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Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Rainforest. The Lungs of the World. Rainforest. Introduction Informational essay prompt What is a rainforest? Where is the Amazon rainforest? What are the layers of the rainforest? What unusual animals live in the rainforest? What unusual plants grow in the rainforest?

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Amazon Rainforest

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  1. Amazon Rainforest The Lungs of the World

  2. Rainforest • Introduction • Informational essay prompt • What is a rainforest? • Where is the Amazon rainforest? • What are the layers of the rainforest? • What unusual animals live in the rainforest? • What unusual plants grow in the rainforest? • What indigenous people live in the rainforest? • How does destruction of the rainforest affect mankind? • Sounds of the Rainforest • Rainforest Wrap-up • Work cited page

  3. Introduction "Rainforests cover less than two percent of the Earth's surface, yet they are home to some 50 to 70 percent of all life forms on our planet. The rain forests are quite simply, the richest, oldest, most productive and most complex ecosystems on Earth"

  4. Rainforest Prompt Task: Write an informative essay about the Amazon Rainforest. Procedure: Gather detailed facts about this unique biome. Include information about the layers, the animals, the plants, and the indigenous people. Remember to include interesting introductory and concluding paragraphs, and evidence to support your facts.

  5. What is a rainforest? • Amazon Rainforest • What is a rainforest?

  6. Where is the Amazon rainforest? • World rainforests map • Amazon rainforest map

  7. What are the layers of the rainforest? Click on the question and follow the links.

  8. What unusual animals live in the rainforest? • Q & A About the Rainforest Animals • Rainforest Animals • Life on Land • The Big Top • Amazon Rainforest Animals • Wilderness Classroom • Animals, Animals, Animals • Virtual Rainforest

  9. What unusual plants grow in the rainforest? • Journey to Amazon Plants • Amazon Plants • Rainforest Plants

  10. What indigenous people live in the rainforest? • People of the Rainforest • Pygmies, Huli, Yanomami

  11. How does destruction of the rainforest affect mankind? • How Rainforest Destruction Affects You • Rainforest Destruction • Save the Rainforest • Products of the Rainforest

  12. Sounds of the Rainforest Nature’s Music

  13. Rainforest Wrap-up • Rainforest Facts • Interesting Facts About Rainforests • Preserving the Rainforest • The Disappearing Rainforests

  14. Work Cited • http://www.earthrenewal.org/Rainforest%20Unit.htm • http://ieeni.org/Rainforest-Children2C.jpg • www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson405/PersuasiveWritingScoringGuide.pdf

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