Rainforest Habitat and Adaptations for Third Grade
Need a little help teaching your 3rd-grade class about the rainforest?
They will watch an informative slideshow, read about the rainforest, and complete some QR code research on rainforest animals and their adaptations, and more! These are high-interest reading passages on the tropical rainforest.
It's aligned with multiple standards - CCSS RI.3.4, RI.3.5, RI.3.10, NGSS 3-LS4-3, & 3-LS4-4, and Utah SEEd 3.2.5 and 3.2.6.
Text-dependent questions are asked so students are encouraged to read back into the text.
This close reading unit is aligned to 3rd-grade NGSS standards, but the informational text passages are geared to 3rd-5th grade. Students will love reading about all the interesting biodiversity of the tropical rainforest and what we can do to protect it.
It contains LOTS of activities:
Five pages of non-fiction text on the Tropical Rainforest (with response pages), a slideshow on habitat, interactive notebook inserts, two sorting activities, a layered book, and answer keys for everything!
I have mapped out a suggested timeline for you to show you how to use this unit over the span of 8 days. Don't use your precious free time creating your own unit. I've done the work for you!
This is a great reading unit with a science theme!. It's packed with fun activities to fully teach the two NGSS standards. Students will learn about the rainforest layers and all about the different organisms that live there.
This complete unit has 100+ perfect reviews on Teachers Pay Teachers:
"Very low prep with high-interest passages. I was able to use some of this as a send home packet when my school closed. Great comprehension pages."
"I am so impressed with this unit. Really high interest for my 3rd grade class."
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