Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest

Your clever kindergartners will enjoy a series of activities based on the West African folktale, The Clever Monkey, adapted by Rob Cleveland. They sequence the story with pictures, copy sentences, illustrate idioms about cats, and taste...

Young scholars explore rain forests.  In this rain forest activity, students participate in a "BioBlitz" of their schoolyard, observing and recording every living thing in a designated area.  Young scholars visit websites about rain...

Second graders read and discuss the folktale "The Drum" from India. They also answer story comprehension questions, complete an adjectives and verb worksheet, and label a map of India. Students sequence events from the story and make...

People could take a page in ingenuity and survival from the Powhatans. Deer skins became clothes, and the members of the Native American group farmed the rich Virginia soil and hunted in its forests for food. Using images of artifacts...

Students complete a chart comparing and contrasting African villages with their own communities. The lesson focuses on the Mbuti and Fulani people. They explore their style of living, their traditions and everyday life in these villages.

Students discover locations of the world's rain forests. Once they identify the animals, plants, products, and resources located in them, they construct they own rain forest terrariums. By comparing and contrasting the two types of...

Students draw a picture and label the layers of a rain forest in Africa.

Students gather information about the rainforests by reading various books. In groups, they travel between stations in the classroom in which each one has a different book. They preview the books and discuss the illustrations before...

In this rain forest worksheet, students read for information as they study a three paragraph text about the rain forest. Students answer 4 short essay questions.

Students investigate how Native American containers changed over time and how the use of pottery changed their lifestyle. They create a pottery container.