Curated OER
Community Ecology
Chart ecological community interactions and answer questions about niche, defenses, trophic structure, and succession. This community ecology worksheet provides a general overview of the interactions that occur among organisms that share...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Colorful Creatures
For animals, bright, flashy coloration can serve as a warning or as an invitation. Either way, colorful skin, feathers, and scales yell, "Notice me!" This collection of images shows examples of some of the world's most colorful creatures.
Other
Kiddyhouse: All About Frogs for Kids and Teachers
This site from Kiddyhouse provides a plethora of information on frogs. Topics include what a frog is, where frogs live, life cycle of frogs and much more. Offers links to additional sites and activities on frogs.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Our Animals
This comprehensive resource provides photos and animal fact sheets that list special adaptations for a wide variety of animals. See some animals with their young.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Coverings
It takes a thick skin to withstand the hardships that life has to offer. This collection of images shows a variety of animals, each with a slightly different type of protective covering.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships....
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can Animals Be Deceptive?
Eldridge Adams details the surprising complexity of how animals manipulate predators, prey and their rivals.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Surprising Reasons Animals Play Dead
Tierney Thys explains how the curious behavior of playing dead, known as tonic immobility or TI for short, can be used as a defense or offense.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Squids Outsmart Their Predators
Carly Anne York explains how the stealthy cephalopods have mastered deep sea survival.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Don't Poisonous Animals Poison Themselves?
Rebecca D. Tarvin details strategies that protect animals from their own poison.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Giraffe Adaptations
Giraffe's have many physical adaptations. This site provides a worksheet and asks students to connect the physical adaptation description to the correct place on the worksheet.