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Rainforests

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the rainforests. They research and identify the four levels of the rainforests. Students locate and research animals that are found in each level of the rainforest. They write a descriptive story about the rainforest.
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Ecology

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners explore, experience and experiment identifying the human impact on the environment of vegetative differences within the same biome. They assess what causes deserts, rain forests, savannahs, tundras and saguaros and how these...
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Regional Patterns of Climate: Pacific Northwest

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Climate systems involve sunlight, ocean, atmosphere, ice, land forms, and many other factors. Scholars explore each of these variables related to the Pacific Northwest rain forest. They use an online interactive to investigate the polar...
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Science Talk

For Teachers 5th Standards
Talk like a scientist. Pupils engage in a science talk about rainforests, using a note-catcher worksheet to record important points. Next, they work in triads to synthesize their ideas about the rainforest, adding notes to a KWL anchor...
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Rainforest- Online Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online rainforests activity, students use the links to research the answers to 16 questions. They determine facts about the locations, types, animal inhabitants, and food sources that are associated with rainforests.
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RAIN FOREST

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this essay-writing worksheet, students are given illustrations of a bird, 2 snakes, a lemur (?) and a frog, Lines are provided for students to write an essay.
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My Forest or the Rainforest?

For Teachers K
Students explore the flora and fauna of temperate forests and rainforests. They examine the environmental conditions that allow certain plants and animals to live in the rainforest.
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El Salvador: How Can My Breakfast Harm the Birds?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore how their food choices can have an impact on the rain forests. They examine coffee farming and how their techniques can harm birds in the rain forest. Students design two farms with sustainability of bird habits in...
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Visit the Rainforest

For Teachers 5th
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...
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The Earth's Rain Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the importance of the world's rain forests. In this rain forest lesson, students read about the role of the rain forests in the world's environment. Students then write a formal letter to a member of Congress or Senate...
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October 14th Rainforest Week Brownie Meeting

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students talk about the destruction of the Rain Forest and learn a Rain Forest Song. They start the meeting off with a tropical forest coloring sheet. They relate to the plight of the Rain Fores and understand the importance of saving...
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Rainforest- Plants

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rain forest instructional activity, students read for information as they study a three paragraph text about the rain forest. Students answer 4 short essay questions.
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Investigating Tropical Birds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate tropical birds. They write letters for rain forest preservation to protect tropical birds. They interview a bird professional from a local bird store or a zoo and discuss how to take care of a parrot. They use Kid...
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Perched Parrot Decorative Chair

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students discuss the rainforests and why they are important to the Earth's environment. They study the habitats and characteristics of various animals that live in rainforests. Students build a decorative chair using a rainforest theme.
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Devastating Deforestation Triarama

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners become familiar with the process of deforestation and its impact upon rainforests and people who depend on them. They research endangered and already-extinct species of rainforest animals and plants. Students fabricate a 3D...
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Pop-Up Wildlife Mural

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research life in a rainforest including plants, animals, insects, climate. They discover reasons for the importance of rainforests to the Earth's environment. Students work as a group to create a large 3-D rainforest scene that...
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Rainforests Rule

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rainforests worksheet, learners read for information and assess comprehension skills. In this true and false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank worksheet, students answer ten questions.
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Rain Forest Alliterations

For Students 3rd - 5th
The rain forest alliterations activity has students read about alliterations, then complete 4 alliterations about the rain forest and draw an illustration of one of them. The close with an acrositc poem with the words "rain forest."
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Rain Forest Products

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners move from lab station to lab station observing samples of products from the Rain Forest. At each station they record the name of the product, write a description and sketch a diagram of the product.
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Do The Research! Rainforest

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this rain forest research worksheet, students do research about the rain forest. Students then answer 3 short essay questions about what they have learned.
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Rainforest Group Creative Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rain forest worksheet, students collaborate as a group to write a story about the rain forest. Students have 25 minutes to write the story and they must use all 12 words in the box.
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Bird Line Drawing

For Students K - 1st
In this tropical bird worksheet, students color a detailed picture of an unidentified rain forest bird. There are no directions or word labels.
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Habitats

For Students 5th - 6th
In this habitats worksheet, students view and discuss four slides with four different habitats found in the rain forest, desert, ocean/coral reef and in the Savannah/grasslands. Students color each slide with vibrant colors.
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Tree Top Canopy Field Trip

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway. In this environmental instructional activity, students experience a coastal rain forest ecosystem. Students interact and explore the different layers of the rain forest.

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