Surfing the Net with Kids: Dinosaurs
"I’ve figured out why dinosaurs are so popular with kids. Parents love them. We never have to clean their dirty cages, we never have to look for them underthe sofa, and we never have to feed the stray ones our children bring home. Follow me for more dinosaur fun on the Web.<!--"
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Dinosaurs
"Although they certainly never went out of fashion, dinosaurs are enjoying aresurgence in popularity because of the recent release of Disney’s animated . If all the related dinosaur hoopla is spurring a dino interest in your household, here are some educational sites to explore together."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Coral Reefs
"Coral reefs are bustling underwater communities inhabited by thousands of species of animals and plants. Often mistaken for rocks or plants, coral is actually the limestone skeleton of a tiny spineless animal called a coral polyp. Coral reefs are mostly found in shallow tropical water, and are among the world’s most endangered ecosystems. Today’s tour explores why coral reefs are so important, and how we can protect them."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Caves and Caverns
"We just returned from a family vacation that included a walking tour through the California Caverns in Mountain Ranch. For the rest of the week we pondered the question ""What is the difference between a cave and a cavern?"" As is typical in my family, everyone made up their own answer (""cavern is larger,"" ""cave is above ground,"" ""cavern is formed by calcite,"" and so on.) I promised all that I would find the REAL answer and report it in my column, so here goes: the words are interchangeable!"
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Sue at the Field Museum
"Who is Sue? ""Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex. She was discovered by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson in 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota."" Following a long custody battle, Sue was sold at Sotheby’s auction house October 4, 1997. The Field Museum purchased Sue for nearly $8.4 million – the most money ever paid for a fossil.On May 17 of this year, the museum revealed Sue. She stands thirteen feet high at her hips and is forty-two feet long from head to tail."
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Royal Ontario Museum: Fossils
"In this exhibit, you will learn about the fossils of invertebrates -- animals without backbones. Snails, clams, worms, and insects are all invertebrates. In fact, 95% of all living animals are invertebrates. This number was even greater in the past. For elementary students, the Royal Ontario Museum presents the who, how, where, why and when of invertebrate fossils. My favorite click is the Fossil Game: ""Can you match these fossils with their modern relatives?"""
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ReefBase
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Reef Relief for Kids
"Visit the kids’ section of Reef Relief for printable coral reef activity pages for lower elementary students. The printable handouts include eight annotated coloring pages (coral reef, grouper, parrotfish and more) and five games (such as word search and connect the dots.) Water Wonderland is eight-page printable booklet on coral reef conservation. For best print results from Internet Explorer, remove the default headers and footers in the Page Setup dialog before printing. This will give you a less-cluttered page, ready for use in the classroom or at home."
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Reef Education Network
"Reef Education Network from the University of Queensland in Australia is my pick of the day. It’s educational but not boring, and kid-friendly but not simplistic. Best clicks are the glossary and all the articles listed on the Contents page. Oddly enough there aren’t any activities listed under Activities, but rather a feature on sharks. Free registration will get you a virtual notebook for collecting favorite links from around the site."
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Pretty Glacier Pictures
"Ever see an ugly glacier? asks Pretty Glacier Pictures. Actually real glaciers are not always the clear crystal blue of our imagination.. Upon viewing the magnificent Margerie glacier on my recent trip to Alaska, one of our fellow travelers asked ""Couldn’t they have cleaned it up a bit?"" Real glaciers are striated with finely ground rock and sediment that they pick up as they flow over the earth. Glacial dirt aside, this page is a collection of eight (clean) glacier photographs. For more photos, continue on to the Glacier Image Database."
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