Rainforest Project

 

Required Projects:

Create a Test!

Write a Poem

 

Your job is to show your understanding of The Great Kapok Tree by creating a multiple choice question using Kidpix.

Your question should reflect your understanding of the book. You should have only one correct answer and three incorrect answers.

Illustrate your question without giving away the answer.

 

 

Use your research to create a poem about your animal. You must show your understanding by using details.

Take notes on your note-cards and record three interesting facts about your animal.

Use your note-cards and follow instructions to write a cinquain poem, a haiku poem, or a concrete poem.

 

 

You choose:

Make a Postcard

Venn Diagram

Design your own postcard from the rainforest. Write to an animal in the rainforest, or from an rainforest animal's point-of-view.

Demonstrate your knowledge and understand of the rainforest.

Use a Venn Diagram to compare moths and butterflies. Find the information you will need on the butterfly page.

Butterflies are found in the emergent layer of the rainforest.

 

Create a Diorama

Newspaper Article

Use the information in this website to create a diorama (story box) of the rainforest. It must be based on factual information.

Include at least one animal per level of the rainforest. Label your animals and each level of the rainforest.

 

Image: Diorama

Write a factual newspaper article about any issue you have learned about the rainforest. Choose conservation, deforestation, a specific species.

You may get creative! Write the article from an animal's perspective, or write it for the animals in the rainforest.

 

"What If"

Inspiration or Kidspriation Web

Choose a rainforest plant or animal you have learned about. Use your favorite webbing program to create a web of the effects if that animal was no longer able to survive.

Keep in mind what that animal eats, or if anything eats this animal.

 
 
 
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