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National Museum of Natural History: Ocean Portal, You Navigate
Delight in the fresh colors, sights, and sounds on this dynamic site on the ocean. Major categories consist of Ocean Life & Ecosystems, The Ocean Over Time, Ocean Science, and The Ocean and You. New information on sharks, a slideshow...
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National Museum of Natural History: Ocean Portal: Ocean Life & Ecosystems
From the tiny to the titanic, from the familiar to the undiscovered, the ocean offers a stunning diversity of marine life and nearly every kind of habitat imaginable. Dive in and explore them here. Links incude stories, videos and photos...
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Shark Basics
You will find the most commonly asked shark questions in this comprehensive site. Topics include shark basics, shark biology, shark conservation, shark attacks, and shark research.
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Amphiprion Ocellaris: Clownfish Anemonefish
This comprehensive site provides an in-depth look at the clownfish along with colorful pictures and a helpful map showing where the fish live.
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Sphyraena Barracuda: Great Barracuda
Very detailed information about the Great Barracuda. Get the taxonomy, common names, geographical distribution, habitat, features, food habits, reproduction, predators, importance to humans, and more.
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National Museum of Natural History: Ptarmigan
This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Ptarmigan. It also includes pictures and an extensive quote from 19th Century naturalist Edward Nelson.
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National Museum of Natural History: Wildlife Portfolio
The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center offers a portfolio of arctic animals. A page dedicated to each animal provides a physical description, personal observations of the animal in the wild, and several pictures.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ecology Disrupted: Chesapeake Bay Food Web
In this comprehensive lesson plan unit, students examine how overfishing has affected Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. They will study food webs from the past and present and graph related data.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Rising Co2! What Can We Do?
With this resource, students learn how much fossil fuel emissions have increased since 1600 by exploring a graph showing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Then answer questions and read facts about climate change over the centuries....
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National Museum of Natural History: Lewis and Clark Mapping the West
Understand the importance of the mapping done by Lewis and Clark as you work through these learning exercises and learn mapmaking skills yourself.
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National Museum of Natural History: Global Volcanism Program: This Dynamic Planet
Interactive activity that allows the learner to make their own regional map using layers of their choice such as volcanoes, craters, plate tectonics, or earthquakes. This map of the Earth zooms in and out, highlights essential processes,...
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American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Mythic Mask or Puppet
Create your own masks and puppets and bring the mythic creatures to life.
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American Museum of Natural History: If Trash Could Talk
What does your trash say about you? Take a close look inside your trash can and think about the clues it offers about your life.
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American Museum of Natural History: Draw a Monarch Butterfly
Learn how to create a scientific illustration of a monarch butterfly in a few easy steps.
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American Museum of Natural History: Create Your Own Time Capsule
By making time capsules, we can decide what message to send to the future about our own lives. If it were discovered years from now, what would the objects say about you and the time you lived in?
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American Museum of Natural History: Optical Illusions and How They Work
What you see and what you think you see are different things. Find out what your brain doing behind-the-scenes!
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American Museum of Natural History: See the Light
Take a look at light with these three easy experiments
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American Museum of Natural History: Play With Color and Light
See what happens when you mix different colors of lights.
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American Museum of Natural History: Trip Up Your Brain
Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.
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American Museum of Natural History: Crazy Camouflage
Create a flounder fish that's hard to spot. In this hands-on activity, students gather evidence to explore how camouflage helps animals survive.
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American Museum of Natural History: What Is Water?
This comprehensive article provides information about the physical properties of water, the importance of water as an Earth material, the processes and cycles that water undergoes on Earth, its importance to life on Earth, and why we...
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American Museum of Natural History: Grow Rock Candy
Students can carry out an investigation using sugar and water to determine whether heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. This activity reinforces the ideas that the properties of materials can change when...
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American Museum of Natural History: Find My Plankton Baby Picture
By observing photos of plankton at different life stages, students can obtain information that will allow them to construct evidence-based accounts of how parents and offspring don't always look alike.
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American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Weather Station
Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.