Description
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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCIENCE STORYTIME
- Recommended for: Grades K-2
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 elementary classroom or library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT or Google Slides; PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCIENCE STORYTIME INCLUDES
- 49-slide PPT + Google™ Slides presentation
- List of 24 rainforest – themed recommended reads (1 page PPT and PDF, editable — great to send home to parents or give to teachers)
- 2 differentiated Scavenger Hunt activities (2 pages, edit in PPT or PDF)
- Prep, set up, tips (7 pages, PDF)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages, PDF and PPT)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up scrolling slideshow timings in PPT and Google Slides
RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCIENCE STORYTIME – PART I
Part I is a whole-class discussion and read-aloud. The slides will walk you through the discussion from start to finish.
Remember that the read-aloud must come from you. I am not able to include a read-aloud due to copyright restrictions on published books.
- rainforest haiku
- “sloth” and “snake” in American Sign Language
- rainforest characteristics
- 4 ways animals’ bright colors help rainforest animals survive
- Storytime slide – add the cover of your read-aloud to introduce it to students
- Reminders for checkout (you can fill in your own reminders)
- “What should we do now?” slide (this is three things your students should do after checkout – edit to add your own directions for students)
RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCIENCE STORYTIME – PART II
Part II is a scrolling slideshow (slide timer instructions included). As students checkout, they can work on one of the two differentiated scavenger hunt activities that go with the slideshow.
- ASL fingerspelling W-A-T-E-R
- key vocabulary words: nocturnal, predator, humid, camouflage, adapt, vermilion, mimicry, venomous, pit viper
- 21 rainforest animals, including: jaguar, sloth, anteater, tapir, toucan, emerald tree boa, fer-de-lance, scarlet kingsnake, ocelot, aye-aye, agouti, capuchin monkey, red-eye tree frog, orangutan, rhinoceros beetle, scarlet macaw, Atlas moth, katydid, vermilion flycatcher, poison dart frog, bat
- 2 rainforest idioms – “birds of a feather flock together” and “when it rains, it pours”
- Word of the week: humid and nocturnal
- 3 trivia question + answers
- 2 would-you-rathers
- “rainforest” career – forest ranger / park ranger
RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCIENCE STORYTIME – PART III
Part III is a newer addition to my Storytimes. This is a section of review questions. They are open-ended questions that make great time-fillers or help control potential chaos that sometimes happens at line-up or while waiting for teachers to pick up students from Specials.
This part includes 6 editable questions. All the questions are answered in the presentation, but students can also make up additional answers for some questions.
RAINFOREST ANIMALS SCAVENGER HUNT
- differentiated (one is images-only; one is images + text)
- 2 pages, PDF
- Scavenger Hunt #1 is an images-only hunt. Students can complete this scavenger hunt without reading the text on the slides.
- Scavenger Hunt #2 includes both images and text. This one is for the students who are able to read the Part II slideshow. This scavenger hunt includes images and questions about the information in the slideshow.
- Scavenger Hunt #2 includes answer key
LIST OF RECOMMENDED READS
- picture books for PreK-Grade 2
- all are themed for rainforests and rainforest animals
- includes fiction picture books and informational picture books
- total of 24 titles
- titles are editable, so you can customize the titles for your classroom or library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.
- Every book on the list received at least two positive reviews on Titlewave. Many also received starred professional reviews.