Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
- Three Domains of Life
- Classification of Life
- Animal Diversity (Invertebrates & Vertebrates)
- Bacteria
- Eukarya
- Archaea
- Animalia
- Plantae
- Fungi
- Protists
- Classification and Using a Dichotomous Key
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- Classifying Life (in this interactive, students step into the shoes of a taxonomist and classify three forms of life)
- Sorting Seashells (students explore principles of taxonomy by sorting seashells according to their morphological characteristics and constructing an evolutionary tree)
- Animal Diversity (students can click and explore animal diversity by class)
- Eukaryotic Kingdoms (students can click and read about the Eukaryotic Kingdoms)
- Using a Dichotomous Key: Fish Identification (students try using a dichotomous key to identify fish)
- Using a Dichotomous Key: Invertebrate Identification (students try using a dichotomous key to identify macro-invertebrates)
- Using a Dichotomous Key: Plant Identification (students try using a dichotomous key to identify plants)
- Animated Lessons About Animals
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Animal Classification (students use organism body patterns and structures to place animals in Classes)
- A Touch of Class (students play this game to learn about classification of plants and animals)
- Animal Characteristics Game (students classify organisms based on major characteristics)
- Life Cycles (students explore life cycles of frogs, birds and butterflies)
- Minibeast Identification Key (simple dichotomous key game)
- Water Critter Key (students choose a water organism and use the dichotomous key to identify it)
- Dichotomous Key for Bugs (students use this colorful dichotomous key to identify a bunch of fanciful bugs!)