Dear Teacher :
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You are the Explorer challenges the students to plan an expedition using the journals of the old explorers. They are required to write journals and plot their trip on an expedition map. They must illustrate with examples of the people, plants and animals they encounter.
First, you must download the worksheets and make copies :
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson3_planner.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson3b_planner.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson3_map.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson3_journal.html
http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/wordsearch_advanced.html
Let them do the wordsearch while they wait for files to download.
Advanced is for 2-12
Introduce lesson :
Write these urls and passwords on the board.
https://secure.playbrazil.com/rtr
ID :
Password :
Tell them to refresh their browser each time they enter to see what's new. (Click the circular arrows at top of internet browser.)
Show students how to bookmark or put in favorites.
Lesson 3
You are the Explorer
When the explorers visited the rainforest in 1817, there were no cameras to take pictures of the beautiful scenery. Cameras hadn’t even been invented yet ! In those days it was important to practice drawing and painting, so you could remember and pass along what you had seen… and being true scientists, the explorers recorded all of the details of the scenery that they illustrated.
The explorers recorded all of the details of their trip by writing in their journals everyday. They wrote about the weather, described the people and places they visited, drew and described the plants and animals of the different parts of the land. They visited the ancient forest, the riverbanks, the seashore, the grasslands, the mountains, the dry lands that are practically desert and the land where the rainforest had been chopped down and burned. The explorers knew that it was wrong to waste all those trees because trees give off oxygen and oxygen is what we breathe.
Being true scientists, the explorers recorded in their journals the name of each city, town and village that they passed through. Then they marked their route on their expedition maps.
Today, you will become explorers. You will follow the path of the old explorers, make your own map, and record all you have learned in your journal. Download pictures of the people, plants and animals to illustrate your story.
You will be traveling between Lorena and S. Jose in the province of S. Paulo. You will begin your trip on page 302 of volume1 in the <Expedition Text> on the Remember the Rainforest ™ menu. You may also choose your own route from the Table of Contents in the <Expedition Text>. Use the map worksheet to mark your route in red or create your own map. (Ask the Art teacher to teach how to use a grid to enlarge or teach them how to enlarge on the printer using 8.5x14 paper.)
Then you will go to www.googleearth.com and report how your locations look today. Remember if you really want to Go Green and save our planet, you will tell other people about what’s happening to our Earth, so we’re going to make a report of our findings for the newspaper.
Lesson extension :
We will have a 20 minute online tutorial ready for Earth Day which explains the site navigation and Lesson 3. All you have to do is project it from your computer, using your lcd.
http://playbrazil.com/screencast3.pps
Sincerely, Carol Miranda Chor
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