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3 Amazon Rainforest Environment Day is June 5. This day, proclaimed by the United Nations, is a World great time to begin a unit on a special world environment the rainforest. This book pre sents across-the-cur ric u lum activities that help students to learn about the plants and an i mals of the Amazon rainforest. Students use the information they gather as they create a giant puzzle representing the layers of the rainforest. Amazon Rainforest Book Overview pages 2 4 These pages show and tell what is in each pocket. Cover Design pages 5 and 6 Pocket Projects pages 7 30 Step-by-step directions and patterns for the activities that go in each pocket are included. Pocket Labels pages This poem can also be used for pocket chart activities throughout the month: Chant the poem Listen for rhyming words Learn new vocabulary Identify sight words Put words or lines in the correct order Picture Dictionary page 34 Use the picture dic tio nary to introduce new vocabulary and as a spell ing reference. Students can add new pictures, labels, and descriptive ad jec tives to the pages as their vocabulary in creas es. Writing Form page 35 Use this form for story writing or as a place to record additional vocabulary words. B I B L I O G R A P H Y AMAZON RAINFOREST WRITING FORM Name: AMAZON RAINFOREST PICTURE DIC TIO NARY 2009 Evan-Moor Corp. 35 Making Books with Pockets EMC Evan-Moor Corp. 34 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217 An Adventure in The Amazon by The Cousteau Society; Simon & Schuster, Amazon ABC by Kathy Darling; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, Journey of the Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Martin and Tanis Jordan; Simon & Schuster, Life in the Rainforest by Melvin and Gilda Berger; Hambleton-Hill Publishing, Inc., Nature s Green Umbrella, Tropical Rain Forests by Gail Gibbons; Morrow Junior Books, Rain Forest by Barbara Taylor; Dorling Kindersley, Inc., Rain Forest Babies by Kathy Darling; Scholastic, The Tree by Tim Vyner; HarperCollins Publishers, A Walk in the Rainforest by Kristin Joy Pratt; Dawn Publications, Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen; Scholastic, sloth butterfly roots iguana toucan jaguar kapok tree tapir emergent layer canopy understory floor river anaconda snake leaves vine 2009 Evan-Moor Corp. 1 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217

4 AMAZON RAINFOREST BOOK OVERVIEW POCKET 1 AMAZON RAINFOREST POCKET 1 Emergent Layer Puzzle Piece 2009 Evan-Moor Corp. 8 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217 Amazon Rainforest Puzzle page 7 Use these instructions with each pocket to add a new piece to a rainforest layers puzzle. The Emergent Layer Puzzle Piece page 8 The first piece of the rainforest layers shows the tops of the tallest trees peeking through the dense canopy below. Woolly Mouse Opossum pages 9 and 10 Your students will love making and learning about this intriguing creature. Emergent Layer Minibook pages 11 and 12 Make and read this minibook to find out more about the emergent layer. POCKET 2 The Canopy Layer Puzzle Piece page 13 The canopy is like the top of a giant um brel la above the rainforest trees. Caterpillar to Butterfly pages 14 and 15 This model transforms from the caterpillar to the beautiful blue morpho but ter fly Evan-Moor Corp. 13 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217 Canopy Layer Puzzle Piece AMAZON RAINFOREST POCKET 2 How the World Looks to a Sloth page 16 Students will enjoy hanging upside down on the playground as part of the prewriting experience for this writing activity. Some Sloth! page 17 Use the student sloth position pho to graphs to create a forest of trees, each with a special sloth Evan-Moor Corp. 2 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217

5 AMAZON RAINFOREST BOOK OVERVIEW POCKET 3 The Understory Layer Puzzle Piece page 18 The understory of the rainforest is a dark and damp place. Have your students use dark colors to complete this puzzle piece. A Jungle Vine pages 19 and 20 This trailing vine accompanies a poem that will encourage your students to use de scrip tive words in their writing Evan-Moor Corp. 18 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217 Understory Layer Puzzle Piece AMAZON RAINFOREST POCKET 3 Draw a Jaguar page 21 Students will enjoy following these steps to draw a jaguar. POCKET 4 The Rainforest Floor Puzzle Piece page 22 Create another piece for the rainforest puzzle. Students have made one puzzle piece for each layer of the rainforest. Now they can spread the puzzle pieces on the floor and create a giant cross section of the rainforest. Ant Farmers page 23 Make a leaf-cutter ant model and discover the important role that the in sects of the forest floor play in this rainforest community Evan-Moor Corp. 22 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217 Point out the jaguar walking on the rainforest fl oor. It is the correct scale. The trees are huge. Rainforest Floor Puzzle Piece AMAZON RAINFOREST POCKET 4 The Kapok Pod pages 24 and 25 Reseeding the rainforest is an ongoing process. Learn about the life cycle of a kapok tree and then write about what you have learned in this pod book Evan-Moor Corp. 3 Making Books with Pockets EMC 1217