Curricula

The interactions between the forest canopy and the atmosphere, and the tremendous diversity of organisms living in the canopy, make the canopy a natural "launch point" for many aspects of environmental education. The growing interest in forest canopy research among educators has created a need for informal and formal curricula that concern forest canopy biota and their environment. This database provides access to established and in-progress lesson plans, class outlines, and other resources that can be used by teachers of varying grade levels.

• Children's Rainforest Information Page

  Explanations of tropical and temperate rainforests, as well as why they are important, how they are being destroyed, and information to help the rainforests. This page also has an extensive link section to find teaching materials and lesson plans: www.rainforestinfo.org.au/children/chlinks.htm

• Children's Tropical Forests

  Children's Tropical Forests (U.K.) is a registered charity dedicated to the protection, conservation and regeneration of the world's tropical forests by means of education and direct action in the forests themselves. Action by the supporters of CTF (U.K.) both young and old has already achieved the purchase of large tracts of forest within the International Children's Rainforest Monteverde, Costa Rica and the construction of a protection centre with equipment and education programme at Khao Nor Chuchi, Thailand. We now need urgent support for our initiatives at the Bridge Project (Rincon) Rainforest in Costa Rica, Bilsa in North West Ecuador and Uwasu Rainforest Reserve in Amazonian Brazil. This site has maps, lists of events, facts, links, and a newsletter that they publish over email.

• Forest Web of Life

  Forest Web of Life activity

• Moss Facts

  Forest Web of Life activity

• Moss Identification

  Forest Web of Life activity

• PBS Journey to Amazonia

  The website to a three-hour wildlife series on PBS offers a look at the creatures of the Amazon River Basin. Different sections of the site include the three parts of the show, "Waterworlds," "The Land Reborn," and "The Big Top, along with "Powerful Plants," and Sacred Ground." Extensive information, pictures, and teacher/web resources for classroom learning and on-line adventures for younger students.

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