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In The Rainforest (Magic School Bus) by Eva Moore, 2001-01-01
Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur, 2006-07-25
A Teacher's Guide to a Walk in the Rainforest by Bruce Malnor, Carol Malnor, 1997-11
Discover the Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforest (Discover Your World) by Lauri Berkenkamp, 2008-12-01
The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast by Bruce Braun, 2002-02-25
Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change: Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science)
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Envisioning Cuba) by Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Alex Martin, 2008-03-03
Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest by Binka Le Breton, 2010-05-11
Rainforest Requiem: Recordings of Wildlife in the Amazon Rainforest - CD (Spoken Word) by The British Library, 2010-02-15
Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest by Robert Burleigh, 2002-03-01
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) by Marina Roseman, 1993-03-26
The Mystery in the Amazon Rainforest: South America (Around the World in 80 Mysteries) by Carole Marsh, 2007-08-01
What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature (Future 500 Book) by Tachi Kiuchi, William K Shireman, 2001-01-01
Bloomin' Rainforests (Horrible Geography) by Anita Ganeri, 2008-12-01

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VirtualRainForest-an Online Tour
An interactive online tour of the rainforests of Central and South America. It is excellent for school projects and is written for children.
http://www.msu.edu/~urquhar5/tour/index.html

Extractions: Welcome to the V i r t u a l R a i n F o r e s t You can choose between two online tours of the rainforest, filled with beautiful pictures and interesting facts. The Virtual Rainforest was designed for all ages, but with particular emphasis on teaching children about tropical rainforests. Designed by Dr. Gerald Urquhart, a tropical ecologist, the site is scientifically accurate and explores a wide variety of rainforest topics. Click below to start: The second option is a directed toura slide showleading you through the rainforest step by step. It runs a little faster than the VirtualRainforest and has some different information. Consumer Guide to Purchasing Tropical Wood Products Information for Teachers - Coming Soon!
Rain Forests--Plants/Human Body/Geography Lesson Plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySch
lack of security or stability that threatens with danger. Context Many species have a precarious existence in the rainforests.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/spiritsoftherainforest/

Extractions: Discuss with students how they would go about using the Internet to find material about new or potential uses of plants as medicines. Where would they begin? By going straight to Web sites hosted by pharmaceutical companies? By doing keyword searches? You may have students proceed to follow their own instincts to locate sites and articles. Or to save time and focus students on the same sources, you may want to refer groups of students to the following three sites screened for this project:
Barnens Regnskog, Children's Rainforest Of Sweden
Nonprofit association working to save the world's rainforests by buying the rainforest in order to save it. Provides project and sponsorship information.
http://www.barnens-regnskog.net/
Butterflies - El Bosque Nuevo - Costa Rica
Organization using agroforestry to preserve tropical rainforests. Describes project of sustainably harvesting butterfly pupae for sale to conservatories with pictures and descriptions of many tropical butterfly species.
http://www.elbosquenuevo.org/

Extractions: Home: El Bosque Nuevo About El Bosque Nuevo Our Advisors Contact El Bosque Nuevo ... Version en Espanol About 14 million hectares of tropical rain forest have been lost each year-that's each year, every year-since 1980. El Bosque Nuevo is working hard to reverse this appalling trend. Our efforts prove that biology and economics can be combined in behalf of human and biological needs. Too often, they are represented as being at odds or at war. The value of tropical rain forests can't be calculated in dollars or measured in biological terms. Their value is priceless on one hand as well as beyond full understanding on the otherbut most experts can agree that losing rain forests to single-minded development is a devastating blight. The danger is, can humans survive if the rain forests don't? Rain forests are intimately bound up with the larger, subtle, absolutely vital rhythms and cycles of life on Planet Earth. They are as fundamental to our collective lives at this scale as cell division is to our individual lives at that scale. We cannot do without the unique range and depth of flora and fauna they nourish in their natural state. But that natural state is being torn apart by a short-term focus on profit that remains blind to the harmonious merging of economic desires with biological needs. There is a middle path that serves both priorities in a sustainable way. El Bosque Neuvo has found-and is moving with growing success up along-that ignored but sustainable "middle path."
Surfing The Net With Kids: Rainforests
rainforests are defined and created by rainfall more than eighty inches per year. Tropical On the Line Tropical rainforests. Tropical
http://www.surfnetkids.com/rainforest.htm

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Wings On Wheels
Cycle remote beaches, rainforests and kayaking during an allinclusive cycle tour. Includes itinerary, what to bring, photos, registration and contact information.
http://www.wingsonwheels.com/

Extractions: Looking for something new and exciting in your travels? Wings On Wheels offers Canadas newest most fulfilling cycle tour of the beautiful and isolated Queen Charlotte Islands. Experience peace of mind as lifelong adventurers Paddy and Carole bike you across the rugged terrain and the timeless beauty of Haida Gwaii.
Rainforests: A Virtual Tour
This slide show is designed as an introduction to tropical rain forests and some of their most interesting inhabitants, including people, plants and wild
http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/tour/rainforest.html

Extractions: This slide show is designed as an introduction to tropical rain forests and some of their most interesting inhabitants, including people, plants and wild animals. It was designed for all ages, so some of the language is simple so that younger "travelers" can understand. To go through the tour, just click on the crocodile's head...
APFT Home Page
Multidisciplinary project sponsored by the European Community which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. Involves over 30 researchers in the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific. Site is for the use of anthropologists and others to promote wider access to information concerning the earth's rainforests and its people.
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/

Extractions: Graphics APFT Members Text Only APFT is a multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community (DG VIII) which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is from anthropologists. Started in 1995 the project runs for five years, and involves over 30 researchers EU and ACP (senior and trainee) in three principal areas: the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific. Contact: Enrico Pironio.
Rainforest Biomes
The soil can only be used for a very short time before it becomes completely depleted of all nutrients. Where the rainforests Are Found. *** rainforests
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm

Extractions: T. Sibona. F.A.O Plants Animals Climate Southeast Asian Rainforests The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen. A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world. Scientists have counted about 100 to 300 species in one 2 1/2-acre (1-hectare) area in South America. Seventy percent of the plants in the rainforest are trees. About 1/4 of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants. Curare comes from a tropical vine, and is used as an anesthetic and to relax muscles during surgery. Quinine, from the cinchona tree, is used to treat malaria. A person with lymphocytic leukemia has a 99% chance that the disease will go into remission because of the rosy periwinkle. More than 1,400 varieties of tropical plants are thought to be potential cures for cancer. All tropical rain forests resemble one another in some ways. Many of the trees have straight trunks that don't branch out for 100 feet or more. There is no sense in growing branches below the canopy where there is little light. The majority of the trees have smooth, thin bark because there is no need to protect the them from water loss and freezing temperatures. It also makes it difficult for
KuKura Adventure Story - Organic Cotton Doll - Rainforest Trip - Eco News - Gree
Online book explains why the rainforests are important. 56page book can also be downloaded and printed for offline reading. Site also includes Flash animated pages.
http://greenkeepers.com/
Science In The Rainforest: Native Peoples Of Tropical Rainforests
Answers to Questions on Native Peoples of Tropical rainforests. Q WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? A Tropical rainforests are bursting with life.
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/native.html

Extractions: GLOSSARY Q: WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? A: Tropical rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but many people also call the rainforest their home. In fact, Indigenous, or native, people have lived in rainforests for thousands of years. In North and South America they were mistakenly named Indians by Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had landed in Indonesia, then called the East Indies. Q: IN GENERAL, HOW DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LIVE? A: Although many Indigenous people live much like we do, some still live as their ancestors did many years before them. These groups organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Everything they need to survive, from food to medicines to clothing, comes from the forest. FOOD Besides hunting, gathering wild fruits and nuts and fishing, Indigenous people also plant small gardens for other sources of food, using a sustainable farming method called shifting cultivation. First they first clear a small area of land and burn it. Then they plant many types of plants, to be used for food and medicines. After a few years, the soil has become too poor to allow for more crops to grow and weeds start to take over. So they then move to a nearby uncleared area. This land is traditionally allowed to regrow for 10-50 years before it is farmed again.
Rainforest Relief
Nonprofit dedicated to ending the destruction of the world's tropical and temperate rainforests.
http://www.rainforestrelief.org/
Science In The Rainforest: Take A Walk In The Rainforest
Tropical rainforests are home to 5090% of all the world s species of plants and animals. Most of the monkeys and apes in the world live in the rainforests.
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html

Extractions: Tropical Rainforests are home to 50-90% of all the world's species of plants and animals. Rainforests provide us with oxygen, help maintain our climate and give us essential foods and medicines. Rainforests have intense tropical sunlight, high temperatures and virtually constant rainfall. This environment has enabled organisms to develop specialized adaptations to the environment and to each other. Over time, this specialization has promoted extraordinary biodiversity in the rainforest.
EO Experiments: Rainforest Biome
There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate. Other There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/biorainforest.html
Tangaloa.com
Encourages people to protect rainforests by using Tangaloa hardwood, a quality replacement for rain forest and oldgrowth forest woods.
http://www.tangaloa.com/
EO Study: JASON XV - Rainforests At The Crossroads
Wondrous in their diversity of species, prolific in their plant growth rates, rainforests are particularly important ecosystems.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/ICE/panama/panama.php

Extractions: From January 26-February 6, 2004, an expedition of students, teachers, and scientists will visit Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to explore the rainforest there while the JASON network of classrooms all over the world participates remotely via televised broadcasts. (Visit the JASON Project Web site for details on the expedition and how you can participate. Please see Panama: Isthmus that Changed the World for details on the topography of Panama and how that landscape was formed. Also, a high-resolution QuickBird image of Barro Colorado Island is available.) Why study the rainforest? Though we often take the plants and trees around us for granted, almost every aspect of our lives depends upon them. They feed us, clothe us, absorb carbon dioxide, provide us with oxygen, and give us building materials and medications. Drastic changes to the vegetation around us affect our health, economy, and environment. Wondrous in their diversity of species, prolific in their plant growth rates, rainforests are particularly important ecosystems. Scientists observe that both natural climate changes and human activities are stressing tropical rainforests in some regions, and so scientists are collecting the data they need to predict how these important ecosystems will respond. Terra Aqua , and Landsat About 3 million years ago the Isthmus of Panama formed a land bridge between the continents of North and South America. Situated just north of the equator, Panama enjoys a warm climate year round and is mostly covered by lush tropical rainforests. Participants in the JASON XV expedition will visit Barro Colorado Island, which sits like an emerald jewel in the sapphire waters of Lake Gatun at the northern end of the Panama Canal. (SRTM image of Panama courtesy NASA/JPL/NIMA. High-resolution Quickbird image of Barro Colorado Island courtesy JASON Drake, University of Georgia.)
Inter-Lace : Rainforests
us. Tropical rainforests Resource information from YES about the loss of rainforests. The rainforests in Australia. Minnamurra Rainforest
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/rainforests.htm

Extractions: Home Weblinks Search Search Tips ... Site Map 2004 VISITOR NUMBER s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) Rainforest Weblinks General Information Australian Information Rainforests in Australia Fun Stuff ... For Teachers General Information Zoom Rainforest Tropical Rainforest Cluster from the Science Museum of Minnesota Are there any tropical rainforests where I live? - Location of Rainforests in relation to the equator Passport to Knowledge - Live from the Rainforest Structure of the Rainforest (GEOsystem), Maps of Rainforest areas Rainforest Live Biomes of the World - Rainforest RAINFOREST INFORMATION CENTRE Background Information The World's Forests What's Left 1998; Rainforests of the World; The Causes of Rainforest Destruction ; Solutions to Rainforest Destruction ; Papua New Guinea: A Country Profile ; Indigenous Peoples of the Rainforest
ForestEthics : ForestEthics.org - Protection Of The Worlds Endangered Forests
Dedicated to protecting the ancient rainforests of British Columbia and endangered forests of North America by redirecting US markets toward ecologically sound alternatives.
http://www.forestethics.org/

Extractions: 5/18/04: Environmental groups launch international campaign targeting paper and lumber products from Canada's Boreal Forest - - Office Depot Agrees to Endangered Forest and Recycling Policy - Environmental Campaign Against the Company Ends The environmental campaign against Office Depot is over following the company's announcement of a revised environmental policy that meets The Paper Campaign's demands ... ... ... 5/3/04 - Catalog Industry Targeted for Destroying Endangered Forests at Annual Catalog Conference 3/24/4: Wall Street Journal - Environment Groups To End Campaign Vs Office Depot wall street journal article on office depot victory 3/22/4:Top Catalogs Branded as Endangered Forest Destroyers Lands' End/Sears, LL Bean, Williams-Sonoma/Pottery Barn, Limited/Victoria's Secret, J Crew, and JC Penney named as leading targets for the next phase of ForestEthics' Paper Campaign.... contact us site index
300 Rainforest Links
http//www.mongabay.com/home.htm A place out of time. Tropical rainforests and the perils they face. A site providing information on tropical rain forests.
http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/rain-1.html

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Naples Botanical Garden
Showcases an extensive collection of subtropical and tropical plants from around the world ranging from deserts to rainforests.
http://www.naplesbotanicalgarden.org

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