San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Turtle and Tortoise
This resource provides detailed information about turtles and tortoises, as well as several pictures and an audio clip.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Science Vocabulary Game
Fourth graders will play a review memory game with Utah's Grade 4 Science Standard V vocabulary words during this lesson plan. Words associated with living things and classifications of living things are included in this lesson plan.
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo: Dwarf Crocodile
Offers great information of the West African Dwarf Crocodile. Information includes what they look like, where they are found, what they eat, and how often they reproduce. Special adaptations that the crocodile has made are also included.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Iguana
This resource provides detailed information about the iguana. It include several photos, an audio clip an a video clip. [1:30]
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo: Green Tree Python
This resource provides information on what the Green Tree Python looks like, where it can be found, what it eats, and how often it reproduces.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory
This comprehensive page discusses the Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse dinosaur extinction debate. It was written by paleontologist, professor, and scientist Dr. Dewey McLean.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: How Can We Classify Animals?
Welcome to Hideaway Island where five pirates need to find crews for their ships. Join in and learn about animals with backbones.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Animal Classification Game
Decide whether an animal is an amphibian, insect, mammal or reptile with this interactive classification game.
University of California
Ucmp: The Tyrant Lizards: The Tyrannosauridae
This site from the University of California provides basic information on T. rex with links to related material great for a quick introduction.
Tree of Life Project
Reptiles: Synapsida
This site contains general information about the extinct link between reptiles and mammals. The Synapsida organisms are the link.
Other
International Reptile Conservation Foundation: Reptile Conservation Homepage
Information on the preservation of endangered reptiles and amphibians. Includes video, photos and species descriptions.
Other
Facilisimo: Mascotas Y Hogar
A wealth of information, entirely in Spanish, about a wide variety of pets: dogs, cats, birds, horses, reptiles, fish and others. Colorful photographs accompany descriptions of different breeds. Care and training advice is also offered...
Other
Facilisimo: Mascotas: Reportajes: Reptiles
A wealth of information, entirely in Spanish, about a variety of reptiles that make good household pets. Colorful photographs accompany descriptions of different species.
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo: Dumeril's Ground Boa
This resource provides information on the Dumeril's Ground Boa. The information includes what they look like, where they are found in the wild, what they eat, and how often they reproduce.
Other
Brazos R. Rattlesnake Ranch: Broadbanded Copperhead
The broadbanded copperhead subspecies is a relative of the water mocassin. Information on this copper-colored venomous snake can be found at this site.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Florida's Creeping Crawlers
"Florida's Creeping Crawlers" by Howard Youth highlights the various reptile life native to Florida. The emphasis of the article is placed on Iguanas, but other reptiles are discussed including the anole, the Nile monitor, and Burmese...
Other
Florida Museum of Natural History: Crocodilians: The American Alligator
The University of Florida offers a wonderful, fact filled webpage on the American Alligator.
Other
Reptiles Magazine
This is a web site for a magazine on reptiles. Includes many pictures and information about different reptile species.
Read Works
Read Works: Meet a Rattlesnake
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about rattlesnakes and how they make their rattling sound. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Scaly or Slimy?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the difference between a reptile and an amphibian. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Homepage
This site from the Florida Museum of Natural History gives the current events, information about the museum, exhibits and public programs, research and collections, links, etc. to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Lizard
This resource provides extensive information about lizards, including photos and an audio clip.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Museum of Zoology
See the Museum of Zoology where visitors can explore the museum's resources.
Other
Sun Site: General Characteristics of Reptiles
This site explains what reptiles are, where they live, what they look like, how they move, how they breathe, what they eat, what their sense organs are, and how they reproduce.