Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to categorize information to answer research questions and then to organization that information into...
NOAA
Noaa: Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
Learn about seals, sea lions and walruses. Find out the status of different species on the endangered list and the major factors of these declines.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: News Flash!
This activity illustrates the interrelationship between science and engineering in the context of extinction prevention. There are two parts to the activity. The first part challenges students to think like scientists as they generate...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Extinction: Is It Inevitable?
Students read the article "The Sixth Extinction" by Niles Eldredge on past mass extinctions and the current rate of loss of species. There is a choice of student activities which includes having students respond to discussion and...
Bagheera
Bagheera.com: Spotlight in the Wild
This web page is part of a larger site that focuses on endangered animals and conservation efforts. This page has several topics that are all relevant like the endangered species act, mass extinction, and the bald eagle.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Connect the Dots With Science
Connect-the-dots science pages providing useful and helpful information regarding pollinators, endangered species, and invasive species. [PDF] Links to other handy tools, including coloring pages, trivia, stories, games and fun projects.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids
This site provides illustrations, descriptions, and species of amphibians, birds, fish, insects, invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, and endangered species.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Habitat Loss Game
In this role playing game, students become members of a forest ecosystem to illustrate the challenges facing endangered species, the environment, and economic interests.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Principles, Structure, & Implementation of International Environmental Law
This module introduces the fundamental norms and institutions that comprise international environmental law and then focuses on six specific topics: air pollution and protection of the atmosphere, hazardous waste, endangered species,...
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Daddy Long Legs
Find out the difference between harvestmen and spiders in the arachnid family. Read about the diet, characteristics, and status as an endangered species.
abcteach
Abcteach: Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This link will place at your fingertips all kinds of resources for your science unit pertaining to animals such as birds, bugs, dinosaurs, endangered species, fish, mammals and reptiles.
US Fish and Wildlife Service
U.s. Fish & Wildlife Service: Listing of the Alabama Sturgeon [Pdf]
Read about the decision to list the Alabama sturgeon as an endangered species primarily due to its low population numbers and subsequent lack of ability to sustain itself through natural reproduction.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada
Nature Canada provides good information on many environmental issues affecting Canada. There are complete sections devoted to bird conservation, wilderness protection, endangered species and national parks.
Bagheera
Bagheera.com: Golden Cheeked Warbler
This site as a whole is focused on conservation and information about threatened and endangered animals. This page covers the Golden-Cheeked Warbler and the causes of endangerment and what is being done to prevent extinction.
Other
Nature Serve: A Network Connecting Science With Conservation
A network of information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems. The goal is to provide the scientific basis for conservation action. Also includes an online database of information on the plants, animals, and...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Animal Cloning, Old Mac Donald's Farm Changed
An in-depth look into the potential benefits to animal cloning. This process could provide us with food designed to help fight disease, protect endangered species, enhance livestock, and create opportunity for biomedical research.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Woodland Caribou
Woodland caribou are found all over Canada, except for the Maritimes where the population has disappeared. It is an endangered species in several areas of Canada. Detailed information about this species and the efforts being made to...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Endangered Ecosystems: Build a Food Web
Investigate some animals and see where they are in the food web. Build your own food web and relate it to the endangered species biomes.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Piping Plover
The piping plover is on the list of endangered species, largely due to loss of its beach habitat. Here are some facts about this bird along with drawings and photos.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Sanctuary for Fast Cats
The number of cheetahs in the African wilderness has dwindled dramatically in the last 20 years. Find out what is being done in the United States to ensure the survival of this species.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks
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,...
Other
Animales en Extincion: Reserva Animal
Find out which are the animals that are endangered in America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)
Kids Page: Whales [Pdf]
An activity handout for students on the topic of the varied species of whales, dolphins and porpoises found in British Columbia. The handout is in PDF format.
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