The activities and background information below were designed to make your class trip more enjoyable.

The Tour

• Teacher Background on Plant Adaptations
• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary worksheet
• The Field Notebook

The Tropics

• Teacher Background on the Tropics
• Mapping the Tropics
• Gifts from the Tropics
• Tropical Climates
• What's Happening to the Rainforest
• Weighing Your Paper Use

Plants

• Grow a Philodendron
• Experimenting with Light
• Experimenting with Water
• Create a Plant
• Potato Maze
• California Natives