Google Earth: Surui Cultural Map

Use Google Earth to complete one the following options.

Option #1:

Go to Google Earth and search the Earth Gallery for the "Trading Bows and Arrows to Laptops" tour.  Watch the Surui Tribe Tour.  Write two paragraphs that compare and contrast the experience of the Surui people with the experience of the Native Americans in the United States.

The Dakota People near Fort Snelling, Minnesota (1846).

Option #2:

 Follow this link and download the Surui Cultural Map KML file.
Surui KML File

 Go to Google Earth and open the KML file.  Explore the Surui Cultural Map and take notes on these topics; First Contact, History, Battles, Animals and Plants.

Imagine that you have been hired to help the Surui design an ecotourism project.  Write three paragraphs to include in a travel brochure that tells potential tourists what they will see, do and learn during their visit to the Surui tribe's rainforest home.

How Stuff Works: Carbon Trade Projects

Follow this link and read about Carbon Trade Projects.

How Stuff Works: Carbon Trade Projects

 

1.  How does a carbon trade project work?

2.  Why do some environmentalists question the validity of carbon trade programs?

3.  What do you think are the costs and benefits of the Surui Carbon Project?

Trading Bows & Arrows for Laptops

Watch the video "Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops" and respond to the following questions.  If you can not view the embedded video clip, follow the link below to my home page and scroll down to view the video.

Trading Bows and Arrows

1.  The Surui are using smart phones to monitor the biodiversity of their forest,
     their borders and the carbon produced by their trees.  Why do you think
     that indigenous tribes like the Surui play such a significant role in holding
     back deforestation?

2.  In what ways are maps an expression of culture?

Amazon Tribe Teams Up with Google

How an Amazon Tribe Used Google To Save Their Land
Follow the link above and learn how Brazil's Suuri tribe teamed up with Google to help save their native land in the Amazon rainforest. (Readers Digest, March 2012)

  What do you think Chief Almir meant by these quotes?

    1.   "The time has come to put down the bows and arrows and pick up the laptop."
 
    2.  "Training and education is now our kind of war."

Time Magazine: Sandy Ends the Silence

http://business.time.com/2012/11/07/hurricane-sandy-and-climate-change/#

"Sandy was a blunt reminder that the technical term for people affected by climate change is people.  It's an environmental issue, a security issue and, yes, an economic issue."

Follow the link and read the entire article.  According to this Time Magazine article...

1.  What kind of progress has been made on this issue in the last four years?

2.  What type of action is still needed?

3.  Explain why climate change is a security issue and an economic issue.

Wikipedia: Global Warming

 Follow this link to Wikipedia and read about global warming.  Keep in mind that Wikipedia is created, edited and updated continuously by experts from around the world in the field of climate change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming


 

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.^[3][4][5][6] These findings are recognized by the national science academies of all major industrialized nations."^[7][A]

1.  Summarize the conclusions of the statement above in your own words.

2.  Spend some time reading the content of this article and view the various
     graphics and charts.

3.  Scroll through the article and read the section titled "Global Warming Controversy."
     Summarize the content of this section in your own words.

4.  Click on the "Talk" tab at the top of the page and read through the
    "Frequently Asked Questions"section.  Is there really a scientific
     consensus on Global Warming?

National Geographic: Global Warming

Bring up the topic of global warming, and you may find yourself in the middle of a "heated" conversation.  Why is this considered such a controversial topic?  Follow this link to the National Geographic web site to get reliable, factual information on this topic. 

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/#

1.  What are two things you learned from this site?

2.  What are two questions that you still have about global warming?