When you are finished with your assignment, press the "Send Assignment" button. * You will need to know your teacher's e-mail address. You can, as an alternative to e-mail, write the answers on a separate piece of paper. Make sure to bring your completed work to class so that the teacher can check it, and give you credit. Email Your Assignment To Your Teacher. Include Your: Teacher's Email: Your Name: Your Email: Subject: Lesson: Thoughts of rain forests usually bring images of tropical plants and animals in South America. However, North America also has a rain forest. Explore this important habitat. Go to a site called "The Rainforest Workshop" at http://kids.osd.wednet.edu/Marshall/rainforest_home_page.html. Select the Temperate Rainforest segment and answer these questions: Where is the temperate rain forest in Washington State? Name some types of plants in the temperate rain forest. Go to a site of the Missouri Botanical Garden on rain forest biomes at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/vb/rforest/index.htm. How much of the rain forest has been lost and why? Proceed to another part of the Missouri Botanical Garden's site featuring a field report of students who visited the ancient temperate rain forests at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/fr/temprain/index.htm. Follow the arrows to explore the students' field report. Evaluate the types of information and photographs provided by the students. Is this a valuable report? Why or why not? Extension Activity You can write a letter to your member of Congress to urge conservation of the ancient rain forests. Go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ . Send a letter based on facts you have gathered. Learning Objectives: Learn about temperate rain forests Find relevant information on the Web Evaluate the information Compose a letter to a public official based on information gathered Type Your Assignment Here Include Your: Name - Teacher - Subject - Assignment Title
Email Your Assignment To Your Teacher. Include Your: Teacher's Email: Your Name: Your Email: Subject: Lesson: Thoughts of rain forests usually bring images of tropical plants and animals in South America. However, North America also has a rain forest. Explore this important habitat. Go to a site called "The Rainforest Workshop" at http://kids.osd.wednet.edu/Marshall/rainforest_home_page.html. Select the Temperate Rainforest segment and answer these questions: Where is the temperate rain forest in Washington State? Name some types of plants in the temperate rain forest. Go to a site of the Missouri Botanical Garden on rain forest biomes at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/vb/rforest/index.htm. How much of the rain forest has been lost and why? Proceed to another part of the Missouri Botanical Garden's site featuring a field report of students who visited the ancient temperate rain forests at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/fr/temprain/index.htm. Follow the arrows to explore the students' field report. Evaluate the types of information and photographs provided by the students. Is this a valuable report? Why or why not? Extension Activity You can write a letter to your member of Congress to urge conservation of the ancient rain forests. Go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ . Send a letter based on facts you have gathered. Learning Objectives: Learn about temperate rain forests Find relevant information on the Web Evaluate the information Compose a letter to a public official based on information gathered Type Your Assignment Here Include Your: Name - Teacher - Subject - Assignment Title
Thoughts of rain forests usually bring images of tropical plants and animals in South America. However, North America also has a rain forest. Explore this important habitat. Go to a site called "The Rainforest Workshop" at http://kids.osd.wednet.edu/Marshall/rainforest_home_page.html. Select the Temperate Rainforest segment and answer these questions:
Go to a site of the Missouri Botanical Garden on rain forest biomes at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/vb/rforest/index.htm.
Proceed to another part of the Missouri Botanical Garden's site featuring a field report of students who visited the ancient temperate rain forests at http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/fr/temprain/index.htm. Follow the arrows to explore the students' field report. Evaluate the types of information and photographs provided by the students. Is this a valuable report? Why or why not?
Extension Activity
You can write a letter to your member of Congress to urge conservation of the ancient rain forests. Go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ .
Learning Objectives:
Type Your Assignment Here Include Your: Name - Teacher - Subject - Assignment Title