Unit overview - scroll down for detail on each topic
What do you know already?
Where are the world's Rainforests?
Layers of a Rainforest
Life in a Rainforest
What do you know already?
Create a mind map of what you already know about rainforests. Create a digital mind map using a site such as https://bubbl.us
Use the internet to answer the following questions and add this information (using a different colour) to your mind map.
What is a rainforest?
What are the different types of rainforest?
What are the layers of a rainforest?
Why are rainforests important? (Hint - oxygen and water)
Export your finished mind map and save in a new folder in your Home Folder called Rainforests.
Print the mind maps, mount on leaves and create a tree of rainforest knowledge display
Where are the world's Rainforests?
_Australian Rainforests
Using the Australian Geoscience site - http://mapconnect.ga.gov.au/MapConnect/ label the Australian map with the following rainforests (click
the draw tool, click the 'A', type the name of the rainforest, click
Refresh and Place Markup', then click on the map where the label should
go - then take a screen shot CTRL+ALT+PRTSC of your map and paste it into a Word Document) -
Daintree Rainforest Minamurra Rainforest The Ottways Tarkine Rainforest Mount Warning National Park
Mount Tambourine Lamington National Park
Australia's Remaining Rainforests
Source :MIG (Montreal Process Implementation Group of Australia (2008).
Australia’s State of the Forest Report, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.
Rainforest Plants and Animals Select a rainforest mammal or bird; a rainforest frog, fish or reptile; and a rainforest plant - write a brief report on each describing its appearance, where in the rainforest it is found and how it lives (including its relationship with other inhabitants of the forest). Try to find at least one amazing fact.