Geography Sub Plan (No Prep): Biomes Field Journal Project, Grades 5-8

Students are scientists reading postcards from six research stations on a made-up world map. Each postcard gives temperature, rain, plants and animals in plain words, and students name the biome from a word bank of 7 (tropical rainforest, savanna, desert, temperate grassland, temperate forest, boreal forest and tundra; one is not on a postcard). Then they fill in a field journal with a rain clue, a temperature clue and how one plant or animal fits its biome, and design Station 7: choose a biome, write its postcard and draw a pencil field sketch with 3 labels.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• 6 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no atlas, no scissors.

Answer key included

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