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Summary

The “Save the Rainforest” zine helps students explore the following questions:
  • What are rainforests and why are they worth protecting? 
  • What are the layers (ecosystems) in the rainforest and how have species adapted to those layers? 
  • Why are rainforests in danger and how to human actions lead to deforestation?
  • Who is helping the rainforest and how can we help?

Connections to Other Resources

This zine is the primary text in our Save the Rainforests Project 

Overview

Life Habit Focus: Impact Awareness

Subject: ELA, life science

Grade: 3-5

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades 3-5.

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS3-2: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
  • 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.*
  • 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 3-ESS2-2: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
  • 4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment
  • 5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment

Zine (Text Available with Membership)

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