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Rainforest Reports
Reporting on Rainforest Animals Assign each child an animal. Write the following questions on the black board or print them out on a report instruction sheet. Ask for as many answers as possible, and set the report length at a minimum of one page. Suggest some resources, like an encyclopedia, the Internet, or the rainforest books in your school library. Your students might like to write reports as if they were recording interviews with the animals and include some questions of their own. What does your animal look like?Rainforest Animal Paragraphs For a shorter homework assignment, ask each child to write a paragraph on the rainforest animal of their choice. Paragraphs may be limited to one aspect of the animal: it's appearance, how it eats, what it eats, etc. A series of one-paragraph assignments is a relatively painless way to introduce researching and report writing. Group Reports Divide class into small groups (4 to 6) and have each group report on a rainforest layer: forest floor, understory, canopy, emergent layer. Each report should include answers to the following questions. Where is your layer in relation to other layers?When reports are complete, have children draw pictures illustrating the layers. Lists of Rainforest Animals, Insects & Plants Rainforest Animals of Latin America Bird of Paradise, Bottlenose Dolphin, Capybara, Cassowary, Coatimundi, Coral Snake, Crocodile, Cuscus, Eyelash Viper, Gecko, Hawksbill Turtle, Hickatee, Howler Monkey, Iguana, Jabiru Stork, Jaguar, Jaguarundi, Lemur, Macaw, Manatee, Margay, Ocelot, Paca or Gibnut, Peccary, Puma, Quetzal, Red-eyed Tree Frog, Spider Monkey, Tapir, Three-toed Sloth, Toucan, Tree Kangaroo Insects and Spiders Army Ant, Azteca Ant, Birdwing Butterfly, Blue Morpho Butterfly, Centipede, Clear-winged Butterfly, Fig Wasp, Goliath Bird-eating Spider, Katydid, Leaf-cutter Ant, Millipede, Monarch Butterfly, Mosquito, Orchid Bee, Parasol, Ant, Sloth Moth, Tailless Whip Scorpian, Tarantula, Termites, Walking Sticks Rainforest Plants Bromeliad, Liana, Kapok Tree, Liverwort, Orchid, Strangler Fig |
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