Have the students then located and label on their own blank map where these countries and continent is located. Students may use the world map or globes to assist them. Students be able to identify and label the Hispanic continents by looking at the shapes of them. Large paper to record K.W.L. information on master list. Printed copy of instructions on how to make a rain forest.
Class divides into cooperative learning groups.
Each group assigns someone to record information the group comes up with. The teacher will write a master list of all of the responses from the groups. Assign each group member to get a material needed for the experiment. Read the directions and demonstrate how the mini-rain forest should be made, by making one. Label the cups and have the students check on their mini-rain forest each day to observe and then record their observations, a minimum, of three sentences.