Hello, 

         This lesson was created for a fifth grade class.  The standard for this lesson in under The Living Environment: Diversity of Life benchmark.  It states, "A great variety of kinds of living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various features to decide which things belong to which group.” 
         The lesson is supposed to give the students an overview of the characteristics of biomes.  The students are given facts about each biome.  The book corner web page gives a couple of books for each biome.  This will help the students learn more about the animals, plants, and temperatures within each biome. 
         In the web problem activity, the students will be looking through websites that talk about the wildlife in different places in the world.  The students will connect the information for this lesson to the information they find on other websites.  Through this activity students should learn how to identify the features of each biome and the wildlife within that biome.  The hands-on activity can be done first or last.  It might be helpful for the students to look at the web pages on the web problem page before working on this activity.  The students could use both pages together. 
         Overall, the students will learn about five major biomes in this lesson. 

 I used these websites as resources:

 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/index.html

http://www.google.com