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The Almost
Complete Polar Bear Collection
This site offers a lot of information on polar bears. Click on physical characteristics to discover what color a polar bear's skin is.
Polar
Bears
Visit this site to learn more about how polar bears have adapted to their environment. Draw a diagram of a polar bear in your Science Journal and label the adaptations it has for
swimming.
Sue at the Field Museum
Discover how the largest, most complete, T. Rex was found and assembled. Click on the just for kids button to make your own flip book that shows how a T. Rex runs!
The
Dinosauria: Truth is Stranger than Fiction
This site helps to correct dinosaur myths. Click on the life history and ecology button to learn about dinosaurs that built nests.
Walking
With Dinosaurs
Go to the fossil zone to discover how dinosaurs moved, sounded, and behaved.
Dinosaur
Extinction
Take a look at the graph of invertebrate extinction over the last 600 million years.
Cretaceous-Tertiary
Extinction
This site examines the biological, geologic, and crater evidence that supports the most popular extinction theories.
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Welcome to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency
This is the Web site for the EPA, the government's ecology agency. Visit this site and find out how you can make your environment better. Plan a project with your class
to help the environment in your area.
Center for Conservation Biology
Network
The Virtual Library of Biodiversity and Ecology includes information on biodiversity, ecology and the environment. View this virtual library and access the What's New section.
Develop your own ecology newsletter based on this information.
Ocean Planet,
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution maintains this online museum exhibit about oceans. Access the site and find out how many ways ocean habitats are being destroyed.
Major
Biomes of the World
This site gives a detailed overview of the different biomes of the world. Visit this site and create a showcase in your school that demonstrates the different biomes.
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