Remember the Rainforest : Populate Your Rainforest

 

Title: Populate Your Rainforest 14+

Authors: Karl von Martius 1817 and Carol Miranda Chor, 2017

Grade Levels/Ages: 14+

Subject Areas: Ecology,Biodiversity,Earth Science,Plants,Animals,Journalism

Standards: Supplemental Resource material

Short Description: 

What begins as a leisurely browse for favorite plants and animals becomes a headline-grabbing seacrh for extinctions. Choose your favorites from thousands of rare rainforest images created by explorers from the Age of Collectors, when naturalists and artists converged on the rainforest to collect, record and classify the natural wonders that they found. Giving descriptive Latin names to classify plants and animals is known as Taxonomy.