About This Lesson
In this inquiry based lesson, teachers will use the Voyager Story I am Roots as one source of information for students to consider in this inquiry investigation. Teachers can also use the map feature of Google Earth to show students where the Amazon Rainforest is located and the nine countries that it reaches.
• Teachers will present students with the inquiry, does contact with the outside world help or hurt previously uncontacted people?
• Teachers will introduce 2 or more sources of information on the topic of uncontacted people living in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Students will work to identify and classify evidence from each source in one of two categories: “help” or “hurt.”
• After reviewing the evidence, students will form a hypothesis that they will share with the class.
• With each new source of information, students will add to their evidence chart and make adjustments to their hypothesis.
• Finally, students will write an argument essay using their final hypothesis as the claim and referring to specific evidence from the sources used.
