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Global biomes: where are they and why?

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Where are the world's main biomes, and why? Use latitude and continents to describe them, then explain why the Equator is wet and hot deserts lie near 30° north and south.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. The World's Biomes
  5. Why It Rains at the Equator
  6. I Do: Why the Amazon Has Rainforest
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do: Why the Sahara Is a Desert
  9. Describe Where Deserts Are
  10. Describe and Explain Rainforest and Deserts
  11. Self-Check: a Model Answer
  12. Homework
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