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Pbs Learning Media: Animal Adaptations: Fishing Cat
Learn how the semi-aquatic fishing cat evolved millions of years ago to live in the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia in this video from NATURE: The Story of Cats (4:18). The accompanying activity prompts students to write an...
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Alex: Now You See Me, Now You Don't!
An animal's physical characteristics, such as its body color, may give it a better chance of survival. For example, the body colors of many animals blend with their background. In this investigation, young scholars will see that body...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animal Adaptations
Students use technology tools to research and produce a multimedia product on animals and their habitats. This a collaborative project involving the library media specialist, classroom teacher, and special education teacher.
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Pbs Learning Media: Total Solar Eclipse Animation
This brief animation adapted from NOVA illustrates how total solar eclipses form and explains the stages from first contact to totality. [1:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: All About Lizards Lesson Plan
Students explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics, behavior, and habitat. Activities feature five species of lizards and their special body structures needed for survival.
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Seeker: Week of 10 28 13: Scorpion Eating Mice Feel No Sting
Article reports on the scientific discovery that the venom of a scorpion has an unusual reaction in grasshopper mice, actually blocking the mouse from feeling pain instead of inducing it.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Grassland Biome: Animals and Plants
Describes the characteristics, biodiversity, and the adaptations of the plants and animals of temperate and tropical grasslands.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Wet Dog Physics
Describes the physics behind animals' ability to dry themselves by shaking to remove water.
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Pbs Teachers: Why Do Elephants Have Big Feet?
Explain how an organism's adaptations give it advantages in particular environments. Calculate and compare the amount of pressure exerted by the foot of an elephant and a human, and apply that knowledge to an understanding of automobile...
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Pbs Teachers:mediterranean on the Rocks: Turtle Hospital
Research how people affect animal populations by introducing alien species, which endanger endemic species. Map how the imported red fire ant expanded its range in the U.S. since the 1920s, and investigate the impact this alien has on...
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