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Shrinking Rainforests

For Students 6th - 10th
For this rainforests worksheet, students study satellite images and rainforest facts. They complete 8 short answer questions that follow.
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Saving the Rainforest One Plant at a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students can benefit from an exploration of the plants with medicinal properties found in the rainforest.
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Guetemala's Changing Forest

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare their local ecological zone to the tropical rainforest. In this natural ecology lesson, 8th graders complete an activity about the differences in ecological zones. They compare their biome to the Guatemalan...
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Rainforest Unit

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate the Rainforest. In this Rainforest lesson, students research magazines, journals and the Internet to create a "Save the Rainforest" slogan. Students will record local rainfall amounts and create a graph comparing...
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Rainforest Pamphlet

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read The Kapok Tree and write about the story.  In this rainforest story, students write a book in the genre of The Kapok Tree. Learners research their animals on the Internet and find facts about the importance of rainforest...
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Importance of the Rain Forest

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use the Internet to conduct a research project.  In this rain forest lesson, students work in groups to research different parts of the rain forest.  Students research climate, foods, house products and medicines.  Each group...
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The Rainforest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the characteristics of the rainforest.  In this rainforest lesson, students read stories about the rainforest and discuss them.  Students work in groups to brainstorm all the facts they know about the rainforest and then...
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Amazon Rainforest Conservation, Brazil

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore rain forests.  In this rain forest instructional activity, students participate in a "BioBlitz" of their schoolyard, observing and recording every living thing in a designated area.  Students visit websites about rain...
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Theme Map- The Rainforest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use graphic organizers to relate information. They read an article and insert information from the article to the theme map using a word processing program.
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Enduring Understanding

For Teachers 4th
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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U.S. And Global Deforestation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze graph showing global deforestation, view photograph of deforestation in Brazil's interior rain forest and examine three maps showing deforestation within the United States, describe political, economic, and social...
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Rainforest Relationships

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners provided with opportunities to explore the animals and plant life that coexist in the various layers of the tropical rainforest. They appreciate the diversity of life in each layer. Students write a report on a particular plant,...
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How Many Animals?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners use their math skills to develop estimates for the population of several animal species native to the Austrailian rainforest. It is a simulation that researchers at the Center for Rainforest Studies in Australia perform to...
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Rainforest Music

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine musical instruments used by the indigenous people of the rainforest, and analyze how music is used in their daily lives. They create a model, using natural materials, of a musical instrument used by indigenous...
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Chicago: The City in Art, 1995-2000

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine a mural of animals and talk about animal classification. They act as scientists and keep a record, called a Jungle Journal, of plants and animals they observe while studying the rainforest.
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RAINSTICKS

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a rainstick from recycled materials and begin learning about the "nature" of the rainforest.
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Rainforest

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine how important the rainforest and its resources are for our everyday survival in the future.
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Rainforest Wildlife

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate how living things depend on one another for food, shelter, and other needs. They create artwork depicting a variety of living things thriving in an interdependent rainforest environment. Students blend primary...
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Three Easy Steps To a Fungus Feast

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students discover the relationship between the leaf cutter ant and fungus. Students perform an investigation, following specific directions. Note: This investigation requires an ant colony of 700,000 ants, plus...
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Humans Leave Bob Bat Homeless!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students read an "interview" with a bat who has been displaced from his home in the rainforest. Using a word bank, students fill in 20 missing words from the script. Students then answer 10 questions about...
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Plants of the Rainforest

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners examine plants found in the rainforest, and discuss products that come from rainforest plants. They examine books about rainforest plants, list foods they have eaten that come from the rainforest, and have a rainforest party.
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Rainforest Biome

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students view a video, listen to the Great Kapok Tree and navigate the way to find information of Rainforests.  In this biome lesson, students design models of the layers of the rainforest. 
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Rain Stick

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a rain stick.  In this rain stick lesson, students construct their rain stick using a cardboard tube, stickpins, a cup of rice, and decorative paper.  Students follow given instructions and listen to sounds from the...
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Rainforest Introduction

For Teachers 1st
First graders create parrots and butterflies by using art materials to introduce them to rainforest animals. In this art lesson plan, 1st graders then use these animals to create a class rainforest.