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Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk Botanical Garden: Teacher Resources: Animal: Foot Adaptations [Pdf]
See if you can match an animal with its footprint. This article explains why animals' feet have individual adaptations.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Dog (Canis Lupus Familiaris)
This illustrated animal encyclopedia entry provides an overview of domestic dogs, with the emphasis being on their feet and teeth.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Order Primates
Part of a larger site on the animal kingdom, this page provides a detailed overview of primates. Click on the various links throughout the page for more descriptions and explanatory pictures.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Pig (Sus Scrofa Scrofa)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the domestic pig. Discusses their origin, how humans use them, physical characteristics, diet, and facts about their feet and teeth.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Otter (Lutra Canadensis)
Provides photographs and a fact card about otters. Discusses where they are found, diet, physical appearance, reproduction, and facts about their feet and teeth.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Raccoon (Procyon Lotor)
Provides photographs and a fact card about raccoons. Discusses where they are found, their physical appearance, habitat, diet, lifespan, and facts about their feet and teeth.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sea Lion (Otariidae)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the sea lion. Discusses where it is found, its popularity as an attraction, characteristics, the different species, diet, development, social behavior, and facts about its feet and teeth.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Arctic Animal Robot
Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create "shoes" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifications on the net distance...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Why Do Elephants Have Big Feet?
Explain how an organism's adaptations give it advantages in particular environments. Calculate and compare the amount of pressure exerted by the foot of an elephant and a human, and apply that knowledge to an understanding of automobile...
Other
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: The Archelon
The Archelon was the largest sea turtle ever to exist. The best specimen found, on display in Vienna, would have been fifteen feet, or four and a half meters, long when alive, and likely weighed two and a quarter tons, or 2,200...
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Deep Sea Creatures
We all know that the ocean is home to many beautiful and mysterious creatures. Mysterious cannot begin to describe the fish living in the depths of the ocean. Imagine the kind of creature that lives thousands of feet underwater! Sunlight...
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Aardvarks
The aardvark looks a bit like a pig. Its body is stout, with an arched back, and is sparsely covered with coarse hairs. Its legs are medium length. Its front feet have four toes, while the back feet have five toes. Each toe has a large,...
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: African Elephants
African elephants are the biggest land animals on the planet, standing up to 13 feet tall and weighing as much as 14,000 pounds. They are even bigger than their elephant cousins in Asia. You can tell them apart because their ears...
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Galagos (Bushbabies)
Bushbabies are incredible jumpers, and they can hop across distances as great as 20 feet, tucking their arms and legs against their bodies. Learn more about Galagos (Bushbabies) in this well-constructed overview by Wonderville.
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Pittsburgh Zoo: California Sea Lion
California sea lions are warm-blooded coastal dwelling mammals that glide easily through the water with their torpedo-shaped bodies and are propelled by their "winged feet." Use this resource to discover many other unique facts.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
Other
Joseph Bruchac Home Page: Joseph Bruchac
This site is Joseph Bruchac's homepage. It provides links to his biography, a listing of his major works, and other online resources for the author. It also provides links to several of his poems to open or download on mp3.
PE Central
Pe Central: Fitness Tests Cues: Push Ups
At this website, find tips to help you properly do push ups as well as an animated demonstration. Learn how to position your feet, back, and arms and also learn how to do a "Modified," push up.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sphinx
Sphinx is a Greek word signifying 'strangler,' applied to certain symbolical forms of Egyptian origin, having the body of a lion, a human or an animal head, and two wings. Various other combinations of animal forms have been called by...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Stela of Sheri
This stela is adorned at the top with the two sacred Udjat eyes of protection with the Shen, the symbol of universal power, between them. Sen-Thoth, son of the deceased, stands before his father carrying a libation vase in his right hand...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Deinonychus Feeding
This sketch shows a Deinonychus feeding on the remains of another dinosaur or animal. Deinonychus reached around 3.4 metres (11 feet) in length and were from the same family of dinosaurs as the Velociraptor. For more information on this...