This comprehensive site describes how communication is an adaptation that is important for survival.

This competent site describes how structural adaptations help organisms survive. Deceptive and advertising coloration are explained.

Students will learn about animals with backbones and then create a slideshow presentation that shows the characteristics of the different groups of vertebrates. They will also create a brochure explaining how a specific animal is adapted...

Brief illustrated overview of the wildebeest and an accompanying video demonstrate the physical adaptations that allow this animal to eat and digest tough African grasses.

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...

What do living things need to survive? In this unit, students explore different habitats and the adaptations made by living things to survive. Students will create a website matching an animal's adaptations to its environment. Then, they...

Fourth graders research bees and how their specialized body parts help them in survival and contribute to the success of plant survival and reproduction.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the ways that animals' different features can help them survive.

Flip this interactive OLogy card to start learning about camouflage and the role it plays in helping animals survive.

Learn about the adaptations that are necessary to survive as the environment changes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will understand how animal and plant adaptations help them to survive in their ecosystem. Web links will allow students to play games and learn more about adaptations.

Play an interactive game where you can match modern dog breeds with the country in which they originated.

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.

This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...

What do you need to survive? Food, water, shelter? Animals need the same things and they live in places that can provide them. This informative site looks at the characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction and behavior of the red...

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...

Get descriptions and pictures of numerous deep sea fish. Discover the adaptations that enable them to survive at tremendous depths.

Research, take and defend a position on the question of why the giraffe population is threatened and which is more important: survival in a wildlife sanctuary or quality of life in the wild.

This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.

Behavior is what animals do. It can be defined more precisely as an internally directed system of adaptive activities that facilitate survival and reproduction. Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior -- particularly when...

A brief overview of the Canadian lynx and accompanying photos demonstrate the physical adaptations that allow this animal survive in its habitat.

Alex and Foxy White are walking around looking at animals and learning about their habitats. Join them on their expedition.

Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-LS1-1: internal and external structures.

A detailed overview of the Cinereous Vulture. Overview includes a physical description, their niche and habitat in the wild, and their life history. Facts about special adaptations they have had to make in order to survive.