Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Tapeworms
This site gives an in-depth description of a tapeworm, including its behavior, appearance, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Tapeworm
Wikipedia offers detailed information on Cestoda, or the class of tapeworms. Includes a scientific classification chart and hyperlinked terms.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Rat Tapeworm
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Rat Tapeworms (Hymenolepis diminuta), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be...
Other
Parasitology: Chapter Five: Cestodes
An exhaustive look at numerous types of tapeworms that infect different animals. The site contains numerous pictures and life cycle diagrams. There are links to lectures and additional websites.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Parasites and Health: Taeniasis
This CDC resource will give you a comprehensive understanding of the tapeworm parasite. You can learn how it infects people, where it's found, the symptoms it causes and the way it can be treated.
Other
Ancestral Flatworms
Gives the history of flatworms and how they evolved. Gives the different types of flatworms, including the tapeworm.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: What Are the Different Types of Flatworms
Describes the basic characteristics of three of the major kinds of flatworms, including tapeworms, planarians, and flukes.
University of Southern California
Structure of Matter: Animals
A slide show that demonstrates the development of physical structure in the animal world, moving from sponges through mammals.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Flatworms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses characteristics of flatworms.
Success Link
Success Link: Autobiography of a Parasite
Use this lesson plan as an interesting culmination of a study of parasites. Students use the information they've gathered to write an autobiography of thelife cycle of the parasite of their choice.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Platyhelminthes Reproduction
Describes the characteristics of Platyhelminthes, or flatworms, and how they reproduce.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Parasitic Flatworms
Describes types of flatworms that are parasitic to humans and animals and what their life cycle looks like. Two or more hosts are needed for them to complete their life cycle.