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National Aviary: Curriculum: Wings to Fly

For Students 3rd - 8th
Richly illustrated interactive activity leads you through an investigation of bird wings. Includes interesting comparisons of the bones in a bird's wings with those in human arms and of the design of wings in birds versus planes.
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Crocodilian Species List

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers in-depth information and photos on all living crocodilian species.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Boa

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about the boa, as well as several pictures and an audio clip.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Moving at the Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Look at the many different types of animal movement that you can see at the zoo. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Community Dreams: Santa Cruz, California 1876

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how connecting Santa Cruz, California to the national railroad network in the late 1800s helped the town prosper and change.
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Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Are We There Yet?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners (groups of 4) will surf the Internet to find 3-5 different protists that use cilia as a means of locomotion, 3-5 that use flagella as means of locomotion, and 3-5 that use pseudopods as a means of locomotion. They will download...
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Microscopy UK

Microscopy Uk: Rotifers and How to Find Them

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting discussion of rotifer anatomy, habitat, feeding habits, locomotion, and species.
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Eduscapes; In Depth Page, Moose

For Students 9th - 10th
This in depth site provides factual information on the following topics: size, physical characteristics, food, gender, habitat, herding, locomotion, reproduction, range, and predators. Links are provided for those interested in learning...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Steam Condensing Engine 1769

For Students 9th - 10th
Few inventions have affected human history as much as the steam engine. Without it, there would have been no locomotives, no steamers and no Industrial Revolution.
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: Raptor Force

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion of a Nature documentary about birds of prey, their sense of sight, and their powers of locomotion. Includes a game, Raptor Vision, that lets players see the world through the eyes of a raptor.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Pink Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus Truncatus)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photograph and a fact card about the pink fairy armadillo. Discusses physical characteristics, where they are found, diet, mating and reproduction, locomotion, and population status.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes Chrysocome)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the rockhopper penguin. Discusses where the name comes from, the three species types, where they can be found, physical characteristics, locomotion, diet, predators, egg-laying behavior, and...
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Royal Penguin (Eudyptes Schlegeli)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the royal penguin. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, how it differs from the macaroni penguin, locomotion, diet, predators, egg-laying behavior, and threats to its...
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sea Urchin (Echinoidea)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the sea urchin. Discusses where they are found, the variety of species, physical characteristics, anatomy, diet, predators, locomotion, reproduction, and threats they face.
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Afl Cio: Eugene Victor Debs (1855 1926)

For Students 9th - 10th
Debs began his association with labor issues at an early age starting with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He went on to be active in the American Railway Union, the Socialist Party of America, and the Industrial Workers of the...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The Impact of Inventions

For Teachers 7th - 8th
A promotional painting by George Inness will introduce students to a new invention from the nineteenth century, the locomotive.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: The Case Files: History of Transportation Technologies

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of transportation technologies, and the individuals who led the way in developing and advancing new modes of transportation.
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Earth Life

Earth Life: Mammalian Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
A very good overview of the structure and function of the mammalian skelton. Includes a nice graphic of an elephant skeleton which serves as a typical (though big) example.
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: The Protists

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief, but informative paragraph describing the parasitic nature of sporozoans, part of a larger page about single-celled organisms.
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PBS

Pbs: Thomas Eakins (Lessons About the ?American Rembrandt?) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find four lesson plans developed for the PBS documentary "Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life" about the life and work of the man who would become known as the ?American Rembrandt.? The lessons touch on all the essential qualities of...
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University of California

Ucmp: Introduction to Bacteria

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an introduction to bacteria and examines fossil records, life history and ecology, systematics, and morphology.
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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Aparato Locomotor

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this unit and learn about the skeletal system. It contains 16 interactive activities.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Rail Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on railroads is found on this site from Wikipedia encyclopedia. Discusses the history of railways, different parts of the railway, types of trains, and the economic aspects of rail ownership and operation.

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