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What is a Tropical Rainforest?

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Students investigate amounts of rainfall in selected world rainforests by creating a bar graph showing rainfall in inches for each. They convert inches to millimeters, and solve word problems having to do with rainfall in selected world rainforests.

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tropical rainforests, rainforests

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tropical rainforest, science
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Lesson Plans
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Duration
2 days

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