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Big cats.com: Learn to Identify the Big Cats

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial gallery of the big cats found around the world! Brief text accompanies amazing photographs of these beautiful creatures.
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Tes: Big Cat Holidays: Reading Assignment

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze a tourism brochure that features the big cats of Africa. This assessment can be use used as a formative or summative performance assessment.
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Big Cats Online

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site that provides information on the evolution, behavior, and conservation of Big Cats. This site also has an informative fact and figures section that contains answers to frequently asked e-mail questions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Saving Big Cats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about jaguars, tigers, and other big cats that have become endangered species. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Lions for Kids: Learn About the Big Cat

For Students 3rd - 8th
The lion rules the land with it's hunting prowess and roar. Study the lion the second biggest of the big cats on this site.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: Wild Cats

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the names of some of the biggest wild cats. Each page has one word and a photograph. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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Big Cats Online: Jaguar (Panthera Onca)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about jaguars, including their description, hunting capabilities, threats to survival, and more.
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Big Cat Rescue: Ocelot Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
This thorough resource provides a general overview of the ocelot and delves into size and appearance, habitat, distribution, reproduction and offspring, social system and communication, hunting and diet principal threats, and endangered...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Facts About Great Cats

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the great cats by linking from this introductory page to a photo gallery, to fact sheets about specific cats, to conservation and science information, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Camp Day 1

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Peg and Cat are helping the Farmer today, and they have a lot of work to do! Today's activities include welcoming campers, introducing camp, sorting animals, collecting 100 chickens, planting vegetables, and solving some really big...
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BBC

Bbc Nature Wildfacts: Asian Golden Cat

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from BBC provides excellent color photos of several Asian golden cats, as well as a detailed fact sheet.
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Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Jaguar

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What do you want to know about jaguars? This educational resource looks at the behavior, diet, life cycle, characteristics, habitat and range of these big cats.
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Who Zoo: Jaguars (Panthera Onca)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the largest big cat of the western hemisphere, the jaguar, in this detailed natural history article and photo.
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Big Cats Online: Lion (Panthera Leo)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world of the lion. Content looks at the lion's unique characteristics, hunting abilities, social structure, and habitat.
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Globio

Glossopedia: Lions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lions are big cats that are related to tigers, leopards, and jaguars. The number of lions is decreasing and lions are losing habitat. A long time ago, someone crowned lions as "the kings of the jungle." But lions don't live in jungles....
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Treaty of Versailles: Peace Returns

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what happened at the end of World War I - the celebrations and the unnecessary final battles - as the Big Four (France, Britain, the United States, and Italy) sat down to begin negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles....
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Florida's Crowded Cat

For Students 9th - 10th
This article in Zoogoer Magazine by Howard Youth centers on the Florida Panther and its population growth as well as reaction to growth of big cities. The information on the panther is both informative and interesting.
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PBS

Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: End of the Big Beasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Three opposing views about the disappearance of the "megafauna" in North America. What really happened to the wooly mammoth, mastadon, saber-toothed tiger, among other animals?
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Chicago Zoological Society

Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Clouded Leopard

For Students 9th - 10th
Familiarize yourself with the clouded leopard while browsing this brief overview from the Brookfield Zoo. This animal guide includes quick facts and information on its appearance, habitat, and other unique behaviors of this mysterious...
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Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life: Tiger

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhaustive resource explores the tiger with a description, pictures, and maps. Includes facts on ecology, history, behavior, habitat, conservation, and external links.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Cat on a Hot Tin Roor

For Students 9th - 10th
This Pulizter Prize winning play is analysed in depth in this fascinating look at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Canadian Lynx

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore this educational resource to learn about the Canadian Lynx. Students will increase their knowledge of this small cat through information ranging from characteristics to diet and beyond.
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Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Jaguar

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive note about the jaguar includes taxonomic classification, specimens, and details about this carnivorous cat's habitat and role in the ecosystem.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Florida Panther

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn more about the Florida Panther through this educational site. Students will find information about habitat, life cycle, diet, behavior and more of this small cat.

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