Sea turtle facts, videos, lesson plans and resources for teachers to teach about sea turtle conservation and ecology.

The Untamed Science video series at the North Carolina Zoo offers kids a close-up view of animals in their natural habitat.  Each video is accompanied by an activity.

Recent video include hellbenders, polar bears,  and African vultures.

Learn about the underwater world of Australia’s oceans, whales, dolphins and porpoises aboard the Discovery, a research vessel that takes you on an interactive tour.  Learn what what they look like, where they live, how they breathe and what they eat.

Note that the interactive is Flash-based and does not work, as of this writing.  But there are many useful educational resources about whales and dolphins on the website.

From site:  Today, the world is a melting pot of dog breeds. You are just as likely to see an akita trotting out of a Manhattan apartment as out of a house in the Honshu region of Japan, where the breed’s ancestors developed bear-hunting traits hundreds of years ago. While the majority of dog owners worldwide no longer choose their canine pets on the basis of what the dogs were bred to do, all of the roughly 450 recognized breeds are, in one way or another, descended from dog types that date back thousands of years to the beginning of their domestication.

In this interactive game, see if you can match modern dog breeds with the country or region where their forebears arose. As you’ll see, while many of the dogs we know and love have an impressively long lineage, others are younger, owing their existence to the tinkering of breeders over just the last century or two. To begin the interactive, click on the image at left.

From site:  Raise Your Online Butterfly! A Fun Free Educational Experience. This 30 day program will give you professional insight and knowledge into all aspects of the life cycle of a Monarch.

This free educational experience is available year round…Sign up anytime! Just fill out this form and enjoy. We will send an email update every few days with a link in each personalized email to see your Egg become a Caterpillar, then a Pupa and with your help, a beautiful Monarch Butterfly. Plenty of really great pictures and detailed information so you will be an expert soon!