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Unit 6: Crossroads
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Internet Connection Activity
Rainforest Plants and Animals    Find Out More
Virtual Rainforest/Online Rainforest Tour
Connect to this link:
http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/tour/rainforest.html


  1. Click To the Rainforest to begin the tour.

  2. Read about Janette. Click Next Slide to continue.

  3. Follow the tour until the end or as long as time permits.

Rainforests of the World
Connect to this link:
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/index.htm


  1. In the left frame, click Types of Rainforests.

  2. Read and then click Where are Rainforests located? Study the map.

  3. Click Exploring the Tropical Rainforest.

  4. Follow the tour until the end by clicking the right pointing arrow.

Internet Connection Activity
Changes Over Time    Leveled Books
Electric Guitar
Connect to this link:
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/frames/00mainfr.htm


  1. Read the introduction. Then, in the left frame, click Invention.

  2. Read the page. Click A Louder Guitar.

  3. Read the page. Click Commercial Success.

  4. Read about the ways that the electric guitar became a part of rock music.

Elegance After Dark
Connect to this link:
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/ead.htm


  1. Read the opening page.

  2. Then click The Belle Époque, 1895-1919.

  3. Find out what people wore as dress-up clothing during those years.

  4. Then click the next era. Continue though the pages in the same way.

  5. How have fashions changed over time?