BRAZIL: Exploring the Culture of Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest SUPER-Bundle

Take an in-depth look at the symbols, language, geography, art, and rainforest ecosystem of Brazil—at a savings of 25%—with the books, activities, and posters in the Exploring the Culture of Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest SUPER-Bundle.

Book Resources Included:

• Snapshots of Brazil introduces the location, national flag, cultural symbols, and landmarks of France, along with common phrases in Portuguese.
• Introduce the official language with Learn to Count in Portuguese, a book that features fun facts, traceable number words, and a writing activity.
• Follow-up with Our Colorful World in Portuguese, a mini coloring book that highlights native animals of the Amazon and includes a color chart.

Cross-Curricular Activities Included:

• Animal Classes of the Amazon highlights the six major animal classes with a cut-and-glue puzzle and pairs with the Animal Classes Poster (described below).
• Birds of the World: Toucan describes the unique characteristics of the toucan in a Read and Color format.
• Layers of the Rainforest uses cut-and-glue illustrations to match animals that live in each layer of the rainforest.
• Mapping Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest develops critical thinking skills with interactive written directions.

Posters Included:

• Animal Classes of the Amazon features six animals—one for each major animal class—that live in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Life in the Layers illustrates the four layers of the rainforest with two animals that live in each level.
• Symbols of Brazil is an 11 x 17 inch poster that illustrates six cultural symbols with colorful photographs.

Teacher Resource Included:

• Portuguese Language Guide gives a quick overview, including phonetic pronunciations, of common phrases, color names and numbers 1-10.

Bonus Resource Included:

• The National Flag of Brazil features fun facts facts about the symbols on Brazil’s flag.

Portuguese Words and Phrases: (includes phonetic pronunciations)

não (no), obrigado (thank you), olá (hello), por favor (please), sim (yes), tchau (goodbye), plus number and color words

Additional Vocabulary Words and Phrases:

• ACTIVITIES: bill, canopy, damp, emergent, forest floor, piranha, rhinoceros beetle, river dolphin, shelter, species, tributary, understory
• LANGUAGE BOOKS: acai, ancient, Blue Morpho, boa constrictor, canopy, freshwater, dorsal, Giant Anteater, harbor, international, native, pedestal, piranha, plentiful, poison dart frog, Portugal, rhombus, river dolphin, Seven Wonders, species, tournament, wingspan, World Cup
• SNAPSHOTS BOOK: acai, Amazon, Carnaval, elaborate, emergent, flea frog, globe, jaguar, Portuguese, rainforest, Rio de Janeiro, Seven Wonders, South America, World Cup

Targeted Skills:

• Promoting respect and appreciation for cultural differences
• Identifying national and cultural symbols of Brazil
• Reading and writing Portuguese number and color words
• Following written directions
• Reading a map
• Using a compass rose to locate places on a map
• Identifying animals in six major animal classes
• Identifying the levels in a rainforest ecosystem
• Critical thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, and analysis
• Building content-area literacy in social studies
• Reading fluency and comprehension

Sample Pages: Please see the preview for sample pages from the bundle. To view additional images, click on the individual thumbnails shown above.

Image Credits: Like all of my resources, this pack features realistic illustrations and real-life photographs. The illustrations in the books and activities are my own original drawings (©Dr.J). The photos come from a variety of sources, including copyright-free images, copyrighted images licensed under the Creative Commons, and copyrighted images that I have purchased for commercial use. Please see the Image Credits Page, included with the Activity Pack, for a detailed list of image sources.

Technical Info: The files are in PDF format. The Activity Pack PDFs, as well as the language books and teacher’s guide, are combined into zip files.

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RELATED RESOURCES:

• Let’s Explore the Continent of SOUTH AMERICA PowerPoint
• LIFE IN THE RAINFOREST
• SEVEN WONDERS of the Modern World
• Teaching with TOOBS®: RAINFOREST
• The SEVEN CONTINENTS Activity Book

ADDITIONAL COUNTRY AND LANGUAGE RESOURCES IN THE COUNTRIES AND CULTURES SERIES:

• AFRICA: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
• ASIA/MIDDLE EAST: China, India, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam
• AUSTRALIA: Australia, New Zealand
• EUROPE: France, Germany, Greece, Ireland (FREE), Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom
• NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS: Cherokee, Chippewa, Comanche, Iroquois, Navajo, Pacific Northwest nations, Pueblo nations, Shoshone, Sioux
• NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States
• SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Peru

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