Below are a number of links that will be useful for a K-2 grade level lesson that will be useful for a rainforest unit.  Student projects are a list of ideas that the students can do to demonstrate what they have learned.  Below the student projects are rubrics that can be used to grade the projects.  The Student Support Materials are worksheets that can be printed out and completed by the students.  They can also link to websites to review information they learned.  The final section below, Teacher Support Materials you will find a printable award to give to the students once the rainforest unit is completed.  You will also find a checklist of things that need to be done before, during, and after the unit, along with a unit plan.  Enjoy the information!    

Layers of the Rainforest - a PowerPoint presentation on the layers of the rainforest

Sloth Poster - a publisher poster giving 5 facts of the sloth

Toucan Poster - a publisher poster giving 5 facts of the toucan

Exploring the Rainforest - a website demonstrating knowledge gained by students (publisher document)

Evaluation Tools

PowerPoint Rubric - teacher generated rubric to grade PowerPoint created (word document)

Poster Rubric - teacher generated rubric to grade poster created by student (word document)

Website Rubric - teacher generated rubric to grade the student created website (word document)

Student Support Materials

Check Your Understanding - teacher generated worksheet to check student understanding of the unit (word document)

Look What I Discovered - worksheet that allows students to use their imagination and create a new animal or plant they discovered in the rainforest (word document)

Rainforest Graph - students need to follow directions in order to graph fruits of the rainforest (word document)

Teacher Support Materials

Rainforest Award - printable award for completing rainforest unit (publisher document)

Planning for the Unit - a checklist of what needs to be done before, during, and after the unit (word document)

Unit Plan - description of the rainforest unit (word document)