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| Students learned about Earth's main biomes and which types of plants and animals inhabit these environments. |
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| Students discovered that a biome is a large ecosystem that has its own types of animals, plants and soil. They also have their own unique patterns of temperature and rainfall. |
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| The tundra is a cold a cold, dry biome without trees and the ground is frozen all year. |
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| Students created their assigned biome with a partner displaying the vegetation, animals and soil. |
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| The taiga is a cool forest biome that also contains lakes and ponds and is the largest in the world. |
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| Deciduous forests have trees that lose their leaves every year. They often have cold winters and warm summers. |
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| Tropical rain forests are hot and damp with plenty of rainfall. |
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| A grassland is a biome where the main kind of plant is grass. Grasslands do not get much rainfall. |
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| A desert is a barren biome with very little rainfall. They can be hot or cold. |
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| Students worked in pairs to research one of the biome locations and wrote a summary of the location and characteristics that made up their particular biome. |
