MOTIVATION: Show students pictures of the tundra, desert,
taiga, rain forest, temperate forest, ocean, and grasslands from the website http://richmond.edu/~ed344/webunits/biomes
MATERIALS: web site listed above for pictures of different biomes,
books on different biomes (Troll books publishes various books on the different
biomes)
PROCEDURE:
1. Ask students to describe characteristics
of each area.
2. Ask them to compare each area.
3. Ask questions like:
a. How are these regions
different from each other?
b. How are the characteristics
of the same regions like one another?
4. Explain and define biome as an area on
the earth's surface that has a certain set of physical
characteristics.
5. Identify and name the seven different biomes
on earth- a) desert b) grassland c) ocean d) taiga e) temperate forest f) rain forest g) tundra.
SAMPLE PICTURES FROM THE WEBSITE:
FOLLOW-UP: Continue to Lesson 2, What are some vocabulary words
associated with biomes?
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