ANIMALS & PETS
@"WEB GEMS"

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Our intent here is to provide interesting and motivational content to encourage our students to visit the Silver Bay site on a regular basis.  These fun places are generally intended for children and are previewed.  They may however contain advertisements.  It always recommended that adult supervision be a part of Internet browsing.

The Toms River School District is not responsible for contents on external sites or servers

Animal Adaptations
What are Animal Adaptations?
http://www.widgeon.com/Wilson/Grade4/Definition.html
Utah Educational Network
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3803
EcoKids
http://ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm
EcoKids Game
http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm
Animals on Defense
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/adaptations/
The DirtMeister
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/animal/index.htm
National Geographic Kids (Creature Feature)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/archive/
Harcourt: How Animals Meet Their Needs
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/animalneeds/
PBS Creature World
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/content.html

Animal Habitats
Utah Educational Network
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3792
The Wild Habitat (thinkquest)
http://library.thinkquest.org/11234/

Biomes of the World (various sites)
http://www.mbgnet.net/
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/
http://www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/intro.html
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/biomes/biomes.html
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/biomes/list_biomes.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/habitats/habitats.htm
http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/bs110/biomes.htm

NEW...Woodland Park Zoo
http://www.zoo.org/

Kids Planet (animal site)
http://www.kidsplanet.org/

Yahooligans Animals
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/

Animal Explorers (Zoo Atlanta)
http://www.animalexplorers.org/index.html

The Oakland Zoo (Animals A-Z)
http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/atoz.html

The Brookfield Zoo
http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/

BBC Science and Nature (Animals)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/

Moo Milk (cow site)
http://www.moomilk.com/

The Shedd Aquarium
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/

Canadian Museum of Nature
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/mon2.htm

The Iditarod dog sled race (Scholastic)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/

Pest World for Kids
http://www.pestworldforkids.org/

Bear Beginnings (Polar Bear Slide Show from National Geographic)
 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0012/feature2/media2.html 

Animaland     (animal care)   
http://www.animaland.org/

Switchzoo    (build your own animal) 
http://www.switchzoo.com/

Mini-Beasts
http://www.hedds.co.uk/mini_beasts

Butterfly Cam
http://www.dcboces.org/sufsd/nassau/vitek/butterfly/

Nature (PBS site)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

Borrico.com (animal site)
http://www.kbears.com/borrico/index.htm

Pet of the Day
http://www.petoftheday.com/

The World of the Crocodilians
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/crocmap/

Animal Planet
http://animal.discovery.com/

Butterflies of North America http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm

Nutty Birdwatcher
http://www.birdnature.com/