Fifth Grade Studies

Our Endangered Earth

OnLine OnRamp for Endangered Earth Study

Explore several of the following websites to gather fascinating information: (These sites are listed on the Fifth Grade Endangered Earth OnLine OnRamp)

Temperate forest links!!!!!!
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/temprain/trlinks.html
 Children of the Rainforest ~ Photo WebQuest site http://ccph.com/amazon/cota2/index.html

A collection of rainforest sites~tropical:

http://forestry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mongabay.com%2Fhome.htm

Great pictures, frogs, monkeys, etc.:

http://forestry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http

%3A%2F%2Fwww.mongabay.com%2Fhome.htm 

  Image Directory

http://forestry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http

%3A%2F%2Fwww.mongabay.com%2Fhome.htm

Yanomami ~Warriors of the Amazon:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shaman/

Journey into Amazonia ~ a PBS unit
http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/

Slash and Burn Agriculture
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpslashburn.html

World Rainforests Information Portal
http://www.rainforestweb.org/

Forests and Forest Destruction Photos
http://www.stockpix.com/stock/environmentalissues/forest/

Info on: Periwinkle
http://www.rain-tree.com/periwinkle.htm

Interactive Map of troubled areas in USOld growth Forests
http://www.wri.org/ffi/maps/namerica.htm

Amphibians in the Old Growth Forests
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~french/amphib.html

Temperate Forests: sustainable forestry?
http://www.forestinfo.org/

Raintree's Rainforest Philosophy ~ Can the rainforests be saved?
http://www.rain-tree.com/comerce2.htm#philo

Raintree's Tropical Plant Database:
http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm

Plant Based Drugs and Medicines:
http://www.rain-tree.com/plantdrugs.htm

Old Growth Chart
http://www.fs.fed.us/land/fm/oldgrow/oldgrow.jpg

Rainforest destruction images:
http://www.realtime.net/~raintree/gallery/destruction.htm

Excellent Forest Info ~ says it all!
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm


From the Seat of the Bulldozer.an article about temperate forests
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpbulldozer.html

Glossary of temperate forest terms:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/temprain/trglossary.html

Rainforests ­ Being Permanently Destroyed? An opposing point of view:
http://forestry.about.com/library/weekly/aa052399.htm

Photo Gallery of N. American Trees and Forests:
http://forestry.about.com/library/gallery/blg-nats_index.htm

Maps of the most common forest types
http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/bltypdex.htm

The Great American Coniferous Forest:

http://forestry.about.com/library/weekly/aa071899.

htm?iam=sherlock_abc

Introduction to the Amphibia from Berkeley:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/

tetrapods/amphibintro.html

Amazon Interactive ~ Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the Quichua people who call the rainforest home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

Tropical Rainforest Animals (includes the details of how animals coexist within this environment)
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/res2/animals.html

Rainforest Animals - ZOOM RAINFORESTS (an extremely comprehensive site which includes maps as well as info about temperate and tropical forests and their inhabitants)

http://www.allaboutnature.com/subjects/rainforest/

animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml

Amazing Rainforest Animals (a collection of rainforest animal pictures, writings, and resource links from Louisiana State University)
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/rainfor/index.htm

Rainforest Animals (includes resources from Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/animals/index.htm

United States Links from Rainforest Web

http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Regions/

North_and_Central_America/United_States/

General rainforest information
 http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au

The Rainforest Information Center Children's Forest Links Page
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/children/chlinks.htm

Sites about Asian Rainforests

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Regions/

Asia_and_Pacific/welcome.asp

  Three Pages of Sites about South American Rainforests

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Regions/

South_America/welcome.asp

Sites about African Rainforests

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Regions/

Africa/welcome.asp

  Sites about Central American Rainforests

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Types/

Rainforests/Cloud_and_Montane_Forests/welcome.asp

 Sites about the Temperate Rainforest

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Types/

Rainforests/Temperate_Rainforests/welcome.asp

 Sites about the Brazilian Rainforest

http://www.eco-portal.com/Forests/Forest_Regions/

South_America/Brazil/welcome.asp

Forest Conservation PortalVast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information
http://forests.org/

 Rainforest Map printout

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/

rainforest/Mapbw.shtml

 All About Rainforests Rainforest printable strata (layers of the forest) workpage.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com

/subjects/rainforest/label/labelstrata.shtml

 Enchanted Learning ~ ZOOM Rainforest
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest

 Rainforests of the World Check out all the Rainforest Topics!
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/

 World Wildlife Foundation
http://www.panda.org/ http://www.panda.org/kids/

 Shades of Green: Earth's Forests
http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/main1.html

 About Trees:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/196.html

 About Temperate Forests:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/421.html

 About Tropical Forests:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/96.html

 Research and Teaching Resources for the Environment
About Forests:
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/20.html

 Explore the eco-region of the Amazon River, the Flooded Forest.video, links, more!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com

/wildworld/amazonriver/amazonriver.html

The Nature Conservancy ~ take a bug quiz... or enter keywords to search for specific area, like "Amazon."
http://nature.org/

 World Rainforest Information Portal ~ excellent resource for answering essential questions
http://www.rainforestweb.org/

 Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/

The Wilderness Society
http://www.wilderness.org/

Lots of excellent, appropriate, clear material, sequential
http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html

MAPS AND RESOURCES Wow! Maps galore!
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html

About the National Forests, specifically :

http://www.wilderness.org/OurIssues/Forests/index.

cfm?TopLevel=Home

The Pacific Northwesta technical articlegives lots of names of treesshows what effect logging has had on the region
http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/pn169.htm

Old Growth Forests Preserving America's Ancient Forests Saving the Oldest, Tallest, Living Things on Earth

http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/

oldgrowthed.htm

All about the Northern Spotted Owl
http://endangered.fws.gov/i/b6k.html

Lots of Owl Links
http://www.owlpages.com/

The Aviary ~ an index of all the bids
http://aviary.owls.com/index.html

The AviarySpotted Owl Hear the hoot!!!
http://aviary.owls.com/spotted_owl/spotted_owl.html

NASA Earth Observing System

NASA's education links:

http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_edu.pack/toc.html

http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/for_

educators/educational_links.php?print=true


Keep careful notes on everything you read, the videos you see, the websites you explore. Store them in your notebook.