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Library of Congress

Loc: Origins of American Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
An amazing collection of 21 animated films which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings, and early silent films.
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Library of Congress

Loc: See, Hear, and Sing Animation

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Library of Congress takes a look at the wacky world of cartoons, beginning with George Melies, who demonstrated that objects could be animated in film with a series of drawings, each drawn with slight changes.
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Other

Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
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Ohio State University

Osu: Introduction to Computer Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to computer animation, written at an advanced level. Includes an overview of computer animation and discusses its heritage, history, software tools, and more. Lots of embedded links to information on related topics.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Animal Sign Guide

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this guide to help you identify signs from different animals in the wilderness. Identify tracks, chew marks, signs from animals that build, eggs, and the like.
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Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains thousands of descriptions about individual animal species. Many of these descriptions also includes pictures, movies, audio clips, and more.
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Animal Doc

For Students 3rd - 8th
Come help out the animal doc. Choose a topic, and read about how a real veterinarian handled a specific animal case. Learn about a wide variety of animal topics on this fun, interactive page.
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US National Archives

Animal Welfare Act: Hist. Perspectives, Future Directions

For Students 9th - 10th
Information from the symposium of the 30th anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act as provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Other

The Complete Works of George Orwell: Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online text of the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell from GeorgeOrwell.org.
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Animal Information Database

For Students 9th - 10th
Sea World's site featuring a variety of information about their animals, as well as general animal information. Includes "Animal Bytes," a list of animals with some of their characteristics. Also includes some games and teacher resources.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: A Typical Animal Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
Colorful, interactive image of an animal cell provides solid definitions of cell parts as the learner scrolls over each portion of the image or parts list. A short quiz follows the initial image to assess the learner's knowledge of cell...
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NASA

Nasa: Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of animations will take you from Earth to the Red Planet in less than ten minutes. The animation series begins with the initial launch and journey through the Earth's atmosphere. Entry into Mars, its landing and exploration...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Disruptions Affect Animal Populations

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the effects that ecosystem disruptions can have on animal populations. They learn about the disruptions that have driven three species-the Madagascar fish eagle, the Iberian lynx, and the rowi kiwi, to the brink of...
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American Battlefield Trust

American Battlefield Trust: Civil War: Animated Map: Fort Sumter

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated map tells the story of the events that led up to the first shots of the Civil War fired at Fort Sumter. [7:31]
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Biology Animation Library: Dolan Dna Learning Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A step-by-step animation shows how introns are removed during RNA splicing.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Body Plans: Homeobox Genes

For Students 9th - 10th
The homeobox genes that define the basic body plan of mice and fruit flies are illustrated in this graphic from The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne Zihlman. The accompanying article describes how these genes act as "molecular...
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Other

Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Ctr: Virtual Cell Animation Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of detailed diagrams and animations showing the structure of cells and how they work.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Geostories: Tracking Animal Migrations

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive Geostory illustrates how animal tracking data helps us understand how individuals and populations move within local areas and migrate across oceans and continents.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 5th
A multitude of activities provide help with understanding animal adaptations.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this instructional activity using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start Here! Animation

For Students K - 1st
This is an introduction to the animation topic. In this topic, we'll explore how animators bring characters to life with the help of animation curves. This topic contains two lessons: Lesson 1: Introduction to animation curves (all ages)...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Save Your Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.

For Students 4th - 8th
Begin your career as an animator now! This lesson is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.

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