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Big cats.com: Learn to Identify the Big Cats
A pictorial gallery of the big cats found around the world! Brief text accompanies amazing photographs of these beautiful creatures.
TES Global
Tes: Big Cat Holidays: Reading Assignment
[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.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Lions for Kids: Learn About the Big Cat
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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Big Cats Online
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.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Treaty of Versailles: Peace Returns
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....
BBC
Bbc Science & Nature: The Life of Mammals
Students can watch vivid pictures change before their eyes, from lions to monkeys to dolphins. Authors provide interactive games that aid in learning the behavior of animals. Continue to explore by investigating the habitat, diet, and...
PBS
Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: End of the Big Beasts
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?
The History Cat
The History Cat: Geography: Environment: The Incredible Shrinking Sea
Describes the economic policies of the Soviet Union that turned the Aral Sea, once the world's largest body of fresh water, into two smaller seas and desert. Includes a video. [10:29]
Other
Big Cat Rescue: Ocelot Facts
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Camp Day 1
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Facts About Great Cats
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.
Other
Florida Panther Net: The Florida Panther
Get all the current news and information on the Florida panther.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Wild Cats
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.
Other
Big Cats Online: Lion (Panthera Leo)
Explore the world of the lion. Content looks at the lion's unique characteristics, hunting abilities, social structure, and habitat.
The BIG zoo
The Big Zoo: Jaguar
Site provides some interesting facts about these large cats. Contains a physical description, information on their diet, habitat, social structure as well as birth and offspring.
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The Snow Leopard Conservancy
This organization works to protect the snow leopard and to educate people about this endangered species.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Tiger
Exhaustive resource explores the tiger with a description, pictures, and maps. Includes facts on ecology, history, behavior, habitat, conservation, and external links.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Jaguar
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.
Other
Who Zoo: Jaguars (Panthera Onca)
Learn all about the largest big cat of the western hemisphere, the jaguar, in this detailed natural history article and photo.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Burly and Grup and the Secret City [Pdf]
Burlington Bear, Grum the groblin and Max are best friends. Burly and Grum show Max a secret city in the the middle of the forest but hunters are tracking them down. They knock out Burly, capture Max and want to turn the Secret City into...
Globio
Glossopedia: Lions
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....
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Tiger
This open-source encyclopedia offers a detailed overview of the tiger. Content includes a look at this animal's physical description, method of killing, various subspecies, and the use of tigers in literature.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Can You Say Really Big Numbers?
Practice reading and writing out the number words for large numbers.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Florida's Crowded Cat
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.