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Rainforest Action Network: Rainforest Heroes
This grassroots program offers a fascinating site designed to educate students around the world about rain forests.
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Rainforest Action Network: Rainforest Heroes
This grassroots program offers a fascinating site designed to educate students around the world about rain forests.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Geography: Places: Amazing Amazon
Describes the rich flora and fauna of the Amazon rainforest and the characteristics of the different layers of vegetation from the forest floor up to the canopy.
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Rain Forest Animals
Several activities to incorporate into your Rain Forest unit. This site does not focus only on animals.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:levels of Life: Interrelationships in the Rainforest
Research a plant or animal from the rainforest, identify its physical location within the rainforest and contribute information about that organism to a group project on rainforest habitats.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Plants
Site offers information about tropical rainforest plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Animals
Site provides information on tropical rain forest animals and animal adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
Other
Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations: All About Rainforests [Pdf]
Use this guide and your imagination to take a trip to the rainforest.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kindergarten Explores the Rainforest
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Rain Forest flipchart contains a KWL chart, layers, and math activities. There are two links to websites. One is for math and the skills cover several grades. The other links to video, sound, and...
Other
Children's Tropical Forests
This children's resource provides a variety of fact sheets, maps, news, and more about the world's tropical rainforests.
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Rainforest Alliance: Tropical Forests in Our Daily Lives
The tropical forests of the world are the source of numerous products we depend on every day. Find out why they are so beneficial and the action you can take to conserve them.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Palm Oil, You, Me & Orangutans
By completing the tasks, students will learn about the uses of the rainforest, what Palm Oil is, and where it is produced.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Shrinking Forest Growing Problem
In this learning module, students will examine images of Brazil's Amazon rainforests that were captured by satellites between 1994-1996, to observe and measure the impact of deforestation over time. A download of a public domain software...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Invasion of the Modern World
Loggers steal trees from the rainforest of Cameroon, one of Earth's oldest living ecosystems, in this video segment from Africa.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments
A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these,...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Welcome to the Dzanga Sangha
Explore the Dzanga Sangha rain forest, located in the Central African Republic. Learn what researchers who have traveled there have to say about the habitat. Also play a connect-the-dots game that lets players see how different organisms...
PBS
Pbs Online: Journey Into Amazonia's Powerful Plants
This site from PBS Online explores the useful plants of the Amazon valley from the rain forest Amazonia. Content highlights a variety of selected plants: Astrocaryum aculeatum Meyer, Bactris gasipaes, Hevea brasiliensis, Oenocarpus...
PBS
Pbs: Journey Into Amazonia
This is a great site where you can explore the Amazon Rain Forest. Learn about the river, plants, animals, and more. Based on the PBS television series.
Eduweb
Eduweb: Amazon Interactive
Games and activities help students explore the Ecuadorian Amazon. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home, and experiment with running a community-based ecotourism project along the Rio Napo.
Other
Chico Mendes, the Forest Man
An intriguing website that provides a biography of Mendes as well as interviews, a photograph, and video of Mendes speaking about the preservation of the rain forest.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies
This video segment from ZOOM compares and contrasts the habitat and life forms found in Death Valley with those found in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. [3:46]