Description: This section provides short summaries and interesting facts about eight of the most common tree species found in the boreal forest.

Description: This page provides descriptions and images or several iconic Amazon trees and plants.

Description: This interactive Amazon exhibit allows students to click and learn about the layers of the forest, the water cycle, the wildlife, and the products harvested from the Amazon Rainforest.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Amazon interactive exhibit.

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 411 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1010

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 411 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1010

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This beautiful printout requires students to color the rainforest and to label each layer of the forest with the informational snippets provided. The four layers are: Emergent, Canopy, Understory, Forest Floor.

Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 155 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 155 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 114 Words; LEXILE: 710

Description: This innovative activity requires students to correct the flawed spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The online versions show the numbers and types of errors. As students check their answers, they can see how many of each type of error still need to be corrected.

Description: This is an interactive crossword puzzle that comes with a short reading passage. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.

Description: Factorization Forest is a game in which students can practice their prime factorization skills. Students can choose to build a forest without a timer using their prime factorization skills, or, can play a game in which they try to populate a river valley with as many trees as possible in three minutes using their prime factorization skills.To play, choose the game type and select the type of tree you would like to grow. Then, turn your attention to the number that appears at the top of the screen. This will be the number you will “factorize”. Click the ” + ” button to begin building your factor tree. Continue clicking the ” + ” buttons that appear until your are left with only prime numbers. Then, count of the prime numbers to form your factorization. To type in your factorization, find the space toward the bottom of the screen in which you can enter a number and use the ” + ” to enter other numbers. Use the dotted lines positioned to the upper right of each number to specify exponents. When you are satisfied with your factorization, click the ” ? ” button. If you are correct, you will see your tree grow. If you are playing the create a forest version of the game, you can move your tree to any place on the picture. If you are playing the timed version, the tree will remain in a fixed position. Classified Under: Math game, math games, multiplication game, multiplication games, factorization game, factorization games, exponents game, exponents games

Description: This video will teach you how to play Factorization Forest.

Description: This activity will help you get used to playing factorization forest and will help you practice prime factorization.

Description: In the Jellybean Tree, watch as a tree sprouts with different colored jellybeans. Red, orange, yellow, green, and purple jellybeans will appear. Each time the game is played there will be a different total number of jellybeans and a different number of each color of jellybean; always between 25 and 50 total. Users can then “pick” the jellybeans and drag and drop them to their correct places in a bar graph shown on the other side of the screen. They also change the view so that the bar graph can be a pie chart. Finally, the user must answer five questions involving the “jellybean tree.” Classified under: math game, math games, graphing game, graphing games, bar graph game, bar graph games

Description: This online bar graph activity will help you get ready to play The Jellybean Tree. Immediate feedback is provided.

Description: This online bar graph activity will help you get ready to play The Jellybean Tree. Immediate feedback is provided.

Description: This online bar graph activity will help you get ready to play The Jellybean Tree. Immediate feedback is provided.

Description: Who says money can't grow on trees? This game requires students to pick money from the "money tree" before answering questions about the values of their coins. Immediate feedback is given. The game is totally customizable and players can choose what coins to be included and whether or not to receive hints.

Description: This is a beautiful coloring page of the Connecticut state quarter featuring the Charter Oak

Description: This is a Canada outline flag. Perfect for coloring.

Description: Did you know that the Canadian provincial flags are some of the elaborate in the world. Print out and color each of the 13 flags. Check out the Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Yukon flags, among others.

Description: This activity requires students to pick and color a REAL maple leaf for the center of the Canadian flag. Students can choose from four different maple leaf designs to color, cut out, and paste into the Canadian flag: Sugar maple, silver maple, black maple, or mountain maple.

Description: This writing prompt describes Connecticut's legendary Charter Oak and then requires students to relate a great hiding spot of their own.

Description: This is a beautiful Vermont state quarter outline for students to color. Perfect for interactive notebooks and state reports.

Description: This is a beautiful outline of the South Carolina state flag. Perfect for coloring, interactive notebooks, or state reports.

Description: This amazing production from the National Park Service tells all about the magnificent redwoods at Redwood National Park.

Description: This awesome video describes how woodpeckers turn the Saguaro Cactus into a desert hotel.

Description: This awesome video describes the incredible life cycle of a saguaro cactus.

Description: This video, provided by the National Park Service, tells all about the ancient bristlecone pines in Great Basin National Park.

Description: This section contains articles of 22 iconic species of Amazon wildlife including the Blue Morpho, Scarlet Ibis, Jaguar, Harpy Eagle, Capybara, Green Anaconda, Piranha, Three-toed Sloth, and many more.

Description: This section features an interactive map of America's 58 national parks. Clicking on the map allows students to learn about the national park of interest, as well as watch a narrated video. Students can learn about Yellowstone, Yosemite, Death Valley, Everglades, Denali, Rocky Mountain, Arches, and many more. Perfect for state reports or reports on America's national parks.

Description: This is designed to be used with the National Parks Interactive Map.