Rain Forest Rescue - Inferencing

Rain Forest Rescue - Inferencing

Students will be able to use prior knowlege and text evidence to support an inference.

Multiple Select

What do you need in order to make an inference?

• Schema

• Text evidence

• a book

• an educated guess

• a piece of paper

Rain Forest Rescue

• What do you know about the Rain Forest?

• What does rescue mean?

Read the following passage and then answer the question that follows

Environmentalists from the group Conservation International say this area of the northern Amazon has more biodiversity than all tropical forests on the planet. Biodiversity is the variety of plants and animals in an environment. The Amazon is home to more species, or types, of plants and animals than any other place in the world.

Multiple Choice

Environmentalists from the group Conservation International say this area of the northern Amazon has more biodiversity than all tropical forests on the planet. Biodiversity is the variety of plants and animals in an environment. The Amazon is home to more species, or types, of plants and animals than any other place in the world.

What can you infer about the Amazon based on what you just read?

• It has very rainy days and is very humid. Plants can live there, but animals cannot.

• Having more types of plants and animals than any other place in the world

• It does not have any plants of animals because of the weather.

Read the following passage and then answer the question

Officials were especially concerned about preserving the forests. Part of the area is believed to contain more than half of all bird, animal, and plant species found in the Amazon. Many endangered animals, including the giant Amazon otter, make their homes there. Under the government's plan, those parts of the Amazon will be off-limits to the public.

Multiple Select

Officials were especially concerned about preserving the forests. Part of the area is believed to contain more than half of all bird, animal, and plant species found in the Amazon. Many endangered animals, including the giant Amazon otter, make their homes there. Under the government's plan, those parts of the Amazon will be off-limits to the public.

Why are officials trying to preserve the forests? (check ALL answers that true)

• They contain more than half of all bird, animals, and plant species found in the Amazon.

• many endangered animals live there.

• People are ruining a popular vacation spot.

• They are not trying to preserve the forests because nothing is happening there.

The Amazon rain forest is the world's largest tropical rain forest. It covers about 2 million square miles-roughly two-thirds the size of the United States. The map above shows the location of the Amazon rain forest and its newly protected areas.

Why do you think the author included a map of the Amazon?

Open Ended

Why do you think the author included a map of the Amazon in this article?