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.
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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Missouri Botanical Garden: Education: Exploring the Tropics
Extensive information about tropical forests, including the plants, animals, and people found there. Also covers adaptations, biodiversity, economic benefits of tropical rain forests, and threats to their survival.
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Children's Tropical Forests
This children's resource provides a variety of fact sheets, maps, news, and more about the world's tropical rainforests.
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Endangered Ecosystems: Costa Rican Caterpillars
Go on a mission to Costa Rica and Mexico, and explore the state of tropical rain forest ecosystems by examining Costa Rican caterpillars. Learn what the change in this animal's population means for the rest of the ecosystem.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Jason: Tropical Forests Cleaning the Air?
Rainforests at the Crossroads: Measure the CO2 level in a bottle that contains spinach leaves when it is exposed to light. Then collect CO2 data and observe the effects of photosynthesis as you add leaves in the bottle.
Scholastic
Scholastic Explorers: Endangered Ecosystems
A great site with something for all grades. Do research on rainforests, follow field research on animals in Latin America, and show what you know through interactive assessments. Lots to see on this site which is a collaboration of...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Research Starters: Rainforests
Find general information, research-topic ideas, glossary terms and numerous links on the rainforest.
Read Works
Read Works: Discover the Rain Forest!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Abcteach: Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides numerous links to facts, photos, information and activities all dealing with the rain forest. Teachers will find these links helpful in planning activities and lesson plans on the...
Read Works
Read Works: Animals of the Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the layers of the rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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...
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...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
This site has a lesson to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart covering the concepts and ideas required to understand ecosystems, with particular concentration on the tropical rain forest.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tropical Forests: Lesson 3
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of tropical forests, and its effect on living things. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Tropical Forests."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tropical Forests: Lesson 4
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of tropical forests, and its effect on living things. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Tropical Forests."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tropical Forests: Lesson 1
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of tropical forests, and its effect on living things. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Tropical Forests."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Tropical Forests: Lesson 2
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of tropical forests, and its effect on living things. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Tropical Forests."
Read Works
Read Works: Paradise Lost
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and some of the animals living there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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.