Scholastic
Scholastic: Research Starters: Rainforests
Find general information, research-topic ideas, glossary terms and numerous links on the rainforest.
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Rainforest Alliance Learning Site
The Rainforest Alliance Learning Site contains free conservation education materials with dynamic units that follow national standards for learning. On the site you will find stories, lesson plans, fact sheets, presentations, and...
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Temperate Rainforest: Ecology and Land Use
Use these resources to study the ecology of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest and issues surrounding its preservation.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Teaching Tropical Rainforest Biology
Explores the numerous benefits of teaching and learning about tropical rainforests, while addressing the bioethical and environmental concerns facing rainforests.
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Rainforest Action Network: Keep Us Wild: Orangutan Education Guide [Pdf]
Learn all about orangutans including traits, diet, and habitat, while also learning about Indonesia's rainforests. Find out how you can help preserve orangutan habitat by protecting rainforests!
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Rainforest Alliance: Lesson Plans on the Rainforest
A site for teachers aiming to teach very young children about the rainforest in Columbia. Very basic information about animals, vegetation, and more. Some resources available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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Living Rain Forest: The Rain Forest
A non-profit site supporting the rainforests of the world. Learn about the importance of rainforests, animals and plants, biodiversity, and how to support conservation. Colorful photos are included on the site.
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Passport to Knowledge: Passport to the Rainforest
Explore the Rainforest by learning about the geosystem and ecosystem. Meet researchers who share their journals and biographies about the rainforest. Teachers are given links to other resources as well as lesson plans.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Africa: Explore the Regions Rainforest
Explore African rainforests at this richly illustrated and informative site from PBS. Learn about the people, economy, and countries of these densely forested zones.
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Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance aims to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business practices, and consumer behavior.
abcteach
Abcteach: Make Your Room a Rainforest [Pdf]
Come and learn how to make your classroom into a rainforest. This site features pictures from an actual classroom and some suggestions for creating your own rainforest.
Scholastic
Scholastic: How Much Rain in a Rain Forest?
How can you figure out how much rain in a rain forest? This site provides an outline for a lesson plan that will answer this question. Students will have an opportunity to integrate math and science skills through this activity.
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Children's Tropical Forests: Rain Forest Facts
Read fact sheets about topics related to the rainforest: the physical environment, plants, animals, native people, its destruction, consequences of destruction, and ways to help.
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Australian Rainforest Wildlife
This commercial site explores the types of animals you can find in the Australian rainforest. Detail information is available down to the species level.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens Manu, Peru's Hidden Rainforest
Read about Peru's "hidden" rain forest-Manu. This site provides in-depth information about the flora and fauna of the region as well as conservation efforts and the history of the area. There are additional resources for the classroom...
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Monga Bay: Rainforests
A look at the world's rainforests, the wildlife, and indigenous people who inhabit them as well as the impact of nature and man on this fragile biome.
California Institute of Technology
Learning About Rainforests
Learn about rainforests with this lesson that includes facts, quizzes, movies, and more.
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Rainforest Alliance: Species Profiles
This resource has rain-forest species profiles for amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and plants. Each profile explains the organism's anatomy, habitat, diet, and threats.
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Rainforest Alliance: Online Rainforest Stories
Find out what it's like to live and work in the rainforest. This resource has several stories to choose from, some of which were written by children.
Read Works
Read Works: Welcome to a Tropical Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some animals that live in a tropical rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Secrets of the Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the rain forest and the important things that come from it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest O Logy Card
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information Dzanga-Sangha rainforest.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Rainforests
This resource offers a clear and concise picture of the rainforest biome. The content includes a look at the two different types of rainforests found in the world, animals that live in the rainforests, plants that grown in the rainforest...
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Australian Rainforest Wildlife: Rainforest Frogs
Here you can find information on the frogs found in the Australian rainforest. Select a species for a photo and more detail.