Lesson 1: Where in the world are tropical rainforests?
Learning about biomes, ecosystems and tropics: locating rainforests globally, understanding why they occur there and discovering the features of the Amazon rainforest using maps and photographs.
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Lesson plan
Before starting this unit, you might want to check that children can recall that:
Climate is the weather in a certain place over a long period of time.
Lines of latitude and longitude are invisible horizontal and vertical lines that we use to map how far north, south, east and west a place is.
The Equator is an imaginary line of latitude exactly halfway between the North Pole and South Pole, which splits our globe into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Countries that lie on the Equator are some of the hottest places on Earth.
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Dr. Michael Leach is an author and scientist with more than 60 books, in 20+ languages, to his name. He writes on the environment, endangered habitats and wildlife and his particular areas of interest are complex ecosystems such as rainforests and polar regions. Michael has worked extensively in all seven continents exploring some of the world’s most remote habitats.
Michael speaks to schools around the world as visiting author/scientist, educating and inspiring young people about sensitive habitats such as the Amazon, Antarctic, deserts, tundra and the threat they face through climate change. He presents live online wildlife events for UK and International Schools and is a regular judge for the Association of British Science Writers’ Young Science Writer of the Year Awards and Jackson Wild Film Festival in the USA. His most recent book is Rainforest Pub. DK
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