The document provides links to various resources about rainforests, including videos, paintings, maps, and images. It includes discussion questions for each resource to help students understand different aspects of rainforest ecology, culture, and the threats of deforestation. Key vocabulary words are also provided to support student comprehension.

2. Postcard from the Amazon rainforest -
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/postcard-from-the-amazon-rainforest/12489.html

3. • reflecting the physical, natural and cultural
features of rainforests
• Useful as a starting point for a topic

4. Key questions…
• what can you remember from the video?
• Where do you think this is?
• What do you think this is?
• What did you notice was different to where you
and I live?
• How did the video make you feel?
• What did you like/dislike about the video
Key vocab…
• Forest, tree, canopy, rainforest, river, Amazon,
monkey, habitat, environment, music, tree house,
tribe, jungle, native, homes, food, cooking

5. Rainbow Rainforest – Bill Bell
http://www.rainforestartists.com/html/b.html

6. Key questions…
• What can you see in this painting?
• Do you recognise any of the animals in the painting? Can you name
any?
• Would you find all of these animals in the rainforest?
• Do you feel that this is a good representation of the rainforest?
• Look at the colours of the plants and animals, are all of the colours
correct? Why do you think the artist has chosen to use these
colours?
• How does the painting make you feel? Why do you think the artist
has painted the animals in this way?
• why do you think they are all facing towards us?
Key vocab…
• Vibrant, artistic, animals, home, habitat, bright colours, dark
colours, secondary and primary colours, exciting, mysterious,
surreal

7. The sounds of the Rainforest…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DOk_TiRrc&feature=related

8. Teaching notes…
• This clip on the sounds of the rainforest is
ideal for demonstrating to the children the
many different animals and plants that live
within the rainforest. the clip can be used to
support children’s imagination …….

9. Key questions…
• What can you hear?
• Describe the sounds you hear?
• Why do you think they are making these sounds?
• Why can you not hear any people speaking?
• Why can you not hear any traffic?
• What time of day do you think it could be? Why?
• How do the sounds make you feel?
Key vocab…
• Sounds, listen, imagine, animals, trees, birds, feelings,
relaxed, calm, loud, quiet, rainforest

10. Surprised! By Henri Julien Rousseau
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/henri-rousseau-surprised

11. Key questions…
• What do you think is happening in this painting?
• What do you think the tiger is doing?
• Describe the colours?
• How does the painting make you feel?
• Describe the weather in the painting?
• What time of year do you think it is? Why?
• Why do you think the artist has painted the trees this
way?
Key vocab…
• Autumn, rainforest, secondary colours, dark, windy,
stormy, tiger, fierce, trees blowing, rain, cold

12. The Equatorial Jungle by Henri Julien
Rousseau
http://www.henrirousseau.org/The-Equatorial-Jungle-large.html

13. Key questions…
• What time of year do you think this is? Why?
• Describe what is happening in the painting?
• What colours has the artist used?
• Why are the animals there? What are they doing?
• Describe the weather in this painting?
• How does the painting make you feel?
• do you think this painting is a good representation of the
rainforest? Why?
• Why is this painting different to Rousseau’s ‘Surprise’?
Key vocab…
• Forest, Spring, summer, happy, relaxing, secondary colours, green,
flourishing, warm, full of life, camouflage, hiding, basking

14. Rainforest map of the world – Eden
Project
http://www.edenproject.com/images/content/rainforests-map-of-the-world.jpg

15. Key questions…
• What is this image of? How do you know this?
• What do you think the green represents? why?
• From looking at this image can you tell how much of
the earth is covered by rainforest?
• Apart from the rainforest, what else can you see on this
image?
• Can you think of another way to represent this data?
Key vocab…
• Map, world, earth, rainforest, vast, land, countries, sea,
location, atlas

16. Culture within the Rainforest
http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/shaman-0-1_phixr.jpg

17. • Teaching notes……..
• http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/amazoniii.h
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• compare the differences between us and
them? Why are his clothes like that etc?

18. Key questions…
• Who is this?
• Where do you think he lives? Why?
• Look at his clothes, what is different and what is similar
to what we wear?
• why is he wearing clothes like this?
• Why do you think he has paint on his skin?
• Why is he not wearing any shoes?
• Look behind him – what do you think it is? What is it
used for?
Key vocab…
• Culture, change, climate, money, colours, life, family,
tribe, home, weapons, clothes, hunt, work, traditions

19. Joseph and the washerwoman –
Michael Adams
http://www.michaeladamsart.com/silkscreens.html

20. Key questions…
• What do you think is happening in the painting? Describe
what you see?
• What colours has the artist used?
• How do the colours make you feel?
• Is the painting a good representation of the rainforest? If so
why?
• Do the colours give off a happy or a sad feeling towards the
people in this picture? Why?
• What is happening in the picture that is similar/different to
how we live?
• What time of year do you think it is? Why?
Key vocab…
• feelings, vibrant, artistic, exciting, sunny, bright, culture,
family, friends, way of life, exotic, freedom, environment

21. Lego construction of the rainforest –
Sean Kenney
http://www.seankenney.com/portfolio/rainforest_healthy/

22. • Destruction
• Replanting

23. Key questions…
• What does this sculpture represent? How do you know
this?
• How have they made the sculpture? What materials have
they used?
• What colours have they used to help represent the
rainforest?
• What can you see on the sculpture that is similar to that of
the real rainforest?
• Why do you think they have created this model?
• what do you think they are trying to show?
• Look at the other models, what is different about them to
this one?
Key vocab…
• Lego, sculpt, create, exciting, rainforest, trees, river,
animals, destruction, rebuilding, peaceful, home, habitats

24. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon,
1988 - 2010
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html

25. • http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/12/07
/indonesia-already-85-percent-of-sumatras-
rainforests-are-gone-the-rest-is-vanishing-at-
an-alarming-rate/

26. Key questions…
• What do you think this image represents?
• What do the numbers mean?
• What do you think is happening in this image? Why?
• Using your understanding of the rainforest, what could the
message be?
• Can you predict what the image will look like in 10 years
time? 20 years time?
• What do you think will happen to the animals and people
that live in the rainforest if this continues?
Key vocab…
Destruction, deforestation, extinction, homes, habitats,
predictions, evidence, facts, rainforest, trees, animals,
cultures, lives

27. Sending out an SOS, Help Save
Rainforests
http://www.adistinctiveworld.net/?p=2023

28. Key questions...
• How does this image make you feel?
• What do you think this image represents?
• Why do you think the artist has drawn the images in
this way?
• What sort of message does the image give?
• Look at the colourings of the image, does this add to
the message?
• What do you think will happen to these animals if the
rainforest is not saved?
Key vocab…
Destruction, help, support, caring, environment, save,
homes, greed, extinction, dark, endangered, freedom

29. • http://rainforest-
alliance.org/multimedia/trackitback