Read this description of a Wallaroo to find out why this animal is not a wallaby or a kangaroo.

Students practice and improve their jumping and landing skills as they play this fun game and imitate the jumping styles of frongs, kangaroos, rabbits, and gazelles.

California Pocket Mice eat seeds, insects, and sometimes green leaves. Like other pocket mice in the genus Chaetodipus, they scurry around on all four feet (unlike kangaroo rats, which are in the same family of rodents, and which hop on...

Many rodents that are adapted to arid conditions--pocket mice, harvest mice, grasshopper mice, deer mice, kangaroo rats, and ground squirrels--occur in the same regions as Jones's Pocket Gopher in western Texas and eastern New Mexico,...

Provides brief facts about the Tammar wallaby, a kangaroo-like animal found in Australia.

This interactive animal guide from the Columbus Zoo highlights general information and fun facts about mammals; this information can be sorted by diet or region where they live. Select an animal from the extensive list to begin exploring.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] Discover Australia with this flipchart! Explore the land and its people!

From the bandicoot to the yabby, this resource provides an index to profiles of dozens of unique Australian animals. Each profile provides a picture along with information on the animal's behavior, habitat, diet and more.

Discusses the gold standard and the history of monetary systems.