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Grade 8 GE activity: THIS IS HOME

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Lesson Summary

  • Students will reflect on their community to better understand their own lifestyle.
  • Students will learn about different lifestyle using the Google Earth Voyager Story, This is Home.
  • Student will explore the various aspects of life and will gather information about life in the selected location.
  • Students will then use this information to compare and contrast the way their community lives with a community in another part of the world.
  • Students will identify similarities and differences between their lifestyles and the lifestyles of people living in another part of the world.
  • Students will apply their understanding of a different lifestyle by creating a journal entry written from the perspective of a student living in that community.
Question 1
1.

EXPLORE
Answer the following questions about your community.
Type the headings and answer the questions below the headings.

PEOPLE

Name of Tribe or Group:

LOCATION

Continent:
Country:
Region:
City/Town/Village:
Home (where do people typically live?)
Description of home:

FOOD

What is the common food:
Where does it come from?

WORK
What do people do for a living?

KIDS

Describe the school setting:
How do kids spend their free time?

CHALLENGES

What are the biggest challenges facing this community?

Question 2
2.

EXPLORE
Answer the following questions about a new community.
Type the headings and answer the questions below the headings.

PEOPLE

Name of Tribe or Group:

LOCATION

Continent:
Country:
Region:
City/Town/Village:
Home (where do people typically live?)
Description of home:

FOOD
What is the common food:
Where does it come from?

WORK
What do people do for a living?

KIDS
Describe the school setting:
How do kids spend their free time?

CHALLENGES
What are the biggest challenges facing this community?

Question 3
3.

ENGAGE
Use the information you have gathered about your community and a new community to identify similarities and differences between the two lifestyles.

Use the heading DIFFERENCES and list the differences.
Use the heading SIMILARITIES and list the similarities.