The Peoples of the Biomes

I was just putting my Inuit shelter and culture three-part cards back in my basket of Biome material from Waseca Biomes, when I realized that one of the sets from Oceania is the Maori people. It would have been nice if I remembered that when we were doing our Hawai'i class play in December!

So, I'm making some quick notes here as to which people are on which continent, and their biome. This is only one group of the Biomes cards; I'm not listing plant, invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, mammal here.

Biomes of the Continent Boxes

Complete Set of Biome Cards for the Continents - Elementary

Biomes of the Continent Labels

Biome Stamps

Antarctica - white

polar - researchers

Europe - red

polar - Saami
mountains - the Basque
grasslands - Ukrainians
wetlands - people of Amsterdam
temperate forest - people of the Black Forest

Africa - green

mountains - the Konso
grasslands - the Masai
wetlands - the fellah of the Nile Delta
tropical forest - the Efe pygmies
desert - the !Kung

Oceania - brown

mountains - the Maori people
grasslands - ranchers
wetlands - Aborigines of Ramingining
temperate forest - people of Sydney
tropical forest - Siawi people
desert - the people of Coober Pedy

South America - pink

mountains - the Quechua
grasslands - people of Uruguay
wetlands - people of the Pantanal
temperate forest - people of Santiago
tropical forest - Yanomani
desert - miners of the Atacama

Asia - yellow

polar - the Nenet
mountains - the Dolpo
grasslands - the Mongolians
wetlands - the Ma'dan
temperate forest - people of a commune
tropical forest - people of Bangkok
desert - people of the Thar

North America - orange

polar - the Inuit
mountains - Highland Maya people
grasslands - Iowa farm family
wetlands - Cajuns
temperate forest - the Amish
tropical forest - the Guna
desert - the Diné

The colored border around these cards matches the color coding of the continents as seen on the Montessori Colored Globe of the Continents.

These cards are for simple research for younger children or a jumping off point for older children. They are great for the third grade block on Shelters in Waldorf. I especially like to lay out all of the people (or plants or animals) for a biome around the world, and see the similarities and differences!

If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
by Giles Laroche

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