CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Animal Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of classifying animals.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Meet Our Animals
This site from the National Zoological Park provides extensive information about many types of animals. Just click on the category you need. Includes pictures and live web cams.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Lesson Plan: Classifying Animals
Pupils classify animals according to whether or not they can fly. The lesson plan includes instructions and materials.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Kingdom Classification of Living Organisms
Learn about who created the classification of living things, how they are classified, and the six different kingdoms.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Names of Animals, Babies, and Groups
Do you know what a baby elephant is called? How about the name for a group of gerbils? This site from Enchanted Learning provides information about male, female, baby, and group names of many animals. Click on the animal name to find...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animal Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the classification of animals into the phylum categories.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Classification: Minnesota Vertebrates
This lesson serves as an introduction to classification. The students will place animals into its proper vertebrate group according to certain characteristics that the animals have in common.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Kingdoms of Life
A playful interactive introducing biology's five animal kingdoms. Watch the video, take a quiz, and review vocabulary.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Gar (Lepisosteidae)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the Lepisodteidae, otherwise known as the gar.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Animal Classification
Use this lesson to help students understand the reasons for classifications and ways that different species are separated.
Other
Illinois Wesleyan University: Tardigrade Species Distribution Project
This was a research project on tardigrades that took place some time ago. The site contains information about the project and about tardigrades, including their taxonomy and a glossary. As this is an older site, the links to the...
Tree of Life Project
The Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life is a multi-authored, Internet distributed project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. The Tree of Life can be used to locate information about a particular group of organisms through their taxonomy.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Animal Sign Guide
Use this guide to help you identify signs from different animals in the wilderness. Identify tracks, chew marks, signs from animals that build, eggs, and the like.
Other
Old Farmer's Almanac: What to Call a Group of Animals?
What do you call a group of tigers? How about a group of crows? This list will tell you these animal group names along with over a hundred more.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biodiversity: Animals: Invertebrates
See all the of the different animal phyla that represent invertebrates and how diverse they are with the help of short video clips.
California Institute of Technology
Infrared Zoo Lesson 1: A Trip to the Infrared Zoo
Students will use infrared images to classify different animals. Students will learn more about infrared imaging and the information it can reveal. This activity is guaranteed to activate great class discussion.
Other
Alternative Classifications of Life
The Linnaean system (1758) classified all macroscopic living organisms as either Animals or Plants, based on whether they moved [anima, with a soul] or not. Thus, Fungi were included as plants. With the invention of the microscope and...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Leave Animals in the Wild
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.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Goats
An in-depth description of goats, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures, video, and sound bytes.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Bees
An in-depth description of bees, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures and video.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Butterflies
An in-depth description of butterflies, with information about their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures. [3:17]
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Ocelot
An in-depth description of ocelots, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures and sound bytes.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Animal Bytes: Pelicans
An in-depth description of pelicans, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures and video.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Prairie Dogs
An in-depth description of prairie dogs, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures, video, and sound bytes.