Category: Science

Students will love these Amazon Tropical Rainforest Animals Color and Write pages. It features twelve detailed, realistic black-and-white drawings of animals commonly found in the Amazon tropical rainforest. Can be used as a Language Arts, Geography and/or Science resource. Cross-curricular!

Each page includes a realistic, ready-to-color illustration of the animal and lines for students to write a paragraph about the animal.

Animals included:
– sloth
– jaguar
– capybara
– howler monkey
– macaw
– toucan
– harpy eagle
– resplendent quetzal
– green anaconda
– poison dart frog
– river dolphin
– piranha

Space is provided for students to write a paragraph about each animal. You can assign what you’d like for them to include or you can allow them to choose what they include. Teachers often as students to describe the animal’s appearance, its habitat, unique behaviors, and any interesting facts they know or discover when reading about the animal(s) using outside materials.

Benefits of this resource:

• – Encourages children to learn about each animal.
• – Encourages children to express themselves through coloring and writing.
• – Reinforces writing, reading comprehension (through the gathering of information from outside resources to gather information to write) and science learning.
• – Improves attention span and concentration, as it requires careful attention to detail while coloring and while reading for detail (using outside resources).
• – Can reduce stress and anxiety when coloring.
• – Helps develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and dexterity through coloring.
• – Educational when using realistic images such as the ones in this resource