Historic seeds to learn the past and the future

Learn how to build literary narratives with the Portuguese teacher, by following our curriculum proposal, The Boy With Green Thumbs by Maurice Druon, and immerse into the history of a seed that is part of traditions of indigenous people who used to paint their bodies with urucum, the red seed described in the first Brazilian literary document, the Letter by the Portuguese Pero Vaz de Caminha. My seventh year of Elementary School students were able to discover the usefulness of the seed, collect some to plant and freely create drawings about the indigenous culture. These students had already participated in a project on Environmental Awareness in 2020 carried out in collaboration with a teacher from India (link below). Due the pandemic, we decided to continue the project in 2022. The eco bags were created for a campaign to reduce plastic bags in our community and it was pre-selected as one of the Transforming Teachers Projects in Brazil (fingers crossed!). So we took advantage of these material. Let's recycle the idea again and practice the English language! https://english-summer-camp.webnode.com/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsITqBvAvLk

"Some brought green hedgehogs, from trees, which, in color, wanted to look like chestnut trees, although smaller. And they were filled with small red grains, which, crushing them between the fingers,

they made a very red dye, which they were dyed with. And the more they got wet, the redder they got."

Pero Vaz de Caminha Letter  - May 1st, 1500