RESOURCES

Nature Scope from The National Wildlife Federation-Rain Forest: Tropical Treasures--Great information. Worksheets, poems, plans for a Rain Forest Revue, poems and songs to perform. Recipies, addresses for rain forest organizations, Craft ideas: Butterfly rings, bromeliad plants
Super Doodles-Rain Forest from The Learning Works-How to draw rain forest animals. approx. $5.00
Tropical Rain Forest Large pictures to reproduce and information, from Carson-Dellosa (CD-1936) approx. $10.00
Art Lessons for Children VideosArt Lessons from Coyote Creek 2419 E. Mission Road, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Volume 6 Plants of the Rain Forest: Tillandsias, Bromeliads, Orchids
Volume 5 Animals of the Rain Forest: Toucan, Iquana, Tamandua
Video: Amazon:Land of the Flooded Forest from National Geographic
Video: Zoo Life with Jack Hanna-Wonders of the Rain Forest from Time/Life Video 37 min. excellent video.

These are lesson plans or activities that our teachers have developed or found in other sources for use in their classrooms.

Painting Bromeliads--We used the video Plants of the Rain Forest (see resources above for video information) to learn to paint bromeliads. The artist on the video shows step by step directions for drawing and painting very realistic bromeliads. She also shows bromeliads in the rain forest and potted ones that the students use to help draw. We used water paints mixed with white tempera. To see one of our paintings

Making Bromeliads--We made paper bromeliads using toliet paper tubes, construction paper, and gummy frogs. The patterns for this activity can be found in Rain Forest: Tropical Treasures from The National Wildlife Federation (see resources above). You cut 4 sets of jagged leaves from green construction paper and glue each around the toilet paper tube moving each layer down to cover the tube. Then cut a blue circle to fit in the top to represent water. Glue your gummy frog as you wish. To see our bromiliads

Type lesson 3 here.

The following are lesson plans or activities related to the topic found elsewhere on the web.

• The Thinking Fountain-Tropical Rainforest A set of activity cards on-line to give information and make students think.
• Turn Your Classroom into a Rainforest Directions and photos
• Tropical Forests Unit from Sea World
• Art lesson on the rainforest
• The Cyber Rainforest Plan for younger students
• Monkeys in the Rainforest Movement activity
• The Wild Ones Teacher Resources
• Classroom Plans These are plans written for middle grades, but with ideas for other levels. They go with a PBS program that can be ordered on video but could be used without the video.
• Commercial Site on Trips to the Rainforest Might be used to plan imaginary trips to the rainforest.
• Teachers Cyber Guide for The Great Kapok Tree
• The Great Kapok Tree Review and suggestions from the Carol Hurst Children's Literature Site
• Rainforest Theme Unit from ABC Teach Great unit with pictures, quizzes, wordwall cards, flashcards to print, and much more
• Classroom Pets--The Tarantula Lesson plan on learning about the tarantula then deciding if it would make a good classroom pet
• Rainforest Unit for 1st grade
• Rainforests are Fun 1st grade plans

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