How can you tell they’ve got it: Where Rainforests Are?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Point to the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asian rainforest regions on a world map; Explain that rainforests grow near the Equator where it is hot and wet all year; Name at least two continents that have large rainforests. Or just try it together: If you show your child a world map, can they point to where rainforests grow — near the middle of the Earth in places like South America, Africa, and Asia?

Science Rainforests Ages 5–7

Where Rainforests Are

Your child knows rainforests grow in a belt around the middle of the Earth. There are big ones in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

In curriculum terms

Know that rainforests are found in a belt around the middle of the Earth — in South America (the Amazon), Central Africa (the Congo), and Southeast Asia — and that they appear on every continent except Antarctica and Europe

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Point to the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asian rainforest regions on a world map
Explain that rainforests grow near the Equator where it is hot and wet all year
Name at least two continents that have large rainforests

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Try this together

If you show your child a world map, can they point to where rainforests grow — near the middle of the Earth in places like South America, Africa, and Asia?

Where this sits on the map

Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.

Builds on

What Is a Rainforest?ages 5–7Must know what a rainforest is before learning where they are located

Where Rainforests Arethis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

The Amazon Rainforestages 7–9Must know where rainforests are globally before zooming into the Amazon specifically

Tropical Rainforest Climateages 7–9Location near Equator explains why the climate is tropical

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

Nearby on the map

Everyday Foods from Rainforestsages 5–7 Indigenous Rainforest Peoplesages 5–7 Inside a Rainforestages 5–7 Rainforest Animalsages 5–7

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