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Life on Australian Seashores: Molluscs

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a very basic look at the anatomy of a mollusk including the proposed anatomy of what the mollusc ancestor probably looked like. Hyperlinks to individual animals in the mollusk group.
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Website
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
Australian Museum Online has a collection of mammals including bats, platypus, and marsupials. Take a peek. Read about the monkey-faced bat, the mountain brushtail possum, and the tree kangaroo.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Why Animals Have Attitude

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Marlowe Hood's article on animals with attitude covers topics related to the evolutionary process whereby certain animals within the same species can react differently in given situations based on differing...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Oceans Alive: Jewels of the Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on both animals and plants of the sea. View the large sea kelps and discover the animals that feed on the kelp.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Australia Find It! Quiz

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about animals that live in Australia. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and science and geography vocabulary,...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Brachiosaurus

For Students 9th - 10th
Brachiosaurus, "one of the biggest land animals ever", was a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period. Learn what fossils tells us about its anatomy, diet, size, and teeth. Also, see several images offering close-up views of...
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Reptiles of Sydney Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
Sydney Harbour has a large variety of reptile species roaming through its sandstone gullies and ridges. Learn about the turtles, lizards and snakes of Australia.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Bats in Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
Curious about some of the 90 species of bats that live in Australia? Click on a region of Australia and then on the bat you would like to learn more about. Learn about their habitat, what they eat, and what threatens their survival.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Feed the Dingo

For Students 3rd - 6th
Help build the Australian desert ecosystem by filling it with appropriate plants and animals.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Fishes: Coelacanth

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on modern-day discoveries about the prehistoric coelacanth fish. Read about the geographic distribution, classification, fossil record, and economic and social impacts of the animal.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Student Stuff: Dissection of a Blue Mackerel

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides 17 slides of a fish dissection. Each slide also contains a description and some provide further information on internal organs.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Beetles

For Students 9th - 10th
This thorough site provides a general overview of beetles and focuses on topics such as habitat, anatomy, life cycle, feeding, predation and defense, and beetles as pests.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Faq's About Fishes

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the biggest fish? What is the smallest fish? Do fishes have tongues? You will find the answer to these questions and more in this informative site.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Bluebottle or Portuguese Man of War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Portuguese Man of War or Bluebottles, as they are called in Austrailia.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum Online: Leeches

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive information including body diagrams of different types of leeches.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum Society: Arthropods

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of what arthropods actually are and a discussion of their origin, as well as some info on research.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: Australia

For Students 3rd - 6th
Use this site to visit the land Down Under and learn about the country of Australia. Explore art, history, animals, flags, explorers, folk music, dinosaurs, map, geography, story time and more. Includes an interactive quiz.
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BBC

Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Eastern Grey Kangaroo

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC Wildfacts profiles the eastern kangaroo of Australia with photographs and a fact sheet.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: The Kangaroo

For Students 1st - 3rd
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring Australia and its kangaroos. Using the online tools, students will draw pictures of trees that would shade kangaroos.
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BBC

Bbc: Nature Wildfacts: Koala

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about koala bears.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Sugar Glider

For Students 9th - 10th
Sugar Glider, scientifically called Petaurus breviceps, is a small arboreal gliding possum, and a type of marsupial mammal.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Tasmanian Pademelon

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tasmanian Pademelon, one of Australia's marsupial mammals, is described and illustrated.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Eastern Pygmy Possum

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the eastern pygmy possum of Australia in this illustrated article.
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Unique Australian Animals

Unique Australian Animals: Thorny Devil

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site learn about this unusual lizard found in Australia. There are images to discover how this lizard got its name.

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