Resources Needed

Because WebQuests are specifically designed to be used on computers students will benefit most from using the Internet links listed below. Offline resources are also listed if students would rather conduct their research through books.
Useful Websites
The following sites may be used as an introduction to rainforests. All students in the group may use the sites to build their general knowledge before they begin researching their specific questions.
All About Rainforests
Rainforest
Rainforest Action Network: Welcome to the Kids Corner
Rainforest Facts
Rainforest Glossary
Rainforest Resources/Facts
What is a Rainforest?


Zoologist:
The following websites will be useful for answering the zoologist’s questions. These sites contain facts and descriptions of many animals found in the rainforest. Dr. Green’s mystery animal is located on several of these sites.
Animals of the Rainforest
GeoZoo Mammals!
Name that Animal
Rainforest Animals
Animal Diversity Web
Tropical Rainforest Animals

Dietician:
Like the Zoologist sites, these sites provide the dietician with information about a variety of plants and information about the animal's eating habits. This will be useful with both the location of the rainforest and the type of food the mystery animal eats.
About Ferns
An Amazon Adventure: Plants
Bugbytes
Fact Gadget: What are Fungi
Rainforest Plants
San Diego Wild Animal Park
Tropical Plant Database
What is a Herbivore?



Geographer:
Locating the rainforest is an important part of the task, therefore the following sites provide help with identifying rainforests around the world. This will help students realize which animals and plants may live in different rainforests around the world.
Amazon Interactive: Where's the Amazon?
Animals of the Rainforest: Tropical Rainforests
Congo Geography
Learning about Rainforests
Rainforestweb.org: Rainforest Regions
The African Guide: African Countries
Tropical Rainforest

Offline Resources:
Banks, Kate. (1999). The Bird, The Monkey, and the Snake in the Green. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Cherry, Lynne. (1990). The Great Kapok Tree. San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Company.
Dorros, Arthur. (1999). Rain Forest Secrets. Scholastic Trade.
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest. (1992) Beverly Hills: Fox Films.
Forsyth, Adrian. (1995). How Monkeys Make Chocolate : Foods and Medicines from the Rainforests. Owl Communications.
Gibbons, Gail. (1997). Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forest. Mulberry Books.
Moore, Eva; & Spiers, John; Illus. (2001).In the Rain Forest (Magic School Bus). Scholastic Paperbacks.
Pratt, Kristen Joy. (1992). A Walk in the Rainforest. Dawn Publishing.
Savage, Steven. (1999). Animals of the Rain Forest. Raintree/Steck-Vaughn.
Stotsky, Sandra. (1998). Rainforests: Tropical Treasures (Ranger Rick's Naturescope.) Chelsea House Pub.
Taylor, Barbara; & Greenaway, Frank. (1998). Look Closer: Rain Forest. DK Publishing Merchandise.
Yolen, Jane. (1993). Welcome to the Green House. New York: G.P. Putnam.