What do you know about rainforests?

Write down about what you know about rainforests; green house effect and climate change. What do you want to know about these things? By investigating the lesson plans that follow you might be able to answer all these questions.

Use the following link to find out about rainforests around the world.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/6023-biomes-tropical-rain-forest-video.htm

http://schools.rainforestsos.org/images/stories/pdfs/mongabay-rainforest-map.pdf

Define - the way rainforest vegetation is layered. Print and colour in picture and label each layer - eg emergent layer, canopy etc - discuss animal life found at each level. Locate the rainforests around the world on the sheet. Colour and label a rainforest on the sheet provided

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/label/labelstrata.shtml

http://www.thinkingfountain.org/s/strata/strata.html

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/whlayers.html

Play the ‘Jewels of the Earth’ game to see if you can place the animals in the rainforest. Learn more about the animals and plants of the strata (layers of the rainforest) as you place them where they belong.

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/education/treehouse/jewelsoftheearth/index.html

Experience a walk in an Australian tropical rainforest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlB-RsJoOkY&feature=related