Animal Diversity Web
This great site from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology includes profiles of hundreds of animals. you'll find detailed information about the animals, images, and more.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
NatureWorks
This companion site to the series NHPTV series NatureWorks has profiles of over 200 North American animals. The classroom series for grades 3-8 of 16 videos exploring the natural world is also available online.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Wildlife Journal Junior
This site from NHPTV has profiles of over 300 North American animals, with a focus on New Hampshire wildlife. You'll find online video looking at topics like the Karner blue butterfly, Blanding's turtle, seabirds on the Isles of Shoals, ospreys on Great Bay and more. You can also explore the animal kingdom starting with phyla and working down to individual species and learn how the natural world impacted New Hampshire's history.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary/Middle Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Enature
This incredible database contains profiles of thousands of species of animal and plant species. You can even localize the site and get species in your region.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Elementary Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
All Species Toolkit
Looking for the scientific name for a species? This site has indexed over 873,979 animal, plant, fungi, protista, and prokaryote species.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: N/A Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes
Biodiversity Counts
Biodiversity Counts, an online curriculum from the American Museum of Natural History, takes students into their backyards and schoolyards to inventory the plants and arthropods that live there. Students observe behavior, collect data, make identifications, and interpret and share their findings. Resources at the site include online dichotomous keys for plants and arthropods as well as a look at plant and arthropod morphology.
Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Wild World
Scientists have mapped 867 terrestrial ecoregions in the world from New England-Acadian forests to Central Ranges xeric scrub. This site from National Geographic lets you explore those regions and the plant and animal life and geographic and ecological features that define them.You can search the site by zip code, ecoregion name, habitat type, place name or by clicking on a map. The site also features detailed looks at some of the world's most unique ecoregions and a map of the world's most endangered regions.
Intended Audience: Teachers/Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
World Wildlife Fund Education Center
Lions, and tigers, and bears, and babirusa, tuatara, and climbing perch! This site features fact sheets, cartoons, quizzes, news, video clips, and photos of wildlife around the world.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Expeditions in Conservation
Travel to coastal African nation of Mozambique and join conservationists as they battle illegal fishing and come face-to-face with a whale shark while searching for endangered dugongs. Journey to the rain forests of South America and search for rare and elusive species, from the jaguar to the giant river otter. Go to the Caribbean's Mesoamerican Reef, home to more than 500 species of fish. Trek to the heart of Borneo and explore its rain forests. Follow a team of international scientists as they plunge through the rainforests of the Central African Republic to monitor animals from ants to elephants.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Voyages of Discovery
Scientific discoveries don't always happen in the lab! From 1768-1771 Captain Cook's Ship Endeavor traveled around the world, aboard were a group of natural scientists. You can learn about the voyage, the people aboard, and look at art work and specimens from the voyage. This site also features overviews, maps, images of specimens collected, and illustrations from the voyages of Sir Hans Sloane, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Challenger.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Elementary/Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Discover Nature
Find out about 246 different animal species, dig around and explore dinosaurs, or learn about the beauty and biodiversity of butterflies at this site from the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
