Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden provides animal descriptions of several grassland animals. Content includes pictures, fact sheets, and more.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals
This site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden provides great information. Click on the animal link on the left. There is an introduction to animals in the grasslands, and then you can read more about each...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grasslands
This site from the Missouri Botanical Gardens provides general information about different kinds of grasslands and the plants and animals of that type of region.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Kids Do Ecology: Temperate Grasslands
At the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, you can learn where temperate grasslands are located! Other information includes grassland weather, plants, animals, people, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Grassland Elephants
This video segment from Nature features a greeting ceremony by grassland elephants in Kenya.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Night Creatures of the Kalahari
Click on animals that can see in the dark and learn more about them.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Grasslands
NatureWorks offers some great information about grasslands. Learn what grasslands are, the difference between tropical and temperate grasslands, the different types of prairie grasses, and grassland animals.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Prairie
Learn about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Plants
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden explores some commonly asked questions about the prairie and prairie plants.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Science Explorer: Tropical Savannah Biome
Discover the tropical savannah biome! Here you can learn what a tropical savannah is, where such places exist, and the animals and plants that can be found there.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Human and Animal Habitats
An interactive learning game where students answer whether or not certain environments would be suitable for different animals. Printable worksheets are available for review at the end of the activity.
Kidport
Kidport: Animal Comparisons
This site provides a very brief scenario about the similarities and differences of animals.
Other
Great Plains Nature Center
Click around in this site from the Great Plains Nature Center for some wonderful pictures and information about the Great Plains. Check the Flora and Fauna section for easy-to-read content on such animals as the bison, fox, squirrel; and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beginner's Avl (Alabama Virtual Library)
Learners will research the red fox using an online encyclopedia from the Alabama Virtual Library web site and answer questions provided by the teacher. This is a good lesson for students' first experience in using the AVL.
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: Biomes
Use this site to see how many of the animals and plants that your students can remember from each biome after listening to this song.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Black Footed Ferret
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...
Other
Radford University: Tropical Savannas
This is part of a virtual geography project from Radford University. Learn about the climate, vegetation, grasses, soil, and fauna of tropical savannas.