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The Wild Classroom

The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Deciduous Forest Biome

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the Deciduous Temperate Forest biome. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
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Radford University: Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
Characteristics of the deciduous forest biome. Distribution, climate, soil, vegetation, and animals. Includes a map that shows where deciduous forests are located around the globe.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Temperate Deciduous Forest Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden, you will read about temperate deciduous forest animals. Then you can see graphics and read descriptions of some of these animals.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Temperate Deciduous Forest Topics

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can discover what the temperate deciduous forest is like, where it is located, and much more. There are links to other temperate forest sites also.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tree Identification: Compare and Contrast Deciduous and Evergreen Leaves

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners observe differences in tree leaves leading them to an understanding of the terms deciduous, evergreen, and coniferous. Children will compare and contrast leaves and then, viewing a chart key, use what they know to help them...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Temperate Deciduous Forest Animal Printouts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has many printouts of temperate deciduous forest animals and includes a sentence describing each animal.
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Curated OER

Deciduous Forest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
deciduous forest
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Curated OER

Temperate Deciduous Forests

For Students Pre-K - 1st
NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome and more.
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Curated OER

Temperate Deciduous Forests

For Students Pre-K - 1st
NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome and more.
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Curated OER

Thurston High School: Deciduous Forest Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
List of animals found in the deciduous forest biome. Includes photographs.
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Curated OER

Thurston High School: Deciduous Forest Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
List of animals found in the deciduous forest biome. Includes photographs.
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Curated OER

Thurston High School: The Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough description of the deciduous forest. Location map, climate, vegetation, and animals. Lots of photographs.
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Curated OER

Thurston High School: The Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough description of the deciduous forest. Location map, climate, vegetation, and animals. Lots of photographs.
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Curated OER

Thurston High School: The Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough description of the deciduous forest. Location map, climate, vegetation, and animals. Lots of photographs.
Graphic
Curated OER

Deciduous Forest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
deciduous forest
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Montreal Botanical Garden: Trees Inside Out

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource on trees, covering many topics, including growth, needs, diversity, and identification. There is a section profiling botanists who work at this arboretum, and another where the public can present questions to the...
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Other

Andy's Northern Ontario Wildflowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Listed on this page are some northern Ontario wildflowers that occur in the northern deciduous forest in Canada. Provided are descriptions and information about the plants, and numerous pictures.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Autumn Leaf Scrapbook

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to examine a deciduous tree and how to identify the various leaves by their shape and color. There is a guide to leaf terminology with helpful accompanying diagrams.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Why Do Leaves Change Color?

For Students 9th - 10th
Simple, but thorough explanation of fall colors in deciduous forests. Where the color comes from and how trees lose their leaves.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Georgia Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an overview of the habitats of Georgia - salt marsh, ocean, and deciduous forest.
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University of California

Ucmp: The World's Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. This page groups biomes into five major types: aquatic, deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra. Information on climate, animal/plant life, and much more is given for each of type...
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Forest

For Students K - 1st Standards
Take a walk in the forest and enjoy the trees and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Red Squirrel

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The common red squirrel is found throughout most of North America in coniferous, deciduous and mixed coniferous-deciduous forests. This site features information ranging from characteristics, life cycle, diet, behavior, range and habitat.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: It's Time to Tell the Story About Buds, Leaves and Global Warming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore how, in New England, the timing of color change and leaf drop of deciduous trees is changing.

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