NASA Mission: Biomes
Food Chain Game
What is a habitat?
Animal Habitats
Wild Kratts Habitats
National Geographic
Includes audio, video, facts for animal habitat templates. Well done and informational. Select from animal pictures in A, B, C order. Browse animals according to their habitat.
Magic School Bus: The Great Habitat Match-up
A simple matching game.
Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Bytes
Provides an interesting one-page fact sheet for each animal included.
Idaho Public Television: Dialogue for Kids
Find episodes of habitat videos under the topic Environment. Each episode might include a website, links, and facts.
Missouri Botanical Gardens
This great website breaks down the various habitats, and it provides helpful information and links for each one. It is user-friendly.
National Geographic: Geography Action! Habitats
Habitat information, links, and photo gallery are among several features of this website.
Nature Bytes Video
For students who would like to link to video clips about habitat geology, plants, birds, and animals, this website has much to offer. The clips are narrated and are focused on habitats in the Southern California region.
Caves
National Caves Association
Students can explore websites for caves across the USA. They can narrow their search to explore Virginia’s caves.
Coral Reefs
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument: For Keiki (Kids)
Enlarge the coral reef coloring pages and/or word hunt puzzles for students. Coral facts are included next to the thumbnail print for each picture.
Deserts
DesertUSA
Students can explore the deserts through the animals that live there, the plants and wildflowers that grow there, or through the geology. A number of video clips show examples of the types of animals or plant life that dwell and grow in the desert.
Missouri Botanical Gardens: Deserts
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about deserts, their locations, desert plants, desert animals, and other great desert links.
Tundras
Tundra Topics
From Biomes of the World, this website offers a simple, straight-forward view of the tundra, tundra animals, and tundra plants.
National Geographic Animals: Arctic
Start with the article on the Arctic Fox. Included is an option to print out a fact sheet complete with nice photograph. Scroll down the page to view pictures and select information about other cold-weather animals.
Forests
Temperate Deciduous Forests
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about forests, their locations, leaf information, forest animals, and other great forest links.
Taiga (Coniferous Forests)
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about taiga (coniferous forests), their locations, leaf information, forest animals, and other great taiga links.
Mountains
Nature Bytes Video: Mountains of Southern California
Students can select from lists to view narrated video bytes of mountain plants, birds, animals, and geology.
Mountain Nature.Com
Use the Plants, Wildlife, and Birds tabs at the tops of the page to look up information about various species. Photographs for each are not provided.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Although the purpose of this website is to help you plan a trip, it contains live webcams, videos, pictures, maps, and other features to help students become familiar with the park’s surrounding. Need to use with teacher guidance.
Oceans
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Live animal web cams at the aquarium.
Rivers/Lakes
Texas Parks and Wildlife: Tortuga Tex on River Habitats
Students can learn about rivers and river and lake wildlife from a river turtle named Tortuga Tex. A selection of topics that are included can be found on the left side of the screen.
Wetlands/Marshes Habitats
Missouri Botanical Gardens Wetlands
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information
Food Chain Game
What is a habitat?
Animal Habitats
Wild Kratts Habitats
National Geographic
Includes audio, video, facts for animal habitat templates. Well done and informational. Select from animal pictures in A, B, C order. Browse animals according to their habitat.
Magic School Bus: The Great Habitat Match-up
A simple matching game.
Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Bytes
Provides an interesting one-page fact sheet for each animal included.
Idaho Public Television: Dialogue for Kids
Find episodes of habitat videos under the topic Environment. Each episode might include a website, links, and facts.
Missouri Botanical Gardens
This great website breaks down the various habitats, and it provides helpful information and links for each one. It is user-friendly.
National Geographic: Geography Action! Habitats
Habitat information, links, and photo gallery are among several features of this website.
Nature Bytes Video
For students who would like to link to video clips about habitat geology, plants, birds, and animals, this website has much to offer. The clips are narrated and are focused on habitats in the Southern California region.
Caves
National Caves Association
Students can explore websites for caves across the USA. They can narrow their search to explore Virginia’s caves.
Coral Reefs
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument: For Keiki (Kids)
Enlarge the coral reef coloring pages and/or word hunt puzzles for students. Coral facts are included next to the thumbnail print for each picture.
Deserts
DesertUSA
Students can explore the deserts through the animals that live there, the plants and wildflowers that grow there, or through the geology. A number of video clips show examples of the types of animals or plant life that dwell and grow in the desert.
Missouri Botanical Gardens: Deserts
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about deserts, their locations, desert plants, desert animals, and other great desert links.
Tundras
Tundra Topics
From Biomes of the World, this website offers a simple, straight-forward view of the tundra, tundra animals, and tundra plants.
National Geographic Animals: Arctic
Start with the article on the Arctic Fox. Included is an option to print out a fact sheet complete with nice photograph. Scroll down the page to view pictures and select information about other cold-weather animals.
Forests
Temperate Deciduous Forests
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about forests, their locations, leaf information, forest animals, and other great forest links.
Taiga (Coniferous Forests)
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information about taiga (coniferous forests), their locations, leaf information, forest animals, and other great taiga links.
Mountains
Nature Bytes Video: Mountains of Southern California
Students can select from lists to view narrated video bytes of mountain plants, birds, animals, and geology.
Mountain Nature.Com
Use the Plants, Wildlife, and Birds tabs at the tops of the page to look up information about various species. Photographs for each are not provided.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Although the purpose of this website is to help you plan a trip, it contains live webcams, videos, pictures, maps, and other features to help students become familiar with the park’s surrounding. Need to use with teacher guidance.
Oceans
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Live animal web cams at the aquarium.
Rivers/Lakes
Texas Parks and Wildlife: Tortuga Tex on River Habitats
Students can learn about rivers and river and lake wildlife from a river turtle named Tortuga Tex. A selection of topics that are included can be found on the left side of the screen.
Wetlands/Marshes Habitats
Missouri Botanical Gardens Wetlands
This kid-friendly website includes helpful information