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Native Planet: Dangerous Sea Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about venomous fish and other animals with the ability to inject venom, such as jellyfish and other venomous invertebrates.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Sorting the Gulf Ecosystem

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this activity, students sort images of organisms into categories such as birds, reptiles, plants, invertebrates, etc. Next they examine the provided poster of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and categorize organisms they identify. A...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Squid

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about the squid when you explore this resource. This site includes a diagram of this soft-bodied cephalopod and information on its diet, anatomy, predators and more.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Cephalopods

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site provides links to elementary information about cephalopods. Students and teachers will find links to the blue ring octopus, the giant squid, the cuttlefish, octopus and more.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Cuttlefish

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the world of the cuttlefish, a unique cephalopod. Students will gain a greater understanding of this mollusk through fun facts, information on the anatomy, diet, predators and more at this site.
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Other

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Ammonoids

For Students 9th - 10th
Ammonoids, more commonly referred to as Ammonites, are the extinct ancestors of today's octopus, squid and nautilus. This page provides excellent information about these creatures, as well as diagrams and pictures.
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PBS

Pbs: The Shape of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion site for the 8-part PBS series, "The Shape of Life." Each section focuses on a different phylum, from porifera through chordata. This site is highly informative, with beautiful photography.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Cornell Composting: The Science and Engineering Composting Composting

For Students 9th - 10th
This clickable web page is like an outline that comprehensively covers the science of composting. Each link takes you to another section of notes.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Kingdom to Subphylum

For Students 9th - 10th
The highest category of taxonomic classification is the kingdom. This website from Palomar College presents the five kingdoms in an easy-to-read chart and discusses the Animalia and Plantae kingdoms in depth. After reading through the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Earth and Life History

For Students 9th - 10th
In this amazingly comprehensive tutorial you will learn about the geological and environmental changes that occurred during the geologic time scale.
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Hooray for Horseshoe Crabs

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about the anatomy and ecological relationships of the horseshoe crab.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Science Vocabulary Game

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders will play a review memory game with Utah's Grade 4 Science Standard V vocabulary words during this lesson plan. Words associated with living things and classifications of living things are included in this lesson plan.
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PBS

Nova: Stories in Amber

For Students 9th - 10th
Like a time machine, amber fossils take us back in the earth's history to discover the plants, animals and ecological relationships of prehistoric ecosystems. This resource has several interesting pictures of a variety of Dominican...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 13 What's Bugging You?

For Teachers 4th
Learn if a bug is an insect or a spider.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks

For Students 9th - 10th
A great reference source for a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. This exhaustive resource also has some prehistoric extinct animals that students can compare to their living counterparts to increase their understanding of...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Stream Study: Assessing the Relative Health of Streams

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will collect invertebrate samples from three different streams using nets and kick-seines. They then identify what they have found and add the information to the whole class data. Afterward, students propose a new question about...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Marine Organisms for Aquaria and Their Required Maintenance

For Teachers K - 1st
What can you do with an ocean animal aquarium in your classroom? This website offers information about ordering, setting up, and taking care of marine organisms for a 10-gallon aquarium which is a great way for students to observe a...
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Temperate Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden is a comprehensive site covering various topics related to temperate oceans. Be sure to check out the ocean animals link on the left side to learn more about the invertebrates that live in the...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Insects

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers detailed information on insects, invertebrate animals of the class Insecta.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Animals Experience Pain?

For Students 9th - 10th
How do the animals all around us experience pain? Robyn J. Crook examines pain in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. [5:06]
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Octopus of California

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty great pictures of octopi from California. This site also offers up close pictures of invertebrates, squids, and tidepools.
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Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an overview of Antarctica. Find out what invertebrates, flowering plants, lichens, and mosses are living in this primitive ecosystem.
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Fluorescent Coral

For Students 9th - 10th
Justin Marshall researches fish and invertebrate color vision, color communication, and visual ecology of coral reefs and other habitats. He photographed this fluorescent coral under fluorescent lighting conditions
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Barnacle (Cirripedia)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the world of the Barnacle and discover information on the physical characteristics, habitat, and breeding of this invertebrate. Includes images and statistics.

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