This site from UC Berkeley is an excellent site about the animal phylum chordata. Click on various sections to learn more, covering topics such as the fossil record, life history & ecology, systematics, and morphology. This site is a...

An animated illustration helps students understand that the summative result of two or more vectors can be determined by a process of vector addition.

A very thorough look at the world of insects. This site examines the 32 orders of insects and gives a complete explanation of the characteristics of each order. Text is supplemented with pictures.

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...

Brief illustrated overview of the sika deer and an accompanying video demonstrate the physical adaptations that allow this animal to eat and use its voice to attract females.

All information about scorpions can be found on this website. These arachnids have eight legs, pincers, and a stinger on their tail that can poison.

The aardvark looks a bit like a pig. Its body is stout, with an arched back, and is sparsely covered with coarse hairs. Its legs are medium length. Its front feet have four toes, while the back feet have five toes. Each toe has a large,...

The Eastern black-and-white colobus monkey is known for its cape of white hair in the shape of a "U" from the shoulders to the lower back. This is called their mantle. They also have long, white hairs around their face and on their bushy...

This video segment adapted from NASA uses animation to illustrate the properties of meteor showers and comets. Included is are visualizations of a comet's tail and of Earth passing through a debris stream left behind by meteoroids.

NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome, and more.

What characteristics make a swamp a swamp? This site features information on the Great Dismal Swamp, Conifer Swamps, Okefenokee Swamps, Shrub Swamps, Hardwood Swamps, and Cypress Swamps. This site also offers some great photographs of...

The largest North American rodent and the only one with a broad, flat, scaly tail, the Beaver is now common and widespread, even in areas it did not inhabit during pre-colonial times. The modifications it makes to the environment by...

Looking for fun and entertaining legends to read to your students? Try this site and explore the easy to read online stories. `

It seems that no animal has inspired the imagination of man more than the lion (Panthera leo). Characterized as fearsome, courageous and majestic, the lion's strength and ferocity has earned it the title of 'King of the Beasts' in many...

The statuette depicts the goddess Bastet as a gentle cat, her sacred animal, sitting on its haunches with a long tail curled around one leg and with rather long ears.

The statuette represents Taweret, the goddess of protection of women in childbirth. She is depicted as a female hippopotamus with the arms and the legs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. The statuette is placed on a rectangular,...

Anubis, the black jackal, was the animal that personified the deity who was believed to protect the cemetery, and thus became the patron deity of mummification. On this cartonnage piece, the jackal-headed god comes, carrying the disk of...

In heraldry, the griffin is a fabulous animal, with the head and forefeet of an eagle, and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion. The head is represented with pricked ears, symbolical of its vigilance. In mythology, the griffin was a...