Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The
Rainforest
- Social Subjects
- Research in groups one
rainforest each -
Geography.
- Climates - Exploring
climates compared with us.
- Health and Wellbeing
- Healthy foods which
may come from plants
and trees within the
rainforest - Possibly a
fruit tasting session -
Could be followed by a
sense poem linking to
literacy.
- HWB 2-35b
- Run through the Jungle
game - Children must act out
a rainforest animal and avoid
imaginary objects - PE and
links to Drama.
- HWB 2-21a
- RME
- Groups of people
who live in the
rainforest - traditions,
religions etc.
- Literacy
- Conservation of the
Rainforest - Write letters
and create information
leaflets to make people
aware of rainforest
conservation.
- Lit 2-20a
Lit 2-22a
Lit 2-23a
- Create a writing
piece about school
trip to zoo.
- Lit 2-22a
Lit 2-23a
- Fruit tasting
sense poem.
- Lit 2-24a
- Maths
- Measuring rainfall
- Graph making -
Could incorporate
outdoor learning -
measuring our
rainfall.
- MNU 2-11b
MNU 2-20a
- Temperatures -
Possibly compared
with Scotland's
tempreatures
- Problem Solving -
If this many acres
of the rainforest is
destroyed in one
year, how many
acres will be left in
20 years?
Research
opportunities also.
- Expressive Arts
- Art
- Create your
own rainforest -
use appropriate
materials. Links
to sciences.
- EXA 2-02a
- Creating animal
masks. - Could be
used in opera.
- Henri Rousseau's
work on portraying
rainforests - Use his
techniques to create
rainforest artwork.
- EXA 2-02a
EXA 2-03a
- Turn the classroom into
a rainforest - Could
invite parents to take a
tour and children are
tour guides to show
what they have learned.
- Music
- Slim McBride
and the Lost
Tribe (Scottish
Opera).
- EXA 2-17a
- Use chart song and
change the words to
relate to the
rainforest - Group
work.
- EXA 2-17a
- Drama
- Hot seating - People
or animals who live in
the rainforest.
- Run through the
jungle - Explained in
health and wellbeing.
- EXA 2-12a
- Dance
- Rainforest animal dance -
Slim McBride and the Lost
Tribe - Also links with music.
- EXA 2-08a
- Sciences
- The different
layers of a
rainforest - Forest
floor, Understory,
Canopy and
Emergent Layer.
- Materials to
make a
rainforest.
- Why are trees
important? - Dangers of
chopping them down -
opportunities for outdoor
learning.
- SCN 2-02a
- Outdoor learning - Plants and
plant adaptations - Provide
venus fly trap plant.
- SCN 2-02a
SCN 2-14a
- SCN 2-02b
- Animals - Possibly
zoo visit to classify
different animal types.
- SCN 2-01a
- Technologies
- Research different
animals of the
rainforest - Create a
presentation in groups.
- EXA 2-01a
TCH 2-03b