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Investigating Tropical Birds
Students investigate tropical birds. They write letters for rain forest preservation to protect tropical birds. They interview a bird professional from a local bird store or a zoo and discuss how to take care of a parrot. They use Kid...
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Perched Parrot Decorative Chair
Young scholars discuss the rainforests and why they are important to the Earth's environment. They study the habitats and characteristics of various animals that live in rainforests. Students build a decorative chair using a rainforest...
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Pop-Up Wildlife Mural
Students research life in a rainforest including plants, animals, insects, climate. They discover reasons for the importance of rainforests to the Earth's environment. Students work as a group to create a large 3-D rainforest scene that...
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Tree Top Canopy Field Trip
Students visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway. In this environmental lesson, students experience a coastal rain forest ecosystem. Students interact and explore the different layers of the rain forest.
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Introduction to the Amazon Rainforest
Middle schoolers decorate the hallways and their classrooms to represent different layers of the rainforest. In this Amazon rainforest lesson, students watch a slide show presentation to discover the Amazon rain forest of South...
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Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the Mbuti people hunting and gathering in the African rain forest by writing a story about a Mbuti hunting or gathering food.
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Rain Forest Reporters
Students work as magazine reporters to produce a print or multimedia magazine about rain forests.
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Rainforest TV
Students visit the Rainforest A.L.I.V.E. website. They explore the rainforest through this website and other resources. Using a digital camcorder and iMovie, they produce two- to four-minute movies about the rainforest.
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Verdi
Third graders explore language arts by answering study questions about a book they read. In this reading summary lesson, 3rd graders read the book Verdi by Janell Cannon and identify the plot, characters and sequence of the story....
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Imagination Express: Rain Forest
Fourth graders create a living book and present them to an audience.
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The Rainforest
Students discuss ways in which the rainforest can be preserved. In groups, they locate a major rainforest and list its benefits to the environment. They develop possible solutions as a class to help governments, industries and...
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Scrapping the Biomes
Fifth graders investigate biomes of the earth. In this biomes instructional activity, 5th graders explore eight different biomes which include the tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, grasslands, and taiga. They design an artistic...
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Amazon Rainforest Conservation, Brazil
Students explore rain forests. For this rain forest lesson, students participate in a "BioBlitz" of their schoolyard, observing and recording every living thing in a designated area. Students visit websites about rain forests to...
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Enduring Understanding
Fourth graders explore indigenous people of rainforest and examine their customs and ways of life. They discuss how rainforests should be protected not only for their plants and animals, but also for indigenous people who live in them,...
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Using Venn Diagrams to Compare Two Ecosystems
Young scholars explore the distribution of two ecosystems on a global scale; and map the distribution of tropical and temperate rain forests throughout the world. They use a Venn Diagram to describe these ecosystems and the differences...
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A Stomping Good Time: Using Found Instruments and Invented Rhythms to Make Beautiful Music
Students work in small groups to use everyday objects to create performances inspired by the work of STOMP. They create a system of notation to document the music and movement of a 2-minute performance.
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Amazon Rainforest: You Won't Find George in This Jungle
Learners identify locations of rainforests, compare/contrast layers of the rainforest, construct and interpret maps and graphs, recognize relationships between man and the environment, and write about an imaginary walk in the rainforest.
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Rain Forest Animals
Students create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an...
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Tropical Rain Forests
Fourth graders read a story about the Rain Forest, participate in a class discussion, and complete the Canopy picture match with poems.
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Amazon Rainforest Poster Project/Service Project
Young scholars make efforts to save the rainforests. For this environmental stewardship lesson, students discuss facts about the resources of the rainforests. Young scholars then create posters that encourage other to reduce their use of...
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Plant Life of the Rainforest
Students study pictures of tropical rainforests and discuss its stratified character. Students then work with a partner to make a scale drawing of the rainforest strata.
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Rainforest (Elementary, Social Studies)
Explore the rainforest with your class. Learners study the meaning of the word endangered, choose an animal to study, gather data, and discuss why the animal is in danger of extinction. This is a motivating way to have your class discuss...
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Amazon Rainforest
Seventh graders complete a simulation in which they travel through the Amazon rainforest. Using their map skills, they determine the best route and where to see specific plants and animals. They develop their own database to organize...
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Rainforest Animal Illustrations
Fourth graders discover what is meant by the term endangered species. After reading a book, they use a document camera to view pictures of each endangered species mentioned. In groups, they are assigned one animal by their teacher and...
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