Family and Friends
-Lesson 3 Continued
Overview:
Sharpen the focus to the lives of the people. After having come to a
roughly sketched understanding of the geographical demands and characteristics of the
Khumbu region and persons, begin to look at the lives of the yak herders.
Teaching Level
- K-7 regular and ESL, vary criteria and resource materials for your group
Connection to Oregon Content Standards
Connection to National Geography
Standards
- Standards 11 patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface
Materials
- Maps
- Books, posters, video, slides
- Teacher background link to Barbara Brower, Sherpa O f Khumbu, text on homes Pages
48-51
- Material World
- supplies from previous lessons may need to be refreshed
Objectives
Students are expected to:
- Acquire
- Identify
- Make generalizations
Procedure-
"What do you need to live in a house with no electricity and no running
water?"
- Using chart paper record student responses to the question, accepting all responses. All
charts should be displayed in the classroom.
- Allow students to make these items and add them to their houses in or outside.
Again it is important to allow students to
experience the problem and experiment before information is given.
- When students ask about Sherpa solutions to the problems of cooking, cleaning, keeping
warm, getting water, and yes taking care of human waste, provide pictures in books and
slides. See resources.
- Discussions. Use Material World, a book which features photos of families from
over fifty countries around the globe standing inn front of their dwellings with all of
their material possessions displayed in their yards. Work from these pictures using what
geographic information the children have to predict what things a typical Sherpa house
might contain. Show slides of inside a Sherpa house and compare.
Concluding the Lesson: Go visiting. Have students prepare a tour of their homes for
guests. The criteria for this presentation will necessitate research and organization of
information. Guests will want to know:
- How you cook, clean.
- What you do for entertainment.
- Where you sleep, eat, play and store things.
- Guests will want to know where you got what you have.
Extending the Lesson-Students could draw pictures of their possessions, label
them and tell where the item or the materials came from to make the item. This could be in
the form of a catalog or a "yard" picture as in Material World. These
could be mounted and kept for the "topic book".
Assessing Students Learning-
Make a list, either catalog pictures or words of the Items in your house
Keep students’ home tour information and catalogue for inclusion in their topic
books.