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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Finding Food in the Amazon

For Teachers 5th
In this activity, the students will investigate a variety of plants and animals common to the Amazon through research. They will determine the plant or animal characteristics that make them edible or useful for the trip and learn to...
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Other

Environmental Defense Fund: Chico Mendes: A Living Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a brief description of Mendes and a picture. There are also articles on Mendes and the changes he was able to bring about due to his environmental activism. A slide show with pictures of Mendes and the rubber tappers is available as...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Biomes

For Students 2nd - 6th
Discover the hidden treasures in the different habitats on the earth! The earth is filled with many biomes. Examples of different biomes are listed and include hyperlinks to additional information such as the animals found there.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Unit 9: Biodiversity Decline

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive learning module on biodiversity and its decline. It looks at ways biodiversity is threatened, the possibility of another mass extinction, the causes and consequences of habitat loss, factors that drive biodiversity...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 2: Los Animales

For Students 9th - 10th
In this second unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about conservation, rainforests, national parks, and animals in Spanish-speaking countries. They will speak and write about animals using vocabulary to describe and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Taking a Stand

For Students 9th - 10th
The Baka are a semi-nomadic forest people who live in the republic of Cameroon in central Africa. In this video from Africa, the Baka men meet with a government official for help to protect their forest.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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]
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Globio

Glossopedia: Environments

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article defines "environment" as a collection of animals and plants in a specific landscape and climate. The concept of differing types of environments is introduced. The impact of humans on environments and all environments'...
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Other

Greenpeace: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site about the Green Peace organization.
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Curated OER

Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge: Australia Rainforest

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides specific information about much of the Australian Rain Forest. Content ranges from the waterfalls to be found there to plants and wildlife.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
A really cool site showing Satellite (Landsat 7) images of unique geographical and meteorological phenomena. Images show cloud formations to rainforest devastation.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Jason: Tracking the Path of Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Rainforest at the Crossroads: Simulate the motion of an animal using a rectangular object placed at different positions on the floor. Then measure and graph the animal's coordinates, and examine its path.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Deforestation Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Looking through the window poem; Students will learn about deforestation, and then in a poem explain how deforestation happens and what we can do to save the Rainforest.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Rivers & Streams of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site from The Evergreen Project that provides information about watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, when rivers run into the ocean, longest rivers of the world and much more. There are also other sections of this site that...
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Palm Oil, You, Me & Orangutans

For Students 9th - 10th
By completing the tasks, students will learn about the uses of the rainforest, what Palm Oil is, and where it is produced.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Frog Riddle?

For Students 9th - 10th
You're stranded in a rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need an antidote excreted by a certain species of frog. Unfortunately, only the female frog produces the antidote. The male and female look...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Jungle Jeopardy

For Students K - 1st
Try keeping a whole jungle ecosystem alive by making sure each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days. This game allows players to see how the different species of plants and animals in a rainforest depend on one...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Jungle Rangers

For Students K - 1st
Players head out to Borneo to explore the rainforest in this photo safari. Earn points by following clues to take pictures of specific plants and animals.
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Other

Blue Planet Biomes: World Climates

For Students 5th - 7th
Have you ever wondered why one area of the world is a desert, another a grassland, and another a rainforest? Why are there different forests and deserts, and why are there different types of life in each area? The answer is climate.
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American University

American University: Austria Timber Import Ban

For Students 9th - 10th
Cites an Austrian law that tried to limit tropical rainforest product imports through taxation and eco-labeling in order to slow the effects of deforestation due to export trade. The effort was met with so much economic opposition that...
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 6 2 14: Why Amazonian Butterflies Hover Over Turtles

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about the interesting and unusual relationship between butterflies and turtles in the Amazon rainforest.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lost in the Amazon

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The Lost in the Amazon curricular unit is a series of minds-on and hands-on engineering activities based in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Motivated by an adventurous theme, students discover, learn and apply a variety of skills....
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Other

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: For Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Many links to kid-friendly sites on birds and wildlife. You'll learn about saving rainforest animals, identifying different types of birds, taking action to help the environment, and more.

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