Cartoon graphic of mother kangaroo and joey.

Cartoon illustration of a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Here you will find information on marsupials like the kangaroo, the koala, and the wombat.

Australian Museum Online has a collection of mammals including bats, platypus, and marsupials. Take a peek. Read about the monkey-faced bat, the mountain brushtail possum, and the tree kangaroo.

Second graders will explore and investigate fraction circles and will apply their discoveries to the book Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. Then students will record their observations in their science journals.

Resource takes an exploratory look at the spring hare, a rodent which looks like a miniature kangaroo. Content includes information on the hare's physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, diet, caring for the young, predators, and more.

Stuents will participate in the shared reading of Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. After the reading, 2nd graders will fill out an Olympic events recording sheet.

Ord's Kangaroo Rat and Western Harvest Mouse are two prairie mammals that are being affected by the erosion of their habitats. The proposed drilling of gas wells in Alberta and the loss of prairie grasslands to agriculture are factors...

This FYI for Kids (Volume 4, Issue 3) article discusses how babies both human and some animals move around. It includes humans, kangaroos, anteaters. wolf spiders, cows, and cichlids.

"Koalas are marsupials, related to kangaroos." Fun facts, video and audio clips make this a great National Geographic site for student research projects.

Join Skip the kangaroo and help him decide the days of the week.

This multi-media rich site explores the voyage made by James Cook on the Endeavour in 1768. This voyage, marked as one of the most influential in history, made major nautical, geographical, natural history, and medical discoveries along...

By using simple shapes you can learn to draw any animal. This tutorial explains this process and gives you step-by-step directions on drawing many different animals including kangaroos and flamingos!

In this interactive, students weigh a rabbit, frog, and kangaroo by adding blocks to the scales until they are exactly even.

Help Skip the kangaroo as he learns about the months in the year and comparing lengths.

Get profiles of 10 different examples of Australia's extinct megafauna. Each profile includes a picture of what the animal looked like.

Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.

Students explore the different ways mammals move by observing them walk, hop, gallop, swim and swing in animations. Facts about habitat and structure are also included in these animations.

Use the Stegosaurus on this page to click through information about Bernard Most, his books and awards, play games, and print coloring pages.

What is a grassland? Learn all about grasslands at this fun and informative site! Content explores the difference between a tropical and a temperate grassland, as well as focusing on the types of animals that live in a grassland.

A profile of each of the various animals found at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Project in Australia. Photos and basic facts of each animal are included.

The twin 110-story towers at the heart of the World Trade Center were designed to surpass New York's iconic Empire State Building -- then the world's tallest building. Building the new towers would marshal unprecedented levels of design...

A broad selection of images featuring Australians at play can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.