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Homes around the World

Global Citizens Discovery Series •

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What do you WONDER about Homes Around the World

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What do you KNOW about Homes Around the World

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What do you think all homes have in common?

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There are THINGS (criteria) that impact what homes look like in the world…

What do you think they are?

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  • Available tools
  • Climate/weather
  • Available materials to use
  • Culture
  • Money/wealth

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Homes around the World

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People have not always lived in permanent homes. How do you think people lived “WAY BACK IN THE DAY?”

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http://www.kidcyber.com.au/houses-around-the-world/

Long ago

People lived in:

  • Caves
  • Animal Skin tents
  • Yurts (Gers)

People who moved often were called Nomads

Question: Why would people live in temporary houses? (houses that can move)

Made of felt/wool/wood

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Yurts often have a hole in the roof. Why?

Yurts often have a cover they keep over the hole. Why?

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/houses-around-the-world/

What does a YURT remind you of?

Why might it look the way it does?

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http://www.kidcyber.com.au/houses-around-the-world/

Permanent homes called Tulou (too-low)

have been made in China since the 1300’s

  • Mud walls, wood roofs, one entrance
  • Families gather, cook, do laundry, and kids play all in center
  • No windows on outside; protected them from outsiders
  • Some people live in these today in the mountside areas of China.

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Tulou

(too-low)

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Let’s take

a look

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HERE &

HERE

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Underground

Homes:

Coober Pedy

(Southern Outback, Australia)

Let’s take

a look

HERE

&

HERE

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Some places have homes made of mud or brick. Why do you think they have homes like this?

Do you think this house is closer to the equator or poles?

What do you see missing on the outside?

Where do people sleep?

Why do the animals sleep inside with the people?

Tata house

Image from http://mmb.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/homepages/ubcg60a/ghana/art.html

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These homes are made of “Dagga” which is clay, fiber, crushed stone. Sometimes there is also pigments, lime, casein, prickly pear cactus juice, manure, and linseed oil.

People painted symbols of freedom on their home to show their strength and stand up against those who bullied them. (The bullies didn’t know what the symbols meant).

Many people live in homes like this today, in rural Zimbabwe.

Many “homes” have several huts. This is a cooking hut.

Dagga house- Zimbabwe

Picture provided by Global Educator in Zimbabwe

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What kind of house would you like to live in someday?

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What materials are available where you live that could make a home?