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\nAmazon Alphabet\n

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\nStudents create an alphabetic Amazon animal mural, illustrating the diversity of life in the tropical rain forest of the Amazon Basin.\n
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\nUrbanization in the Amazon Basin: Can Indigenous People Survive?\n

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\nStudents investigate the relationship between economic development and social change of indigenous peoples.\n
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\nSoil In The Amazon\n

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\nStudents grow plants in soil representing that found in the Amazon basin. They compare results to plants growing in fertile soil and soil fertilized with leaf compost. Students chart, average and graph plant growth by height.\n\nStudents...\n
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\nAnd the Rains Came Down: A South American Rainforest\n

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\nStudents examine the characteristics of a South American tropical rainforest. They analyze maps, develop graphs, listen to the book, The Great Kapok Tree, and create a rainforest mural.\n
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\nWhat is Deforestation?\n

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\nAn overview of deforestation is the focus of this resource, which present the reader with a list of facts. Ten comprehension questions follow; learners can write their answers on a separate piece of paper. Have your environmental...\n
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\n\"Highways\n\n
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\nHighways and Change\n

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\nWhat is the cost of change? Roberto Guerra's photo essay \"La Carretera: Life and Change Along Peru's Interoceanic Highway\" asks viewers to consider the impacts of the 1,600 mile-long highway through Peru and Brazil that connects Pacific...\n
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\n\"Macaws:\n\n
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\nMacaws: The Book\n

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\nStudents research the various species of Macaw found in Manu, Peru and other parts of the Amazon. They watch and discuss a video, and each student constructs a book about Macaws that includes photos and background information on each...\n
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\nUnit 5 - Food\n

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\nLearners study the biodiversity existing in the Amazon rainforest. In this Amazon biodiversity activity, students study diagrams, maps, and information about the biodiversity in the Amazon.\n
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\nRivers, Maps, and Math\n

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\nYoung scholars use maps to locate and label the major rivers of North and South America. Using the internet, they identify forests, grasslands, mountain ranges and other landforms on the continents as well. They compare and contrast...\n
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\nPeru Geography and the Environment\n

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\nFourth graders draw maps of Peru and examine how Peru is a geographically diverse country.\n
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\nPbs Teachers:manu: Macaws the Book\n

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\nIdentify the different species of macaw found in Manu and other parts of the Amazon Basin, and write and illustrate a children's book about macaws.\n
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\nPbs Frontline: Jewel of the Amazon\n

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\nDescription of what the discovery of diamonds and the ensuing black market and illegal mining has done to the Amazon Basin of Brazil.\n
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\nAmazon Interactive: Where's the Amazon?\n

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\nDiscover one of the world's great rainforests through this interactive educational site. Locate the Amazon and learn some interesting facts behind this tropical biome.\n
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\nNative American Indian Cultures\n

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\nExtensive listing of the Native American Indian Cultures from Mexico and various parts of South America. Click on an Indian culture and obtain valuable information about each unique tribe.\n
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\nPbs Teachers:broom Forest: A Tall Trees Simulation\n

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\nExplore environmental factors of an area that affect a species' characteristics over time. Construct a \"broom\" tree, sketch support structures similar to those used by the tall Amazon trees and explain the limitations of such structures.\n
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\nLanguage Crossing: Geography of Ecuador\n

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\nFeatures a brief description of the geography of Ecuador including the Pacific Coast, highland, Amazon region and the Galapagos Islands.\n
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\nPbs Teachers: The Rainforest, Raw Materials, and You\n

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\nMap the world's rainforests and identify commonly used products made with materials that originated in rainforests. Determine whether or not the materials were harvested in a sustainable manner, and decide if that would affect your...\n
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\nPbs Teachers:levels of Life: Interrelationships in the Rainforest\n

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\nResearch a plant or animal from the rainforest, identify its physical location within the rainforest and contribute information about that organism to a group project on rainforest habitats.\n
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\nLanguage Crossing: Geography of Bolivia\n

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\nFeatures a brief description of the geography of Bolivia including the Andean highlands and the tropical lowlands.\n
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\nLanguage Crossing: Climate of Peru\n

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\nA concise summary of the climate of Peru, breaking it down into the country's regions- the coast, highlands and jungle.\n
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\nNpr: Lake Titicaca Civilization\n

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\nAnthropologists have found evidence of civilization in Peru and Bolivia much earlier than previously thought. Here's a short report on their work around Lake Titicaca.\n
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\nUnesco: Brazil: Central Amazon Conservation Complex\n

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\nThe Central Amazon Conservation Complex makes up the largest protected area in the Amazon Basin (over 6 million hectares) and is one of the planet’s richest regions in terms of biodiversity. It also includes an important sample of varzea...\n
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\nEducational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South America (Physical), 1915\n

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\nPhysical map of South America showing major cities (including cities with a population over one million), major landforms and waterways, including the Andes, the Amazon River and Amazon Basin, the Guyana Highlands, the Parana River, the...\n
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\nEducational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Drawing of South America, 1872\n

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\nA base map from 1872 illustrating instructions for drawing South America. The map shows the equator, major rivers, mountain systems, and includes two east-west cross-sections showing the central and southern Amazon Basin and Andes.\n
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