Teacher+Resources

1. Animal Planet (Discovery) [] This website provides information on a vast amount of animals from domestic pets to wild animals. The site also has videos to enhance student learning, as well as blogs and various articles if your students wish to take it a step further.

2. National Geographic [] This is a great website for teachers to use to gather information for lessons on not only animals/mammals, but other related topics such as the environment and geography. The website also provides videos that would be great to show in class.

3. National Geographic Kids [] This website is wonderful for students to do research or just do fun activities pertaining to lessons taught in class. It provides several videos, activity ideas, games and photos of animals that are fun for kids to look at, as well as helpful information that they can use in their research for school.

4. ASPCA Kids [] Here students can find answers to questions they may have about animals, and play games that will reinforce the information they learned on animals in class.

5. Exploring Nature [] Site includes resource databases in the areas of wildlife, biomes, adaptations, environment, trees and flowers, human anatomy, farm animals and space. Databases for younger children include fun mazes and habitats. This site helps educators with information on how to bring naturalists to your school for visits, as well as activities, nature trails and a science store from which to order materials. 6. Insectlopedia [] This website is great if you or your students are interested in learning about insects. This website has valuble information on insects found all over the world.

7. Kidsplanet-Defenders of Wildlife [] This website has a ton of information on endangered animals found all over the world, as well as fun activities for your students. It also has a page for teachers that has unit/lesson ideas on specific endangered animals.

8. Animal Diversity Web [] A collection of pictures and information about animals. Accounts of individual species include information on distributions, natural history, conservation, and economic importance, along with pictures and sounds if available. There are even short movies.