World of Websites

Is your classroom a ZOO? Maybe this site can help you to understand some animal behavior. Explore zoos, botanical gardens, and aquariums all over the US and the world and learn about plants, animals, and animal behavior! Adopt an animal! Learn about endangered species and how your students can become involved!

	Link to Take Action! to learn about the latest issues and what you can do to help! This page will teach your students how to write letters to lawmakers and raise money!
	the environment: Explore wetlands, public lands, water, and ENDANGERED SPECIES!
	Find fun games and activities for students on this page!
	Check out Nature's Web and other cool sites on the Environmental Education page! These sites house cool curricular ideas and programs, link to clubs students can become involved in, and describe what you can do in your classroom, in your backyard, and in the outdoors!
	One of the Wildlife Federation's great ideas was to Adopt an Animal! So link to Utah's Hogle Zoo. Through this site you can "Adopt a Wild Child;" in other words, you can adopt a zoo animal for a year. Download an Adoption Application for your class today!

	From examining signs of spring to charting animal migrations, study Spring's Journey North! For example, CLICK HERE to see a monarch butterfly migration map and find out where the monarch is TODAY! Connect with the Blake School and learn about their trip to a monarch sanctuary in Angangueo, Mexico! Read about el Rosario, the monarch sanctuary, en Español!
	Your class can participate, too! In fact, you can link to the Phenology Data Exchange and arrange to connect your class with a class in a partner school. Then, you can have your students use nature's clues to find where their partner school is located. Or, like the Blake students, you can track an animal like the monarch and Report Your Sightings for all to use!
	You can also use this site to learn and create lessons! For example, learn about climate and the sun's role in living ecosystems! Link to classroom lessons and teacher discussions for more lessons, ideas, and chat! Participate by sending email and connecting your students to other classrooms tracking migrations!

Bauru Zoo: This site from a zoo in Brazil is in Portuguese! There are wonderful pictures for us English-speaking animal-lovers to enjoy, simply click on Novas Fotos.

Brevard Zoo: See their Animals Page to view and learn about animals from Latin America, Florida, and Australia.

The Memphis Zoo: Through this site you can learn about what it is like to be a zoo veterinarian. What Do Zoo Vets Do? How do you become a zoo vet? Check out this site designed by zoo vets!

National Aquarium in Baltimore: This site contains lesson plans and activities for pre- and post-museum visit, however, science teacher not going to the museum may also find these useful! Check out the Animals! page to learn about different species and how to protect them!

New England Aquarium Site: Check out Aquatic Internet Resources, a cool site that links you to a cyber journey to other aquatic web sites, zoos and aquariums,conservation organizations, on-line chat groups, research institutions, and publications. Also link to HM Bark Endeavor, a site documenting Boston resident Elisabeth Baker's seven-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Read her journal entries and the Endeavor Web Site.

There is a BioPoint!: Follow the action in one high school biology lab to get the BioPoint. Mrs. Mazen's biology class is online, offering both the teacher and student points of view. See pictures of a crayfish dissection and much more! (courtesy of the Franklin Institute's Web Page)

Living Things: Does your curriculum include Life Science? If so consider the "Living Things" online unit of study. You'll find resources and collaboration opportunities. (courtesy of the Franklin Institute's Web Page)