All About Birds
Educational for bird watching and learning about the birds in the area you live in. Their online bird guide lists nearly 700 species. Your can browse by taxonomy or by name and shape. The bird shape silhouettes help, as does…
Animals
Updated on March 2, 2017
These free animal websites and apps have tons of fun facts, kid-friendly research information, and games. Students can research both brief and in-depth facts about animals and their habitats. Some of the sites include lesson plans and activity ideas for teachers.
Animal Fact Guide
Did you know that elephants hold grudges or that cougars can’t roar? At Animal Fact Guide, you can learn about interesting and endangered animals from around the world. Discover what makes an animal unique and get wildlife conservation tips on…
Project Noah
Become a citizen scientist and share your observations of wildlife. Take pictures of animals you see with your portable device and use Project Noah to identify them and share them in a worldwide database. Teachers who register have access to…
Build a Fish
In this interactive, you design a fish that has the right adaptations of body build, mouth, and coloring to survive in a reef environment. Then you steer the fish around in its habitat to see if you can use your…
Raptor Resource Project
This Iowa-based project is dedicated to the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks, and owls. For students, they provide information about these bird species, instructions for building a nest box, and nestcams that show egg laying beginning in February through…
PBS Nature
PBS’s Nature series website has in-depth info, images and video on a large variety of animals, from alligators to zebras. There are also interactives, games, maps and animal guides. For teachers, there are curriculum and lesson planning resources for students…
Butterfly Website
From site: The Butterfly Website is the world’s oldest and largest website dedicated to butterflies and moths. Here you’ll find hundreds of articles about butterflies and moths, an extensive clipart collection, many photographs, videos, butterfly gardening tips, links to purchase…
DinoMight
DinoMight has dinosaur games and activities for kids. Learn about dinosaurs using the timeline, how fossils are made and the different kinds of dinosaurs. Create your own dinosaur and play other dino games.
Dinosaur Floor
The Dinosaur Floor of Classroom of the Future museum has rooms where kids can learn about the different kinds of dinosaurs that existed in different eras and theories about how they became extinct.
DinoDictionary
DinoDictionary.com has profiles of over 300 known dinosaurs. In addition to the alphabetic index, you can listen to the pronunciation of each dinosaur’s name.
Dinobuzz
From site: To be truthful, the unfortunate fact about the popularity of dinosaurs is that the science that it is based on occasionally is obscured by the fantasy that surrounds it. Popular art, fiction, and journalism along with actual scientific…
Featured Creature
The Featured Creature blog provides stunning photos, videos and information about some of the more unfamiliar animals in our world.
Sea Turtle Classroom Resources
Sea turtle facts, videos, lesson plans and resources for teachers to teach about sea turtle conservation and ecology.
Lizards & Snakes Alive
From site: Small and shyor big and fierce? Bright as a jewelor hardly visible? Four legs? Two legs? No legs at all? When you’re talking about lizards and snakes-the squamates-the answer is usually . . . Yes!This ancient group, whose…
Dogs and More Dogs
From site: Today, the world is a melting pot of dog breeds. You are just as likely to see an akita trotting out of a Manhattan apartment as out of a house in the Honshu region of Japan, where the…