A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Balinese
Provides images and a summary of the Balinese cat while offering statistics and details on the breed's temperament and value as a pet.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Birman
Provides images and a summary of the Birman cat while offering statistics and details on the breed's temperament and value as a pet.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Bobcat (Lynx Rufus)
Provides an overview of the Bobcat, including their habitats, appearance, evolution, behaviour, breeding, diet, and much more. Images of this species and statistics can also be found here.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Burmese
Features a description and history of the Burmese cat while offering statistics and details on its temperament and value as a pet.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Caracal (Caracal Caracal)
Illustrated entry describes the Caracal along with providing details about its habitat, physical characteristics, and behaviour.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Clouded Leopard (Neofelis Nebulosa)
Provides an overview of the Clouded Leopard, including their habitat, appearance, evolution, behaviour, breeding, diet, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and statistics can also be found here.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Lynx (Felis Lynx)
Investigate the world of the Lynx and discover information on the appearance, habitat, and behaviour of this large feline. Includes images and statistics.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Maine Coon
View images and read statistics and facts about the Maine Coon cat breed, including where this breed lives, its appearance, and about its popularity as a pet.
TES Global
Tes: Big Cat Holidays: Reading Assignment
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze a tourism brochure that features the big cats of Africa. This assessment can be use used as a formative or summative performance assessment.
Read Works
Read Works: My Favorite Alley Cat
[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
Read Works
Read Works: Cats Can Save the Day
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Bianca who finds inspiration in her pet cat Chopsticks. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: A Scared Tiger
[Free Registration/Login Required] "A Scared Tiger" shares the story of a scared cat that will not come down from a tree. This literary text passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: A Scared Tiger
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares the story of a scared cat who will not come down from a tree. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
Read Works
Read Works: Cool Cats
[Free Registration/Login Required] Free membership required. This informational text passage shares facts about cheetahs. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Feline Facts
[Free Registration/Login Required] Classification web to sort and group ideas about cats. Students pull facts from behind cat photo and place into proper place on web. Use with any reading books related to cats.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Features comprehensive biographical details on "the most successful composer of our time", Andrew Lloyd Weber. His play, "The Phantom of the Opera", is the longest running musical in Broadway history and he has won an Oscar, a Golden...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
PBS
Nature: Cheetah
What are some of the cheetah's distinctive characteristics? Come and check out this resource featuring fun facts and information about the cheetah.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Bottle and a Toy: Objects From Daily Life
The wall paintings from Nebamun's tomb-chapel show an idealized vision of daily ancient Egyptian life. Much less is known about the lives of the majority of society. The study of human remains in poor cemeteries is often the only way of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Feline Night Vision
This is a six-question quiz related to the passage "Feline Night Vision."
Denver Zoo
Denver Zoo: African Lion
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the African lion focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: African Cheetah
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about African cheetahs with photographs and a sound clip as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
A&E Television
History.com: How Cats Became Divine Symbols in Ancient Egypt
Along with hieroglyphics, obelisks and geometric patterns, cats feature prominently in ancient Egyptian art, reflecting the animal's unique status among the people who dwelled along the Nile River. The animals were initially adopted as...
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Pittsburgh Zoo: Cheetah
Sometimes confused with leopards, cheetahs have spots instead of rosettes. Cheetahs also have distinctive markings on their face, known as tear stripes. Use this resource to discover other fascinating facts about this fast land mammal.