Resources for Teachers
The button below takes you to the NASA Earth Observatory website where you can find extensive information about deforestation. Information about the impact on the climate, soil, biodiversity, social, as well as direct and underlying causes of deforestation. This resource is helpful when informing yourself about the topic because it include detailed information that is concise and extensive.
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World wild life is a site that outlines the threats of deforestation especially endangered species. This is a great resource to learn about endangered species and places that are impacted by this issue. This site not only covers deforestation but also pollution and other environmental issues. The website is easy to navigate and a great research resource for students to grow aware about environmental issues.
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This video is a great way to introduce an overview of deforestation to your students. It outlines the basic causes and the negative impacts it has on multiple ecosystems. The animation and graphics used are student friendly, and the information is sufficient and comprehensible.
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This lesson plan on deforestation is a resource for teacher because it provides guidance and ideas for teachers to implement into their own lesson. The lesson implements science and social studies at a third grade level. Students identify the largest rain forests in the world. In groups they will conduct further research on a specific rain forest.
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Live Science is a student friendly website that simplifies the connections between different ecosystems and deforestation. This site is a great source for students to research and find relevant information. This site enables students to explore other current issues happening around the world as well.
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GREENPEACE USA is a website dedicated to providing a variety of information about deforestation.This site has multiple articles about current news associated with deforestation. There is a full page dedicated to solutions and direct actions, or volunteering opportunities towards efforts to reduce deforestation. This is a great resource for teachers to become informed of the alternative ways to help reduce the impact of deforestation as well as a research resource for students.
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This site offers a full page of tree facts that can be useful in illustrating the biodiversity in trees. Students may also find it interesting to discover so much information about trees. This is a great source for teachers and students to investigate more about trees.
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This site provides short but concise information about rain forests and their location in the world. Teachers can use this resource to inform themselves but it can also be useful for students to use for their research. This site covers rain forests all over the world, places in Africa, Central America and others. Students can use this site as part of outside research to further learn about rain forests.
This article and complementary worksheet is about habitat destruction which essentially is being caused by deforestation. It gives the negative impact deforestation has on habitats in the forests, wetlands, and the grasslands. This resource is useful for teachers to implement in their lesson and a good way to evaluate their reading comprehension as well.
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This site gives basic information about deforestation with specific facts and statistics. The site includes several images and illustrations among the text. All the main components are included. It serves as a great research source for teachers and students with some guidance.
The National Geographic site provides extensive information about deforestation. This is a great resource for teacher to educate themselves about the concept. This may be difficult reading for students but with guidance teachers can provide quality information about the modern day issues that rain forest face.
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This article is student appropriate article from ReadWorks.com about the Amazon forest. It is simplified to the facts to provide a comprehensible article for students. This article gives students another resource to collect information from. This is a great article for teachers to incorporate in their lesson plan as well.
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The button link below is another article appropriate for advanced third grade level students up to fifth grade level. It can be used to introduce or reinforce learning about deforestation. It covers the main causes of deforestation and how to fix the problem along with text features such as a map, illustrations and comprehension questions.
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TED Talk: Mark Plotkin
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