Description
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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS RAINFOREST BIOME LIBRARY LESSON
- Recommended for: Grades 3-6
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT or Google Slides + ability to open PDF documents
- Editable: YES, all text is editable in all three formats
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a rainforest-themed read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS RAINFOREST BIOME LESSON INCLUDES:
- 53-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
- List of 26 recommended rainforest – themed book titles (1 page)
- Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
- Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
- Prep, set up, tips (6 pages)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up PPT and Google slide timings for digital bulletin boards
RAINFOREST BIOME LESSON INCLUDES
- Characteristics of rainforests
- temperate rainforests and tropical rainforests
- world’s largest rainforests
- rainforest layers (emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor)
- rainforest animals
- rainforest plants and trees
- rainforest idioms
- vocabulary words: deforestation, ecosystem, decomposers, emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor, carnivorous
RAINFORESTS MENTIONED:
- Amazon Rainforest (South America)
- Congo River Basin Rainforest (Africa)
- Borneo Rainforest
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Australia
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Malaysia
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Indonesia
- northwestern USA temperate rainforest (California, Oregon, Washington)
DIFFERENTIATED RAINFOREST BIOME SCAVENGER HUNT
- 2 versions + answer key
- Version 1 – students color the icons and objects as they find them in the presentation slides
- Version 2 – questions about the information in the slides + smaller images to find
RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles
- all have a theme of the rainforest biome, rainforest animals, and characteristics of rainforests
- total of 26 titles
- includes small images from the presentation
- titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive professional reviews, and currency.
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