Rain
Forest Unit
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Name:
Mary Ann Christopher
School: McKinney Middle School/Yellow
Springs High School
Workshop Location: Centerville,
Ohio
Title of Companion Content Pathfinder: The Rain
Forest
Grade Level: 8th grade
Curriculum/Subject Area:
Science
Specific Topic: The ecosystem and inhabitants of
the tropical rain forests including the dangers facing the
tropical rain forests.
This pathfinder will help you
find information on the rain forests.
You will learn how
this special ecosystem works and study
the animals native
to rain forests. Also, you will become aware
of the
problems facing the rain forests and the complicated
issues involved. You will find links to articles, Infohio
Resources, websites, and books.
There is a section for
teachers.
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Dewey
Numbers
The following Dewey Numbers will help you
search for information.
333 Land economics
363
Other social problems & services
574 Biology
577
General nature of life591 Zoology
592 Invertebrates
593 Protozoa, Echinodermata, related phyla
594
Mollusca & Molluscoidea
595 Other invertebrates
596 Vertebrata (Craniata, Vertebrates)
597
Cold-blooded vertebrates Fishes
598 Aves (Birds)
599
Mammalia (Mammals)
634 Orchards, fruits, forestry
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| Internet
Activities |
| Theobroma
CacaobA Web Search About Chocolate |
| Use
the following Websites to answer the questions on the
Theobroma Cacao handout. |
| http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/index.html |
| http://www.candyusa.org/Chocolate/default.asp |
| National
Museum of Natural History--Biodiversity |
Use
the following Website to answer the questions on the
Biodiversity handout. |
| http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/ |
| Earthwatch
InstitutebJoin a Scientific Expedition |
Use
the Earthwatch Institute Website to answer the questions
on
the expedition handout. |
| http://www.earthwatch.org/ |
| Biosphere
Reserves |
Use
the NASA Landsat Images Website to
answer the questions
1-4 and the USGS Earthshots Website
to answer questions
5-8 on the Biosphere Reserves handout. |
| http://www.ume.maine.edu/~MIAL/lcluc/images/images.htm |
| http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents |
| What
Can You Do? |
Use
the following websites to answer the questions on the
"What Can You Do?" handout. |
| http://www.worldwildlife.org/forests/ |
| http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/01c.html |
| http://library.thinkquest.org/4621/BPAGE2.HTM |
| http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/e-tropical_rainforest.html |
| http://www.zoorainforest.co.nz/helpus.html |
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| Student
Resources |
| Articles |
| Read
at least 2 of the following articles about the
rainforest. |
| Rain
Forests. Junior Scholastic, 4/8/2002, Vol. 104 Issue 16, p11,
1/2p, 1c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1050; (AN
6516051) |
| Amazon
Rainforest. Natural Life, Mar/Apr2004 Issue 96, p10, 2p; (AN
12659929) |
| Life
in tropical rain forests. By: Farndon, John. Wild Animals,
2003, p48, 1/2p; Reading Level (Lexile): 1140; (AN
9176557) |
| Saving
the rainforest. Economist, 05/12/2001, Vol. 359 Issue 8221,
p12, 1p, 1c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1230; (AN
4431357) |
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| Search
INFOhio Resources |
| www.INFOhio.org |
AccessScience:
Search for b rainforest OR rain forestb .
Be sure to look
at the different types of articles you can get:
Dictionary
Term, Encyclopedia Article, Research Update,
Biography,
and In the News Archive. |
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online School Edition:
Search for rainforest*
Be sure to check out the map showing areas of rainforests
and deforestation. Look at the article in the elementary
edition
for another good map. Watch some of the short
video clips. |
SIRS
Discoverer:
Do a subject search for "rain forest" as 2
words.
There are 8 subjects under rain forest. You can
also do a
Keyword search using either rainforest or rain
forest |
| Search
EBSCO animals for your animal. |
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| Books |
There
are several books in the YSHS/McKinney LMC dealing
with
the rain forest and/or animals. These books are
recommended for this project.
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Reference:
1.
The Ultimate How It Works Encyclopedia
/ Miles, Liz, Series
Editor. Books Are
Fun Ltd., 2002.
CALL NUMBER REF 031
Ul
CALL NUMBER: 500 MIL
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2.
Endangered Species / Rob Nagel. UXL, c1999.
CALL NUMBER:
REF 333.95 NAG vol. 1
CALL NUMBER: REF 333.95 NAG vol.
2
CALL NUMBER: REF 333.95 NAG vol. 3
3. The Fast
Facts Encyclopedia of Animals
& Nature. Copper Beach
Books, c2000.
CALL NUMBER: REF 508 FAS
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4.
Ub"Xb"L Encyclopedia of Biomes
/ Marlene Weigel. UXL,
c2000
CALL NUMBER: REF 577.8 WEI v. 1
CALL NUMBER: REF
577.8 WEI v. 2
CALL NUMBER: REF 577.8 WEI v. 3
5.
Animals of the World / Walters, Martin.
Dempsey Parr,
2000.
CALL NUMBER: REF 590 DEM
6. The Kingfisher
Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia
/ by David Burnie.
Kingfisher, 2000.
CALL NUMBER: REF 590.3
BUR
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7.
Endangered Species / text by
Sarah Lovett. Muir/Norton,
c1992.
CALL NUMBER: REF 591.52 LOV
8. Animal
Fact-File: Head-to-Tail Profiles
of More Than 90 Mammals /
Tony Hare.
Facts on File, Inc., 1999.
CALL NUMBER: REF
599 HAR
9. Wild Cats: and Other Dangerous
Predators
/ written by Clare Oliver;
illustrated by Ross Watton.
Parragon, 2001.
CALL NUMBER: REF 599 OLI
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Nonfiction:
1.
Rain Forest / Michael George.
Creative Education,
c1992
CALL NUMBER: 574.5 GEO
2. Jungle Rescue:
Saving the
New World Tropical Rain Forests
/ Christina
G. Miller and Louise A. Berry.
Maxwell Macmillan
International Pub. Group, 1991.
CALL NUMBER: 574.5 MIL
3. Amazing Animals / by the editors of
Time-Life
Books. Time-Life Books, 1990.
CALL NUMBER: 591
AMA
4. Visual Dictionary of Animals.
Dorling
Kindersley, 1991.
CALL NUMBER: 591 VIS
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5.
Venomous Animals / by Robert Burton.
Crescent Books,
1978.
CALL NUMBER: 591.14 BUR
6. Night Creatures /
Joyce Pope; illustrated by Treve
Tamblin. Troll
Associates, c1994.
CALL NUMBER: 591.51 POP
7. Nature
by Design / Bruce Brooks.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1991.
CALL NUMBER: 591.56 BRO
8. Animal Homes /
Joyce Pope; illustrated by
James Field. Troll Associates,
c1994.
CALL NUMBER: 591.56 POP
9. The Secret World
of Animals. National
Geographic Society, c1986.
CALL
NUMBER: 591.56 SEC
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10.
Amphibians / Giuseppe Minelli; illustrated by
Remo
Berselli and Marzio Tamer ; translated by
Bryan Fleming.
Facts on File, Inc, c1987.
CALL NUMBER: 597.6
MIN
11. World of wildlife / Anthony and
Jacqueline
Nayman. Facts on File, c1979.
CALL NUMBER: 591.9
NAY
12. The Audubon Society book of wild animals
/
Les Line and Edward Ricciuti.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc,
1977.
CALL NUMBER: 599 LIN
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| Websites |
There
are many good website you can use for your
research. These
are recommended.
Animal Diversity Web
A "searchable
encyclopedia of the natural history of
animals." Covers
mammals, birds, arthropods,
amphibians, reptiles, sharks,
bony fishes, and other animals.
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
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Animal
Info - Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered
Mammals
This highly organized site is searchable and
contains brief information, including pictures, biology,
habitat, and status of endangered mammals worldwide.
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| http://www.animalinfo.org/ |
Animal
Information Database
Extensive information about animals.
Also available
is information about endangered species,
animal
rescue and rehabilitation, coral reefs, tropical
forests,
and zoological careers.
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| http://seaworld.org/animal-info/ |
CalPhotos:
Animals
A collection of over 11,000 photographs of
amphibians,
birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals, and
reptiles.
Searchable by name, type, continent, or country.
Also browsable by common and scientific name.
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| http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/fauna/ |
Cloud
Forest Alive
The site has maps, information on threats to
the
cloud forest, information on research being conducted,
animal sound files, and a list of bird species in the
area.
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| http://www.cloudforestalive.org/ |
Enchanted
Learningbs Page on the Rainforest
Includes links to
animals of the rainforests.
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| http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/ |
Get
Help Doing School Reports About the Rainforest
A page of
information and good links to quick information
to write a
school report on a rainforest topic, from
Raintree ( a
company selling food & herbal products
from the
Rainforest.)
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| http://www.rain-tree.com/schoolreports.htm |
Journey
into Amazonia
Web site companion to a 3-hour television
series
about the Amazon Basin by the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS).
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| http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/ |
Rainforest
Action Network
Press releases, action alerts, rain forest
reports,
educational resources, rates of destruction,
why they're important.
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| http://www.ran.org/ |
Rainforestweb.org
This
site is a wide-ranging portal that leads to areas such as:
Why are rainforests important? What's happening in
rainforests? Why are rainforests being destroyed?
How
are rainforests protected? and How can I help?
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| http://rainforestweb.org/ |
Rain
Tree.com
Some of the material is prepared by the s
ite
sponsor, a commercial supplier of nutrition
products
derived from rain forest plants.
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| http://www.rain-tree.com/links.htm |
Science
in the Rainforest
A great fun and educational website on
the rainforest
from PBS designed for students and school
teachers.
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| http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/index.html |
Tour
of Biomes
This site has basic information on six biomes:
tropical rain forest, tropical savanna, desert, Arctic
tundra,
deciduous forest, and subarctic taiga and their
plants,
animals, and climate.
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| http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html |
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| Teacher
Resources |
| Videos |
Videos
available through the Yellow Springs High
School/McKinney
Middle School LMC
Lands and People of Our World
[videorecording].
Los Angeles, CA. : Western Instructional
Television, Inc, 1971.
VCR TAPES VCR 300 LAN (Video
Recording) Prgms. 1-16
Videocassettes (480 min.): 30 15
min. programs + Teachers guide.
Notes : 1. Our home - The
planet Earth. 2. Maps and globes.
3. Life zones. 4. Arctic
lands and man. 5. Tundra lands and man.
6. Forest lands
and man. 7. Grasslands and man.
8. Desert lands and man -
part 1. 9. Desert lands and man - part 2.
10.
Mediterranean lands - part 1. 11. Mediterranean lands - part
2.
12. Tropical lands of Africa. 13. Tropical lands of
Asia.
14. Tropical areas of the United States. 15.
Tropical rain forests.
16. Rivers and how man uses them.
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Videos
available through the Greene County Public Library
1.
Going Places. Volcanoes & Rainforests [videorecording] / a
Thirteen/WNET production. [United States] : MPI Home Video,
c1998. LOCATION Xenia Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] 918.66 Go
1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Visit
Cotopaxi, the world's tallest active volcano, see the
picturesque setting of a newly restored 17th century
luxury inn
and take a canoe ride through the Amazon jungle
and
explore the dense rainforests.
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2.
Rain Forest [videorecording] / produced by the National
Geographic Society and WQED Pittsburgh ; written,
produced and photographed by David Hughes and
Carol
Hughes. Stamford, CT : Vestron Video
[distributor],
[1987], c1983.
LOCATIONS Beavercreek Nonfiction VHS
[VideoVHS] 574.5 Ra
Xenia Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] 574.5
Ra
1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Showcases the rare beauty and rich variety of plant and
animal life found in a Costa Rican rain forest. Also
examines the impact of man's exploitation of the rain
forest
on this fragile ecosystem.
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3.
Totally Tropical Rain Forest / [videorecording] National
Geographic Society. [S.l.] : National Geographic Society
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Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home
Video
(distributor), c1994.
LOCATIONS Beavercreek J Nonfiction
VHS [VideoVHS] J 574.5, To
Bellbrook J Nonfiction VHS
[VideoVHS] J 574.5, To
Xenia J Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] J
574.5, To
Yellow Springs J Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] J
574.5, To
1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Explores the life-filled rain forest, where there's a
greater
variety of plants and animals than anywhere else on
earth.
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4.
Tropical Rain Forest [videorecording] / a presentation of The
Science Museum of Minnesota ; [funded by] The John D.
&
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The National
Science Foundation, The Jostens Foundation.
Whittier,
CA : distributed by Finley-Holiday Film Corp., c1992.
LOCATION Fairborn Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] 574.5 Tr
1
videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
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5.
Wonders of the Rain Forest [videorecording] / Ingle
Productions. Alexandria, VA : Time-Life Video, c1994, c1992.
LOCATION Beavercreek J Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] J 591, Wo
Bellbrook J Nonfiction VHS [VideoVHS] J 591, Wo
1
videocassette (ca. 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
" ...
visit Costa Rica and its lush rain forest, home to more than
50 percent of the world's wildlife"--
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