[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about protecting the rainforest and the animals that live there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using a bank of 60 vocabulary words pertaining to Tropical Rain Forests. It also provides an extensive word list and ideas for lesson plans on the topic.

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.

Temperate forests cover much of the Earth. Temperate forest ecology is described as well as the importance to all animal and plant health. Human impact on temperate forests around the world is discussed.

General information on the temperate rain forest of the Olympic National Forest. Click on topics on the left to find out about the plants and animals in a temperate rain forest.

In this interactive activity from the American Museum of Natural History, play "connect the dots" and discover the connections between the people, animals, and plants in three habitats of the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest in the Central...

This site explores the value and diversity of tropical rain forests. Learn about the rate of decline of these natural wonders, the causes of deforestation, and more.

An introduction and overview of the tropical forest, or rainforest, habitat. Includes a link to information about what lives in a tropical rainforest.

Use these resources to study the ecology of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest and issues surrounding its preservation.

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...

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.

Learn all about the Tropical Rainforest biome. Learn where rainforests are found, what defines a rainforest, layers in the rainforest, and plants and animals of the rainforest. See 2 videos about the rainforest.

What are the causes and effects of acid rain in our environment? To learn more about this serious environmental issue check out this website. Contains a page with several acid rain activities for students.

This grassroots program offers a fascinating site designed to educate students around the world about rain forests.

This grassroots program offers a fascinating site designed to educate students around the world about rain forests.

[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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the disappearing Amazon rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the causes and effects of the decreasing rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Article explains the power of acid rain. Acid rain dissolves forest nutrients faster than previously thought.

This article examines information on both the rain forest biome and creatures of the rain forest. Topics covered include "puddle club," butterflies, vertebrate predators, and more.

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.

This review was formulated to offer recommendations to the United States Agency on International Development concerning global development practices with regard to deforestation activities. It suggests that satellite mapping of tropical...

This children's resource provides a variety of fact sheets, maps, news, and more about the world's tropical rainforests.