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Visit the Rainforest Lesson Plan

Visit the Rainforest Lesson Plan

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Visit the Rainforest

Fifth graders define what a tropical rain forest is, what animals and plants exist there and realize how important the tropical rainforests are to life on Earth. They work in pairs to access websites imbedded in this plan to research the rainforest.

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