In surfing the web, I've found many sites which will help in teaching this year. I am a special education teacher in a comprehensive NYC high school. Most of the students are good thinkers, but not good readers. I have found that I have to find lots of interesting, motivating information in non-book format to engage them.
We learned about the tropical rainforest and African habitats in science during the school year 1997-1998.
school.discovery.com
This site contains lessons and activities based on the shows on Discovery channel which can be literature, science, etc.
www.ran.org/ran/
Information about the rainforest: pictures, stories, etc. Rainforest Action Network:
Rainforest rap: six minutes: world wildlife fund: 1250 24th St, NW, Washington DC 20037 202-293-4800 some can be copied, other parts have to be downloaded first
www.pbs.org
This site contains information on wildlife in Africa "learn with pbs" some can be copied, other parts have to be downloaded first
yahoo.com
In the yahooligans section (for kids) there is a lot of information about animals. There are lists of animals by type, topic, etc. Some of the pages are interactive with games.
198.53.192.127/index.htm
wwf canada world wildlife fund
www.nwf.org/kids/
national wildlife federation has an interactive child's page, but the games page is very slow to work.
www.duke.edu/web/primate/index.html
Information about the reintroduction of lemurs to Madagascar. There is information and photos describing the activity.
www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suriname/suri-eng.html
Tropical Rainforest in Surinam, South America. This site consists of a guided tour with pictures. It. includes information about botany, animals and people.
www.rainforest.org/index.html
This is the website of the tropical rainforest coalition. It includes the following sections: why care/facts/mission/how to help/projects/save-an-acre/schools It also includes a story written by a native to the area who died at 17 years of age from cancer. (There is a warning that the story takes a while to download.)
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/rfa_live_cgi/hp.cgi?caller=kzt%2Ecgi
rainforest alliance: about us/conservation programs/pressroom/forkids and teachers/links/marketplace/rainforest inormation/join/search/site guide/registration jungle guided tour for "kids" rooms in house that have rainforest products in them
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3678
Indonesian tropical rainforest (with music): forest tour (lots of pictures)
http://www.amazon-ecotours.com/pa/region.html
An organization with humanitarian interests in Peru (photos and text) people and places
http://www.mobot.org/MBGnet/vb/rforest/plants/inter2.htm
Rainforest plants as black and white drawings.
http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/~dragonfly/itd/trop-index.html
Students can design a tree that would work well in the tropical rainforest (interactive): cute simple short. There is also information about other habitats.
http://www.portfoliocr.com/farms-rainforest/Rainforest/
Own a rainforest: includes information on what lives there and the cost for 682 acres.
http://users.vnet.net/fishman/amazon96/
A series of photos from a man's trip to the amazon in 1996: people, places, insects, the river, etc beautiful to look at, but no text.
http://www.it21.com.sg/garden/projects/tropicalrain.html
Rainforests in Malaysia (southeast Asia) includes photos and text about plants, animals and people.
Science learning network: museums and educators. Interactive
Scientists in the city
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