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People of the rainforest	Importance of rainforests	Destruction of rainforests
Saving the rainforests	Activities, games and puzzles	For teachers

General Information

Rainforest biome
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor.htm

Rainforest information
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Grainforest.html

All about rainforests
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Allabout.shtml

Children's Tropical Forests (U.K.) Fact Sheet
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/environ.htm

Intro to rainforests
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=475

Biomes - Tropical rainforest
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rforest.html

Passport to the rainforest
http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html

Rainforest education
http://www.rainforesteducation.com

Types of rainforests

Types of rainforests
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/types.htm

Tropical rainforests
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor3.htm

Temperate rainforests
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor5.htm

Location of Rainforests

Tropical rainforest location
http://www.hesd.k12.ca.us/resource/biomes/rain.htm

Where are rainforests located?
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/where.htm

Where are tropical rainforests?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Where.shtml

Where are they? (1) - Click on to the links near the top of the page next to the yellow dots to read 'Where are they' (2) and (3)
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=369

Strata or Layers of the Rainforest

Rainforest Strata
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Strata.shtml

Strata
http://www.thinkingfountain.org/s/strata/strata.html

Layers of the forest
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=476

Animals of the Rainforest

Tropical rainforest : Animals
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor4.htm

Rainforest animals
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/traci/animals/rfanimals.htm

Tropical rainforest - Select the animals from the drop-down menu
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/testrf1.htm 

Tropical rainforest animals. Click on the blue arrows at the bottom of the pages for lots more information
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/animals/valley.htm

Rainforest animals
http://www.abcteach.com/free/f/facts_rainforestanimals.pdf

Amazing rainforest animals
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/rainfor/

Animals of the rainforest
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/

Rainforest animals
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/

Amazing adventures in the rainforest - A Thinkquest Junior entry
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5393/

Rainforest animals
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/animals.htm

Tropical rainforest animals
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rforestA.html

Animals - Click on to the links near the top of the page next to the yellow dots to find out about the various rainforest animals. Also click the small arrow to see the next lot of animals.
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=376

Rainforest animals
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/biomes/ranimals.html

Rainforest animals - Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the various animal links for information
http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/rainforests/rainforests.html

Plants of the Rainforest

Tropical rainforest plants
http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/NEWGEOG/Habitats/world.htm

Tropical plant database
http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm

Tropical rainforest plants. Click on the blue arrows at the bottom of the pages for lots more information
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/plants/valley.htm

Plants of the rainforest
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/

Rainforest plants
http://www.abcteach.com/RainforestFacts/plants.htm

Rainforest plants
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/plants.htm

Plants. Click on the links next to the little yellow dots to find out about smaller plants and trees
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=374

Tropical rainforest plants
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rforestP.html

Rainforest plants
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/biomes/rplants.html

People of the Rainforest

People of the rainforest
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/

People of the rainforest
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/people.htm

People of the rainforest (1) - Click on to the links near the top next to the yellow dots to find out about the Maroons, Yanomami, and Tukano people. There is more than one page of information about the Yanomami, and Tukano
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=377

People of the rainforest (2)
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=414

Rainforest people - Click on Next at the bottom of the page for more information
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/301.html

Importance of Rainforests

Why are rainforests important?
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor2.htm

Why are rainforests important? - Click on Next at the bottom of the page for more information
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/401.html

Uses - Click on to the links near the top of the page next to the yellow dots to find out about the uses. Also click the small arrow to see more.
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=368

Destruction of Rainforests

Why are rainforests important?
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor2.htm

Rainforest biome : causes of destruction
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/explore/dest.htm

Destruction - Click on to the links near the top next to the yellow dots to find out about Causes and Effects
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=474

Rainforest destruction
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/destruct.htm

The consequences of rainforest destruction
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/conseq.htm

Logging, a bigger threat to the rainforest than we knew
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2005-10/aaft-lab101405.php

How are rainforests being destroyed? - Click on Next at the bottom of the page for more information
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/501.html

Saving the Rainforests

Conservation
http://www.rainforestlive.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=479

What can be done to save rainforests?
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ctf/facts/what.htm

How can we save rainforests? - Click on Next at the bottom of the page for more information
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/601.html

Activities, Games and Puzzles

Rainforest concentration puzzle
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/rainforest-c.htm

Rainforest word search
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/rainforest-ws.htm

Rainforest word scramble
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/rainforest-sc.htm

How to draw a toucan
http://www.chunkymonkey.com/rainforest/toucan.htm

How to draw a rainforest butterfly
http://www.chunkymonkey.com/rainforest/butterfly.htm

For Teachers

Rainforests - Activities
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-rainforests.htm

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South Australia

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