Description

The Taiga Biome, is the largest terrestrial biome, and covers approximately a third of the earth.  25 Beautiful, high resolution images capture the Taiga Biome environment in Folder.  This is classified as a subarctic region.

This environment sits just below the Tundra biome, and extends across Europe, Asia and North America.  Interestingly, the word ‘taiga’, is a Russian word that translates to ‘land of the little sticks’.

This product; one of 10 different biomes; will introduce the Child to a variety of images, and facts about humans, flora, and fauna and landscapes that call this cold, windy and frozen environment, their home.  This material is not an exhaustive supply of images and information for the taiga.  We suggest that the teacher expands on this information, as projects for the children to work upon.  Use the boundary information as a guide, rather than a fact, because independent sources differ about the current information, of biome placements.

Features of the Taiga Biome Folder

• the direct objective, is for children to;
  • introduce them to geography and the taiga; which is also known as the Boreal forest; biome
• indirectly, children;
  • learn about the different climates
  • understand the diversity of the world
  • identify with areas that they can relate to
  • broaden their horizons, stimulating an inquiring mind
• this is support material, aligned to the Montessori geography curriculum
• printed on the back of every photograph, are facts relating to the photograph
• these cards offer the teacher a structure, that s/he can use to embellish on the image with stories, and facts.

Contents of the Taiga Biome Folder

25 Image, and 1 title card, stored in an A5 transparent plastic envelope, to store on the shelf.  The title card has an image of the World, with a band of dark green that displays the areas of the world, that are classified as a taiga environment.

• 25 image cards reflect the following subjects in an image;
  • landscapes
  • fauna
  • flora
  • people, their homes, and many others
• the reverse of each image card lists pertinent facts relating to the images
• stimulate children’s imaginations with the information found on the rear of each photograph

Size:  24cm x 17cm x 1.5cm / (9¾” x 6¾” x ¾”)

Related Products

• The Biome Mat, illustrates the approximate areas that these biomes are situated.
• The clouds activity helps to explain how rain, and lack thereof, arises.
• The Asian continent folder and the North America continent folder, both will help illustrate the biome environment’s affect on their continent

Further Reading and Resources

1. The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is an area of the Northern Hemisphere that lies just south of the Arctic Circle, an article by National Geographic.
2. The Boreal Forest or the Taiga Biome is a terrestrial biome, descriptions of which are expanded in this article by the Lets Talk Science site.

Attributions

The Northern Red-backed Vole by

Zbyszek Boratynski. https://eol.org/media/8839671