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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent lesson, students learn basic concepts of echolocation. They use...
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Where Do Mammals Live?: Hyena

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A brief illustrated overview of the hyena explains why this animal is such a successful dry-weather scavenger.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Where Do Mammals Live?: Wildebeest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Brief illustrated overview of the wildebeest and an accompanying video demonstrate the physical adaptations that allow this animal to eat and digest tough African grasses.
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Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Cheetah

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn animal facts about habitat, behavior, speed, and appetite, and most importantly, discover the threats that these amazing animals face today.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides illustrations, descriptions, and species of amphibians, birds, fish, insects, invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, and endangered species.
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DLTK

Kid Zone: Animal Classes

For Students 1st - 7th
A comprehensive and colorful site that lists the various classes of animals with pictures and descriptions.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Animals: Zebras

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about zebra characteristics, diet, and habitat. Includes a map of Africa that pinpoints its range and a video that shows zebras in action.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Animals: Hedgehogs

For Students 9th - 10th
National Geographic provides great information on hedgehogs. Check out the "fun facts," listen to what a hedgehog sounds like, watch a hedgehog in action, or find out where in the world you can find hedgehogs.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Animals: Beavers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Click-through facts-and-photo file about beaver characteristics, diet, and habitat. Includes a map of the countries that pinpoint its range and a video that shows these large rodents in their habitat.
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Curated OER

Rainforest Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
This commercial site explores the types of animals you can find in the Australian rainforest. Detail information is available down to the species level.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Dugong

For Students 9th - 10th
Unique Australian Animals introduces you to the dugong or sea cow, an mammal that is similar to the manatees found in Florida.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Leadbeater's Possum

For Students 9th - 10th
Unique Australian Animals profiles the marsupial mammal Leadbeater's possum with photos and text.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Sugar Glider

For Students 9th - 10th
Sugar Glider, scientifically called Petaurus breviceps, is a small arboreal gliding possum, and a type of marsupial mammal.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Tasmanian Devil

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tasmanian devil is a real Australian marsupial mammal and nothing like the cartoon character as you will find out in this illustrated article.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Platypus

For Students 9th - 10th
The duck-billed platypus of eastern Australia is one of two mammals that bear their young in eggs. This illustrated article features many facts and photographs about this intriguing animal.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Collared Pika

For Students 4th - 8th
Collared Pikas are common in the mountains of central and southern Alaska, particularly above the timberline. They are very vocal animals, calling loudly to one another with short, sharp sounds that may be alarm calls or have a role in...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Brush Rabbit

For Students 4th - 8th
When they are frightened, Brush Rabbits often thump the ground with a hind foot and may also squeal. These very small cottontails use burrows dug by other animals as escape routes, and sometimes climb into shrubs or low trees to avoid...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Black Footed Ferret

For Students 4th - 8th
Once widespread in the grasslands and western basins of North America, by 1987 Black-footed Ferrets were thought to be extinct in the wild. Captive animals were bred in an effort to save the species, and in 1991, some were reintroduced...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Risso's Dolphin

For Students 4th - 8th
Much of what we know about Risso's dolphin, also called grampus, comes from studying stranded animals. They inhabit deep tropical and warm-temperate waters worldwide, usually where the water is deeper than 180 m, making them hard to...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: True's Beaked Whale

For Students 4th - 8th
Found along the North American coastline from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas, True's beaked whale also inhabits temperate waters off the coast of Europe, and there are records of the species from near Australia and South Africa. Squid beaks...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: White Throated Woodrat

For Students 4th - 8th
Woodrats are also known as Packrats, because they cache various manmade objects in their dens. This habit of collecting foreign objects is useful to scientists, who can place numbered sticks throughout an area and later open a den,...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Pygmy Rabbit

For Students 4th - 8th
Pygmy Rabbits dig extensive burrow systems, which are also used by other animals. Loss of habitat is a direct threat to this species, which depends on big sagebrush, particularly mature stands of it. Learn more about the Brachylagus...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Townsend's Chipmunk

For Students 4th - 8th
Clear-cut logging, which destroys habitat for some animals, offers good living conditions for Townsend's chipmunks. They find denning sites, cover, and food among the fallen, decaying logs and sprouting evergreens. Learn more about the...

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