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National Geographic: Blog: Tiny Critter Has Seven Sexes
Meet the freshwater Tetrahymena, a single-celled creature that has seven possible sexes. This article presents information from recent research that helps explain how the creature reproduces and how its sex is determined.
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National Geographic in Russian
National Geographic website in Russian. Enjoy articles, photographs, and more from this leading source of world geographic news.
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Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Tennessee Maps
A listing of online historical and current maps for the State of Tennessee. Part of the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection.
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National Geographic en Espanol
National Geographic website in Spanish. Enjoy articles, photographs, and more from this leading source of world geographic news.
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National Geographic: Build a Solar Eclipse Viewer
This lesson focuses on How can you safely view a solar eclipse and solar activity? It provides step-by-step instructions for building the viewer and how to use it properly. It also provides a video and informational slides.
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Jellyfish
Take an exciting look at the jellyfish! Easy to read facts including habitat, physical appearance, movement, diet, enemies, as well as colorful photos. Click on the menu tab to view a video clip of this floating creature.
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Blue Whales
Do you know that the blue whale is the largest animal to ever live on Earth? Take an exciting look at this mammal with easy to read facts including habitat, appearance, young, mating, diet, enemies, as well as colorful photos. Links to...
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Brown Bears
Take an exciting look at this mammal with easy to read facts including habitat, appearance, young, mating, diet, enemies, as well as colorful photos. Links to related whale topics are included.
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Leatherback Sea Turtles
Children will enjoy this engaging profile of Leatherback sea turtles, an endangered species.
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Coyotes
Learn all about coyotes on this great multi-media site. Video and audio clips, fun facts and great pictures make this a good National Geographic site for research projects.
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National Geographic: Geography Awareness Week
This resource is the portal to all the resources National Geographic provides for celebrating Geography Awareness Week, which occurs the third week of November. Find the toolkit, archives of previous celebrations, videos, and mapmaking...
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National Geographic: Encyclopedic Entry: Urban
Learn the definition of an urban community and how it differs from a rural area.
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National Geographic: Many Moves of Migration
It is well known that some animals migrate annually or semi-annually, but this exercise will identify how many animals actually migrate, how they migrate and why.
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National Geographic: A Latitude/longitude Puzzle
Through examining maps students will be able to identify locations and characteristics of them based on latitude and longitude and infer what events might occur in the places.
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National Geographic: Mapping Landforms
Students will study landform maps of states and then create a project of their own.
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National Geographic: Mapping u.s. Watersheds
Students will identify and explore major rivers and watersheds in the United States.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Tracking Animal Migrations
This interactive Geostory illustrates how animal tracking data helps us understand how individuals and populations move within local areas and migrate across oceans and continents.
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National Geographic: Geostories: Voyages Across the Ocean
Use this GeoStory in formal or informal instruction to provide information about the voyages of numerous historical navigators and explorers. This GeoStory helps students understand the importance of ocean exploration in contributing to...
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National Geographic: Civilization
A photographic history of civilization is captured in a collection of images gathered from around the world. Understand the characteristics of and the criteria necessary for civilizations to evolve as well as the ways they are destroyed.
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National Geographic: Jason Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators and students will enjoy visiting the JASON Project, a NASA and National Geographic cooperation which works to provide accurate and intriguing scientific knowledge for students.
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National Geographic: Mission: Explore: Geography Awareness Week
Learn about geography in an entirely new way with short adventures for all ages. Each mission is an exciting and challenging exploration is which you will see the world in new ways.
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National Geographic: A River Puzzle
Use this lesson plan from National Geographic Education to explore rivers and their watersheds, using where they live as an example. Necessary vocabulary for the lesson is included as well as a puzzle for students to figure out that...
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National Geographic: What the World Eats
This interactive website offers pie charts showing what the world eats and what 22 different countries eat. It also allows you to choose by year as well. These include food groups, calories, and grams overall and per category.
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Institute for Exploration: Dr. Bob Ballard
A biography of Dr. Bob Ballard written by the Institute for Exploration.