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.
PBS
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]
PBS
Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Animal Migration
A comprehensive overview of animal migration. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities,...
PBS
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.
Tramline
Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Desert Biome: Animals
Site provides information on desert animals and animal adaptations. Offers links to desert plants and their adaptations, other biomes, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Ice Extent, 1999 2016
Scientists study sea ice extent closely because it influences global climate. Follow the decline in Arctic sea ice in this animation adapted from NASA showing the yearly maximum and minimum sea ice extents from 1999 to 2016. Resources...
Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: Our Animals
This comprehensive resource provides photos and animal fact sheets that list special adaptations for a wide variety of animals. See some animals with their young.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Seeing Through Camouflage
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.
McGraw Hill
The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Adaptation
Evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, convergent evolution, mimicry, and coloration, are the topics examined in this thorough site. Assess your comprehension of the material presented by delving into the learning...
BBC
Bbc: Earth: Tardigrades Return From the Dead
Tardigrades are ancient, fascinating creatures that can survive conditions that would kill most life forms, including extreme heat and absolute zero, extreme pressure and a vacuum, and deadly radiation. They can even survive being...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shark Attack! The Hunt
This interactive module from the NOVA: "Shark Attack!" web site details the six senses that sharks use to find and capture their prey.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bird Food and Bird Beaks
There are almost as many types of bird beaks as there are types of food that birds like to eat. This collection of images shows a wide range of beaks and the types of foods handled by each.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Amazing Adaptable Frog
Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bird Beak Gallery
This collection of images of ten different birds illustrates the diversity of bird beaks.
Other
Bradfords Woods: Eagles to the Nest [Pdf]
This thematic curriculum which focuses on bald eagles revolves around a three-day field trip to Bradford Woods in Indiana. However, many of the activities could be adapted for other environments, and the background material is useful,...
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Science Explorer: Tropical Savannah Biome
Discover the tropical savannah biome! Here you can learn what a tropical savannah is, where such places exist, and the animals and plants that can be found there.
Seeker
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: How Animals Prepare for Winter
Learn about animals that migrate or hibernate.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers
In this lesson, students create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students then...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Under in the Mud Read Aloud | Story Edventures
Under in the Mud by Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell takes you into the wintering world of ten Wisconsin animals as you listen to her read the book and talk about the animals in it. Learn about how animals hibernate, migrate, and adapt to...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Acadia National Park: Animals of Acadia [Pdf]
Discover the various types of animal habitats located in Acadia National Park. Learn about the special features that allow them to live in their habitat.
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.
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