In online and offline activities, students broaden their understanding of animals by learning to identify and classify animals into six categories: mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates.

A resource where you'll learn about amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. A good look at how animals live, sleep, eat, and stay active in a desert habitat.

This teacher's guide focuses on familiar animals such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

Learn about the development of transgenic animals and some potential applications. The field of transgenic animals is very young and still has many hurdles to cross.

This teacher's guide focuses on the smaller animals that inhabit our world: insects and spiders. These fascinating creatures provide young children many hands-on opportunities to learn about the diversity of living things, how living...

A synopsis on the domestication of animals traces the beginnings as well as the effects on prehistoric man. A flow chart to see how this development fits into history is provided.

The innovative resource explores the biomechanics of bipeds and quadrupeds. Learners study how animals and humans move by starting, slowing, and stopping animations. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.

Fourth graders will understand that elevation is one of the things that affect where and how plants and animals live.

Describes the characteristics, biodiversity, and the adaptations of the plants and animals of temperate and tropical grasslands.

Do animals think? It's a question that has intrigued scientists for thousands of years, inspiring them to come up with different methods and criteria to measure the intelligence of animals. Bryan B Rasmussen navigates through this...

This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the various diets of animals, including those that are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.

Find out about the plant and animal life in different types of mountain habitats.

Insight into why groups of animals swarm, flock, an school together.

Describes many of the plants and animals that live in deserts and their special adaptations that have enabled them to survive there. Also describes four types of deserts.

Describes the characteristics of the taiga biome and the plants and animals that live there.

This learning game has students follow different animal tracks and collect berries along the way.

This zoo is primarily a collection of wild animals indigenous to the tropical forests of Belize. At the bottom of the page, the animals are organized into 3 categories: mammals, birds, and reptiles.

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Friendship of Animals by Edith Carrington, a book of poems and stories for children.

A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of The Book of Animals by T. Bilby, a nonfiction book for children.

During this unit of study, learners will become knowledgeable of animals' characteristics, basic needs and habitats. The purpose of this unit is to educate students through investigation and research about various animals and the...

Did you know parts of our body was inherited from distant animal ancestors? In this interactive students will investigate different anatomical features of the human body to reveal our evolutionary history. Learn how humans share...

Test your knowledge of the animal kingdom by taking this interactive quiz. Twenty multiple choice questions that offer immediate feedback to responses. If you need help, a link is available to facts about more than 50 animal species.

Describes the layers of a rainforest, adaptations plants have made, and animals that live there.

Facts about the many ways animals communicate. Included is information about scent, sound, sight, and touch.