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Rainforest Creative Writing

Rainforests are home to many animal species. Students will investigate these ecosystems and their inhabitants and create an original story featuring a rainforest animal.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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Steps

  • Step 1

    The tropical rainforest biome are home to over 50 percent of all known living species. Temperate rainforests have fewer species because of their cooler climates. Have students learn some facts about rainforests. What is the difference between a tropical and a temperate rainforest? What characterizes them? Why are they considered a natural defense against climate change? What are some threats to their existence? What are some of the animals that live there?

  • Step 2

    Ask students to choose a rainforest animal to write a story about. It might be a short story, a poem, or even a dialogue for some of the animals. Encourage them to let their imagination run wild!

  • Step 3

    When the writing is complete, have students create artwork related to the main animal in their story using oil pastels on construction paper. Then ask them to present their drawings and read their stories or poems to the class. If they wrote dialogue for a scene, perhaps some of their classmates could participate in the reading.

Standards

LA: Write using words, numbers, and images to inform and explain, share experiences, and create narratives, either fictional or non-fictional.

SCI: Ask questions about the features of phenomena observed and conclusions drawn from investigations or models.

SCI: Use evidence to support the concept that behaviors can be influenced by the environment and the environment is impacted by behavior.

Adaptations

There are animals that live only in the Amazon River and surrounding forest and nowhere else in the world (with new species being discovered regularly). Have students learn about and look at images of some of these, such as the pink Amazon river dolphin, the pygmy marmoset (sometimes called a pocket monkey) that weighs only five ounces, or the blue-throated macaw, which is an endangered animal that is making a comeback.

Laser mapping has revealed hidden structures in the Amazon rainforest region. Have students investigate these creations called geoglyphs that were created by humans and serve to prove that Indigenous people have lived in the rainforest for millennia.