Internet Links

Theme 6: Animal Adventures

These Web sites offer activities, facts, and materials that tie to the theme Animal Adventures.

Zoobooks
This Web site for the children's nature magazine offers games, activities, and facts about animals, including a virtual zoo and an animal alphabet, as well as ideas for an animal curriculum.
http://www.zoobooks.com/gatewayPages/gateway1Kids.html

Endangered Animal Stories
Fifth graders from Pocantico School in Sleepy Hollow, New York have written 45 stories for endangered animals, from the Amazon manatee to the whooping crane. Use them to model story writing or as a springboard to dramatic play.
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/5thgrade99/animals.htm

Rain Forest Theme Unit
This educational Web site offers a treasure trove of activities around a rain forest theme unit, including related books and other rain forest Web sites.
http://www.abcteach.com/RainforestFacts/RFtableofcontents.htm