HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE RAINFOREST

LEARN, LEARN, LEARN!!!!
The most important thing you can do is learn about what a rainforest is, how it works, and how unique it is. With the information found on the following web page, you can read about the rainforest of Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, and the plants and animals that live there and what they need to survive. It is a great place to start to learn about the rainforest ecosystem. There are many other great sites on the Internet and books at your library where you can read about this special ecosystem.

Start here!

http://www.kidssavingtherainforest.org/education1.html.

Try these links, too!
http://kidssavingtherainforest.org/factsheet.html

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/serve_home.html

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/rainforest_what.htm

By clicking on this web page, you can save 11.4 acres of rainforest land. It only takes one click on one button on the page. Check it out!!

http://www.therainforestsite.com/

These web pages have neat activities you can do, all about rainforests!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/radiobuttonquiz/radio_button_quiz1.shtml

http://www.microsoft.com/kids/msb/rainforest.htm

By passing the information on to your classmates through projects or activities, you are helping others become informed about the endangered rainforests. The more people that understand about the rainforest and its need for protection, the more people there are to support its protection!

PROJECTS
When your teacher asks you to do a project for class, you can choose any of these ideas to share what you have learned about the rainforest through research on the Internet and in books.
¤ Reports ¤ Mobiles
¤ Presentations/Speeches ¤ Posters
¤ Dioramas ¤ Skits
¤ Writing books, poems, or songs

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
Ask your teachers if your class can try one or more of these fun and educational activities to help protect the rainforest.

• Have your class make a rainforest calendar that you can sell to raise money for the Kids Saving the Rainforest group in Costa Rica! You can use pictures from the internet, copy photos from books, or better yet, draw a rainforest picture for each month! Each student can draw a different plant, animal, or scene from a rainforest and make a contribution to the calendar. Your community would love to buy something they need, made from students they know, to help a great cause! You can sell the calendars at your school, in your community, or through a local business that would be interested in helping you out.
• Set up an art gallery in your school! You and your classmates can make all kinds of art projects about rainforests or nature. Choose two or three nights to put it on display at your school. Advertise about your art gallery sale in the school and in the community. Everyone will love to come see your work, learn about the ecosystem, and buy art to raise money for the Kids Saving the Rainforest group! You may even be able to hold the art gallery at a shopping mall, grocery store, church, or at any place that draws in a lot of people and is willing to cooperate with your class.
• Write to local businesses to see if they’ll help your efforts! Tell the businesses what you have learned about the rainforest in your letter, and ask them to make a donation to sponsor a particular plant or tree, found within the rainforests of Manuel Antonio. Kids Saving the Rainforest will take the donation and plant a tree in the rainforest, helping the rainforest stay full and healthy. Businesses can also sponsor a “monkey bridge”, which Kids Saving the Rainforest will put up in the rainforest. The bridges allow the ndangered Titi monkeys of Manuel Antonio to cross over the road without getting hit by cars. They also stop the monkeys from using electrical wires to cross the roads, which are dangerous for them since they can get electrocuted.
  You will be surprised how much your letters to businesses can make a difference!
• Have your class contact the local media! You and your classmates can write newspaper articles that inform the community about the rainforest in Costa Rica. The articles can tell people about all the work your class has been doing to protect the rainforest. They can also tell people how they can make donations to Kids Saving the Rainforest, too. You can also write an announcement that the local radio or television station can read to their listeners.

We are so happy you are interested in helping our group protect the rainforests in Manuel Antonio. We love to interact with schools from around the world. Make sure you let us know what neat projects and activities you are doing with your school! Have fun, and good luck!