Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Build a Better Moth Trap With Different Colored Lights
Can you affect the behavior of moths by using different colored lights to attract them? This extensive science fair project from Science Buddies gives lots of suggestions on how to set up an experiment and variations of that experiment...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Elinor Wonders Why: Elinor's Nature Adventure
Come explore with Elinor! Use the tools provided to observe your environment as you take a nature walk. What will you find?
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Night Vision
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards of the Night" Web site highlights the nighttime habits and abilities of a wide range of nocturnal creatures.
Read Works
Read Works: Awake After Dark
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about nocturnal animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: All About Bats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passages describes the characteristics of bats. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Read Works
Read Works: A Real Life Bat Man
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes the responsibilities of a chiroptologist, a person who studies bats for a living. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Snowy Owl
This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Snowy Owl that also includes a picture and an extensive quote from the 19th Century naturalist Edward Nelson.
BBC
Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Barn Owl
Take a look at these photos of beautiful barn owls. There is also a fact sheet next to the photos.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Barn Owl
Find out more about the barn owl when you explore this educational resource. This site features information on the habitat, range, reproduction, characteristics and more of this fascinating bird of prey.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #1
This lesson can be part of a two-week integrated thematic unit on nocturnal animals. During this lesson, students will be introduced to nocturnal animals. They will have an opportunity to navigate web sites to learn more about nocturnal...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls
During this lesson, students will visit various Internet sites to learn facts about owls. They will use this information to draw a picture of the owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a poem about owls.
PBS
Pbs: Night Creatures of the Kalahari: Night Vision
Click on the eye and learn about the nocturnal animal it belongs to. Animals include cuttlefish, pit-viper, tarsier, flying gecko, fruit bat and the owl.
Songs for Teaching
Sciences Songs All Day Long: Nocturnal Animals
By listening to this song your students will learn all of the animals that are awake during the night. They will equate the sounds they hear at night with the animals and their sounds in the song.