For links to a wide
array of rain forest-themed Web sites, visit one of these directories:
1. Yahooligans!:
Around the World: Regions: South America: Amazon - http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Regions/South_America/Amazon/
2. Kennesaw State University's
Virtual Directory: Rain Forest Resources for K-6 Teachers -
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rforest.html
Below is a list of
books and resources related to the rain forest recommended by K-6 teachers:
- Rain Forest by Jim
Valley - A "Big Book;" text is song; comes w/ music tape; music
by Jim Valley, lyrics by S. American children; produced by The Wright
Group.
- Step Inside the Rain Forest
- A "Big Book;" good illustrations for young children; simple text; w/
teacher's guide. Macmillan.
- Destination: Rain Forest
- Computer software for ages 6-12; available through Sunburst Books; part
of Imagination Express series.
- The Wump World by Bill
Peet
- The Great Kapok Tree
by Lynn Cherry
- Earth Dance by Joanne
Ryder
- Children of the Earth: A
Letter from Home by Schim Schimmel
- Rain Forest Animal Picture
Set and Video Set (Animals of the Rain Forest; Plants of the Rain
Forest; People of the Rain Forest...) available through Upstart.
- Ranger Rick Big Book Magazines.
- A Beast Feast by Douglas
Florian
- The Lorax by Dr. Zeus
- Where the Forest Meets the
Sea - Pre-K; big collages w/ r. forest materials.
- 3-2-1 Contact: You Can't
Grow Home Again (Video)
- Rain Forest by Helen
Couchler
- Life in the Rainforests by
Lucy Baker
- Rainforest Wildlife by Antonia
Cunningham
- Ranger Rick Nature Scope
Activity Books
- A Walk in the Rain Forest
- An ABC book by Kristin Joy Pratt
- Electronic Field Trip to
the rain forest via Turner Broadcasting
- The Spirit of the Rain Forest
- movie, produced by the Discovery Channel
- Fern Gully (movie)
- Richard Orr's Nature Cross-Sections
- Written by Moira Butterfield; illustrated by Richard Orr; pub.: Dorling
Kindersley. Excellent "cross-section" illustrations.
- Children Just Like Me: A
Unique Celebration of Children Around the World - by Barnabas and
Anabel Kindersley in association w/ UNICEF. Excellent photos, very
informative text.
- Hopscotch Around the World
- by Mary D. Lankford; illustrated by Karen Milone.
- A Unit About Tropical Rainforests,
Gr. 3-6 - Evan-Moor
- In the Rainforest: A Complete
Thematic Unit, Gr. 1-3 - Evan-Moor
- Rain Forests: Tropical Treasures
- NatureScope
- Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild
About Rainforests by Kathy Ross
- Rain Forest - National Geographic
video
- Amazon, Land of the Flooded
Forest - National Geographic video
- The Rain Forest - Scholastic;
from First Discovery Book Series.
- Make Your Own Rain Forest
- Includes Giant Three-Dimensional Press-Out Rain Forest Model by Carol
Watson, Gill Tomblin (Illustrator)
- The Journey of the Red-eyed
Tree Frog - Martin and Tanis Jordan
- Rain Forest: Interactive
Geography Kit - Scholastic
- Exploring the Rain Forest
: Science Activities for Kids by Anthony D. Fredericks, Shawn Berlute-Shea
(Illustrator)
- Lake of the Big Snake: An
African Rain Forest Adventure by Isaac Olaleye, Claudia Shepard (Illustrator)
- The Magic School Bus Explores
the Rainforest - Scholastic CD-ROM
- Amazon Boy by Ted Lewin
- Aria by Peter Elbling, illustrated
by Sophy Williams
- Panther Dream: A Story of
the African Rainforest by Bob and Wendy Weir
- Feathers Like a Rainbow:
An Amazon Indian Tale by Flora
- Welcome to the Green House
by Jane Yolen & illustrated by Laura Regan
- Jungle Days, Jungle Nights
by Tanis Jordon & illustrated by Martin Jordon
- Here is the Tropical Rain
Forest by Madeleine Dunphy & illustrated by Michael Rothman
- Nature's Green Umbrella:
Tropical Rain Forests by Gail Gibbons
- Nature Search: Rain Forest
- A Hands-On Guide for Nature Sleuths by Reader's Digest, with magnifying
glass and activities
- Rain Forest by Barbara Taylor
