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- 6th - 12th
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Students read a profile of Luiz Inácio da Silva, the currently favored presidential candidate in Brazil. They use this article as a model for writing their own profiles of noteworthy people recently featured in the news. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students determine the calorie content of a Brazil nut and some sugar using fire and a ring stand. They calculate the number of calories needed daily to maintain metabolic rates. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students reach The Domestic Slave Trade, then examine the differences between the people enslaved in North America as opposed to those in Brazil. Full Review »
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- 8th - 11th
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Students read or listen to an article about gang violence troubling the streets of San Paolo, Brazil. They complete worksheets associated with the article. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the life and works of various Latin American women. After reading excerpts of each work, they answer comprehension questions and discuss as a class. In groups, they re-write the Equality of Rights in their own words and examine the feminist press in Brazil. To end the lesson, they compare and contrast the lives of women in Brazil to those in the United States. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students investigate the diversity of plants and animals in a rainforest. They watch an online story developed by the Rainforest Alliance, observe and record animals in their local area, explore various websites, and compare and contrast a chart that illustrates the diversity of their local area and a rainforest. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students read an original story "Brothers of the Rainforest" downloaded from the internet site provided. Students investigate the impact of the demise of a particular species on the rest of the environment. Students participate in a modified Jenga game to demonstrate the lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students study the atrocities of slavery. They examine the issues raised by the legacy of slavery in Brazil by reading and discussing "Brazil's Former Slave Havens Slowly Pressing for Rights." They create a slave identity based on readings about the different faces of slavery in various times and places and compose children's books based on interviews of classmates and their new slave identities. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students discuss the influence of foreign languages in their everyday speech after reading an article from The New York Times on language legislation in Brazil. Students are divided into 4 groups in order to research languages spoken in an assigned country, what percentage speaks that language and whether or not their assigned country has discussed language legislation. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students explore the rainforests. They locate and label tropical rainforests on a world map. Using a glossary, students define a rainforest and define its characteristics. Students locate and label South American rainforests with an emphasis on Brazil. Full Review »
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