Curated OER
Mazes
In this maze worksheet, students help a skunk find its dinner by analyzing the best way for the skunk to travel through the maze to the snake, berries and frog.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Noctural Animals
Students study interesting facts about skunks. They design a "nose guard" that people can wear to protect themselves against the smell of a skunk. They act out a commercial for their "nose guard."
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Skunks
This site gives an in-depth description of a skunk, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Striped Skunk
Get the facts about the striped skunk. Besides finding a detailed description of this "stinky" creature, you'll also learn about some of its unique facts and characteristics. Also included in this Mammal Fact Sheet on the striped skunk...
Princeton University
Mammals of North America: Spotted and Hog Nosed Skunks
From the pages of "Mammals of North America," a field guide published by Princeton University Press, this website offers general descriptions of both spotted and hog-nosed skunks. Detailed pictures and maps of habitat range are also...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Hog Nosed Skunk
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, in a section titled "North American Mammals," offers a general overview of the North American hog-nosed skunk. Additional content includes detailed drawings, photographs, and a map showing the...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Skunk (Mephitis Mephitis)
Provides photographs and facts about the skunk. Discusses the different species, physical features, special characteristics of baby skunks, diet, behavior, the danger from cars, and reproduction.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Striped Skunk
What would you like to learn about Striped Skunks? This site features information on characteristics, life cycle, diet, habitat, behavior and range. Come and learn more about these little mammals.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #6: Skunks
In this lesson students will learn interesting facts about skunks. They will also design a "nose guard" that people can wear to protect themselves against the smell of a skunk. Then students will have a chance to dramatize a commercial...
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Striped Skunk
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Striped Skunks (Mephitis mephitis), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Skunks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains information and pictures of skunks.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Striped Skunk
The Canadian Museum of Nature offers a detailed drawing of a striped skunk followed by a brief description of the animal.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Wild Skunks
Here you can find all kinds of useful information about wild skunks, including how they "spray," what they eat, and what they look like.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Striped Skunk
The Striped Skunk is the most common skunk in North America, yet most of what we know about it comes from studies of captive individuals. Like all skunks, it has a superb defense system, the ability to spray a foul-smelling fluid from...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Western Spotted Skunk
Eastern and Western Spotted Skunks were for years thought to be one and the same species, but they differ in an important detail of the reproductive process. In the Western Spotted Skunk, a very long period of delayed implantation...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Eastern Spotted Skunk
Spotted skunks are smaller than Striped skunks and more weasel-like in appearance. Like all skunks, they have anal scent glands and can emit a foul-smelling spray to protect themselves. Learn more about the Spilogale putorius, more...