information.
Reading
Standard 7 Level 1 Grade K-2
1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts.
4. Relates new information to prior knowledge and experiences.
Listening and Speaking
Standard 8 Level 1 Grade k-2
8. Listens and responds to a variety of media.
Thinking and Reasoning
Standard 1 Level 1 Grade K-2
Understands and applies the basic principles of presenting an argument.
Standard 5 Level 1 Grade K-2
Identifies simple problems and possible solutions
Standard 3 Level 1 Grade K-2
- Identifies the similarities and differences between persons, places, things and events using concrete criteria.
Mathematics
Standard 1 Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving
Level 1 Grade K-2
- Draws pictures to represent problems.
- 4. Makes organized lists or tables of information necessary for solving a problem.
Standard 3 Level 1 Grade K-2
3. Understand basic estimation strategies
Standard 4 Level 1 Grade K-2
- Understand the basic Measures of length, width, height, weight, and temperature.
Life Sciences
Standard 6 Level 1 Grade K-2
1. Knows that plants and animals need certain resources for energy and growth
- Know that living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that distinct environmental support the life of different types of plants and animals.
Standard 13 Level 1 Grade K-2
Understands that in science it is helpful to work with a team and share the findings
with others.
Standard 12 Level 1 Grade K-2
- Knows that learning can come from careful observations and simple experiments.
Standard 5 Level 1 Grade K-2
- Knows the basic needs of plants and animals (air, water, nutrients, light or food, shelter).
- Knows that plants and animals have features that help them live in different environments.
Standard 4 Level 1 Grade K-2
- Knows that differences exist among individuals of the same kind of plant or animal.
Standard 7 Level 1 Grade K-2
2. Knows that there are similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals.
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