Animal Research Project | Tropical Rainforest Report

This animal research project is all about tropical rainforest animals. It makes animal reports in grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 a breeze. It has an animal research graphic organizer to use with the easy to read informational text fact sheets. Differentiation for the needs of your students is built in to the writing pages.

This 55 page packet includes information on these animals that live in the tropical rainforest habitat:

• Chameleons
• Green anacondas
• Howler monkeys
• Jaguars
• Macaws and parrots
• Red eyed tree frogs
• Sloths
• Toucans

The informational close reading passages are bulleted and written at a level the students can read independently. The pages include links to student-friendly websites. Students may complete the projects individually, with partners, or in teams.

What You Get With This Resource

• A printable PDF with a link to create your own copy of the digital slides version in Google Slides (TM).
• Instructions for how to download the slides as a Powerpoint file.
• Table of contents.
• Teacher pacing guide and lesson plan.
• Tips and ideas for using this in the primary classroom.
• Two page fact sheets for eight different tropical rainforest animals.
• Additional website links for the teacher to review and use if needed.
• Differentiated writing paper - one is fully scaffolded, another has a large picture, another has a small picture, and another paper is for more advanced writers.
• Colorful blank slides for students to use in a digital presentation.
• Writing rubrics for grades 2, 3, and 4, plus a blank rubric for you to customize.
• Two more bonus free writing resources.

Differentiation made easy!

• Use the graphic organizer with large shapes for a presentation report or to hang on the wall.
• Use a scaffolded report for emerging writers or for EL students.
• Use the picture and lined paper for the most advanced students. You can also have them choose two animals to write a compare and contrast essay.

You can differentiate for all your students with this one packet! It's perfect for a combination or multi-grade classroom.

CCSS Aligned Rubrics Included:

• 2nd grade rubric
• 3rd grade rubric
• 4th grade rubric
• A blank rubric that you can customize to meet your needs.

This research packet meets the Common Core standards for research writing in the primary grades.

• CCSS.W2.2, CCSS.W.3.2, CCSS.W.4.2 Writing informative/explanatory texts.
• CCSS.W.2.5, CCSS.W3.5, CCSS.W.4.5 Strengthen writing by revising and editing text.
• CCSS.W.2.7, CCSS.3.7, CCSS.W4.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
• CCSS.L.2.2, CCSS.L.3.2, CCSS.L.4.2 Use the standards of conventional English when writing.

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***Customer Comments***

Great resource for my students' rainforest animal reports!

---Jennifer R. 7/13/2018

We are using these resources with our habitat lessons and my students love them.

---Christina H. 4/12/2016