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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Mexican Free Tailed Bat
This fact sheet on the Mexican free-tailed bat provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other interesting facts.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Pallid Bat
This fact sheet on pallid bats provides details on physical characteristics, range, migration, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other extra-fun facts.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Spotted Bat
This fact sheet on spotted bats provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other extra-fun facts.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: California Leaf Nosed Bat
This fact sheet on California leaf-nosed bats provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other extra-fun facts.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Silver Haired Bat
This fact sheet on silver-haired bats provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other extra-fun facts.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Thinking Fountain: Monarch Watch
An activity to help students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. Information about metamorphosis and migration is also included.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Single Cell to Embryo
Watch this brief animation of the process of a zebrafish egg developing from a single cell into an embryo in 50 hours. Click on other links to watch animations of a zebrafish cell division, migration and differentiation.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Under in the Mud Read Aloud | Story Edventures
Under in the Mud by Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell takes you into the wintering world of ten Wisconsin animals as you listen to her read the book and talk about the animals in it. Learn about how animals hibernate, migrate, and adapt to...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Active Science Modules: Humans and Animals Worksheets
Activities to accompany the Active science learning modules.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Animals Lesson Plan
For this interactive lesson, students act out animal movements for a short brain break.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Cyclic Behavior of Animals
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of the two types of cyclic behaviors of animals.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Paleoindians and the Great Pleistocene Die Off
Article discusses Paleoindian migration and animal extinction at the end of the Pleistocene era and explores what we can learn about conservation given what we know about Pleistocene climate and extinction.
Other
Canadian Arctic Profiles
Detailed sections providing further information on the Canadian Arctic's exploration, climate, maps, migration, and indigenous people, make this resource useful for many topics. Put together with images, this resource is useful for high...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Are Tourists Harming Endangered Florida Manatees?
Learn about manatee migration and the impact that tourists who get too close to the endangered animals may be having on their ability to survive. Includes video.
Utah Education Network
Uen: How Animals Prepare for Winter
Learn about animals that migrate or hibernate.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Swimming Secrets of Duck Feet
By comparing the feet of different water birds you can discover how they propel the birds through the water. This Science Buddies project show you how to modify swim fins to simulate ducks' feet, greebes' feet, and the feet of...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Animals in Motion
Learn the words to describe how different animals move. The book includes audio narration in English, Turkish, and Spanish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Animals That Swim
Read about some of the animals that you might not expect to be swimmers. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: How Do Animals Spend the Winter?
Use this site to learn how animals use hibernation, adaptation, and migration to overcome the difficulties of winter.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Waddle
This activity connects literacy, creativity and movement. Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. When the animal name and the verb describing how that animal is read, students move like the...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Bedouin
Bedouin societies are found in the arid steppe regions of Arabia and North Africa and along the margins of rain-fed cultivation. Bedouin groups move their animals to areas where pasture is regularly found. Often these societies plant...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Crafty Seals Follow Tracking Device Signals
Article reports on seals who have learned how to use tracking devices that monitor fish migration to hunt for fish.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Adaptations: Fit for Survival
This lesson plan will help students explore adaptation, especially as it relates to migration. Students will come to realize that adaptations can be behavioral as well as physical. Students are assigned a particular animal to investigate...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 8.5 Cyclic Behavior
Explore different types of cycles in animal behavior.