The Rainforest

Postcard from the Amazon rainforest - BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/postcard-from-the-amazon-rainforest/12489.html

• reflecting the physical, natural and cultural features of rainforests

• Useful as a starting point for a topic

Key questions…• what can you remember from the video?• Where do you think this is?• What do you think this is?• What did you notice was different to where you and I

live?• How did the video make you feel?• What did you like/dislike about the video

Key vocab…• Forest, tree, canopy, rainforest, river, Amazon, monkey,

habitat, environment, music, tree house, tribe, jungle, native, homes, food, cooking

Rainbow Rainforest – Bill Bell

http://www.rainforestartists.com/html/b.html

Key questions…• What can you see in this painting?• Do you recognise any of the animals in the painting? Can you name

any?• Would you find all of these animals in the rainforest?• Do you feel that this is a good representation of the rainforest?• Look at the colours of the plants and animals, are all of the colours

correct? Why do you think the artist has chosen to use these colours?

• How does the painting make you feel? Why do you think the artist has painted the animals in this way?

• why do you think they are all facing towards us?

Key vocab…• Vibrant, artistic, animals, home, habitat, bright colours, dark colours,

secondary and primary colours, exciting, mysterious, surreal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DOk_TiRrc&feature=related

The sounds of the Rainforest…

Teaching notes…

• This clip on the sounds of the rainforest is ideal for demonstrating to the children the many different animals and plants that live within the rainforest. the clip can be used to support children’s imagination …….

Key questions…• What can you hear?• Describe the sounds you hear?• Why do you think they are making these sounds?• Why can you not hear any people speaking?• Why can you not hear any traffic?• What time of day do you think it could be? Why?• How do the sounds make you feel?

Key vocab…• Sounds, listen, imagine, animals, trees, birds, feelings, relaxed,

calm, loud, quiet, rainforest

Surprised! By Henri Julien Rousseau

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/henri-rousseau-surprised

Key questions…• What do you think is happening in this painting? • What do you think the tiger is doing?• Describe the colours?• How does the painting make you feel?• Describe the weather in the painting?• What time of year do you think it is? Why?• Why do you think the artist has painted the trees this way?

Key vocab…• Autumn, rainforest, secondary colours, dark, windy, stormy,

tiger, fierce, trees blowing, rain, cold

The Equatorial Jungle by Henri Julien Rousseau

http://www.henrirousseau.org/The-Equatorial-Jungle-large.html

Key questions…• What time of year do you think this is? Why?• Describe what is happening in the painting?• What colours has the artist used?• Why are the animals there? What are they doing?• Describe the weather in this painting?• How does the painting make you feel?• do you think this painting is a good representation of the rainforest?

Why?• Why is this painting different to Rousseau’s ‘Surprise’?

Key vocab…• Forest, Spring, summer, happy, relaxing, secondary colours, green,

flourishing, warm, full of life, camouflage, hiding, basking

Rainforest map of the world – Eden Project

http://www.edenproject.com/images/content/rainforests-map-of-the-world.jpg

Key questions…• What is this image of? How do you know this?• What do you think the green represents? why?• From looking at this image can you tell how much of

the earth is covered by rainforest?• Apart from the rainforest, what else can you see on

this image?• Can you think of another way to represent this data?

Key vocab…• Map, world, earth, rainforest, vast, land, countries,

sea, location, atlas

Culture within the Rainforest

http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/shaman-0-1_phixr.jpg

• Teaching notes……..

• http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/amazoniii.htm

• compare the differences between us and them? Why are his clothes like that etc?

Key questions…• Who is this?• Where do you think he lives? Why?• Look at his clothes, what is different and what is similar to

what we wear?• why is he wearing clothes like this?• Why do you think he has paint on his skin?• Why is he not wearing any shoes?• Look behind him – what do you think it is? What is it used for?

Key vocab…• Culture, change, climate, money, colours, life, family, tribe,

home, weapons, clothes, hunt, work, traditions

Joseph and the washerwoman – Michael Adams

http://www.michaeladamsart.com/silkscreens.html

Key questions…• What do you think is happening in the painting? Describe what

you see?• What colours has the artist used?• How do the colours make you feel?• Is the painting a good representation of the rainforest? If so why?• Do the colours give off a happy or a sad feeling towards the

people in this picture? Why?• What is happening in the picture that is similar/different to how

we live?• What time of year do you think it is? Why?

Key vocab…• feelings, vibrant, artistic, exciting, sunny, bright, culture, family,

friends, way of life, exotic, freedom, environment

Lego construction of the rainforest – Sean Kenney

http://www.seankenney.com/portfolio/rainforest_healthy/

• Destruction• Replanting

Key questions…• What does this sculpture represent? How do you know this?• How have they made the sculpture? What materials have

they used?• What colours have they used to help represent the rainforest?• What can you see on the sculpture that is similar to that of

the real rainforest?• Why do you think they have created this model?• what do you think they are trying to show?• Look at the other models, what is different about them to this

one?

Key vocab…• Lego, sculpt, create, exciting, rainforest, trees, river, animals,

destruction, rebuilding, peaceful, home, habitats

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988 - 2010

• http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/12/07/indonesia-already-85-percent-of-sumatras-rainforests-are-gone-the-rest-is-vanishing-at-an-alarming-rate/

Key questions…• What do you think this image represents?• What do the numbers mean?• What do you think is happening in this image? Why?• Using your understanding of the rainforest, what could the

message be?• Can you predict what the image will look like in 10 years time?

20 years time?• What do you think will happen to the animals and people that

live in the rainforest if this continues?

Key vocab…Destruction, deforestation, extinction, homes, habitats, predictions, evidence, facts, rainforest, trees, animals, cultures, lives

Sending out an SOS, Help Save Rainforests

http://www.adistinctiveworld.net/?p=2023

Key questions...• How does this image make you feel?• What do you think this image represents?• Why do you think the artist has drawn the images in this

way?• What sort of message does the image give?• Look at the colourings of the image, does this add to the

message?• What do you think will happen to these animals if the

rainforest is not saved?

Key vocab…Destruction, help, support, caring, environment, save, homes, greed, extinction, dark, endangered, freedom

• http://rainforest-alliance.org/multimedia/trackitback