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,...

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

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...

Use this site to explore several regions of Africa, without having to leave the classroom.

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 instructional activity focuses on the Mbuti and Fulani people. They explore their style of living, their traditions and everyday life in...

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.

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

Students use various web sites to access information about the rain forest. They use the Tropical Rainforest Interactive CD to make their own rain forest pictures and stories and learn facts about the rain forest. They use various books...