RESOURCES

Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation |  Conclusion

All About Rainforests
Learn about the geography, climate, plants and animals of the rainforest

Online Databases  This is the site Mrs. Smith showed you in the library.  Click on News Bank Kids Page,  then SchoolMate Kids Page, and type in rain forest*.  Great Resource!

Kennesaw Rainforest Information - Abundance of information for all experts.  Links to other sites.  

Gander Academy  A listing of many sites to find out more about the rainforest

Plants of the rainforest

Journey into Amazonia

Wealth of the Rainforest
Rainforests facts, information and preservation.  Plants, animals, pictures, and links to other resources.

Amazon Interactive  
Explore the geography of South America and the Amazon Rainforest.  Also find out about a different tribe and how they live.

Surfing the net about rainforests - Rainforest glossary, information, games, and postcards

Rainforests of the World -Types of rainforest, climates, locations, plants, and animals

Rainforest Hotlist - List of many rainforest resources

CHECK OUT SPECIFIC SITES FOR EACH EXPERT

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST

• Making a living  http://www.eduweb.com/agriculture/ag1.htm

• Who lives in the rainforest  http://www.eduweb.com/rainforest/wholives.html

• Coffee and conservation http://www.eduweb.com/agriculture/comag.html

• People of the rainforest http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s07.html

• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/people.html

• http://www.tropical-forests.com/

THE ECONOMIST

• Products http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s11.html

• Facts about wood http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s08.html

• Facts about oil  http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s09.html

• Facts about beef  http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s10.html

• Things you can do to save the rainforest  http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s01.html

• Banks and the rainforest http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/s13.html

• Wealth of the rainforest http://www.rain-tree.com/

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/preserve.html

• Destruction of the rainforest http://www.tropical-forests.com/

THE GEOGRAPHER

• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm

• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm

• What makes rainforests special http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/special.htm

• http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/bigtop.html

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/where.html

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/what.html

• Layers of the rainforest http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/whlayers.html

• Layers http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/s/strata/strata.html

THE ZOOLOGIST

• Animals of the rainforest http://www.animalsoftherainforest.org/frames.htm

• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm

• http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/life.html

• http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/bigtop.html

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/animals.html

• http://www.animalsoftherainforest.org/

• http://www.tropical-forests.com/

• Animals in each layer http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/s/strata/strata.html

THE BOTANIST

• Plants http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/traci/animals/plants.htm

• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm

• http://www.rain-tree.com/plist.htm

• http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/plants.html

• http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants.html

• Medicines http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/05f.html

• http://www.tropical-forests.com/

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