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Kenya Beasts

For Students 3rd - 5th
Kenya Beasts provides information about many animals native to Kenya. Each animal is accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and photographs.
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Quiz: Arthropods

For Students 3rd - 7th
Take this ten-question review quiz over the Phylum Arthropoda. Read more about each question after an incorrect answer is given.
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Marine Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides an overview of the organisms living in the sea.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Marine Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides an overview of the organisms living in the sea.
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Sea and Sky: Mollusks

For Students 3rd - 8th
This illustrated article describes several different types of reef mollusks ranging form snails and clams to the chambered nautilus.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Florida Museum of Natural History gives the current events, information about the museum, exhibits and public programs, research and collections, links, etc. to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Sponges

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Sponges are classified in the phylum Porifera, from the Latin words meaning "having pores." Sponges are sessile, meaning they cannot move, so they filter water...
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Australian Museum

The Australian Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features links to information on Australia's museum.
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PBS

Nova: Bitten by the Bug

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter Tyson explains the reasons he finds amber fossils so interesting. Read his descriptions and catch his passion for these fossils.
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PBS

Nova: Amber Time Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the series of events that led to the fossilization of an ancient bee. You'll retrace the events that moved the amber fossil to its' final resting place, a Dominican amber mine.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Life Cycles With Butterflies

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
This site is a lesson plan for teachers. It is a lesson to study the life cycles of a butterfly. It explains how the students would find caterpillars and build a home for them.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: Green River Fossil Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
Search the collection of 35,000 fossiliferous rocks found within the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah. View some of these 50 million year old insect fossils in a linked slide show.
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: The Fascinating World of Jellies

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the mysterious jellyfish blooms that have occurred in the world's oceans. Because the resulting alteration to the marine food web has had devastating effects, researchers grow and study jellyfish at the Monterey aquarium....
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Ocean Oasis: Field Guide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ocean Oasis is a giant-screen film that depicts Mexico's Sea of Cortes and the Baja California desert. This companion site features much of the information the film has, such as beautiful images of animals, water, and land that have...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Search the Giant Squid

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores, in detail, what is known about the Giant Squid, and current efforts to uncover the squid in its natural habitat.
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Indiana University

Indiana Univ. Bloomington: Geo Notes: Crinoids: Ancient Versus Modern Forms [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents some facts about crinoids, a marine animal abundant during the Paleozoic Era, with many fossil species present in Indiana. This animal can still be found in the Caribbean Sea today.
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Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: Sea Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of sea stars focusing on their habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Acorn Barnacle

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the acorn barnacle and learn cool facts, its natural history, and conservation status.
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Other

Fins: The Fish Information Service

For Students 9th - 10th
A good source of information on aquariums, aquarium upkeep, and aquarium fish. Includes an index of freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates listed by type, Latin name, and common name. Index includes photos. Links to aquarium sites,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification. They will also demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Kingdom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the animal kingdom, differentiating between vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Northern Short Tailed Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Northern Short-tailed Shrews have poisonous saliva. This enables them to kill mice and larger prey and paralyze invertebrates such as snails and store them alive for later eating. Learn more about the Blarina brevicauda, more commonly...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Smoky Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Shrews of many kinds often live in size-ranked communities. Such a community might include large, medium, and small shrews such as the Short-tailed, Smoky, and Cinereus Shrews, which feed, respectively, on large, medium, and small...

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