Featured video: Leafcutter ants
Shows leafcutter ants in a Costa Rican rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life' and creative topics book 'Rainforest bugs'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1188)

Video playlist

Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for rainforests.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 10 min (V1187)

Rain
Shows a rainforest in Costa Rica during rain.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1198)

Leafcutter ants
Shows leafcutter ants in a Costa Rican rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life' and creative topics book 'Rainforest bugs'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1188)

Bananas
Shows banana plants growing in a rainforest in Costa Rica.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1191)

Bromeliads
Can you spot the bromeliads growing in the rainforest?
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1192)

Buttress roots
Shows tree roots known as buttress roots.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1193)

Climbing plants
Looks at climbing plants in a Costa Rican rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1194)

Natural decay
Shows examples of natural decay happening in the rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1195)

Jungle
Shows what a jungle looks like, explaining how jungles form, and the differences between jungles and rainforests.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1196)

Mangrove roots
Shows mangrove trees, in particular their distinctive roots.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1197)

Rivers
Shows a river running through a rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1199)

Riverside village
Shows homes in riverside villages in the rainforest, where people have built so they can travel by water.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1200)

Tree ferns
Shows tree ferns growing in a Costa Rican rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1201)

Tree moss
Shows moss growing on rainforest trees.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1202)

Understorey leaves
Shows big leaves growing in the understorey layer of a rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1203)

Understorey plants
Examples of the types of plant which grow in the understorey layer of a rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1204)

Waterfall
Shows a waterfall in the Costa Rican rainforest.
Supports: textbook 'Rainforest life'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1205)