Re: Lesson 2

Populate Your Rainforest

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Populate Your Rainforest challenges the students to navigate the website and search the <Plants> and <Animals> sections to choose a number of their favorites. Then they gather info to determine the percentage of extinctions from their random sample.

First, you must download the worksheets and make copies :

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/lesson2_favorites.html

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

http://playbrazil.com/Lessons/wordsearch_easy.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.

Easy is for k-2, Advanced is for 2-12

 
Introduce lesson :

Write the urls and passwords on the board.

https://secure.playbrazil.com/rtr
ID :
Password :

www.animalbase.com
www.plantbase.com

Tell them to refresh their browser each time they enter to see what's new. (Click the circular arrows at top of internet browser.)

Show them how to bookmark or put in favorites

 Lesson 2 Populate Your Rainforest

Today we will be looking at images from the rainforest explorers of the 1800s. How many of these plants and animals still exist today ? Much of our natural habitat is threatened with extinction. If we lose the honeybees, who will pollinate the crops ?

We will pick a number of our favorite plants and animals. We will record their names and search on www.animalbase.com and www.plantbase.com  to find their common names and other info. Remember if you really want to Go Green and save our planet, you will tell other people about what’s happening to our Earth. Today you’re going exploring to find out if plants and animals are really disappearing from the earth…that’s called extinction. Then we’re going to write a report of our findings for the newspaper.

Your teacher will explain your worksheets.

Lesson extension :

  1. What can be done about the current conditions ? Search www.google.com for environment, alternate farming, alternate energy, biodiversity and related subjects.
  2. What can you do ? Go to www.treehugger.com for ideas. You may give them the url for www.googlearth.com to see what the rainforest looks like today. If your classroom computers are slow, perhaps you can project googleearth  onto the classroom screen.
  3. Download and color favorite plants and animals. Write descriptions and create a display or booklet entitled “My Rainforest”.
  4.  

We will have a 20 minute online tutorial ready for Earth Day which explains the site navigation and Lesson 2. All you have to do is project it from your computer, using your lcd.
http://playbrazil.com/screencast2.pps

Sincerely, Carol Miranda Chor
Web design playbrazil.com
carol@remembertherainforest.com