Materials and Resources:

Printed Resources:

1. Save the Earth, Banners: Theme Digest. A magazine for children providing information about the rain forests,
activities, and ways to help save the earth.

2. Sticky Fingers Rain Forest, by Ting and Neil Morns. Franklin Watts, 1994. Activity book for children
which provides both literature and related activities.

3. Tropical Rain Forests, by Wendy Weir. Carson-Dellosa publishing, 1993. Contains patterns and activities
for exploring the ecosystems of the rain forests around the world.

4. Standard art materials (markers, construction paper, ruler, glue, scissors) Individual activities LIST
MATERIALS NEEDED.

5. A copy of Shel Silversteinís Poem, "Boa Constrictor," from Where the Sidewalk Ends.

"The Boa constrictor Song" by Shel Silverstein

I'm being swallered by a Boa Constrictor a Boa Constrictor a boa constrictor I'm being Swallered by a Boa
Constrictor and I don't - Like snakes - one bit! Oh no, he swallered my toe. Oh gee, he swallered my knee. Oh
fiddle, he swallered my middle. Oh what a pest, he swallered my chest. Oh heck, he swallered my neck. Oh
dred, he swallered my ---------------(BURP)
 

Computer AND CD ROM Resources:

COMPTON'S InteraCTIVE Encyclopedia, 1996. Bibliography provided
 

Internet Resources:

1. Rain Forest Action Network http://www.ran.org/ran/

A Colorful, environmental site on the rain forests and planet ecology. Kids' Corner link, resources for teachers
and a listing of A-V resources.

2. Shel Silverstein web page http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/silverstein.htm Links to ìBoa Constrictorî poem and
Rain forest lesson plans and activities.

3. Rain Forest Alliance http://www.rainforest-Alliance.org/

Has great links to environmental sites, kids can see colorful frogs, paintings by kids living in the Amazon, and a
"jungle journey".

4. Amazon Interactive http:www.geog.umn.edu/~schaller/amazon/

Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities.

5. The Earth Foundation Home Page http:www.earthfound.com/

The purpose is to empower educators and students to work towards a healthy environment. Education and
conservation games, information, and great graphics.

6. Rain forest Lesson Plan http:www.edu/caw/lessons/rainforest.html

Suggested software, activities, instruction, and classroom management on rain forests.
 

Audio/Visual Resources:

1. Exploring the Rain Forest. Paley, Jane. Video Treasures, 1994.

2. The Lorax. Seuss. Fox Video, 1989.

3. Once Upon a Forest. Grosvenor, Charles. Twentieth Century Fox, 1993.

4. Totally Tropical Rain Forest. Wood, Joan F. Columbia Tristan Home Video, 1994.

5.  Kid's Care:  Songs For a Better World, all songs written, produced and performed by Michael Mish, distributed by Discovery Toys; also titled The Kid's Eye View of the Environment   Mish Mash Music  http://206.204.3.91/mish/

6.  The Puzzle of the Rotting Log (video)

7.  Once There Was a Tree.  Reading Rainbow Videos.

Professional Organizations:

1. Greenpeace USA , 1436 U St. NW, Washington, DC 20009

2. Rainforest Alliance, 270 Lafayette St., Suite 512 New York, NY 10012

3. Sierra Club, 730 Polh St., San Francisco, CA 94109

4. World Wildlife Fund, 1250 twenty fourth st., NW, Washington, DC 20037
 

Literature resources:

Fiction:

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry.

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
 

Non-Fiction:

Kid Heroes

People of the Rain Forest by Lynn M. Stone
 

Poetry:

The Earth is Painted Green, edited by Barbara Brenner.

"Boa Constrictor" by Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends.
 

Related Literature:

Asimov, Isaac. Why are Rain Forests Vanishing? Gareth Stevens Inc., 1992.

Baker, Lucy. Life in the Rainforests. Franklin Watts, 1990.

Burch, Joann. Chico Mendes: Defender of the rain forest. Millbrook Press, 1994.

Dorfman, Gilliam. Birds. Illustrated by Phil Weare, Ladybird Press, 1986.

George, Jean C. One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest. Crowell Junior, 1990.

Gibbons, Gail. Nature's Green Umbrella-Tropical Rain Forests. Morrow Junior Books, 1994.

Guccione, Leslie Davis. Nobody Listens to Me. Scholastic Inc., 1991.

Hamilton, Jean. Tropical Rainforests. Blake pub., 1990.

Hamilton, Virginia. Jaguarundi. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Blue Sky, 1995.

Hogan, Paula. Vanishing Rain Forests. Gareth Stevens, 1991.

Leggett, Jeremy. Dying Forests. Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1991,

Mutel, Cornelia F. and Mary M Rodgers. Our Endangered Planet: Tropical Rainforests. Lerner Pub. Co.,
1991.

Ruiz de Larramendi, Alberto. Tropical Rain Forests of Central America. Childrenís Press, 1993.

Sayre, April Pulley. Tropical Rain Forest. Twenty-First Century Books, 1994.

Stone, Lynn M. The Amazing Rain Forest. Rourke Corp., 1994.

________. Animals of the Rain Forest. Rourke Corp., 1994.

________. Rain Forest at Night. Rourke Corp., 1994.