Students can pretend they are jaguars and explain the functions of their structures. Tropical rainforests are located in the warm regions south of the Tropic of Cancer and north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Tropical rainforests are warm areas that receive a great deal of rainfall. Thornton et al. Despite the beauty and importance of rainforests, they are being rapidly destroyed or altered.
Analogies can help people understand the rates of loss.
Between 1981 and 1990, tropical forest loss was 40 million acres a year. Within 75 years, all the rainforests could be gone. Analysis of data is another way for students to learn about rainforest loss and integrate mathematics into their science learning. Scientific papers can be a good source of data for analysis. The number of species in tropical rainforests is astonishing.