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Rainforest Discovery uses the movie, "Ferngully",
to teach students about life in the rainforest and the dangers the rainforest
faces today.
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Missouri Show-Me Standards:
Goal 2.1 Plan and make written, oral and visual presentations for a
variety of purposes and audiences.
Goal 1.8 Organize data,
information, and ideas into useful forms for analysis or presentation.
1.2 Conduct research to answer questions and evaluate information and ideas
1.4 use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize
information
2.3 exchange information, questions and ideas while recognizing the perspectives
of others
3.1 Identify problems and define their scope and elements
3.5 Reason inductively from a set of specific facts and deductively from general
premises
4.1 Explain reasoning and identify information used to support decisions.
Cape Public Schools District
Curriculum Standards:
VIII. B 1. a. 8th grade Science
Students should know that ecosystems are interconnected by biological, chemical,
and physical processes so that changes in one ecosystem can have local or global
consequences.
Students will be able to observe and identify biological, chemical, or physical
processes of one ecosystem that affect our ecosystems.
Students will investigate plant and
animal life in the rainforest and identify the effects of destruction.
Students will plan and make a poster presentation on a problem
in the rainforest.
Students will research and organize data from the internet to
include in their power point presentation.
Movie: "Ferngully: The Last
Rainforest" by Fox Video
computer with internet access and Microsoft Powerpoint
Internet Sites:
Animal Pictures
Archive's Animal Sounds
Rainforest links lessons and projects
Children's Tropical Forests (UK)
Rainforest Graphics
Dr. Blythe's RainforestEducation web site!
notebook
paper
poster board (one per student)
pencils
markers or crayons
Scoring guides are provided for the power point presentation and for the poster.
This web quest was made using Microsoft Front Page with the help of Microsoft Clipart. The scoring guides were created by Rubistar.