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Rainforest Alliance Learning Site
The Rainforest Alliance Learning Site contains free conservation education materials with dynamic units that follow national standards for learning. On the site you will find stories, lesson plans, fact sheets, presentations, and...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Palm Oil, You, Me & Orangutans
By completing the tasks, students will learn about the uses of the rainforest, what Palm Oil is, and where it is produced.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Soil in the Amazon
Compare plants grown in simulated Amazon soil to those grown in soil prepared by the slash-and-burn method. Describe leaf development in plants grown in different soils and chart, average and graph plant growth by height
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Reference: Habitats: Rainforest
Find out about the plant and animal interactions within the rainforest ecosystem.
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Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance aims to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business practices, and consumer behavior.
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.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Habitat
Explore the basics of a few habitats and then create an ecocolumn--a simulated cross-section of a biome such as a rain forest--with your own environment.
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Tropical Broadleaf Evergreen Forest: The Rainforest
This is a general overview of the tropical rainforests that focuses on climate, animal life, vegetation, soil and so on. It also includes a rainforest map.
Bagheera
Bagheera: Tropical Rain Forests
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.
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.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Rainforest for Kids
Presents interesting information about rainforests and the importance of preserving them.
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.
abcteach
Abcteach: Border Papers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproduce bordered papers for your students to write on with themes such as baseball, basketball, bees, calligraphy, Charlotte's Web, clouds, fire safety, hearts, owls, penguins, puffins, rain forest,...
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...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Rainforest Facts
Discover some interesting facts about rainforests and how deforestation is threatening their sustainability.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Animals
Site provides information on tropical rain forest animals and animal adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Major Biomes of the World
Covers the major types of biomes: tropical rain forest, arctic tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, and mountains.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...
Curated OER
Unesco: Australia: Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
This site, comprising several protected areas, is situated predominantly along the Great Escarpment on Australia’s east coast. The outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Layers of the Rainforest
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children the four layers of the rainforest.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Welcome to Dzanga Sangha
Connect the dots to investigate three different habitats either the forest, bai or river of the rain forest. By connecting the dots students make a food chain to see how organisms in each habitat depend on each other.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Will This Palm Oil Alternative Save Orangutans?
Read about the effects of palm oil cultivation on the world's rainforests and species who live there, and about the development of a new alternative to palm oil. Includes video.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Africa: Explore the Regions Rainforest
Explore African rainforests at this richly illustrated and informative site from PBS. Learn about the people, economy, and countries of these densely forested zones.
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