This is an ideal team-teaching lesson for science and English teachers. Students work as magazine reporters to produce a print or multimedia magazine about rain forests. Student-reporters look at current examples of print scientific magazines for children, in order to learn about their different sections and types of writing.
Students then produce their own magazine.
Sections can include feature articles, puzzles, poetry, a math corner, a geography section, and so on. Identify current events and ecological issues that pertain to the earth's rain forests. Locate and identify rain forests. Utilize reference materials and Web sites to find information about specified rain forest topics. Write a non-fiction piece based on their research.