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Timber Rattlesnake
A wonderful way for student to learn about snakes common to Florida. Pictures, diagrams and definitions accompany scientific details and comparisons to other snakes
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Is It Slimy? Does It Have Fur? Is It Really a Bird?
Sixth graders identify the different types of vertebrate animals based upon their major characteristics, as they create collages in groups. Collages show pictures of vertebrate animals labeled with the appropriate structural...
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Animal Colors and Shapes
Students investigate the natural characteristics of animals by completing a coloring activity. For this animal properties lesson, students investigate the reasons different animals have specific colors, and how it is essential for...
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Food Web
Learners are able to define food web, and identify the interdependence of organisms within a system. They are able to describe how natural events and human activities can impact a food web.
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A Model of a Strato Volcano
Students build a volcano model on tag board. They add lava and ash layers simulating the process that builds a real strato volcano cone.
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Grey Banded King Snake
This resource offers information about the Grey Banded King Snake, including scientific information, physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding habits, conservation, and more.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Gray Ratsnake
A fact sheet giving information about the endangered gray ratsnake, which is also called the eastern or black ratsnake. This snake is the largest one found in Canada, growing up to 190 cm long.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Gray Ratsnake
Previously known as black ratsnakes, the gray ratsnake is one of the largest snakes found in Canada. Described are its characteristics, young and food.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Species With Status: Special Concern
Species of special concern are species for whom some issue is suspected, either in abundance or distribution, but not yet proven. Its main purpose is to bring attention to species of concern before they become threatened or endangered....
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Townsend's Vole
Townsend's Vole is one of the largest voles in North America, and it is also very abundant where it occurs, making the species highly significant to a multitude of predators, including herons, owls, and other birds of prey; and raccoons,...