Biomes

McClain: Geography

The assignment

Use the research resources provided on this class page to discover the location, climate,  vegetation, animals, natural resources and landscape of your biome.  You will also determine your biome's importance to the world community.

Tropical Rainforest (Rainforest)	Savanna or Tropical grassland	Semiarid and Desert
Grassland or Temperate Grassland BUT NOT tropical grassland	Temperate Forest	Mediterranean or Scrub Forest
Boreal Forest or Taiga	Tundra

Information needed

Your Handout will guide you.  Notice that your handout requires that you include WHERE you found the information!

Resources

The subscription databases and the "Free Web" resources  shown on the Research Resources page provide your electronic or "Internet" resources for your project.  Reference books and other print materials will be found on your class reserve cart.

Evaluating Information

Be sure to utilize credible and reliable sources  -- articles that are self-published or that rely on personal opinion, publications that are slanted in favor of one side, or sites that are strongly commercial will not meet criteria required from good researchers.  Resources found on the Research Resources page have authority and can be considered credible and reliable   

Evaluation of Web Page

Citing Sources

Worksheet for Citing Sources (adapted for McClain's Biomes)

Teacher Evaluation and Due Dates

 Rubric