Read Works
Read Works: High Jumpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Rainforest Alliance: Species Profiles
This resource has rain-forest species profiles for amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and plants. Each profile explains the organism's anatomy, habitat, diet, and threats.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Olympic National Park: Temperate Rain Forests
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.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Dung Beetle Derby
A strategy game where students build walls and ramps in the rainforest, so they can help the dung beetles roll away the balls of dung.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Types of Climates
Discover a few types of climates found on the earth like rain forests and deserts.
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Rain Forest Animals
Several activities to incorporate into your Rain Forest unit. This site does not focus only on animals.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: The Great Kapok Tree (Lesson Plan)
Help your students develop an understanding of a rain forest ecosystem and the environment through this social studies lesson.
Other
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...
Other
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...
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."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kindergarten Explores the Rainforest
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Rain Forest flipchart contains a KWL chart, layers, and math activities. There are two links to websites. One is for math and the skills cover several grades. The other links to video, sound, and...
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Rainforests
An experienced teacher provides information and ideas for rain forest lessons.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Plants
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with plants. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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.
Read Works
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...
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.
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.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Scientific Inquiry, Episode 2
A project where students research and learn about animals of the rainforest. Students then make mobiles displaying several different animal pictures and facts.