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Choosing a source for research Grade 2.

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Watch the video describing your task.

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This is the rubric to evaluate how well you understand making critical choices about information to use.

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Will animal fact guide help you learn about research?

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Animal Facts for Kids | Endangered Animals

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Did you know that elephants hold grudges or that cougars can't roar? Discover unique animal facts and learn wildlife conservation tips at Animal Fact Guide.

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Will Science Kids help you with animal research?

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Animal Facts

Enjoy our wide range of fun animal facts for kids. Children will love reading the crazy, cool, strange, weird, odd and funny information as well as did you know facts and other interesting animal info that will help them learn a thing or two along the way. Learning about animals is great fun. Whether it's endangered African animals, sea animals, wild animals or pets, there are so many amazing types of animals that each have their own characteristics and behaviors. Living in all parts of the world, these animals include cats, dogs, insects, birds, sharks, gorillas, frogs, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, horses, sharks and many more.

Lions

Lions are powerful and ferocious but did you know that female lions do most of the hunting? Enjoy lots more interesting lion information with these fun facts.

Frogs

Frogs begin life as tadpoles before they develop into a fully grown frog. Find out why they need to live near water and more cool frog facts.

More fun animal facts:

Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.

Horses and cows sleep while standing up.

Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 metres in length.

Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

Hummingbirds are so agile and have such good control that they can fly backwards.

Instead of bones, sharks have a skeleton made from cartilage.

Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.

The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.

Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.

Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.

Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur (which is transparent), it actually has black skin.

As well as being a famous Looney Tunes character, the Tasmanian Devil is a real animal that is only found in the wild in Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world.

The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.

Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not.

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Fun Animal Facts for Kids - Crazy, Cool, Funny, Amazing, Interesting

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Animal Facts Enjoy our wide range of fun animal facts for kids. Children will love reading the crazy, cool, strange, weird, odd and funny information as well as did you know facts and other interesting animal info that will help them learn a thing or two along the way.

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Will ducksters help you with animal research?

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Animals for Kids: Learn about your favorite animal

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Kids learn about animals including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish. Endangered animals for teachers.

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Will Defenders of Wildlife help you research animals?

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With close to 1 billion acres of protected lands and waters providing habitat for thousands of species and unrivaled outdoor recreational access for millions of Americans, Defenders of Wildlife is celebrating the remarkable legacy of the National Wildlife Refuge System today as we kick off National Wildlife Refuge Week, October 8-14.

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Defenders of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America. Together, we can ensure a future for the wildlife and wild places we all love.

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Will Switch Zoo help you with animal research?

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Switch Zoo features six free online games and an app to make new animals offline.

Switch Zoo music is 'performed' by animals! After listening, learn how the music was created.

The resources page provides an overview of the activities and information at Switch Zoo.

Switch the animals' heads, legs, and tails to make your own switcheroos! Play Switch Zoo Online for free. Check out the Switch Zoo App for morphing animations, bigger pictures, and more features.

Switch Zoo Online Switch Zoo App

Build six of world's biomes by choosing the right plants, animal, temperature range, and precipitation for each. Get a postcard for each biome you build, and build them all to become a Biome Master.
Play Build a Biome

A feather match game. See if you can identify each feather's bird from three choices with the help of a clue. Read interesting and sometimes surprising facts while you play.
Play Words of a Feather

Move animals to their home continent or ocean in these geographic animal games. Seven games feature mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mollusks.
Play Where Do I Live?

It's always feeding time at Switch Zoo! We need your help sorting the animals by diet type to make sure they get the right food.
Play Please DO Feed the Animals

Can you spot a scavenger in a crowd? Find out by choosing scavengers and non-scavengers from groups of animals.
Play Scavengers Hunt

Learn about the characteristics and behavior of the 142 animal species in Switch Zoo.

Reviews of Switch Zoo Online from magazines and web sites, as well as players' comments about the Switch Zoo App.

Switch Zoo visitors share funny and creative animal names, drawings, stories and poems about the animals, and comments about the zoo. Don't miss the fantastic drawings of combination animals created by 5th grade students.

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At Switch Zoo you can make new animals, play animal games, build a biome, learn about animals, and hear animal music.

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Will the World Wildlife Fund help you research animals?

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Will Pebble Go help you research about animals?

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Will ZooBorns help you research about animals?

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Will BrainPop Jr help you research animals?

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Will National Geographic Kids help you research animals?

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AASL Standard A. IV.3=   3. Making critical choices about information sources to use.

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Choose one column of links and explain which source would be better to use for animal research. Why or why not? Write your response under the links you chose.