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Conducting Research: Analyzing a Variety of Sources to Capture Information about My Insect
From picture to words. Scholars analyze a picture of an ant and then list two facts they observed and any questions that may arise. Expert groups from the previous instructional activity then look at a diagram about either an ant or...
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Crayon Resist Rainforest Specimens
Middle schoolers experience textures both tactually and visually; first through the process of crayon rubbings and then through the process of crayon resist. They also use textures and papers to create a rain forest.
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It's A Jungle in Here!
Fifth graders research rainforest destruction. In this geography and ecology instructional activity, 5th graders work as a group to research the effects of logging, farming, and mining on the rainforest. Students gather and display data...
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The Kapok (Ceiba) Tree
Learners explore the rainforest. They listen to The Great Kapok Tree and create a web using Inspiration software. They research kapok trees and create posters to make others aware of the plight of the rainforest. They role-play the...
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Water Walks
In this Amazon Rainforest worksheet, students read a story about a girl named Faela who lives in the Amazon Rainforest. The story includes pictures, and there are 7 questions throughout the story that students are to answer as they read.
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Coming to Terms
Students explore the rainforest. In this environmental instructional activity, students work in small groups to conduct online research of various topics having to do with the rainforest. The groups construct a large poster to illustrate...
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A Geography and Ecology Lesson for Grades 4-7
Pupils explore many of the unusual geographical features of the Amazon River region, and explain the importance of preserving the tropical rainforest.
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De-composers - Terrarium
Students explore the environment by building a mock ecosystem. In this rainforest analysis activity, students define many environmental and rainforest related vocabulary terms and discuss the current status of our planet's rainforests....
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Tropical Treehouse
Students examine the tropical rainforest and issues involving the uses of rainforests. They explore the plants and animals that live in each level of the tropical rainforest. Students examine and discuss a case study involving the rights...
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Reading Through Rainforests
Students investigate the concept of the rainforest through the use of nonfiction texts. The teacher reads to the class to give some information. Then they read their own books to find further information and perform the follow activities...
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Rain Stick
Students create a rain stick. For 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...
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Comparing and Contrasting a Desert Reptile and a Rainforest Mammal
First graders compare and contrast two different type of animals while also making predictions, observations, and asking provocative questioning. In this compare and contrast lesson, 1st graders acquire knowledge about why some animals...
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The Deadly Frogs of Manu
Students investigate the poisonous frogs of Manu, Peru. They watch and discuss a video, conduct Internet research on poison frogs, accurately color downloaded template models of the frogs of Manu, and create a poster using the colored...
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Birds and Coffee
Fifth graders identify the changing seasons with how they affect animal and human behavior. They explain what migration is and why many birds migrate south for the winter. They then trace the coffee sold in their neighborhood and in...
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Rainforest Realities
Students gather information about the rainforest and the environment from the Internet. They analyze the impact that humans have on the environment. They also collect and organize data they find on the rainforest.
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Animals and their Habitats
This animal habitat PowerPoint provides beautiful photographs of a rainforest, desert, and grassland habitat, as well as animals native to a rainforest and the desert. The first slide lists rainforest, desert, tundra, and grassland as...
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Habitats: Rainforest
Students use the internet to find reasons the rainforest is endangered and ways that affects the rest of the world. They read for information, perform experiments, locate rainforests on maps, and write about this ecosystem.
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Rainforest
Students explore and study an activity that reinforces counting skills and drawing rain forest animals in their math storybooks. They brainstorm what type of animals they think they'd see in the rain forest, birds as well as colors. Each...
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Where's the Water?
Fifth graders conduct an investigation into water purification during a role play situation in an Amazon Rainforest. They design a scientific experiment for cleaning and filtering water.
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Rainforest
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms that are related to the rain forest. There are 24 biology terms located in the word search.
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Rainforest Rock
Learners discuss the impact of environmental change on people and culture; create musical instruments that reflect cultural influences. apply musical concepts, evaluate Internet resources, and make a meaningful presentation.
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Stewardship and the Rainforest
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students explore literature in order to understand the flora and fauna of the rain forest. Students investigate how stewardship is necessary to retain...
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Determining the Amount of Transpiration from a Schoolyard Tree
Young scholars calculate the amount of water transpired by a single leaf and estimate that transpired by an entire rainforest.
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The Rain Forest
Students research the rainforest and re-create it using music, lighting, and sounds.
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