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Conclusion
When you finish this
lesson you will have reinforced your research and cooperative learning
skills, as well as increased your knowledge of desert environments. You will have had an opportunity to apply
your new knowledge to create a Virtual Desert Museum to help others to understand
the desert environment. This lesson allowed you to use your creativity
and problem solving skills.
Now can you take
it one step further?
What are the similarities
and differences between the desert environment and the rain forest?
Could you create
a similar Virtual Rain Forest Museum?
Use the links below
to help help you compare the desert with the rain forest.
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm
The Evergreen Project has the biomes of the world which
include the rainforest. It has links to:
What is a rain forest like? Types of rain forests.
What causes rain forests? Rainforests of the World. Rain Forest
Plants Rain Forest Animals
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/justkids.htm
Biomes of the World
Here is a simply written site that gives you information
about biomes and adaptations. You can see the different biomes in
the world including the rainforest. This site can help you to understand
adaptations. There is a neat feature of this site that allows you to actually write on a topic of concern with the environment and submit
it online.
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