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Activity
Tramline

Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
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Interactive
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Montreal Botanical Garden: Trees Inside Out

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource on trees, covering many topics, including growth, needs, diversity, and identification. There is a section profiling botanists who work at this arboretum, and another where the public can present questions to the...
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Handout
Other

Andy's Northern Ontario Wildflowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Listed on this page are some northern Ontario wildflowers that occur in the northern deciduous forest in Canada. Provided are descriptions and information about the plants, and numerous pictures.
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Handout
World Wildlife Fund for Nature

Wwf: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Temperate Forests

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Defines "temperate forest" and introduces three types: Mediterranean forests, temperate rainforests, and deciduous forests.
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Handout
US Department of Agriculture

The Science of Color in Autumn Leaves

For Students 9th - 10th
Coupled with a beautiful photo gallery, the National Arboretum sets out to explain the science behind why leaves of deciduous trees change their color in the autumn months. While temperature effects the colors, learn here what happens in...
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Handout
Friends of Algonquin Park

The Science Behind Algonquin's Animals: Deciduous Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about this hardwood forest, its wildlife, and plant species. View a panorama movie of a typical Hardwood Forest in the summer.
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Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Autumn Leaf Scrapbook

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to examine a deciduous tree and how to identify the various leaves by their shape and color. There is a guide to leaf terminology with helpful accompanying diagrams.
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Handout
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Why Do Leaves Change Color?

For Students 9th - 10th
Simple, but thorough explanation of fall colors in deciduous forests. Where the color comes from and how trees lose their leaves.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Haracteristics

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief, but thorough overview of the temperate deciduous forest. Lists of flora and fauna found in the forest.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Georgia Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an overview of the habitats of Georgia - salt marsh, ocean, and deciduous forest.
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Major Biomes of the World

For Students 2nd - 8th
Covers the major types of biomes: tropical rain forest, arctic tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, and mountains.
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Handout
MadSci Network

Symbiotic Relationships in the Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief definition of symbiotic, followed by explanations of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: The World's Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. This page groups biomes into five major types: aquatic, deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra. Information on climate, animal/plant life, and much more is given for each of type...
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eBook
Other

Introduction to the Biosphere: Characteristics of the Earth's Terrestrial Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
From Chapter 9 of a textbook on physical geography that covers the biosphere. Important vocabulary is highlighted and linked to a glossary. It explains the characteristics of a biome, and describes the features of the eight different...
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Website
Other

Plant Watch

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Plant Watch website is designed to teach students how to record observations about plants. The site provides good information about the parts of plants and the section, "Plant Descriptions," will lead you to detailed information on...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Science Vocabulary Game

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders will play a review memory game with Utah's Grade 4 Science Standard V vocabulary words during this lesson. Words associated with living things and classifications of living things are included in this lesson.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Biomes

For Students 2nd - 6th
Discover the hidden treasures in the different habitats on the earth! The earth is filled with many biomes. Examples of different biomes are listed and include hyperlinks to additional information such as the animals found there.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Forest

For Students K - 1st Standards
Take a walk in the forest and enjoy the trees and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Forest Biome

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all about the forest biome including where located in the world, different kinds, climate, flora and fauna, and soil. Good research site for middle years students.
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Temperate Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
Temperate forests cover much of the Earth. Temperate forest ecology is described as well as the importance to all animal and plant health. Human impact on temperate forests around the world is discussed.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Red Squirrel

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The common red squirrel is found throughout most of North America in coniferous, deciduous and mixed coniferous-deciduous forests. This site features information ranging from characteristics, life cycle, diet, behavior, range and habitat.
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Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: It's Time to Tell the Story About Buds, Leaves and Global Warming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, learners explore how, in New England, the timing of color change and leaf drop of deciduous trees is changing.
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Article
Other

Environments and Ecosystems of North Carolina

For Students 9th - 10th
North Carolina is located within the temperate deciduous forest global biome, however, a great variety of forest and non-forest ecosystems may be found within the state. The temperature and moisture regimes throughout North Carolina are...
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Lesson Plan
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 4: Grad Mot Cad: Word Roots #4 Advanced

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan features the Latin roots GRAD = step, walk, degree; MOT = move; CAS/CID = fall, sink. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue and a vocabulary...

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