Ducksters
Ducksters: Endangered Animals
Kids: What is an endangered animal? Many species are in danger of becoming extinct. How can we help?
Other
Pocantico Hills School: Meet the Dinosaurs
What do other kids know and love about dinosaurs? Here's an exciting place to compare what you know about the "terrible lizards", and to learn more from this school site.
Morning Earth
Morning Earth: Biosphere Community: Six Great Extinctions
Students examine the topic of evolution and extinction. Includes definitions, examples, and pictures on six extinctions events.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Ecosystems, Biomes, and Habitats
This site is provided for by The Franklin Institute Online. "Open the door and step into your ecosystem." Content describes ecosystems and related material such as biomes, habitats, energy cycle, extinction, recycling, and more.
Other
Clever Island: Dinosaurs
This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Mammoth Mary Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, discusses a wide variety of prehistoric animals from the mammoth to the mastodon.
Other
Dinosaurs' End, the Gravitational Hypothesis
The author of this site feels that there are too many problems with the current theories for why dinosaurs became extinct. He believes that his gravitational hypothesis is the correct answer, the dinosaurs suddenly got too heavy.
Other
Scientists Say Star Collision Caused Dinosaur Extinction
"Israeli scientists have a new theory on why the dinosaurs became extinct: cosmic radiation that bombarded the Earth following the collision of two neutron stars." This article discusses the details of the theory.
Curated OER
Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time
Visit this website to read about the extinctions that have occured throughout Earth's history. Provided are links to very brief summaries of the extinctions (minor and major) that occured during specific periods of time.