Photo of waterfall in tropical rainforest
Welcome to the Rainforest Pathfinder
for Stage 3 students
at
Ashtonfield Public School
This pathfinder is for Year 5 and 6 students
studying the HSIE topic Global Environments:
Rainforests
This pathfinder provides easy access to information about rainforests.
It will help you to find, evaluate and select information and resources for this topic.
The pathfinder gives you :
1. Information about what you will learn by using this pathfinder.
2. A list of key words about rainforests and what they mean.
3. A good search engine that you can use to search for your own information.
4. A list of resources that will help you with your research.
These include:
- a list of non fiction books in the school library
- a links to online resources and websites
- an online dictionary to look up words that you don't understand
This pathfinder will help you learn about:
- what a rainforest is
- parts of a rainforest
- plants and animals that live in a rainforest
- rainforests in Australia
- different rainforests around the world
- the impact of people on rainforests
- conservation
To look around the pathfinder click on the tabs at the top of each the pages.
* Remember if you have any problems ask your teacher or teacher librarian.
Created by Adela Davey - Teacher Librarian @ Ashtonfield Public School 2013
[email protected]
Updated October 2013