Biodiversity plays vital roles in our everyday lives. A few of these roles include producing the air we breathe, the food we eat, the medicines we use and the inspiration we seek. Birds are one group of animals with much diversity. They are adapted to nearly every habitat on Earth including oceans, forests, grasslands and deserts. This great diversity of birds has a significant impact on human culture.
Culture includes the shared customary beliefs, practices and material goods of a group of people.
Procedure Write Human Cultures on the board. Divide the students into groups and ask them to brainstorm all the words that come to mind when they think of human cultures. Have a representative from each group list its ideas. Summarize these lists on the board. If the students need assistance, ask them to consider some aspects of human cultures such as languages, rituals and material goods.