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Tropical rainforests: climate, layers and adaptations

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  • about 30 minutes
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Which layer of the rainforest has the tallest trees, standing above all the others?

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Use climate figures to describe the tropical rainforest, name its layers, and explain how plants and animals are adapted to the heat, the rain and the thin soil.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — The layers of the tropical rainforest
  5. Teach — Four plant adaptations
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Task — Which condition does each feature help with?
  10. Task — Explain how plants and animals cope in the rainforest
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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