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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Shelter Photographer

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this WILD TV segment, a photographer helps find homes for animals up for adoption.
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Website
Oakland Zoo

Oakland Zoo: Our Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource provides photos and animal fact sheets that list special adaptations for a wide variety of animals. See some animals with their young.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Scent of an Alewife

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video segment from NOVA: "Sea Behind the Dunes" tracks the return of spawning alewife fish from the open ocean back to the freshwater streams and ponds where they were born. [3:34]
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Isopod Behavior Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab activity explores the environmental conditions preferred by the pill bug.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: If Only They Could Talk!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate the communication skills of animals. Explore their ability to associate abstract concepts or signs with specific objects or actions by solving a puzzle involving decoding symbols.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: Figure That One Out

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate problem-solving techniques by using observation and data analysis skills. Observe how different people solve the same puzzle and make conclusions about how humans and animals think.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Better Moth Trap With Different Colored Lights

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you affect the behavior of moths by using different colored lights to attract them? This extensive science fair project from Science Buddies gives lots of suggestions on how to set up an experiment and variations of that experiment...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Dog Smarts: What's Going on Behind Those Puppy Dog Eyes?

For Students 6th - 8th
Have you ever wondered what goes on in your dog's mind? Even though humans have the benefit of language, trying to understand another person's thoughts can be hard enough sometimes. This project will show you some behavioral tests you...
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Why Crafty Crocodiles May Be Sleeping With Eye Open

For Students 5th - 8th
New research on the sleeping behavior of crocodiles. Includes video.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Graphic Organizers (Spanish)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Canaliza tu "Poder Animal" interno mientras que ves Wild Kratts! Investiga mas a fondo en los videos utilizando estos recursos de aprendizaje.
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Handout
Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Animal Profiles: Wolves

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to information about different kinds of wolves, this site gives extensive information about wolf behavior. Find out the many different ways wolves communicate with each other.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Animal Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how animals communicate with visual, sound, touch, and chemical signals.
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eBook
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reeder: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 6th
Read this ebook to view examples of structural and behavioral adaptations that help animals survive.
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Website
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This comprehensive site describes how communication is an adaptation that is important for survival.
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Interactive
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Urban Text: Adventures of Herman the Worm

For Students 2nd - 5th
WORMS- What are they? Where did they come from? If you are interested in Herman the Worm's family tree (biologically speaking), his body structures, or all the facts about him that you'll ever need, go to "The Adventures of Herman the...
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Handout
Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Simian Jackal (Canis Simensis)

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a detailed description of this jackal, as well as a picture and full classification.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Predators and Prey: How Do Cats Respond to Bird Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
A science fair project that ask whether cats respond to familiar bird sounds more readily that bird sounds in general. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The following lessons help students from grades 6-8 understand sleep and circadian rhythms. Lesson topics iinclude: day and night, seasons, sundails, clocks, sleep and sleep patterns and sleeping in space.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Animals Care for Their Young

For Students K - 1st
In this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can view maps showing the migratory paths of dozens of animals across the northern hemisphere, report a sighting of one of the animals listed in the database, and much more.
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Handout
Other

Animal Info: Dama Gazelle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a variety of information on the dama gazelle. Detailed statistics and trends on this endangered species.
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Website
Other

Using Animals "Follow the Leader" Instinct

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting site on the "Follow the Leader" instinct that can be found in animals. Livestock will follow the leader, and handlers have taken advantage of this natural behavior to move animals easily.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Visual Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
When animals exhibit behaviors or characteristics that can be seen by other animals, the process is called visual communication. This site explores this concept and gives examples.
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Website
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Leave Animals in the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what you need to know about what makes an animal wild, including the time and energy it takes to keep a wild animal, well, wild.

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