National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Teaching Tropical Rainforest Biology
Explores the numerous benefits of teaching and learning about tropical rainforests, while addressing the bioethical and environmental concerns facing rainforests.
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Education: Exploring the Tropics
Extensive information about tropical forests, including the plants, animals, and people found there. Also covers adaptations, biodiversity, economic benefits of tropical rain forests, and threats to their survival.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Plants
Site offers information about tropical rainforest plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
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Children's Tropical Forests: Rain Forest Facts
Read fact sheets about topics related to the rainforest: the physical environment, plants, animals, native people, its destruction, consequences of destruction, and ways to help.
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Rainforest Alliance: Lesson Plans on the Rainforest
A site for teachers aiming to teach very young children about the rainforest in Columbia. Very basic information about animals, vegetation, and more. Some resources available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Tropical Moist Climates
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes characteristics of tropical climates.
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Passport to Knowledge: Passport to the Rainforest
Explore the Rainforest by learning about the geosystem and ecosystem. Meet researchers who share their journals and biographies about the rainforest. Teachers are given links to other resources as well as lesson plans.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Birds of the Jungle and Rainforest Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over birds of the rainforest, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Other
Rare Species Conservatory Foundation: Facts, Figures and Photos
Explore the rainforest with these colorful games, pages of animal facts, and links to more information.
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Children's Tropical Forests
This children's resource provides a variety of fact sheets, maps, news, and more about the world's tropical rainforests.
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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...
Read Works
Read Works: Welcome to a Tropical Rain Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some animals that live in a tropical rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Research Starters: Rainforests
Find general information, research-topic ideas, glossary terms and numerous links on the rainforest.
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."
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Exploring the Environment: Tropical Poison
An educational module on biodiversity, economic growth, and medical research in rainforests. This can be used by students or teachers. It has a huge amount of information on agriculture, biodiversity, medicinal plants, animals, and more.
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.
Eduweb
Amazon Interactive: Where's the Amazon?
Discover one of the world's great rainforests through this interactive educational site. Locate the Amazon and learn some interesting facts behind this tropical biome.
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Ny Botanical Garden: Fungal and Plant Diversity
Findings of an expedition by the New York Botanical Garden in French Guiana to investigate vegetation.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Human and Animal Habitats
An interactive learning game where students answer whether or not certain environments would be suitable for different animals. Printable worksheets are available for review at the end of the activity.
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.
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