Welcome
to the Rain Bird Rain Forest Curriculum Site!
Using
this site, you can access activities and demonstrations to
use in your classroom for teaching scientific aspects of the
Earth's endangered rain forests. Teaching modules have been
formatted in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) for easy downloading and
printing. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader software
installed on your computer to view and print the modules.
If you don't already have it installed, you can download
Acrobat for free from Adobe's website.
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Curriculum materials are divided into grade level segments.
Within the segments for grades K-5, there are four components
of curriculum materials:
Science Through Art - these
are activities which integrate science and artistic skills,
such as coloring, drawing, painting, and printmaking.
Interactive Science Activity
- these are activities which are experimental in nature,
requiring students to take data, make observations of the
data and, at higher grade levels, to make inferences from
the data.
Outdoor Activity - these
are activities which allow students to gather materials
from the field and perform scientific analyses, appropriate
to their grade level, on the materials which they bring
in from their excursion to the outdoors.
In-Class Demonstration -
these are demonstrations to be performed for the students
by the teacher, using commonly available materials, and
primarily related to physical science aspects of rain forest
phenomena.
The segments for grades 6-12 include activities and demonstrations
only.
Using
this site, you can access activities and demonstrations to
use in your classroom for teaching scientific aspects of the
Earth's endangered rain forests. Teaching modules have been
formatted in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) for easy downloading and
printing. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader software
installed on your computer to view and print the modules.
If you don't already have it installed, you can 