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Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
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Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
Graphic
Curated OER

Sponges, Phylum Porifera

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses sponges that may be kept in salt-water aquariums, along with what they need to live. Good general information.
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University of California

Ucmp: Life History and Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how sponges eat, grow, reproduce on this colorful page.
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University of California

Ucmp: Morphology of Sponges

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of California discusses the structure of sponges and how these primitive animals manage to exist.
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Tree of Life Project

The Tree of Life Web Project: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive site that contains much information about the various animal phyla. Each phyla gives photos, common examples, scientific names and references. Collection of 1630 websites about bio-diversity.
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Other

Coe College: Hermit Crab Sponges

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article about a kind of sponge that a hermit crab carries around on its back.
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Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains thousands of descriptions about individual animal species. Many of these descriptions also includes pictures, movies, audio clips, and more.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Sponge Lab: Experimenting With Absorption

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the properties of synthetic and natural sponges in this activity, to determine the capacity of each to absorb water. Afterward, they discuss other questions they have about sponges, and complete an assessment in...
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botantical Garden: Sponges!

For Students 4th - 9th
This site from The Evergreen Project gives an easy to understand description of the Sponges.
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Sponges the First Invertebrate

For Students 3rd - 7th
Find out about some the most simple organisms in the Animal Kingdom, the sponges.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Sponges

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses characteristics of sponges.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Animal Kingdom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Background information about all of the classes of the animal kingdom, followed by four short lesson plan outlines.
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Other

Mcwdn: Sponges

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief summary about sponges. Included are an organized chart about the body systems in a sponge, links to other websites about sponges, and an online quiz about sponges.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Carnivorous Sponge

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about this startling discovery of a species of sponge that is not a filter feeder like all other sponges, but is actually carnivorous. Strange!
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Other

Kids' Cruz: Taxonomy

For Students 4th - 8th
Kidzcruz.com provides a list of phylums in the animal Kingdom. Both Latin and English names are included.

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