Skunk Teacher Resources

This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on striped skunks including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.

This site gives an in-depth description of a skunk, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, in a section titled "North American Mammals," offers a general overview of the North American hog-nosed skunk. Additional content includes detailed drawings, photographs, and a map showing the...

Provides photographs and facts about the skunk. Discusses the different species, physical features, special characteristics of baby skunks, diet, behavior, the danger from cars, and reproduction.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional passages shares the story of a man and his dog who come across a skunk. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

What would you like to learn about Striped Skunks? This site features information on characteristics, life cycle, diet, habitat, behavior and range. Come and learn more about these little mammals.

A good overview of the striped skunk's characteristics, physical features, its defensive features, and how it lives. Included are many good photos and classification information.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in a section titled "North American Mammals," offers a general overview of the hooded skunk. Content includes detailed drawings, photographs, specimens, and a map showing the skunk's...

In this instructional activity students will learn interesting facts about skunks. They will also design a "nose guard" that people can wear to protect themselves against the smell of a skunk. Then students will have a chance to...

"A Great Joke on Jimmy Skunk", written circa 1927 by Thorton Burgess, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 27 page book is appropriate for early readers.

Finding success in science requires smarts, determination, and sometimes a bit of luck. NPR's Skunk Bear created the Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance to celebrate that last part. Check out the top nominees' stories and see the...

Learn all about this Canadian mammal...habitat, young, enemies, food. Excellent research source for younger students.

Here you can find all kinds of useful information about wild skunks, including how they "spray," what they eat, and what they look like.

The Canadian Museum of Nature offers a detailed drawing of a striped skunk followed by a brief description of the animal.

The poem "Skunk Hour" by Robert Lowell.

Follows a young owl named Baltimore's PRECISE route from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada. [8:42]

Explore the view of a moon-bound hiker as he simulates walking to the moon while listening to David Bowie's music and telling us highlights of David Bowie's life at different dates and milestones along his journey. [5:00]

Do all of your cells get switched out for new ones every seven years or so? Does anything remain with you throughout your entire life? [3:08]

Using the tools of forensic anthropology, we explore the life and times of the mysterious skeleton we found in a high school art room. [7:07]

It's difficult to build a working four-rotor helicopter that spans 100 feet and only weighs 80 pounds. It's even harder when your engine is a 0.7-horsepower person. But one team of engineering students is trying to do just that. [5:36]

Every year a long-distance race in Wales pits humans against horses. In this episode of Field Trip, follow that contest and explore the physiology and evolution behind humanity's often-overlooked skill: endurance running. [7:02]

In Latin America, vampire bats drink the blood of big animals and spread the deadly rabies virus. Ranchers want them exterminated. But scientists are discovering these bats not only have weird abilities - they also form human-like...

A 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. Playful in tone, it's a humorous "instructional video" on survival in space. [3:48]

What can we learn from the controversial history of ape language research? [7:42]