Teacher's Notes SCHOOLS’ PACK – BRAZIL 2009 The Planning Sheet can be used as an outline of the topic for the period of the work. It is set out under ten themes: Introduction: FACT SHEETS 1. Brazil: the Land Fact sheet 1 Fact sheet 1a 2. Brazil: the Environment Fact sheet 2 Fact sheet 2a 3. Brazil: the Country and its People Fact sheet 3 Fact sheet 3a Fact sheet 3b – Isolated Amazon Tribes Fact sheet 3c - Isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil 4. Brazil: living and working in Brazil Fact sheet 4 5. Maria and Carlos Fact sheet 5 – meet Maria and Carlos Fact sheet 5a – At Home in Rio with Maria Fact sheet 5b – Living in Manaus with Carlos 6. Schools in Brazil Fact sheet 6 - Schools in Brazil 7. Living in Brasília Fact sheet 7 Fact sheet 7a 8. Brazil: Carnival Fact sheet 8 9. Brazil: its Sports Fact sheet 9 10. Brazil: Tourism Fact sheet 10 – ‘Brazil for Kids’ http://www.brazil.org.uk/school/brazilforkids.html 1 Schools’ Pack – Brazil 2009 Text in bold italics in the teachers’ notes indicates an extension activity Fact Sheets can be used as a source of information for teachers and pupils Fact Sheets 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a and 7a include differentiated information on these themes. Activity Sheets 1 - 16 can be printed for use in class. They relate to the relevant Fact Sheet in the Teachers’ Notes. Activities 17 – 26 can be introduced whenever wanted. They are not related to any specific Fact Sheet. ACTIVITY SHEETS 1. Where is Brazil 2. Find these places in Brazil 3. The weather in South America 4. Weather log 5. Comparing the weather 6. Tropical Rainforest 7. Cloze procedure – Tropical rainforests 8. Cloze procedure – People of Brazil 9. Using photographs 10. Information from photographs 11. Reading photographs 12. Writing my diary 13. How do we compare? 14. World Cup 2014 15. True or false1. 16. True or false 2 17. – 26. Learning from Photographs. 2 Teacher's Notes THEME RESOURCES ACTIVITIES LOCATION – THE LAND Introduction to Brazil: DVD with commentary. Use these clips to get an idea of DVDs on the themes: what life in Brazil is like. Move on • Business to next activity. • Culture • Nature • Sports • Sun and Sand. What have you found out Power point presentation 1 Respond to the PP presentation about Brazil? question/issues. “Where is Brazil?” Google Earth. Introduce understanding of Map of the world to A globe, large map. Equator, Northern and Southern locate the country. Hemispheres. Map of the world showing major Identify – compare in size. countries http://www.ibge.gov.br/7a12/mapas/ Relate it to UK to demonstrate mundo/planisferio_pol.pdf size. Only Russia, Canada, China and USA are bigger Map of the world showing the five major continents http://www.ibge.gov.br/7a12/mapas/ How far to…? mundo/continentes.pdf “Where is Brazil?” Map of South America showing Activity 1 countries Map of Brazil to show Fill in the names of the other position in http://www.ibge.gov.br/7a12/mapas/ countries, some cities, rivers, South America. mundo/america_sul_pol.pdf oceans, Equator. Origin of the name BRAZIL? “Find these places in Blank map of South America Activity 2 Brazil” Map of the regions of Brazil Map of Brazil to give Name the marked cities, rivers, etc. overview of the country. http://www.ibge.gov.br/7a12/mapas/ What do you notice about siting of brasil/brasil_grandes_regioes.pdf main cities? The Amazon is the longest river in South America. Investigate the story of a river – how it is formed, develops, features. Build up a list of relevant vocabulary Brazil the Land Fact sheet 1 and 1a – Brazil the Gather information about the country Land Can you see the Amazon? Can you see the extent of the Google Earth Amazon basin? Using Google Earth, can you se the waterfalls of Foz do Iguaçu, the Amazon, Rio de Janeiro, Manaus, Brasília, the tropical rainforests? Use squared paper to compare area size with UK/Europe. 3 Schools’ Pack – Brazil 2009 THEME RESOURCES ACTIVITIES ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE The weather in Brazil. Fact sheet 2 and 2a – ‘Brazil Activity 3 – The Weather in South - the Environment’. America Activity 4 – Weather Log Climate statistics Activity 5 – Comparing the – rainfall, temperatures. Weather What is the land like? Pictures of rainforest, semi desert, Activity 6 – Tropical Rainforest tropical grassland and coastal Activity 7 – cloze procedure vegetation with tropical palms See answer sheet at the end of these notes. Amazon river basin Map to show the extent of the What is a river basin? Illustrate Amazon basin THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE History of the country Fact Sheet 3 and 3a – “Brazil Continental drift. – the Country” How would people have reached South America from other continents? Range of ethnic groups - Fact sheet 3b “Isolated Activity 8 – Cloze procedure origins Amazon tribes” See answer sheet at the end of these notes Fact Sheet 3c – “Isolated The lost Tribe who were indigenous peoples in Brazil” recently discovered – research This section provides more challenging activities. LIVING AND WORKING IN BRAZIL Brazil’s economy today. Fact Sheet 4: Activity 9 – Using photographs . ‘Living & Working in Brazil’. Collect evidence from this Photographs of country’s products country – label, adverts, etc – coffee, rubber, sugar cattle, soya, electronics, oil cars, tourism, etc. How easy is it to travel around Brazil – road, air, railways. Research Buildings reflect the Differing style of buildings across the Landmarks of Brazil – select history of the country – country – high rise flats, residential four/five. Why do they reflect natives, Portuguese, 20th areas, Spanish/Portuguese style, the country? Century, 21st Century. rural settlements, favelas. See photo Extremes of housing in gallery on Fact Sheet 4 Activity 10 Brazil Information from Photographs Fact Sheet 5 – Meet Maria and Look at the photograph Gallery on Carlos the sheet LIVING IN RIO DE JANEIRO Living in Rio with Maria Fact Sheet 5a – “At home in Rio de Cristina Pereira Janeiro with Maria” The extremes of life in Look at the photographs of the Class discussion – living styles in the city. high rise apartments, favelas and the city. other dwellings showing variety Activity 11 – Reading photographs Features of the city – Create a collage of the Sugarloaf, statue of Christ. important sights of Rio/ landscape of Brazil 4 Teacher's Notes THEME RESOURCES ACTIVITIES LIVING IN MANAUS Where? Large scale map of Manaus Google Earth - locate Manaus. showing meeting of rivers and Manaus in relation to this. Also Using the map, what do you relation to the coast. think it will be like? Why? http://www.ibge.gov.br/7a12/mapas/ Relate maps and pictures – brasil/brasil_grandes_regioes.pdf overlay them? What is Manaus Photographs of the city showing Why did it develop here? like today? diversity of buildings, industry, – rubber plantations, early scenery – include some of the river travelers, rivers and its harbours to show it as an ocean going port Living in Manaus with Fact sheet 5b - “Living in Manaus Group/class activity Carlos Melo de Souza with Carlos”. Manaus the port Why is it an important port – 12000 miles inland. Use information in Fact Sheet 5 as a starter. SCHOOLS IN BRAZIL Fact sheet 6 – Schools in Brazil. Activity 12 – Writing my diary Compare school days. Reasons for any difference – if any. LIVING IN BRASÍLIA Brasília – new capital city Fact Sheet 7 and 7a – ‘Living Activity 13 – How do we compare? in Brasília’. Purpose built city Photographs: Compare and contrast old and modern architecture new. What about old and new in your home area? What does old and new mean? CARNIVAL Fact Sheet 8 – Carnival Music – rhythms, make musical instruments. Carnival Music – DVDs. Drumming. Origins of Carnival. Background to Carnival – why, when? Music DVD, Audio. Design headgear for Carnival: Art & Design activities Listen to Carnival music. Music of Brazil – samba, bossanova. SPORT Football Fact Sheet 9 - ‘Brazil – its Sports’. Profile some famous Brazilian footballers. Motor racing F1 Research – Emerson Fitipaldi, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet, Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa Volleyball What are the rules of the game? 5 Schools’ Pack – Brazil 2009 THEME RESOURCES ACTIVITIES TOURISM Why come to Brazil? Fact Sheet 10 – Tourism Devise brochures for cities, http://www.brazil.org.uk/school/ country, etc. brazilforkids.html “Brazil is home to the world’s biggest carnival, wildest rainforest, and best football team”. Discuss this statement. CONCLUSION Activity 15 - true or false Activity 16 – true or false See answer sheets at the end of these notes What would a holiday in Brazil be like? – cities visited, weather, sites, people, etc. DID YOU KNOW? Create a “Did you know” section about the country. Compile it as a Power Point presentation. REMEMBERING BRAZIL What was interesting in this topic? Was the information you had before you started work correct? What did you enjoy about the topic? What surprised you from the things you learned? Answers to activity Sheet 7 Tropical Rainforests Tropical rainforests are found across the world usually between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. They cover about 7% of the world. It rains nearly every day in the forest, often up to 2 metres falling over the year. This means it is usually hot and steamy which encourages the vegetation to grow very quickly. A huge variety of animals, birds and insects are found in the different layers of the forest. The forest floor is dark, hot and muddy with many pools of water which encourages a great variety of wildlife to live there such as leeches, spiders, snakes, monkeys, and even larger animals such as jaguars. In the higher sections birds such as parrots and toucans as well as animals like monkeys, boa constrictors, and sloths all find a home.