The History Cat
The History Cat: Geography: Places: Amazing Amazon
Describes the rich flora and fauna of the Amazon rainforest and the characteristics of the different layers of vegetation from the forest floor up to the canopy.
Google
Google Maps: The Amazon River Basin, Brazil
Explore the views of the Amazon River Basin. This resource uses the Street View Trekker, a wearable backpack system that allows you to venture to locations only accessible by foot. Features imagery of the Rio Negro, an Amazon Forest...
World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia: Amazon
Encyclopedia entry on the Greek mythological women warriors known as the Amazons. Site provides photos and links to further reading.
Read Works
Read Works: Can the Amazon Be Saved?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the disappearing Amazon rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
MarineBio Conservation Society
Marine Bio: Amazon River Dolphin
Discover useful information about Amazon river dolphins including description, behavior, range, habitat, diet, breeding, and conservation status.
Read Works
Read Works: The Amazon Rainforest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text the Amazon Rainforest in South America and the efforts being made to preserve it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Eduweb
Amazon Interactive: Where's the Amazon?
Discover one of the world's great rainforests through this interactive educational site. Locate the Amazon and learn some interesting facts behind this tropical biome.
BBC
Bbc: Deadly Clashes in Peru's Amazon
This short article and video describe the clashes occurring in the Amazon between Peruvian security forces and indigenous Amazon tribes. (June 5, 2009)
BBC
Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Amazon River Dolphin
Click here at the British Broadcasting Corporation to learn more about the Amazon river dolphin and to examine some nice photos of them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lost in the Amazon
The Lost in the Amazon curricular unit is a series of minds-on and hands-on engineering activities based in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Motivated by an adventurous theme, students discover, learn and apply a variety of skills....
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Jewel of the Amazon
Description of what the discovery of diamonds and the ensuing black market and illegal mining has done to the Amazon Basin of Brazil.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Amazon River Fish Cam
The National Zoo features a selection of live animal cams including a live animal cam of Amazon river fishes. In addition to the live cam, this site features information and pictures of other life associated with Amazonia.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
This is the full text of the novel Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne. It is about how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Soil in the Amazon
Compare plants grown in simulated Amazon soil to those grown in soil prepared by the slash-and-burn method. Describe leaf development in plants grown in different soils and chart, average and graph plant growth by height
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Finding Food in the Amazon
In this activity, the students will investigate a variety of plants and animals common to the Amazon through research. They will determine the plant or animal characteristics that make them edible or useful for the trip and learn to...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Geography: People: Amerindians of the Amazon
Discusses the plight of the Amerindians who made the Amazon rainforest their home. Many died from diseases brought by European colonists and many others continue to lose their lands to greedy companies or farmers.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Did the Amazons Really Exist?
It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and China also featured Amazon-like...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Imperial Amazon
Imperial Amazons are gorgeous birds found only in Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. They were brought back from near extinction and live in protected rainforest parks. You will find some information about the Imperial Amazon here and a...
Eduweb
Eduweb: Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon Rain Forest
Find out how Quichua Indians, indigenous people of the Amazon, practice sustainable agriculture by rotating fields and by slashing and burning. Try your hand at crop rotation to see if you understand the principles of this agricultural...
The Guardian
Guardian: Rumble in the Jungle
Guardian correspondent Rory Carroll discusses the struggles of the indigenous tribes of the Amazon against Peruvian security forces. (July 4, 2009)
Read Works
Read Works: Trouble in the Amazon
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the causes and effects of the decreasing rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Warriors of the Amazon: The Last Shaman
A first hand view of Shaman life in the Amazon as seen through the eyes of a reporter for NOVA.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Statue of a Wounded Amazon
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century A.D. Roman sculpture "Statue of a wounded Amazon" with a description and images of the piece.
PBS
Amazon: South America
Map of South America in which students can use the interactive site to explore political, physical, climate and populaton features.
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