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American Field Guide Animals
http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/topics/animals/index.html
What's so special about the Giant Water Bug? How are people working to protect the Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle? In this section, you'll learn some fascinating facts about Animals and meet some strange and wonderful creatures. Check out the featured video clips for a peek at some of our most intriguing segments on Animals; or dig deeper into the collection by browsing the subtopic categories.

CIESE-- Educational Links -- Real-Time Data
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/realtimedatasites.html

Singing Science Records
http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/

Material Properties and Change Curricular Companion
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/cc_mpc/index.shtml

Community science action guides
http://www.fi.edu/guide/
These Community Science Action Guides tackle engaging science content with a decidedly local context so that students get a feel for how science really does matter. Each guide includes a project overview, teacher guide, related activities, and correlations to standards documents.

Kit and curricular companions
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/matrix1.shtml
If you use kits that cover science themes, particularly from FOSS, Insights, or STC, you'll find this compendium of related resources to be a goldmine. For each kit or theme, the site contains correlated background content, kit enrichment, interdisciplinary connections, assessment strategies, and standards. Detailed matrices guide you to exactly the resource you need.

Space for Species
http://www.spaceforspecies.ca/
Monitor migratory animals, like the polar bear, eider, caribou, peregrine falcon, and leatherback turtle, as well as their habitats, from beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

CIESE Online Classroom Projects
http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html

FOSSWeb
http://www.fossweb.com

 

Animals

The Best Animal Sites
http://www.kbears.com/borrico/index.htm

Switcheroo Zoo  
http://www.switcheroozoo.com/default.htm
Create new and exciting animals using Flash technology and your browser. Learn some basic animal facts then let the fur fly. Students can morph new pets, or use the legs, tail and head of animals to generate discussions of genetic engineering.

ZooNet
http://www.zoonet.org/gallery.htm
ZooNet gathers together links to zoos and a great image gallery of animals found in zoos across the world.

Dino Directory
http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/
Search by body type, or location where dinosaur bones/fossils have been found.

Whale Net
http://WHALE.WHEELOCK.EDU/
This site serves both as a rich source of information and a station through which students can participate in the tracking of several recently-tagged whales, seals, and turtles.

Zoo in the Wild
http://www.naturalia.org/ZOO/indexing.html
The site depicts animals in their natural setting and does not refer to any existing park or reserve. The site offers images, sounds, and information on hundreds of African and European mammals, birds, and reptiles. Note: Text for European animals and birds is in Italian only.

Beetles
http://bugbios.com/entophiles/coleoptera/index.html
Select one of the thumbnail photographs of beetles below to access the descriptive record for this insect. 

Animals Around the World
http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/Animals.html
This web quest is designed to familiarize you with animals in their natural habitat in North America. 

Animal Cams
http://www.discovery.com/cams/tzbear/tzbear.html
This leads to the Polar Bear Cam but also check out the links to many other animal cams. 

Dog Breeders Info
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/abc.htm

Sea World/Animal Gardens: Animal Bytes
http://www.seaworld.org/animal_bytes/animal_bytes.html
Animal Bytes were specifically designed to help you quickly find information about some of the unique creatures found in the animal kingdom. Most files include the scientific classification, fun facts, and biological value. 

The Birmingham Zoo
http://www.birminghamzoo.com/
Click on the list of animals and the videos of animals. 

Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html
Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. 

Animal Pictures by Biome
http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/pond/pondlife.shtml
Pictures and descriptions of animals by their environmental region (biome).   Pictures can be printed to color on paper or downloaded to color on computer (on-line instructions provided). 

Ask Scarlett
http://www.nwf.org/nwf/scarlett/index.html
Ask a question and get an answer about animals. 

exZOOberance-Virtual Zoo
http://www.exzooberance.com/virtual_zoo.htm
Over 100 species of animals (and growing) including hundreds of beautiful photographs and fascinating facts.

CritterCam Chronicles
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/crittercam/
Cameras on the backs of marine animals.

Have a Cow Dude
http://www.10acresbackyard.com/
Check out "The Girls" (milk producing cows), pick one
that catches your fancy, and register to receive updates by mail, or check back to the website to see how your cow is doing (if she's had a calf or was a top milk producer).

CyberZoo: Biomes
http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/biome.html
The seventh grade life science and English classes at Whitesboro Middle School have been working together with scientists from Syracuse University and SUNY ESF, Utica Zoo, and Burnet Park Zoo to create a web site that will display animals as part of a biome the CyberZoo.

Wildcam: Polar Bears
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/polarbearcam/ax/livecam/frame.html

Wildcam: Brown Bears
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/bearcam/

Wildcam: Stellar Sea Lions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/stellercam/

Zoobooks: Animals A-Z
http://www.zoobooks.com/animalsAtoZ/directory.htm

eNature
http://www.enature.com/
Type in a zip code and search the type of animal for your area.

 

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Water Cycle

Water Works!
http://www.chias.org/ipsd/2001/index.html
Five lessons about the water cycle have been developed for young science
learners by a team of educators in Chicago. Although these lessons were designed specifically for the Little Village area of Chicago, there are great ideas for building your own thematic units on the importance of water in communities.

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