A hut in the hills above Banos
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1991
- Location
- Banos, Ecuador
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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- Ecuador: A land of climate diversity: In this lesson, students will create climate graphs and analyze photographs to investigate the various types of climate in Ecuador and the interactions between climate and human culture. The lesson plan is designed to be adapted to the study of various countries.
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In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
A small hut is nestled in the midst of lush vegetation on a hillside.
Even though Ecuador boasts many metropolitan cities with the most modern conveniences, many parts of the country remain quite rural. Most of the Quechua-speaking Andean Indians practice subsistence agriculture or raise a few sheep for wool to sell at market. In these indigenous enclaves, traditional language, religion, and customs live on.
