What Is a Rainforest?
Know that a rainforest is a thick, tall forest found in hot, wet places near the Equator where it rains almost every day, creating a warm, damp environment where plants and animals thrive
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“If your child sees a picture of a thick, green jungle with huge trees and dangling vines, can they tell you it's a rainforest and explain that it's hot and rainy there almost every day?”
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- Activity. Know that a rainforest is a thick, tall forest found in hot, wet places near the Equator where it rains almost every day, creating a warm, damp environment where plants and animals thrive
What to notice. Describe a rainforest as a forest that is hot and wet, located near the Equator • Explain that it rains very often in a rainforest, which is why the plants grow so tall and thick • Point to the Equator on a globe and say that rainforests are found in the hot belt near it
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If your child sees a picture of a thick, green jungle with huge trees and dangling vines, can they tell you it's a rainforest and explain that it's hot and rainy there almost every day?
Know that a rainforest is a thick, tall forest found in hot, wet places near the Equator where it rains almost every day, creating a warm, damp environment where plants and animals thrive
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- Describe a rainforest as a forest that is hot and wet, located near the Equator
- Explain that it rains very often in a rainforest, which is why the plants grow so tall and thick
- Point to the Equator on a globe and say that rainforests are found in the hot belt near it
“If your child sees a picture of a thick, green jungle with huge trees and dangling vines, can they tell you it's a rainforest and explain that it's hot and rainy there almost every day?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Rainforests
- Age range
- Ages 5–7