Special Collection: Amazing Animals

 

 

Explore animal favorites from the DynaMath and SuperScience archive, featuring amazing adaptations, endangered species, conservation efforts, and more

Cheetah's Best Friend

Learn how guard dogs help save wild cheetahs, then explain the work a conservation program is doing to help solve problems affecting farmers and cheetahs.

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Know Your Cheetahs
Watch a video about the fastest land animal
Cheetah Territory
Analyze a map showing changes to cheetahs’ range
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Gorilla Guardians

Meet the scientists and caretakers who work to protect endangered mountain gorillas, then evaluate how human activity affects these apes.

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Primate Time
Watch a video about different types of primates
Up For the Count
Interpret data from a line graph
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The Wolves of Isle Royale

Discover how scientists are helping an island’s top predator return from the brink, then explain how changes in wolf numbers can affect an ecosystem.

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Why the World Needs Wolves
Watch a video about apex predators
Where Are the Wolves?
Analyze a map of wolf population ranges
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Colorless Creatures

Learn why some animals are born almost completely white, then construct an explanation for how albinism affects an animal’s survival in the wild.

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Blending In
Carry out a hands-on activity about camouflage
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All in the Family
Analyze a diagram about how genetic traits are inherited
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Stolen Spiders?

Read how scientists are pushing back against the illegal sale of wild tarantulas as pets, then evaluate factual and opinion statements about tarantulas.

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Awesome Arachnids
Watch a video about spiders and other arachnids
Tracking an Illegal Trade
Interpret data from a circle graph
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The Secrets of Sidewinders

Learn how some snakes can move quickly over sand, summarizing the discoveries from a scientific investigation. Then study how sidewinder snakes are adapted to move in sandy deserts.

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Sidewinding Snakes
Watch a video about how sidewinders and other snakes move
Scoop, Pour, Explore
Explore the traits of sand with different activities
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Art Credits: Cheetah's Best Friend: WINFRIED WISNIEWSKI/PICTURE PRESS/REDUX; Gorilla Guardians: Marcus Westberg; The Wolves of Isle Royale: FUSE/GETTY IMAGES; Colorless Creatures: Peter Trimming/Flickr/CC BY 2.0; Very Busy Beavers: Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures; Stolen Spiders?: JEFFREY COOLIDGE/GETTY IMAGES; The Secrets of Sidewinders: DEAGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES