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My Mini Book About...
Elementary learners complete a mini book on polar bears. The resource contains four pages, each a quarter of a page, including one title page with a picture of a polar bear and a space for kids to write their names.
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Kangaroo Maze
In this mazes instructional activity, students figure out the best strategy for helping lead a kangaroo mother to her baby joey through a maze.
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Trace and Color: Kangaroo
In this animal-themed coloring worksheet, students color the picture of a kangaroo and then practice printing the word kangaroo by tracing the dotted lines.
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Connect the Dots: Kangaroo Rat
In this connect the dots worksheet, students connect the dots to reveal a mammal that uses its powerful hind legs to cover the ground.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Moving Mammals
Students explore the different ways mammals move by observing them walk, hop, gallop, swim and swing in animations. Facts about habitat and structure are also included in these animations.
Kidport
Kidport: Marsupials (Kangeroo, Koala and Wombat)
Here you will find information on marsupials like the kangaroo, the koala, and the wombat.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: The Kangaroo
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring Australia and its kangaroos. Using the online tools, students will draw pictures of trees that would shade kangaroos.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Red Kangaroo
The Animal Diversity Web offers a page on the Macropus Rufus, or Red Kangaroo. Includes all kinds of information from behavior to history. Use the table of contents for easy navigation.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Kangaroo (Macropus Giganteus)
View images and read facts about Kangaroos, including where they live, their appearance, and behaviour.
Read Works
Read Works: Kerry Kangaroo Hops
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a baby kangaroo named Kerry who is just learning to hop. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: High Jumpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
BBC
Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Eastern Grey Kangaroo
BBC Wildfacts profiles the eastern kangaroo of Australia with photographs and a fact sheet.
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.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Red Kangaroo
This resource provides information about red kangaroos.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Australia
[Free Registration/Login Required] Discover Australia with this flipchart! Explore the land and its people!
Unique Australian Animals
Unique Australian Animals
From the bandicoot to the yabby, this resource provides an index to profiles of dozens of unique Australian animals. Each profile provides a picture along with information on the animal's behavior, habitat, diet and more.
Unique Australian Animals
Unique Australian Animals: Red Kangaroo
This article, illustrated with many photographs, profiles the red kangarook, Australia's largest kangaroo from nearly 60 species.
The BIG zoo
The Big zoo.com: Red Kangaroo
Site provides all types of information on this interesting marsupial. Contains a physical description, information on food, habitat, predators, social structure as well as birth and offspring.
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Kangaroo With Joey
Cartoon graphic of mother kangaroo and joey.
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Kangaroo With Joey
Cartoon illustration of a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Kangaroo
This photo shows a kangaroo with its head close to the ground as it investigates the area around it. Kangaroos are marsupial animals found commonly in Australia. Learn more about kangaroos by checking out our wide range of fun kangaroo...