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Imagine having your skeleton on the outside of your body! It is just one feature that has made bugs among the most successful groups of animals on the planet. Find out exactly what a bug is, how their bodies work and why they have outlived the dinosaurs!
http://museumvictoria.com.au/bugs/aboutbugs/index.aspx
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In this challenge, students will explore the behavior and habitat of ocean life. The name of the animation is called Journey to the Deep. A point-and-click interface is used; the user can click buttons to advance animated scenes and to play an online interactive game. Other features found on the page include a sidebar navigation menu which provides links to descriptions of activities; quizzes, contacts, related resources and topics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/blue/flash/main_game.shtml
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The “learning tool” on this website invites students to solve a mystery by tracking down ecological clues in an interactive story format. Topics woven into the mystery include food webs, bioaccumulations, killer whales, salmon, plankton, salinity, and others. Students play the starring role of "Ace," assistant investigator to Paula Pacific, who is assigned to examine unusual behaviors noticed in killer whale populations.
http://www.secretsatsea.org/
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Learn about a variety of insects, spiders, mammals and other “minibeasts” at this colorful and informative site. Discover where they live, how they survive, what they eat, and what they are eaten by! This site provides good information to a
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/grassland/index.html
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Squirrels love acorns! But not all acorns are the same. Would you know which acorn has the highest fat percentage? What about tannins? And why do squirrels save some acorns for later? How does the squirrel that forgets where he hides his acorns help
http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/trees/ita/
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Several killer whales in the Alanamorris Strait have been exhibiting odd behavior. The normally family-oriented whales have wandered off from their pods. Help solve this mystery by collecting clues and discovering the cause of this odd behavior.
http://www.secretsatsea.org/story/1a.html
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NBII Kids is a section of the National Biological Information Infrastructure. This section for elementary students concerns environmental issues. Activities center around invasive species, pollinators, wildlife disease, animal behavior habitats, nature projects for students, building a birdhouse, making plaster casts of animal tracks and observing a mealworm habitat. Stories, games, puzzles,coloring pages and connecting dot-to dot are some examples. The other parts of the website are more factual and provide increased access to data and information about the nations's resources. The rest of the website is a clearinghouse for metadatarecords that describe scientific research.
http://kids.nbii.gov/index.html
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Second grade students demonstrate an understanding of the interdependence of animals, people, and plants in the rainforest by participating in this ecosystem simulation based on a fiction book called "The Great Kapok Tree" by Lynn Cherry. Students will
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How Do Animals Help Plants?
Plants and animals must rely on each other in order to survive. Go to these web pages to see how they benefit from each other.
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