Teacher Printables
My Flip Book About . . .
Print these as two-sided handouts from which elementary entomologists can make a flip-style book about beetles (or a variety of other animals that are available as well). They research the habitat, food, and other interesting information...
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Animal Survival
Viewers of this PowerPoint are introduced to endangered and extinct animals. They discover why apes, elephants, pandas, polar bears, rhinoceri, and marine turtles are threatened. Finally, ways that humans have and can make a difference...
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CSI Rhino
Students study the rhinoceros and how the species has survived for so long. In this rhino lesson students create graphs and research what is being done to protect the rhino.
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Raising Rhino Awareness
Students create a poster that promotes awareness about endangered animals. In this biology lesson, students explain the impact of rhinoceros poaching. They create a poem about them and present it in class.
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Point of View - Rhinoceros
Young scholars explore the concept of perspective. In this point of view lesson, students watch 2 video segments regarding the relocation of the black rhinoceros to wildlife preserves across Africa. Young scholars write pieces that...
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Happy or Sad Rhinoceros
In this emotions activity, students examine 2 different pictures of a rhinoceros and color the rhinoceros that is happy and make an x on the rhinoceros that is sad.
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Getting Started With Rhino
Students draw and print two-dimensional objects, by accessing commands and short cuts and options. They customize their modeling environment, create basic graphic objects - lines, circles, arcs, curves, solids, and surfaces, and draw...
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Be an Artist: Rhinoceros
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will use visual clues in a grid to complete an exact image replica. Following the original line segments in each box, students will create the image of a rhinoceros.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Rhinoceroses
See pictures of the rhinoceros and find out about the different species, where they live, and why they are endangered.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Meet the Last Known Northern White Male Rhino
Article reports on the state of the white rhino species. Includes video.
Other
International Rhino Foundation
Learn all about the black, white, Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhinos. Great links and information on rhinos. This organization works to save the rhinoceros from extinction. Much of their work centers on efforts to combat poaching.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Rhinoceros
This resource provides detailed information about the rhinoceros, as well as several pictures and audio clips.
Globio
Glossopedia: Rhinoceros
Rhinoceroses, or rhinos, are big and ancient-looking and can be dangerous. They can also be shy and are seldom seen. Once there were hundreds of rhino species, but today there are only a few. This article provides an in-depth look at...
Other
Zoos Victoria: Animal Profiles
Learn all about many of the different animals in the zoo including many little known facts. Profiled are the dingo, koala, meerkat, platypus, tree kangaroo, and many more.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling
Classic Reader provides numerous classic short stories from prize-winning authors. One work is "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," a story written by the Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author, Rudyard Kipling.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Black Rhinoceros
Comprehensive reference material on the black rhinoceros, with information about physical characteristics, geographic range, diet, reproduction, behavior, and habitat.
Animal Fact Guide
Animal Fact Guide: Greater One Horned Rhinoceros
Reference guide to the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros that features facts on its physical characteristics, habitat (with a distribution map), diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, conservation status, and tips on what you...
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Rhinoceros
An interactive timeline describing in both pictures and words the rhinoceroses from 50 million years ago to today. Learn how loss of habitat, poaching, and captivity has changed the rhino population over time.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Rhinoceros (Rhinocerotidae)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the rhinoceros. Discusses where they are found, the five species of rhino, physical characteristics, diet, and the serious threat they face from human poachers.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the Dicerorhinus Sumatrensis, more commonly known as the Sumatran Rhinoceros.
Bagheera
Bagheera: Black Rhinoceros
This site takes a look at the physical characteristics and habitat of the black rhinoceros. Special attention is given the causes of endangerment of this animal, as well as current conservation efforts. Additional learning exercises are...
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo: Black Rhinoceros
Provides a detailed description of black rhinoceros. Information offered ranges from their physical description to special adaptations that they have.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Rhinoceros
They are fierce, and they've thrived for millions of years, yet their deadliest enemy is man! Here is an entire report on the rhino that includes great images, videos of a charge, an interactive timeline, and information on the rhino horn.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
World Wildlife Fund: Rhinoceros Introduction
This resource provides information about rhinoceroses.