Save the Rainforests - Rock by Rock

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Project Title: Save the Rainforest

Mission:

How can we help save the rainforests from deforestation caused by human impact?

Culminating / Take Action Project

Create a persuasive public service video (using puppets or props) that compel others to take action to help save the rainforest.

What Kids Learn

Students learn all about rainforests, why they are a critical ecosystem, why they are in danger, who is helping conserve rainforests and how we can help. Students engage in a series of learning activities to build their background knowledge. Students then take action by raising awareness about how we can all help to save the rainforest by creating a public service announcement with puppets.

Overview

Life Habit Focus: Impact Awareness

Subject: Life science, ELA

Grade: 3-5

Topic: Habitat, ecosystems, adaptations, persuasive writing

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Virtual Field Trips

One of our goals is to help kids connect what they are learning in our projects to the real world beyond the classroom. To do that, we’ve partnered with experts to help students learn from and virtually visit with experts from around the world.

The Birmingham Zoo

The Save the Rainforest course includes two virtual visits with the Birmingham zoo. Students learn about the layers of the rainforest and the unique role species play in the rainforest while meeting three species from the zoo. Students also learn about how aluminum negative impacts the rainforest ecosystem.

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades 3-5.
Writing Standards W1,2,4,5,6,7,9 for grades 3-5.
Listening and Speaking Standards SL1-SL6.

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.