LibGuides: Briarwood Elementary Science Resources: Animal Science

Zoology Resources

Briarwood's students love learning about Animals! These resources help our school meet the LS1, LS2, and LS4 standards and ESS2 about the interactions of animals and their environments. Tese standards help students become knowledgeable members of our community and planet. What does that mean? It means that we know there are different living creatures in different parts of our planets ecosystems. Next Generation Science Standards are available online to learn more.

Animal Science on the Internet

The National Aquarium has online tours, web cams with animals, and information about animals. They are accredited by the National Zoo and Aquarium association and the site is approved for children by the American Library Association's Association for Library Service to Children.

The Sea World animal information site has articles and live streams animals to watch; they conduct accredited research, too. This site is recommended by the American Library Association's Association for Library Service to Children.

The National Geographic: Animals page contains videos and daily updated articles about animals. This site is recommended by the American Library Association's Association for Library Service to Children.

BrainPop is an online subscription page filled with videos and games about science. Teachers and administrators all over the country. Many games and videos can be played without logging in, but check with a teacher or parent before making an account.

One of the American Library Association's Great Sites for Kids, Butterflies and Moths of North America collect pictures of butterflies and identify them for people in North America. They share what they learned about butterfly migration and have a gallery so we can see all the pictures!

Animal Webcams

The San Diego Zoo lets you watch elephants, penguins, pandas, tigers, polar bears, condors, and koalas. This website is recommended by the American Library Association's Association for Library Service to Children.

The California Academy of Sciences webcams let you watch animals all over the planet. Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, the California Academy of Sciences is an education leader doing research on site.

Books

Find books to take home and learn more about the animals on our planet!

The Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery; Keith Ellenbogen (Illustrator)
Call Number: 594.56 MON
ISBN: 9780544232709
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. They are intelligent with quirky personalities. These thinking, feeling creatures can help readers experience and understand our world in a new way. 71 pages. AR 6.8. Meets ESS standards ESS2-2, ESS3-1. ESS3-3 in the Next Generation Science Standards.
"Montgomery describes all aspects of life in the field, including the personalities and quirks of the scientists and the joys of working in a beautiful tropical locale. Abundant stunningly clear underwater photographs highlight the colorful details of a range of marine species." —Horn Book Magazine

Videos About Animals

If you use information from a video in a paper for school, let the reader know where you got the information. When I "cite" the lion video above, I write:

Nat Geo Wild. (2017, December 16). Lions 101. [Video file]. Retrieved https://youtu.be/OMkEVX23BdM

If you learned about pythons from the video above, let your teachers know where you learned it by citing the video. Write

National Geographic. (2018, March 20). Pythons 101. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/uns8vUQNxpc

Discovery UK. (2018, August 1). What and how do sharks hunt? | Shark week 2018. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Q5_ZF4_jntE