Description
What’s included in the Curious Trails Rainforest Unit Study:
WEEK ONE: Gliding Lizards
• Learn how Draco lizards have adapted to
live and move through the rainforest
canopy.
• Explore anatomy and gliding adaptations.
• Make your own flying Draco lizard.
• Begin designing your unit poster
presentation.
• Extend your learning by comparing Draco
lizards and flying squirrels.
WEEK TWO: Swinging Orangutans
• Meet the family of orangutan species.
• Learn how orangutans have adapted to
live and move through the rainforest
canopy.
• Make your own orangutan puppet.
• Weave a nest with branches just like
orangutans do each night.
• Discover how orangutans mime to get
their message across.
• Continue your unit poster presentation.
WEEK THREE: Sticky Toed Tree Frogs
• Learn how Red-Eyed Tree Frogs have
adapted to live and move through the
rainforest canopy.
• Celebrate the ‘stick’ powers of tree frogs
with red-eye tree frog magnets.
• Complete an ‘egg dispatch’ STEM
challenge.
• Learn about non-newtonian fluids and
make ‘frog spit’.
• Continue your unit poster presentation.
WEEK FOUR: Claw Clinging Sloths
• Learn how sloths have adapted to live and
move through the rainforest canopy.
• Discover the symbiotic relationship
between sloths and algae.
• Celebrate what you’ve learned with a felt
sloth ornament.
• Learn more about the fungus that grows
on sloths in a fungus growing experiment.
• Finish your unit poster presentation.
UNIT CELEBRATION
Study poetry & copywork while enjoying your Mango Chia pudding together.
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