What Do You Know
About the Rainforest?
This Topic Mini-Research and Literature Web Page
was developed for Mrs. Jamie Connell's third grade class at Annie Belle Clark.
Designed by Deanna Griffin, A Valdosta State University Preservice Teacher
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How many
parts are there to the
Rainforest? Lets discover how many levels of the rainforest there
really are. Travel to the Strata-Science
Museum of Minnesota to find out! |
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What kind of animals live in the
rainforest? Lets go look at animals that live in the
rainforest. Click here
and get a peek. |
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Where are the rainforests
located? Follow me to the different rainforest of the
earth. Your just a click away from find out where some rainforest
are lets go to Missouri
Botanical Garden net to find
out. |
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Why is the rainforest
important? Lets find out why the rainforest is so
important. Take a look! Lets also find out what
kind of food
that is grown from the
rainforest! |
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Real World Activity
Let's Be an Explorer! Activity Let's
imagine that we are great explorers and we are leaving camp to go on
our adventurous expedition. Before we leave our campsite we are
checking our backpack to make sure that we packed snacks
that were specifically grown in the rainforest. We finally leave
our camp in the Amazon Rainforest. On our journey we will take
photos of animals that we may see on the trip. Not
only will we take photos, but we will take photos of the animals in the
section of the rainforest that they live in. The Strata-Musesum
of Minnesota will help to decide in what part of
the rainforest the animals live.
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Guide to the Exploration HAVE FUN!!! 1.) Take a piece of paper
and draw at least 5 snacks that are in your back pack.
2.) Label all the snacks! 3.) On a seperate sheet of paper draw at least 4 trees and the different strata levels. 4.) Label all the strata levels! 5.) Next, as we journey through the rainforest draw at least 5 animals that you saw. 6.) Label all the animals! |
Topic Literature
Activity
The Magic School Bus:
In the Rain Forest
By Joanna Cole & Illustrated by Bruce Degen
| Topic Literature Activity |
| A. CLick on the picture to get a short review about the Rainforest! |
| B. List your four questions of
understanding that you are going to ask youstudents while you are
reading the book to them. (These are the same for questions of
understanding in your lesson plan.) 1. What is Cocoa? What can you make with Cocoa? 2. Do you remember what a canopy was? 3. Why wasn't Mrs. Frizzes tree producing cocoa beans? 4. How did Mrs. Frizz and the students solve the problem? |
| C. List your 2 critical thinking
questions based on your book. (These are the same 2 critical
thinking questions in your lesson plan) 1. If you were a student in Ms. Frizzle's class tell what would you like to do and explore in the rain forest? 2. If you could be any animal in the rainforest what would you be? Why? |
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