Orang-utans are humans closest relative! Children find out more about the great ape and other great apes like chimps and gorillas, before using sketching and shading techniques to draw Orang-utans for display.

Using the internet and fact sheets children find out more about the Orang-utans and why they have become endangered. What is being done to protect them and their habitats? What else can be done?

There are two sides to every argument! In this session children take on roles on opposing sides of the deforestation argument. Children create simple freeze frames and sketches to put points across.

In this session children find out how to create key word notes and organise their information in folders with contents pages. Children continue to use non fiction book features and the internet to locate information effectively.

Children use internet search engines in small groups to find out more about a specific threat to the worlds rainforests. Children collect information in the form of notes and present their concerns and solutions to the class.

In the next ten years at the current rate half of the world’s rainforests will disappear. Children look in brief at the causes of deforestation before creating on maps a horrific view of the future.

Explore report writing (and some explanation writing) through the fantastic book The Vanishing Forest by Richard Platt. Identify the causes of deforestation and look at both sides of the question. Research the importance of the rainforest and write a report.

Now its time to get up and moving. Children use ICT to learn basic steps before giving them a go to the music themselves. Maybe you can even invite a local expert in to really get things moving.

In this session the children get to the rhythm of Salsa! They find out about the history of the dance, before listening to some examples and getting to grips with the instruments used to create it.

This session brings together all the parts of the rainforest creativity theme. From music created with made instruments, dance and the wearing of headdresses to the displaying and showing of pots. Celebrate everything that has been achieved.

The Kayapo Indians who live in the Rainforests of Brazil are famous for their ceremonial headdresses. In this session children use the internet to study their designs before creating their own to wear in the classroom.

In this session children take a look at typical examples of pots created by peoples of the Rainforests. They study the differences in pattern and decoration before creating their own pot from clay and decorating it.

Who says learning can’t be fun! Children play and interact with a variety of computer games in the internet, all with a serious message. Children evaluate which are the most fun to play but also best at getting that message across.

Your lunch is what you find to eat in the rainforest, not the contents of mum’s packed lunch! But there are other important differences too! Children use their notes from the previous session to compare their lives to those of children in the Jungle.

Find brilliant rainforest characters in ‘The Great Kapok Tree. Explore the language of traditional tales and write a rainforest ‘Just So’ story. Read a tale from Papua New Guinea. Make a board game as a lead in to writing a quest story.

In this session children take a closer look at the causes of global warming and look at the long term effects. How can they do their part to reduce the greenhouse effect? They put it to the test in the Great Greenhouse Effect Quiz!

The Rainforests are home to some 1.5 million people worldwide. But what is life for them really like? Chn take a close look in this session as they delve deeper into the forests and find out about life in the Jungle using books and ICT.

A storm is brewing. Thunder rumbles in the distance! In this session children use a text as a starting point for a musical composition. Using their own instruments made in the previous session they compose, record and perform their own music in groups.

Listen to the Rhythm of the Rainforest in this session! Children start by studying the Baka people who live in the African Rainforests, looking in detail at their instruments. Children then create simple instruments of their own using junk modelling techniques.

In this session children complete their Appliqué by cutting and sewing the pieces of their design before proudly displaying it in the classroom. They take time to reflect on the whole dyeing and designing process and evaluate the finished product.