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Caves and Underground
For various reasons, mostly the heat and high temperatures, many civilizations build homes under the ground.
Have a look at the images, and select some different images to show in your Power Point about different homes.
Create a Presentation on one or more of the Following:
- Caves, Underground homes
- Water homes, house-boats, yachts, underwater homes
- Tents...Indians, Bedouins, arabs, snow tents, vacation tents
- Apartments on ships: The World
- Igloos, ice houses, snowy mountain homes,
- Tree Houses...tropics, holiday and designer homes
- Rural and country properties, farms and outdoors
- Living in space..Satellites, and rockets.
You may also use your own ideas of homes and houses....
Listening Activity: Building Houses that are healthier for people and the Planet
- A green house is the result of a movement to produce houses that are less harmful to the environment than other houses.
- Green houses are designed to be sustainable. Something that is sustainable provides people today with what they
need. But it does not use up or damage the natural resources that people will need in the future.
- Green houses use much less fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – for energy. The houses
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| Windows in a Glidehouse provide extra light | are placed on the land so the
sun warms them during cold months and is blocked during hot months.
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