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4. Global Environments: Rainforests

Global Environments: Rainforests

Texts

• Across Country
  ABC, 1998
  
  
• Encyclopedia of the World and Its People
  Bay Books, 1978
  
  
• First Starts: Deserts; Rainforests; Oceans; Polar Lands
  Watts Books,1991
  
  
• Life in a Rainforest: A Rooftop Walk
  ERA Publications, 1992 (big book/small books)
  
  
• Tropical Rainforests,
  Momentum 3.3, Macmillan, 1999 (easy text)
  
  
• World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places
  World Book, 1992
  
  
• Rainforest Remnants
  National Parks and Wildlife Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1991
  
  
• Here Today, Everywhere Tomorrow? The Effects of Introduced Plants and Animals in Australia
  Anderson, J., Bookshelf, 1989 (reprinted 1995)
  
  
• Forest Floor
  Atkinson, K., Cambridge, 1997
  
  
• Coral Reefs
  Breidahl, H., (Connections series) Macmillan, 1994
  
  
• The Business of Ecology: Australian Organisations Tackling Environmental Issues
  Calo, L., Allen & Unwin, 1995 (out of print)
  
  
• Rainforests in Australia,
  Churchett, G., Rigby Heinemann, 1992 (big book)
  
  
• Teaching Aboriginal Studies
  Craven R., Allen & Unwin, 1999
  
  
• World Issues
  Demamiel, S., Macmillan, 1999
  
  
• Life in the Rainforest
  Erbacher, J. & S., Cambridge University Press, 1991
  
  
• Australia's Wet Tropics Rainforest Life Including the Daintree Region
  Frith C. &D., Frith and Frith, 1992
  
  
• Explore the World of Exotic Rainforests
  Ganeri, A., RD Surry Hills, 1992
  
  
• How to Survive in a Jungle
  Ganeri, A., Simon & Schuster Young, 1993
  
  
• The Great Green Forest
  Geraghty, P., Hutchinson, 1992
  
  
• Deserts Inside Australia's Simpson Desert
  Hooper, M., Cambridge,1997
  
  
• Rainforests Inside Australia's Tropical Rainforest
  Hooper, M., Cambridge, 1997
  
  
• Life in a Tropical Rainforest
  Howes, C.,Macmillan,1993
  
  
• Learn about the Environment
  Howes, J., Ray, S., & Ryan, F., Macmillan, 1997
  
  
• Bush Food
  Isaacs, J., Lansdowne, 1994
  
  
• Companion to Bush Food
  Isaacs, J., Lansdowne, 1996
  
  
• The Pacific Ocean,
  Lambert, D., Wayland, 1996
  
  
• Climactic Regions series: Polar Desert Lands, Hot Desert Lands, Water Shapes the Land, The Earth's Crust, Understanding the Weather, Temperate Lands and Tropical Lands
  McClish, B., Macmillan, 1995
  
  
• Contemporary Aboriginal Art
  McCulloh, S., Allen Unwin, Oct 1999
  
  
• Away to the Reef and the Rainforest, Queensland, Australia: an Explorer's Travelogue for Children
  McDonald M., Reepete, 1992
  
  
• Life in a Rainforest
  Martin, R., ERA, 1991 (big book)
  
  
• Rainforests
  Morgan S. & Lalor, P., Jacaranda, 1992
  
  
• Wonders of the World (series)
  Morris, N., Crabtree Publishing Company, 1996
  
  
• Corals: Flowers of the Sea
  Murdoch, L.H., Bookshelf, 1993 (reprinted1996)
  
  
• Kuku Yalanji of the Mossman Gorge, A Guide to Traditional Aboriginal Rainforest Plant Use
  Ngadimunka, Bamanga Babu,1995
  
  
• Australian rainforest plants package
  Nicholson, N. & G., Landlinks Press, 1998
  
  
• Rainforest
  Oktober, T., Hodder, 1998
  
  
• Deep in a Rainforest
  Pascoe, G., Era Publications, 1994
  
  
• Australian Rainforest
  Parish, S., Steve Parish Publishing, 1997
  
  
• Sea Australia with Steve Parish
  Parish, S., Steve Parish Publishing,1997
  
  
• Bush Food of NSW
  Percival, B. & Stewart, K., Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, 1996
  
  
• Connections series: Worth Saving
  Pigdon, K. & Woolley, M., Macmillan , 1994
  
  
• Ecosystems of Australia series: Alpine Regions, Deserts, Rainforests, Forests and Woodlands, Coasts, Grasslands, Oceans, Wetlands
  Pryers, G. & Cheng C., Heinemann Library 1998/9
  
  
• Animals of the Rainforest
  Savage, S., Wayland, 1996
  
  
• Tropical Rainforests
  Sloan, P. & S., Macmillan, 1998 (Little Blue Readers series - easy text)
  
  
• Habitat Communities Pack series: Desert Pack, Rainforests Pack, Rockpools Pack, Urban Pack, Waterways Pack
  Sprake, W., & Porter, L., MacMillan, 1998 ( includes three posters, one board game, a Teacher Resource Book)
  
  
• Looking at the Environment
  Suzuki, D., Hehner, B. & Dibley, J., Allen & Unwin, 1989
  
  
• Amazing Journeys series: Up An Amazon Tree, Through a Termite Jungle, Inside a Coral Reef, Down a River
  Telford, C. & Theodorou, R., Heinemann Library, 1998
  
  
• Philip's Environment Atlas
  Wright, D., Macmillan, 1998
  
  
• Philip's Children's Atlas
  Wright, D. & J., Macmillan,1998
  
  

Videos, CD-ROMs and Web Sites

• Aussie EcoRanger
  New Horizons Windows Disk (CD-ROM)
  
  
• Rainforests
  Classroom Video, 1987 (20 min, Years 5-10)
  
  
• Rewind: Skiing
  Film Australia, 1997 (5 minute video)
  
  
• Australia Unfolded: Interactive Atlas of Australia
  AUSLIG (CD-ROM)
  
  
• Barrier Reef: The Multimedia Experience
  Webster (CD-ROM)
  
  
• Natural Wonders of Australia
  Dataworks (CD-ROM)
  
  
• The Dynamic Rainforest
  Dataworks 1998 (CD-ROM)
  
  
• The Rainforest
  New Horizons (CD-ROM)
  
  
• Fern Gully: the last rainforest
  Twentieth Century Fox, 1992 (video)
  
  
• The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (EcoFriends)
  Includes: Information about the Nature Conservation Council of NSW; News and Events; Campaigns; Publication
  http://ecofriends.nccnsw.org.au/



• State Forests
  Includes Information about NSW State forests, forest management, biodiversity, community access and forest species
  http://www.forest.nsw.gov.au/

Kits

• Habitat Communities: Arid Zones, Rainforests, Rockpools, The Schoolyard Pack, Urban Areas, Inland Waterways
  (set of 4 posters and Teacher Resource Book for area), Macmillan, 1997