Read the article together orally as a whole group. Discuss their answers. Rainforests receive between 80 - 400 inches of rainfall a year. Temperatures stay between 70 - 80 degrees Fahrenheit year round. Tropical rainforests have high levels of humidity.
Tropical rainforests receive the direct rays of the sun.
Their days are fairly evenly divided between light and darkness. Allow students to work in pairs to illustrate and label the four characteristics of a rainforest. Reconvene as a whole class and ask volunteers to share their drawings and ideas. Average Rainfall in Selected World Rainforests. You may wish to review how to make a bar graph, as well as doing several example problems to show students how to convert inches to millimeters using a calculator.