Library of Congress
Loc: Origins of American Animation
An amazing collection of 21 animated films which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings, and early silent films.
Library of Congress
Loc: See, Hear, and Sing Animation
The Library of Congress takes a look at the wacky world of cartoons, beginning with George Melies, who demonstrated that objects could be animated in film with a series of drawings, each drawn with slight changes.
Other
Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
Ohio State University
Osu: Introduction to Computer Animation
An introduction to computer animation, written at an advanced level. Includes an overview of computer animation and discusses its heritage, history, software tools, and more. Lots of embedded links to information on related topics.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Animal Sign Guide
Use this guide to help you identify signs from different animals in the wilderness. Identify tracks, chew marks, signs from animals that build, eggs, and the like.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web
This resource contains thousands of descriptions about individual animal species. Many of these descriptions also includes pictures, movies, audio clips, and more.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Animal Doc
Come help out the animal doc. Choose a topic, and read about how a real veterinarian handled a specific animal case. Learn about a wide variety of animal topics on this fun, interactive page.
US National Archives
Animal Welfare Act: Hist. Perspectives, Future Directions
Information from the symposium of the 30th anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act as provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Other
The Complete Works of George Orwell: Animal Farm
This is an online text of the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell from GeorgeOrwell.org.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Animal Information Database
Sea World's site featuring a variety of information about their animals, as well as general animal information. Includes "Animal Bytes," a list of animals with some of their characteristics. Also includes some games and teacher resources.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: A Typical Animal Cell
Colorful, interactive image of an animal cell provides solid definitions of cell parts as the learner scrolls over each portion of the image or parts list. A short quiz follows the initial image to assess the learner's knowledge of cell...
NASA
Nasa: Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Animation
This series of animations will take you from Earth to the Red Planet in less than ten minutes. The animation series begins with the initial launch and journey through the Earth's atmosphere. Entry into Mars, its landing and exploration...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Disruptions Affect Animal Populations
Students explore the effects that ecosystem disruptions can have on animal populations. They learn about the disruptions that have driven three species-the Madagascar fish eagle, the Iberian lynx, and the rowi kiwi, to the brink of...
American Battlefield Trust
American Battlefield Trust: Civil War: Animated Map: Fort Sumter
Animated map tells the story of the events that led up to the first shots of the Civil War fired at Fort Sumter. [7:31]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Biology Animation Library: Dolan Dna Learning Center
A step-by-step animation shows how introns are removed during RNA splicing.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Body Plans: Homeobox Genes
The homeobox genes that define the basic body plan of mice and fruit flies are illustrated in this graphic from The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne Zihlman. The accompanying article describes how these genes act as "molecular...
Other
Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Ctr: Virtual Cell Animation Collection
An extensive collection of detailed diagrams and animations showing the structure of cells and how they work.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geostories: Tracking Animal Migrations
This interactive Geostory illustrates how animal tracking data helps us understand how individuals and populations move within local areas and migrate across oceans and continents.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Animal Adaptations
A multitude of activities provide help with understanding animal adaptations.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness Lesson Plan
In this instructional activity using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Start Here! Animation
This is an introduction to the animation topic. In this topic, we'll explore how animators bring characters to life with the help of animation curves. This topic contains two lessons: Lesson 1: Introduction to animation curves (all ages)...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Save Your Animation
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.
Begin your career as an animator now! This lesson is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.
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