Task During this activity students will have to be able to explore the Habitat of the Rainforest. Students will be able to link to animals, plants and discover all the parts of the Rainforest.

Pre-Activity · Prepare a KWL CHART
Activity Questions
1. Describe the climate of the Rainforest.
2. Name and describe the different layers of the Rainforest.
3. List animals in their categories that are found in the Rainforest.
4. Describe the types of indigenous groups that live in the tropical rainforests.
5. What is the culture like in many of the countries that occupy the rainforests?
6. How are the rainforests important to the environment?
7. Describe some of the plants and trees that live in the rainforest.

Resources · http://www.enchantedlearning.com · http://www.accessexellence.org · http://passporttoknowledge.com · http://www.ran.org · http://www.www.mcps.k12.md.us · http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com · http://kids.osd.wednet.edu · http://www.digitalfrog.com/products/rainforest.html

Culminating Question
· What would it be like to live in the Tropical Rainforest?

Project
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- After studying all about the Rainforest over a period of a couple of weeks students will be able to create a classroom model of the rainforest. They will be able to discover what it would be like to live in the rainforest after designing the room. This project will take about 1 month.
1. The students will be put into groups and learn about the different parts of the rainforest.
2. Each week the students will learn a different part of the rainforest. The plants, flowers and trees, the animals and insects, the foods, clothing, and products, and the tribes of the Rainforest and their locations.
3. They circulate the classroom working in different learning centers in order to discover parts of the rainforest. They will have a certain amount of time to work in each center and then switch to another center. For example, if the week is about the flowers and plants then each center would be about a different kind of flower and plant that are in the rainforest. Each group would have a chance to go to each center of each category for that week.
4. After they would finish each center they would be able to create an art project of that particular area that they are learning. For example, if the week is on flowers and plants then in each learning center they would make a specific flower or plant that would be put up in the classroom where it belongs in the rainforest.
5. At the end of the week the class would get together and discuss what they have learned about that particular area that you have assigned for the week. Students would get to share their research, discuss ideas and compare what other groups found out about their research. The students’ findings and research will be kept in a journal that they use at each center.
6. Towards the end of the month the entire class will come together to create a hut in which the people of the rainforest lived in.
a. The base for the hut would consist of two large refrigerator boxes put together. The cone shape or pointy part of the hut would be the lids of the boxes joined together.
b. The grass of the hut would be paper bags glued together and on the bottoms of the bags you would cut fringes to look like grass.
c. You would cut a section of the hunt for a door and put a cloth sheet for the door.
d. The hut can be used for the students to experiment in what it feels like to like in such a small area. Also it can be a place where the students can go to read their books.
7. Once the class has studied the rainforest and has created all the parts of the rainforest then the class will experiment living in the rainforest for a couple of days. This may be by experimenting in the hut, tasting some of the foods they eat, wearing the kinds of clothes and observing the animals that they created in the rainforest. They will live as if they are the people in South America for a couple of days.
8. Their writing activities that they do for those days will be done on similar kinds of paper that the tribes use in the rainforest or on other objects that they might use.
9. The students will have to bring in different products that they learned about that came from the rainforest. Those products will be distributed around the room near the materials that the product is made up of.
10. They will study the economics of the Rainforest and discuss and compare the difference of the cost of living in the rainforest compared to living in the States.

Assessment:
· The students will have to give an oral report of their findings in front of the class. Talk about the climate, animals, plants, flowers and trees, the people, food and clothing, and the economics of the region. · They will have to write out a plan that shows the steps of building a hut and list the materials that they would need. The cost to build the hut would have to be shown. · They will have to hand in their Science Journals that will be checked to see what they found out in their centers. · They will have to write a short 1-1 ½ pages report about the couple days that they are in the Classroom Rainforest.