Click for enlarged map
Address: B. Everett Jordan Elementary School
5827 Church Rd.
Graham, NC 27253
Tel: (910) 376-3673
Fax: (910) 376-6243

BE Jordan Homepage


B. Everett Jordan Elementary School


Teachers participating in Outreach Program:

Larry Conte

Second grade teacher (ages 6 - 8)

Kevin Biles

5th grade teacher (ages 10 - 12), B.E. Jordan webmaster and coach

Please note and be generous:

B.E. Jordan Elementary School students produce a television program based on activities in the school and air it on classroom TV's. This program has been a great success over the last eight years. Parents are very supportive and get involved in building and maintaining the studio.

In order to continue growing and developing new methods of producing this program BE Jordan Elementary school needs your donations of working TV program production equipment. They need VHS editing machines, since they currently run the footage directly from their camera. An additional Hi8 camera that is light and easy for young kids to handle. They also need additional funding, or guidance in writing grant proposals. Your help and commitment will secure this well designed learning program that has an established history.

Please call the school if you can help

Kevin Biles, 5th grade teacher looks on as Flora Lu, a UNC-CH PhD candidate in Anthropology begins her presentation on the Huaorani Indians of Ecuador.
Students carefully look over a Huaorani spear and are amazed at how heavy this spear made out of palm wood really is.



May 14, 1996

University Center for International Studies Outreach Program






8:45 - 10:00

10:05 - 11:00

11:05 - 12:15

Three periods of informative presentation on the indigenous people of the Amazon basin and various issues relating to ecology, culture, and modern methods encroaching on traditional hunter/gatherer societies.

A look at the difficulties that oil pumping and boom towns create for indigenous people in the Orianca region of Ecuador.





Hitting a large balloon with a small dart is not a problem for these students.
Flora Lu carefully instructing 5th grade students in the use of a scaled down blowgun made by the Huaorani people and used by their children in play.

Students were very interested in the ecology and the various issues relating to the Amazon basin.
Many interesting suggestions on what we can do at home to help save these endangered people and their ecological niche. Since Ecuador relies heavily on oil royalties for its national budget than substituting tourism and saving gasoline would help a bit. But ultimately its best to help the people there learn how to help themselfs in these changing circumstances.