Where Rainforests Are
Know that rainforests are found in a belt around the middle of the Earth — in South America (the Amazon), Central Africa (the Congo), and Southeast Asia — and that they appear on every continent except Antarctica and Europe
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Where Rainforests Are means locating rainforest belts (Amazon, Congo, Southeast Asia) and knowing they skip Antarctica and Europe. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes placing rainforest regions on a map, then checking one fresh place.
Locate three tropical rainforest regions in a schematic and distinguish tropical from temperate rainforest.
Locate three tropical rainforest regions in a schematic and distinguish tropical from temperate rainforest.
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Check understanding
- Point to the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asian rainforest regions on a world map
- Explain that rainforests grow near the Equator where it is hot and wet all year
- Name at least two continents that have large rainforests
“If you show your child a world map, can they point to where rainforests grow — near the middle of the Earth in places like South America, Africa, and Asia?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Rainforests
- Age range
- Ages 5–7