Animal Adaptations

Animal Adaptations
An Internet Hotlist on Animal Adaptations

Introduction
Use these sites to increase your understanding of animal adaptations.

The Internet Resources

Designing a Fish to Survive - To build a fish, try different body types, mouth sizes, patterns, and colors. After designing your perfect fish, find out if it can actually survive in the habitat.
Dirtmeister Science Reporters - A step-by-step guide to reporting about an animal adaptation.
MARE's Build-a-Fish - Build a fish whose adaptations make it well-suited to its ocean habitat.
Peggy Notebart Nature Museum - Beaver adaptation activity
Scholastic Dirtmeister - Click the tabs to read about the animal adaptations of sharks, raccoons, bears, and foxes.
Woodlands Junior School-Animal Adaptation and Survival - Animal adaptation and survival. Be sure to click on animal tabs on the left to learn interesting facts.
Zebra Online - An interactive site to help students understand how animals adapt to their environment with camouflage, speed, size, etc., and the roles of predator and prey.
Zebra Online: Build a Beast - Have fun building an animal that uses color, size, speed, and other adaptations to survive in the wild.

Content by Mrs. Reed, jreed2@houstonisd.org
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Last revised Fri Jan 11 7:41:19 US/Pacific 2008