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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: A Mouse Like a House? A Pocket Elephant?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can download this teaching package that discusses the limits on animal size, both big and small, and what effect size has on animals. Young scholars will enjoy the hands-on activities described in the lessons. Teachers will...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
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Graphic
eSkeletons

E Skeletons: Boneviewer: Mouse Lemur

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify the parts of the skull belonging to a Mouse Lemur.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Invertebrate O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand important characteristics of invertebrates.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find a definition, fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information about the characteristics of vertebrates.
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Handout
A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Reference: Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry identifies the defining characteristics animal anatomy.
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Website
Biology Corner

The Biology Corner: Anatomy Dissections

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive material relating to animal dissections allowing students to view virtual demonstrations and images of pigs, rats, and frogs.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Doctor Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate the evolution of the heart and circulatory system in mammals by studying the anatomy of hearts in other animals. Create models of the hearts of fish, amphibians and mammals.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: Horse Morphology

For Students 9th - 10th
Labeled diagram of the morphology of a horse.