How is a rain forest similar to the forest near your schoolyard?īoth use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into energy.īoth need air, water and earth in order to live. How Are the Tropical and Temperate Forests Similar and Different?ġ. If there is even one tree, one blade of grass or one weed poking up through a crack in the playground, you can use it for these lessons. The most important thing teachers can do is to bring children outside, introduce them to the wonders of nature and help to connect them to the natural world. Children need open space to spend unstructured time in, to explore and to connect with the natural world.Ĭhildren can help save land in their own communities. The forests and natural areas in our own back yards are in need of saving, too.They, too, are habitat for many living things. I am writing this curriculum to try to remedy this. But what I have found, in traveling around the country and speaking at schools and conferences, is that often teaching about the rain forest precludes hands-on teaching about living breathing ecosystems with actual forays out into the real world of nature. Introduction: I wrote The Great Kapok Tree so that children would know about the threat to the world’s rain forests and, hopefully, try to save them.Ĭhildren have raised thousands of dollars to protect rain forest, especially the Monteverde rain forest in Costa Rica.
Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.For use with The Great Kapok Tree, The Shaman’s Apprentice and Flute’s Journey 'American Bookseller' Pick of the Lists, IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice, Reading Rainbow Review Book. One by one, the creatures who live in the tree emerge and plead with him not to destroy their world. 'This modern fable with its urgent message contains an abundance of information.'-'The Horn Book' In the rain forest, as a man chops away at a great kapok tree, the heat and efforts of his work exhaust him so that he falls asleep.
Exhausted from his labors, a man chopping down a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rain forest puts down his ax, and, as he sleeps, the animals who live in the tree plead with him not to destroy their world.
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