Re: Lesson 5

Plant Stalkers

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Plant Stalkers challenges the students to choose their favorite plants and research on the internet to find out more about them.

First, you must download the worksheets and make copies :

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson5_plant.html

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/wordsearch_advanced.html

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/coloring_GreenGirl.html

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/coloring_TreeKiller.html

Let them do the wordsearch while they wait for files to download.

Introduce lesson :

Write these urls and passwords on the board.

https://secure.playbrazil.com/rtr

ID :

Password :

http://www.plant-guide.com

Ask students to refresh their browser each time they enter to see what’s new. (Click the circular arrows at top of internet browser.)

Show students how to bookmark or put in favorites.

Lesson 5

Plant Stalkers

When the explorers visited the rainforest in 1817, there were no cameras to take pictures of the beautiful scenery. Cameras hadn’t even been invented yet ! In those days it was important to practice drawing and painting, so you could remember and pass along what you had seen. Being true scientists, the explorers collected plants and animals and made detailed drawings of them.

They collected plants and animals from all the different habitats : the ancient forest, the riverbanks, the seashore, the grasslands, the mountains, the dry lands that are practically desert and the land where the rainforest had been chopped down and burned.

Today, you may choose your favorite plants from <Plant Primer>.(Click on <Plants>, page down and click on <Plant Primer>). You can browse “ornamentals” and “fruits and vegetables” (“medicinal plants” cannot be found on www.plant-guide.com). You will list their botanical names on your worksheet. Then enter your plants’ botanical names at www.plant-guide.com to find their common names, habitat, size, colors and their category (evergreen or deciduous). Then you may print pictures of some of your plants and color them with colored pencils.

Extended lesson :

Home Depot publishes www.plant-guide.com, so many of the ornamentals, plants and vegetables can be found at your local Home Depot garden center.

Perhaps a field trip could be planned in the Spring to “stalk” the plants and take photos.

We will have a 20 minute online tutorial ready for Earth Day which explains the site navigation and Lesson 5. All you have to do is project it from your computer, using your lcd.

http://playbrazil.com/screencast5.pps

Sincerely, Carol Miranda Chor

Web design playbrazil.com

carol@remembertherainforest.com