Culture
In classroom culture, what techniques students use to save information?
Taking notes on what the speaker is addressing.
Highlighting important key clues and information.
What was environments like in the past?
Community Blocks were tents, cabins or settlements, there were no streets instead paths full with foliage, animals, lakes, and rivers.
To get food , people would grow crops in mounds or hunt the local wild-life.
There was no trash, only recycling was allowed.
What is an abiotic factor?
Component/Changes that can effect living bio-organisms like
humidity, temperature, light, minerals and other resources
What is a diagram?
A drawing explaining whats going on using arrows.
What does culture mean?
the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
Who are the Tainos?
(Indigenous people from the carribean)
Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Cuba, Jamaica, and parts of the Bahamas.
We have roads, streets, infastructure and stores.
Houses are now primarly made out of artificial materials and communities are found in blocks down streets and roads
In-order to grow massive amounts of food or to hunt we need to get permission from an authority.
We have a world-wide communication line known as internet.
Trash/Waste is now a thing :(
What is a bog & wetland?
an environment that holds and filters groundwater creating safe aquatic environments for wild-life
Explain the purpose of a Venn Diagram
To compare, contrast, and to find similarities!
Define environment.
The surroundings people, animals and plants live in.
Who were the Lenape?
(indigenous people from eastern woodlands)
(e.w include: New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, NYC
Which kind of environment do we live in now?
City-Scape Urban Area
Tall trees that hangout around the coastlines of oceans that stabilize the substrate while filtering the water and providing safe homes for animals!
When conducting research, what should you always figure out first
Could you define habitat?
The natural home for a living-being, often shaped in a biome
What other indigenous tribes did we briefly talk about during this unit?
Tohono O’odham are the nation of people in this desert (Between the border of Arizona and Mexico)
Tanala means (indigenous people of the forest)
(Africa’s Remote Island located in Southwestern Indian Ocean)
How many years did it take for our environment to drastically change from 1500 - 2025 Do the math!
525 years for a drastic change in our culture, environment, and norms!
Name the two layers found in a rainforest
Canopy Layer: Cover from the trees keeps the environment cool and damp while providing homes for species that love to live the high life!
Forest Floor Layer: Damp wet floor filled with decaying leaves with fungi, insects, and scavengers recycling waste into nutrients to keep the canopy layer healthy
What does it mean to Paraphrase?
Express what you learn but using your own words!
What are Abiotic Factors?
Component/Changes that can effect living bio-organisms like
humidity, temperature, light, minerals and other resources.
What did most tribes pratice?
Farming
Crafting & Weaving
Strong Family Bonds
Caring for Nature
Upcycling & Recycling
What did we lose and what did we gain through the passage of time.
We lost certain languages, skillsets, environments, plants, animals, and cultures
We gained new value and appreciation for the past, and found solutions while adapting ways to recover what was lost. Learning to not replicate the mistakes and terrible actions.
True or False: Does the desert get rain?
True: During moonsoon season the desert recieves a rainstorm from November to March in the Southwest!
Name the questions we always have to answer.
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
How?
Explain the meaning behind Research
to look into a question, experiment, and find results that lead towards answering a question.