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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.
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Read Works: Rain Forest Rescue
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and how Brazil is trying to protect it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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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.
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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.
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Rainforests
An experienced teacher provides information and ideas for rain forest lessons.
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...
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Strata of the Rain Forest
This resource features a hand drawn picture of the layers of the rain forest. This brief but descriptive resource which will give younger students a visual picture of the living conditions in each layer.
PBS
Newton's Apple: Teacher Guide: Rain Forest Plants
In this activity, young scholars will be creating rain forest plants visually by using cardboard, tree branches, clay, and other materials. Activity begins with a description of plants found in the rain forest. Lesson also includes...
California Institute of Technology
Learning About Rainforests
Learn about rainforests with this lesson that includes facts, quizzes, movies, and more.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Great Explorations Rainforests
Fun family project relating to rainforests.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Fish in the Trees
The Amazon River rises each year from December to May, forcing fish to flow through the tops of trees. Learn how satellites and technology track the rising and fall of the Amazon River and how this affects the rain forest.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Exploring the Environment: Tropical Poison
An educational module on biodiversity, economic growth, and medical research in rainforests. This can be used by students or teachers. It has a huge amount of information on agriculture, biodiversity, medicinal plants, animals, and more.
Globio
Glossopedia: Tropical Rainforests
Tropical rainforests are found along the Earth's equator. They possess a very special climate and are an integral part of the planet's natural system. Climate, plant and animal life, and indigenous peoples are discussed. Additionally,...
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Read Works: The Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read and/or listen to the following paired texts on the subject of the Rain Forest. Use the guided question set to assess students understanding of the topic. Students can write their answers, respond...
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Rain Forest Adventures
Ecotourism company that provides canopy tours at four unique tropical locations in the Caribbean and Central America.
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Passport to Knowledge: Passport to the Rain Forest
Follow in Darwin's footsteps to the heart of our planet's largest rainforest, guided by some of the world's leading biologists. Content uses pictures, video, real-time interactions, and activities, to fully explore the rain forest from...
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Ecotrust: Temperate Rain Forest People and Places [Pdf]
This site from Ecotrust has information on the people and history of the Northwestern American coastal temperate rain forest.(California to Alaska) Find out about the history of this specific temperate rain forest, and the people it has...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Why Save the Rain Forest?
Here you can find a general overview of the importance of the rain forest, and why it needs "saving." A student activity and teacher's lesson plan is also included.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: All About Rainforests
Basic information on the rainforests include a definition, the strata, the animals, their location, rainfall, temperature and importance. Content also includes animal printouts, quizzes, a puzzle, and math activities.
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.
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National Arbor Day Foundation: Rain Forest Rescue
Read about the amazing rainforest, songbird migration, and six things that you can do to help save the rainforest. You can even send a email postcard to your friends.
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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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