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Rainforest Project Printable Teachers' Guide
Update Activities: Critters of Costa Rica
Worksheet included! Grade Level: 3rd-5th Subject: Biology Time: 60- 90 minutes Objective: Students will better understand physical adaptations of certain animals, and how those adaptations increase the animal's chances of survival. Subject: Science Grade Level: 3rd-5th Time: 90 minutes Objective: Students will create a display of animals found in the rainforest and be able to describe important details of that animal's habitat, features, characteristics, and adaptations. The students will have to group animals according to their class and define similarities and differences between animals of the same class. Bird Feeding and Migration Observation Worksheet included! Subject: Science/ Mathematics Grade Level: 2nd - 7th Time: 15 minutes per day for the length of the adventure (though can be done in less) Objective: Students will
better understand the concept of bird migration through building
a bird house to observe and record data within a given experiment.
Subject: Language Arts Grade: 3rd -5th Time: 45 minutes, plus research time Objectives: Students
will understand antonyms and how they're used for binary comparison
by researching an animal and making connections to themselves. Worksheet included! Subject: Science Grade: 3rd-5th Time: 2 90-minute periods Objective: Students will understand that many animals, or related animals, found in their own backyard also make their home in the rainforest. Worksheet included! Subject: Biology Grade Level: 4th-7th Time: 2 50-minute periods Objective: Students will
undertand the natural predator-prey relationships that exist
Update Activities: Notes from the Trail
What's
significant in today's Notes from the Trail? Subject:
English Language Arts Grade Level:
Late Elementary (4-6) Time: 30
minutes Objective: Students will apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend selections and then relate it back to their personal lives. Investigate
a new word from "Notes from the Trail." From
A Different Perspective Compare
and Chart the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature Worksheet Included! Grade Level: Late Elementary (4-6) Time: 1 - 1 ½
hours Worksheet Included! Subject: Language Arts/Earth Science Time: 40 minutes, each week of the adventure Grade Level: 3rd - 5th grades Objective: Students will increase awareness of a particular ecosystem. Students will increase descriptive language skills and vocabulary to properly describe the ecosystem by using photos and making inferences. Worksheet Included! Grade Level: 3rd-7th Grades Subject: Language Arts/ Science Time: 45 minutes Objective: Students will better understand what products come from the rainforest and how the rainforest's resources are used by local users and global users. Students will make connections between their choices and their effects on the environment. Update Activities: Tico Times
Worksheet included! Subject: Social Science Grade Level: 5th-7th Time: 2 30-minute periods Objective: Students will learn about a foreign culture by making connections to their own set of cultural values, traditions, and personal experience. Worksheet included! Subject: Geography/ Language Arts Grade Level: 5th-7th Time: 2 90-minute periods Objective: Students will
better understand the Costa Rican culture and geography by Tico Times: The Newspaper Article Subject: Language Arts Grades: 3rd-6th Objective: Students will formulate questions for an interview of a local Costa Rican and write answers based on information presented in the Tico Times. Worksheet included! Subject: Language Arts Grade: 3rd-6th Time: 45 minutes Objective: Students will understand what a cultural tradition is, how one is formed, and what cultural events shape their personal lives. Students will understand the importance of differences between different cultural traditions by taking pride in their own family's traditions. Subject: Art/ Social Studies Grade Level: 3rd - 5th Grade Time: 35 minutes Objective: Students will create a rain stick to mimic the sounds of the rainforest. Subject: Language Arts Grade: 3rd-6th Time: 45 minutes Objective: Students will
compose an expository narrative to teach others about their lives.
Student will then submit their essays to the Wilderness Classroom
for publication. Subject: Language Arts Grade Level: 4th-7th Time: 45 minutes Objective: Students will
compose a narrative essay from a distant point of view by using
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