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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Researching Dolphins as Endangered Mammals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students work in groups of 3-4 to use the Internet for research. Students create reports and slideshow presentations (optional) defining dolphins as mammals and as an endangered species. Students will...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Saving Hawaiian Monk Seals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing population of the Hawaiian monk seals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
Several articles that trace the chronology of the dinosaur from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Articles were written to accompany the BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Website
Other

Georgia Perimeter College: The Permian Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides basic information of the changes that took place during the Permian period as well as the animals that populated the Earth during this time.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Saving the Rain Forests

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about protecting the rainforest and the animals that live there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Threats to Biodiversity: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five self-checking quiz questions over the threats to the loss of biodiversity on Earth.
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Website
World Wildlife Fund for Nature

World Wildlife Foundation: Giant Panda

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides a general overview of the Giant Panda.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Glossary: Harnessing Sci and Educ for Biodiversity Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
All of the following terms relate to the topic of harnessing science and education for biodiversity conservation.
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Will This Palm Oil Alternative Save Orangutans?

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the effects of palm oil cultivation on the world's rainforests and species who live there, and about the development of a new alternative to palm oil. Includes video.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Great Auk

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of the extinct Great Auk is provided here by the Canadian Museum of Nature.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Carolina Parakeet

For Students 9th - 10th
The Carolina parakeet was once found in the southern United States but is now extinct. The reasons are explained here and you can see a drawing of this lost bird.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Dodo

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Dodo became extinct shortly after 1640 and all that remains of them today are bones and some pieces of skin. Provided is a brief description of their location, characteristics and predators.
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Handout
San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History Museum: Fossil Field Guide: Crassatellid Clam

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of this extinct species of a clam.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Crested Ibis

For Students 9th - 10th
The crested ibis was barely saved from extinction in Asia after the last seven known to be alive were put into a protective sanctuary in China. The population has increased and many have been released back into the wild but it is still...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures introducing beginning biology students to the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior. The course was taught three times a week for a semester at Yale University. The course discusses concepts of...
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Other

The Cheetahspot

For Students 9th - 10th
The title says it all. The ultimate site to find out everything you need to know about cheetahs. Content includes information on Cheetah social behavior, diet, appearance, locomotion, vocals, habitat, history, and more.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Life Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This unit covers the processes of photosynthesis, extinction, biomimicry and bioremediation. In the first lesson on photosynthesis, students learn how engineers use the natural process of photosynthesis as an exemplary model of a complex...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Genetic Variation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How does genetic variation protect species from extinction? Understand sexual reproduction and the importance of both random fertilization and independent assortment.
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Explore Your Inner Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know parts of our body was inherited from distant animal ancestors? In this interactive students will investigate different anatomical features of the human body to reveal our evolutionary history. Learn how humans share...
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Feathers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Birds have them, and so did some species of extinct dinosaurs. They're feathers. They come in different shapes and sizes, all colors, and they enable birds to fly. Lots of information can be found in this article.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Layers of Time: Fossil Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Game through which students order layers of sedimentary rock, from oldest to newest, based on the type of fossils they contain.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: Frogs: The Thin Green Line

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS documentary explores threats to the continuing survival of frogs at locations around the world owing to habitat loss, pollution, and a fungus called chytrid now known to be responsible for killing large numbers of amphibians. [50:31]
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Types of Mollusks

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] There are approximately 160,000 living species and probably 70,000 extinct species of mollusks. They are typically divided into ten classes, of which two are...
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Curated OER

Ny Times Learning Network: Wild Wildlife

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students investigate the moral, economic and ecological impacts of the extinction of various animal species. Students first assess how and why people support and refute actions that lead to the extinction of animals. They...

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