What Should We Do in Manaus?
We would like to thank everyone who voted and sent in comments last week. Almost half of you voted for us to spend time focusing on fishing. We look forward to learning more from the fishermen that we encounter and sharing what we learn with you in the coming week.
Next week we will reach Manaus. Manaus is the largest city in the Amazon Rainforest. Over 2 million people live there. We plan to spend two days in Manaus before we fly back to the United States. What would you like us to study while we are exploring this bustling city? Would you like us to go to the opera house, the visit the central market, or explore the rubber museum?
The Opera House was built in 1896. Most of the materials and artists that built the opera house came from Europe. It is supposed to be an amazing place to visit, and is an example of the wealth that the rubber boom brought to Manaus.
We have been told that the market has many types of fruits and medicinal plants from the forest, and you can purchase just about anything you need there. If would probably be an interesting place to visit.
If we visit the rubber museum we could study more about how rubber was harvested from the rubber trees during the rubber boom, and learn about how the rubber tappers and rubber barons lived.
Next week we will reach Manaus. Manaus is the largest city in the Amazon Rainforest. Over 2 million people live there. We plan to spend two days in Manaus before we fly back to the United States. What would you like us to study while we are exploring this bustling city? Would you like us to go to the opera house, the visit the central market, or explore the rubber museum?
The Opera House was built in 1896. Most of the materials and artists that built the opera house came from Europe. It is supposed to be an amazing place to visit, and is an example of the wealth that the rubber boom brought to Manaus.
We have been told that the market has many types of fruits and medicinal plants from the forest, and you can purchase just about anything you need there. If would probably be an interesting place to visit.
If we visit the rubber museum we could study more about how rubber was harvested from the rubber trees during the rubber boom, and learn about how the rubber tappers and rubber barons lived.
Comments
The rubber museum sounds interesting and intriguing...and a little random!
Posted by: Mrs. Lane's honor's class SHJH | May 5, 2008 1:34 PM
We think you should go to a rubber museum because it sounds super cool and full of information. You wrote about rubber in your Cultural Connections artical and we would like to learn more about the rubber trees!
Posted by: Mrs. Veeser 5M | May 5, 2008 2:07 PM
We think a rubber museum sounds very interesting and different!
Posted by: Mrs. D's class | May 5, 2008 2:50 PM
You should break into sub-teams, and cover each of these sights. They all sound very interesting!
Posted by: Carlie | May 5, 2008 10:58 PM
Teh Rubre maseam suands cuol becaz itz stechy stof taht makes it fuun!!! yay
Posted by: KyLE | May 6, 2008 8:46 AM
u guys should seperate to 2 groups but keep in touch so u don't get lost in a desperate jungle. When u seperate take videos and photos and stuff it'll be coolzzz.
Posted by: cobra | May 6, 2008 1:18 PM
I think you guys should hike down to the Rubber Museum because it sounds fun and interesting and might give you a little laugh!! :)
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Posted by: Chode | May 6, 2008 1:20 PM
I thought that would be very intereting to see since we don't have them in Chicago but we use many rubber products here.
Posted by: dezjha | May 6, 2008 2:18 PM
I've never heard of a rubber museum, it would be cool to see one on a video!! It sounds like you had fun writing about rubber trees!! Maybe seeing a rubber museum in person would be interesting. I know I found it interesting reading about the rubber boom.
Posted by: Mrs. Veeser 5T | May 7, 2008 2:08 PM
I have never heard of a rubber musuem
Posted by: aj | May 7, 2008 7:56 PM
I think you should shop for unusual trinkets.
Posted by: Ben Price | May 8, 2008 11:54 AM
RubbeR sounds KeWl to mE
Posted by: gimme | May 8, 2008 11:59 AM
A rubber museum sounds awesome. U should chack that out dawg
Posted by: Sam | May 8, 2008 12:04 PM
I think you should go to the rubber museum because it would probably show you how much rubber impacts our lives. You could also see how difficult to is to harvest natural rubber. Or you could see if when they melt the sap into rubber if it is harmful to the envirenment.
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Quinn
Posted by: Quinn | May 8, 2008 5:25 PM
I think the central market would be a great place to visit so you could learn the products they sell in the amazon.
Posted by: Sam | May 8, 2008 7:11 PM
I want the team to go to the rubber museum since it probably has more history than the other places. It sounds fun too!
One reason I like it is because the way they made things back then is very diffrent from the way we do things now. Like the transportation is not the same. There are big ships to take things from one place to another. Then they had little canoes. The people now get paid way more than the people back then too. Also there are better tools for getting the rubber. I think it was maybe hard to get it off of the trees.
You can also learn more there than you can at the other places. The enviornment probably has more history than others because the trees might have been there frist. Speaking of the trees you can get taught a lot about them I think. You can learn stuff about the river and perhaps what kind of animals live in it or something.
The lives of the tappers were really bad. They had to do more than 100 trees. That is a lot of work for just one person. As I said they got paid very little money. They deserved more! The tappers had to work a long time. They must have been really tired!
The rubber museum would be an interesting place to visit. You would learn a lot of exciting facts. I think it is the best place out of the three. Hope you go there!
Posted by: Mrs. Veeser 5V | May 9, 2008 9:28 AM