Curated OER
Grassland Animals
Third graders will be able to cut and paste from Internet into a word document with 100 percent accuracy. They use their research to write a 1-2 paragraph paper about their animal with 90 percent accuracy.
Curated OER
Animals and their Habitats
This animal habitat PowerPoint provides beautiful photographs of a rainforest, desert, and grassland habitat, as well as animals native to a rainforest and the desert. The first slide lists rainforest, desert, tundra, and grassland as...
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Night Creatures of the Kalahari
Click on animals that can see in the dark and learn more about them.
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.
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: Grassland Animals
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden provides animal descriptions of several grassland animals. Content includes pictures, fact sheets, and more.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Grasslands on a Grand Scale
Jeffrey P. Cohn's article in Zoogoer Magazine, "Grasslands on a Grand Scale," examines a variety of animals and topics associated with the grasslands. Among the animals discussed are the bison, the great horned owls, the cattle, and more.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Grasslands
An introduction to the grasslands. Includes link to information about the types of animals that live in this habitat.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Grassland Animal Adaptations
Learn about the different animals that live in tropical and temperate grasslands and how they have adapted to their environment. Also discusses some plant adaptations.
Other
Nsw Country Areas Program: Grassland
What is a grassland? Learn all about grasslands at this fun and informative site! Content explores the difference between a tropical and a temperate grassland, as well as focusing on the types of animals that live in a grassland.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beginner's Avl (Alabama Virtual Library)
Students 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.
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.