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Title: Rainforests


1
Rainforests
  • Karen Bova,
  • Dana Falls,
  • and
  • Amber Spaulding
  • ED 417-01
  • Instructor Dr. Helms

2
Rainforests
  • Grade Level-Third
  • Unit-Geography
  • Lesson-Rainforests

3
Objectives
  • The third grade students will be able to do the
    following
  • 1. Identify the key components and
    characteristics of the rainforest.
  • 2. Construct a classroom replica of the
    different layers in the rainforest.
  • 3. Compare and contrast the positive and
    negative effects humans have on the rainforest.
  • 4. Create and observe their own living
    rainforest.
  • 5. Discuss and debate, through a mock trial, the
    key issues involving the rainforest.

4
Materials Needed
  • Student computers with internet access
  • PowerPoint accessibility and PowerPoint projector
  • Television set and VCR
  • Movie-Fern Gully The Last Rainforest
  • Writing paper
  • Pens and pencils
  • Markers, crayons, and colored pencils
  • Paint
  • CD player
  • CD with rainforest sounds
  • Colored butcher paper and crepe paper (ex. brown
    and green)
  • Chart paper
  • Construction paper
  • Blue cellophane
  • Masking tape
  • Scissors
  • Stapler and staples
  • Small sponge
  • Wire or clothesline
  • Pictures of different native rainforest animals
    and plants
  • Mason jars with lids
  • Potting soil and gravel
  • Large spoons
  • Small plants (ex. mosses, ferns, and house
    plants of various heights.
  • Water
  • Nametags (see activity number five for details)

5
Web Sites
  • Toucan Sam the Rainforest http//www.toucansa
    m.kelloggs.ca/
  • The Bronx Zoo-Rainforest http//www.congogorill
    aforest.com/
  • Learning About Rainforests http//www.srl.caltech
    .edu/personnell/krubal/rainforest
  • Rainforest-Alliance http//www.rainforest-all
    iance.org/kidsteachers/kids/activities
  • Science In The Rainforest http//www.pbs.org/tal
    /costa_rica/layers.html
  • Corbis.com http//www.corbis.com

6
Student Activity 1
  • Field Report-After viewing the PowerPoint
    presentation, students will take an imaginary
    journey through the rainforest.
  • Procedure-
  • Turn off lights and begin playing rainforest CD
    of jungle sounds. Have students close their eyes
    and begin to imagine hiking through the
    rainforest. Ask students, How do you imagine
    the rainforest looks, feels, sounds, and smells?
    What animals and plants live there? Why are
    rainforest endangered?
  • Have students record their thoughts on writing
    paper, creating a field report of their visit to
    the rainforest.
  • Have students share and discuss their thoughts
    and ideas on the rainforest.
  • Post field reports in the hallway for display of
    student work.

7
Student Activity 2
  • Classroom Rainforest Replica- Students will
    construct, with available materials, the
    different layers, animals, and plants of the
    rainforest.
  • Procedure-
  • Cover the left and right side of the classroom
    with blue butcher paper.
  • On the left and right side of the classroom
    staple/tape lengths of brown butcher paper to
    represent trees. Tear tree branches from another
    piece of brown butcher paper and staple/tape them
    to the top of the trees.
  • Cut vines of various lengths of spiral shapes
    from green butcher paper. Wrap some vines around
    tree trunks allow others to dangle down freely.
  • Cut leaves from green paper. Using pictures of
    rainforest vegetation as a guide, cut long, thin,
    pointy leaves for the Upper Canopy, large, broad
    leaves for the Lower Canopy, and smaller leaves
    for the Emergent Layer. Staple/tape to the
    trees.
  • At the right side of the room, place labels
    indicating the four layers of the rain forest
    The Forest Floor 0-30 feet The Understory 30-60
    feet The Canopy 60-90 feet The Emergent Layer
    90-120 feet.

8
Student Activity 2 contd.
  • Procedure contd.-
  • Have students, using provided materials, create
    animals for each level of the rainforest and
    write facts that pertain to each animal on the
    display.
  • Using sponge and the following colored paint
    create white-for clouds above Emergent Layer,
    green-for moss on tree trunks at Understory and
    Canopy Layers, yellow-for sunlight at Emergent
    and Canopy Layers, and dark brown-for forest
    floor.
  • Scrunch and tape the length of cellophane along
    the floor of the forest to simulate a rainforest
    river.
  • Secure two or three lengths of wire across the
    ceiling in parallel lines approximately three
    feet apart.
  • Cut leaves from green paper. Using pictures of
    rainforest vegetation as a guide, cut smaller
    leaves for the Emergent Layer. Staple/tape to
    the trees.
  • Cut vines of various lengths from the crepe paper
    to wrap around the ceiling wire allow some to
    dangle down.

9
Student Activity 3
  • Compare and Contrast- Students will be exposed to
    technology, found in the classroom, by playing an
    internet board game on the Bronx Zoo-Rainforest
    web site. As a class, also have students view
    the film Fern Gully The Last Rainforest. After
    playing the game and viewing the film they will
    then compare and contrast the effects humans have
    on the rainforest.
  • Procedure-
  • Have students play Bronx Zoo-Rainforest board
    game on the web site http//www.congogorillaforest
    .com/
  • Have students, as a class, view the film Fern
    Gully The Last Rainforest.
  • As a class, compare and contrast the effects
    humans have on the rainforest. Record student
    responses on chart paper and post in the
    classroom.

10
Student Activity 4
  • Rainforest In A Jar- The students will make a
    miniature living rainforest in a jar.
  • Procedure-
  • Have each student put a layer of gravel in the
    bottom of their jar.
  • Then add several inches of soil.
  • Each student will get three plants. The student
    will need to plant the smallest plant first, then
    the next biggest one and so on. Tell the
    students to push their finger dome into the soil
    to make a hole and then place the plant inside
    it. The hole and roots should be filled in with
    dirt.
  • Have the students water their plants lightly and
    then put the lid on the jar tightly and do not
    remove.
  • Have the students keep journals on there plant
    growth and other happenings that they see inside
    their jar. NOTE Make sure that the students
    pick up on the moisture that gathers around the
    inside of the jar. This is where a lesson on
    plant transpiration can be taught. This explains
    the plentiful plant life of the rain forest and
    how it generates.
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