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Where can you find an antelope the size of a rabbit, a frog that can fly, or a spider that eats birds? All in tropical rainforests, of course! Tropical rainforests are home to many of the strangest-looking and most beautiful, largest and smallest, most dangerous and least frightening, loudest and quietest animals on earth. You've probably heard of some of them; jaguars, toucans, parrots, gorillas, and tarantulas all make their homes in tropical rainforests. But have you ever heard of the aye-aye? Or the okapi? There are so many fascinating animals in tropical rainforests that millions haven't been named or even identified yet. In fact, about half of all the world's species live in tropical rainforests.

You do not need home access to a computer to write your draft report. I have included information to assist in the research. I am more than happy to help if you would like extra time to work on this assignment. You will have 2 weeks to gather information and write a draft report (in your own words) prior to working on your slideshow presentation in the lab.

Each Slideshow should consist of a:

Title Page

Picture and illustrations

2 pages of information

Credits page & your photo taken with the digital camera

Choose an animal from the list below. Try to choose a really unusual animal that you would like to know more about and would be interesting to others. Write your name next to the animal on the Rainforest Animal Sign Up Sheet in the classroom.

Anaconda Anole Arzididea Assassin bug Aye Aye Basilisk Bird of Paradise Birdwing Butterfly Blue-headed Parrot Boyd's Forest dragon Bush Pig Caiman Crocodile Capuchin monkey Capybara Cassowary Coatimundis Eyelash Viper Fruit Bat Gibbon Glass Frog Goliath Beetles Happyface spider Harpy Eagle Hermit Hummingbird Howler Monkey Iguana Katydid Kinkajou Komodo Dragon Leaf-Cutter Ant Lemur Macaw Mantella frog Margay Millipedes Net-throwingSpider

Ocelot Okapi Owl Butterfly Peccary Phasmid Piranha fish Poison Arrow Frog Poison Dart Frog Praying Mantis Proboscis Monkey Purple Hoveycreeper Python Pygmy Chimp Quetzal Quolls Rainbow Lizard Red-Eyed Tree Frog Rhinoceros Beetl qe Skink Sloth Slow Loris Strawberry Poison Dart frogs Tamarin Monkey Tanager Tapir Tarantula Tarsier Monkey Tasmanian Devil Three-toed Sloth Toucan Tree Kangaroo Vampire Bat Walking Stick Woolly Monkey Xenosaurus

Sources of information: Magazines:World Geographic, National Geographic, Encyclopedias & CD-Roms, Public Library, School Library, Internet

Some ideas of information to gather: (Remember to check your spelling, punctuation and use complete sentences)

1. Pictures of your animal: These can be drawn, copied from books, downloaded from the Interînet on a disk in jpeg format. You may illustrate a picture of your animal at school using the Kid PIX program. You could also bring pictures to help you to do your own illustrations. Online images of some rainforest animals can be found at the Science in the Rainforest Graphics Library provided by PBS. http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/res2/graphindex.html

2. Description What the animal looks like, size (metric), colours, body covering, special body parts. Describe the animal in detail as if someone has never seen one.

3. Habitat: Range or location of animal

Where the animal lives including a map of location

4. Diet What the animal eats

5. Family Life

a. Offspring (if special name for babies)

b. Number of babies born at a time

c. When born in the year

d. Care of young

6. Social Behavior How the animal lives: in groups, alone, etc.

7. Interesting Facts: information that is really special about the animal or the coolest thing about your animal.

Interesting web sites on Rainforests to get you started:

Animals of the Rainforest http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/frames1.htm

Amazing Rainforest Animals  http://jajhs.kana.k12.wv.us/amazon/animal.htm

Animals of the Tropical Rainforest http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/traci/animals/rfanimals.htm

Frogs of the Rainforest http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids&teachers/kids/frog-pond/index.html

Reptiles of the Rainforest  http://rainforest-australia.com/reptiles.htm

Rainforest Internet Activity http://www.slc.k12.ut.us/ww2/tamarap/samrainforra.html

The Big Top http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/bigtop.html  

Bats  http://thewildones.org/Animals/mexFree.html

Rainforest Animal Facts from abcteach http://www.abcteach.com/RainforestFacts/Rainforestfacts.htm

Tropical Rainforest Animals http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/animals/index.htm

Rainforests Live for Kidz http://WWW.RAINFORESTLIVE.ORG.UK/index.cfm?Articleid=376

Kid Explorer Video Clips http://www.ChristianAnswers.Net/kids/vidclips.html

Zoom School Rainforests http://www.ZoomSchool.com/subjects/rainforest/

Children's Tropical Forest http://tropical-forests.com/facts/animals.htm

Rainforest Reptiles http://rainforest-australia.com/reptiles.htm

Amphibians & Reptiles http://photo.net/cr/moon/amphibians-and-reptiles.html

Monkeys & Kinkajous http://members.tripod.com/elpage20/monkeys.htm

Birds http://members.tripod.com/elpage20/birds.htm

Snakes http://members.tripod.com/elpage20/snakes.htm

Ants, Spiders & Lizards http://members.tripod.com/elpage20/ants,.htm

Frogs http://members.tripod.com/elpage20/frogs.htm

Rainforest Animal Resources http://drew.buffalo.k12.ny.us/drew/kidprojects/museum/Rainforest/Rainforest.html

Tropical Rainforest animals http://www.ran.org/kids_action/s06_animals.html

Rainforest Action Network Kid's Corner http://www.ran.org/kids_action/index.html#Kids' Action

Animals of the Rainforest http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/

Help with Rainforest School Reports http://www.rain-tree.com/schoolreports.htm

Passport to the Rainforest http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/intro.html

Gander Academy Tropical Rainforest Theme Page http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/rforest.htm

Rainforest Realm http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5087/animals1.htm

Rainforest Animal images http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/res2/graphindex.html

Journey into Amazonia http://www.pbs.org/journeytoamazonia/

Bat Links http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/bats.html

Kid Explorers Sounds of the Rainforest http://www.christiananswers.net/kids/sounds.html

Arthur Elementary School Rainforest Site http://www.arthur.k12.il.us/arthurgs/rainfor.htm

Giant Panda at the Smithsonian National Zoo http://pandas.si.edu/research/index.htm

Coatimundi Page http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~mcmanus/coatimun/coatimun.htm

Rainforest Australia Animal Links http://rainforest-australia.com/

Rainforest Information Portal http://www.earthsbirthday.org/rainforest_curr/rffacts.html

Learn About the Two Types of Rainforests http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/main.htm

Rainforest Animal Images http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/res2/graphindex.html

Good Luck & have fun!

Ms. Pearl-Hodgins