Indigenous Amazon Tribes | Geographic Alliance of Iowa

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In Indigenous Amazon Tribes created by Joe Nekvinda of Wayne High School, students from grades nine through twelve will learn about the the few isolated tribes still in exisence. Through discussion and research, students will take a side to decide whether these tribes should be "helped" or if they should be left alone.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Political Science

Economics

Theme

Population

Economic

Cultural/Social

Political

Region

Latin America

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Region

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards for Literature (RL)

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (WHST)

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

2. How to use mental maps to organize information about people places, and environments in a spatial context

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth's surface

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

BS 5. Understand how social status, social groups, social change, and social institutions influence individual and group behaviors

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 3. Understand how human factors and the distribution of resources affect the development of society and the movement of populations

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space

HI 8. Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues