Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "Let It Snow" by Dean Martin.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "Jumpin' Jive" by Joe Jackson.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "California Girls" by the Beach Boys.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "The One and Only" by Chesney Hawkes.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "I Don't Know Why I Love You" by Clarence "Frogman" Henry.

Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "Blue Savannah" by Erasure.

The topic of this video module is how to classify animals based on how closely related they are. The main learning objective is that students will learn how to make phylogenetic trees based on both physical characteristics and on DNA sequence. Students will also learn why the objective and quantitative nature of DNA sequencing is preferable when it come to classifying animals based on how closely related they are. Knowledge prerequisites to this lesson include that students have some understanding of what DNA is and that they have a familiarity with the base-pairing rules and with writing a DNA sequence.

This article lists common misconceptions about mammals. It provides formative assessment probes and information about teaching for conceptual change.

This video discusses how the concepts of structure and function can be taught using animal and plant adaptations.

This article describes six collaborative and real data projects that engage elementary students in collecting and sharing local data and communicating with students across the country and world.

The author explains heat transfer and how it applies to living in extremely cold environments.

This video takes a tour of the Hogle Zoo African Savanna exhibit and also discusses what elements go into creating an exhibit.

In this instructional video, the Hogle Zoo explains how to use the lesson plan "How to make an Exhibit."

By completing this activity, students will have a better understanding of what habitats are and what living things need to survive in their habitats. Students will create a model of an animal's habitat at a zoo. Each exhibit that the student's design will be uniquely suited to an individual species and its specific habitat needs. When all of the exhibits are combined to make a zoo, the lesson will also emphasize s the diversity of living things and underscore the everyday needs of living things as the exhibits will need to provide similar elements for the animal's survival.

This video asks you to identify habitat needs, animal adaptation and more while on a tour of the African Savanna exhibit at the Hogle Zoo.

This video from Nature offers a description of desirable traits in beef and dairy cattle.

In this video segment from Nature, learn about six different breeds of cattle.