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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Lab: Fragile X Syndrome
This is an exceptional site for anyone looking for information about Fragile X Syndrome. Causes, diagnosis, treatment, quality of life, and many other topics are available. Animations, video, audio, and interviews make this interactive...
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World Wildlife Federation: Sea Turtle: Loggerhead Turtle
This nicely illustrated description of the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle provides conservation information about this marine reptile.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Goats
An in-depth description of goats, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts. Also includes pictures, video, and sound bytes.
US Fish and Wildlife Service
U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service: Endangered Species Coloring Book [Pdf]
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service presents The Endangered Species Coloring Book. A PDF file filled with pictures and descriptions of eight endangered plant and animals.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Animation of a Capillary
This site from Innerbody.com has an amazing animation of how a capillary works; there is even a detailed description to help understand the process.
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Switch Zoo: Make New Animals
Students choose from many different animals to combine a head, body, and tail in order to create a new animal of their own. Facts and information on each animal type are provided, and once the animal is complete, students can add a title...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Giraffe Adaptations
Giraffe's have many physical adaptations. This site provides a worksheet and asks students to connect the physical adaptation description to the correct place on the worksheet.
Other
The Domains and Kingdoms of Life
This site is a description of the history behind the 5 Kingdom system suggested by Robert Whittaker. An extensive list of resources is included.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden provides animal descriptions of several grassland animals. Content includes pictures, fact sheets, and more.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Inheritance of Gene Variations
This animated description of George Shull's research of hybridization explains one of the key components of evolution, inheritance of gene variations.
Curated OER
Curing Animal Skin
Read about and view images of Iron Age tasks.Twelve images and descriptions demonstrate a variety of tools that Iron Age Britons used to accomplish tasks necessary for everyday life.
Other
Buzzle.com: Animal Sake: Triassic Period Animals
Brief descriptions of the climate of the Triassic Period and of the plants and animals. Includes a lengthy list of the animals that lived during that time.
Other
Wis Travel: Wisconsin History
A concise summary of the history of the state of Wisconsin. Learn about its first explorers and inhabitants through its admittance to statehood. There is also a long list of state symbols given after the text. Click on one to see a...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: American Black Bear
Learn more about the American Black Bear through this informative resource. Gain a new perspective of this mighty animal when you learn more about its' habitat, behavior, characteristics, and more.
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Dr. Saul: Biology in Motion
This interactive site provides animations and activities in several areas of physiology. The images are simple, but clear. The accompanying text provides a good description of the process being shown.
PBS
Pbs Nature Critter Guide: Mammals: Aardvarks
This PBS Critter Guide gives a brief description of the aardvarks life and habitat. This site would be useful for students who need help narrowing their Internet research information into a manageable amount.
PBS
Pbs Nature: Elephants
Did you know that the elephant is the largest animal in the world? Discover more about where they live, what they eat and how they socialize when you visit this site.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Platonic Solids
Did you know that the five regular platonic solids (tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, cube, and dodecahedron) were thought to represent earth, air, fire, water, and the universe? This chart shows an image and provides a description...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Rolling With the Animals
After reading Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, the writer will plan an original story where an animal (other than a duck) finds itself in a human mode of transportation (other than a bike). Three other animals will react to the unusual...
University of California
Ucmp: Learning About Vendian Animals
UC Berkeley offers very nice photos and descriptions of what is known about fossils of animals from this era.
Other
University of Wisconsin: Invertebrate Fossils of Wisconsin
A great collection of invertebrate fossil pictures, accompanied by a description of the fossil and where it was found.
Other
Connecticut Deep: Loggerhear Sea Turtle
A full description of the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle including information about physical characteristics, habitat range, reproduction, threats to its survival, and conservation efforts to help the species.
Other
Blue Poison Dart Frog
The Blue Poison Dart Frog was not even discovered until 1968. This effective site describes the physical characteristics, diet, size, range, population status, and predators of this fascinating animal.
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World Wildlife Fund: Tigers
Read about the beloved but endangered tiger. Learn about their habitat, diet and the threats to their lives. More information on this animal can be found under the links on the left hand side.