Animals in The Amazon Rainforest

By Heidi Miles

Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5

This lesson provides students with an opportunity to learn about the behaviors and physical characteristics of the animals of the rainforest.

Learning Standards

Life Science(Biology) - Page 48, #10: Give examples of how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival. Explain how some of these changes may affect the ecosystem.

Mathematics Ratio and Proportional Relationships – Page 55, #1: Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between to quantities.

English Language Arts – Page 12, #9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g. opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g. the quest) in stories, myths and traditional literature from different cultures.

Social Studies – Page 24, #4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story or recount on experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes: speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Goals

To help students understand the importance of the rain forest in our world. They will learn through vocabulary, reading material and chart.

Children will experience math, science, English and social studies in one lesson plan. Math will be a counting question based on the number of animals. Science will be on how the environment is necessary for their survival. Language Arts will be based on research on their favorite animal.

Objectives and Materials

Objectives: Students will learn the similarities and differences between the animals of the rainforest and the animals that live in the same environments as the students.

Materials: Article on animals of the rainforest. Vocabulary Worksheet Adaptation Chart

Books, magazines and web resources about the rainforest animals

Evaluation and Instructional Tip

Evaluation:

Students will be able to name and identify animals of the rainforest. Eight out of ten students should be able to perform experiments.

Instructional Tip:

Children will have a chart in the classroom of the animals in which to refer.

Modifications and Enrichment

Modification: Children will partner up to do their research paper on their agreed upon animal.

Enrichment: The students will create a model of the animal that they researched.

Handouts

Handouts

Handouts

Sounds of the Amazon

What Are The Different Animals?

Habitats

Food Chain

Food Chain

The Destruction of The Rainforest  At 2007 rates, it was considered that in two decades the

Amazon Rainforest would be reduced by 40%

The rate of deforestation is now slowing, and in 2011 deforestation figures were the slowest on record, although the forest is still shrinking.

The animals of the rainforest are in danger because they cannot adapt fast enough to their forever decreasing living space.

How We Are Preventing Further Destruction of The Rainforest

Today

Websites like http://www.rainforestconcern.org help to inform people about what they can do to help.

Solutions for stopping deforestation: Get big business to implement zero-deforestation policies

 Consumers can buy recycled or certified wood products, only supporting brands with zero deforestation policies.

Politics: We use U.S. laws like the Wilderness Act, Lacey Act  and the Roadless Rule to protect U.S. forests and stop illegal wood products from entering the U.S. marketplace. Forests for Climate is a landmark proposal for an international funding mechanism to protect tropical forests.

The End

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