Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Amazon Rainforest Conservation, Brazil

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the concept of understanding the effects of disturbances in an environment.  In this life science lesson, students use the game Jenga to help capture the idea of environment disturbances.  Students discuss the...
Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Environment

For Parents 1st Standards
A fiction and nonfiction text, The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry and I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page begins a learning experience in...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover the global problem of deforestation. In this environmental instructional activity, students identify organizations on the quest to stop deforestation. Middle schoolers also discover what they can do to solve...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great Kapok Tree - Economic Impact of Deforestation

For Teachers K - 7th
Students read "The Great Kapok Tree" by Lynne Cherry. They, in groups, research the economic impacts of deforestation in areas with rain forest and identify resources that humans use from the rain forest.