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Inventions & Inventors

Invent.org - search by inventors, inventions or year
Invention Dimension - excellent site from MIT - abc listing of inventors
US Patent & Trademark Site - kid's pages
www.patentcafe.com/kids/index.html
Black American Inventors - abc listing of sites
Inventors Museum - search feature
How Stuff Works - Extensive list of almost anything you can think of
About.com's inventors - A to Z search - very good site
About.com's inventions - A to Z search - very good site
Inventors & Inventions for K-12 - listing of inventors and other links
Wild and Wacky Games - National Geographic site...learn facts about inventors and inventions through a series of games.  Download an Inventor's Coloring Book (Check out Rube Goldberg's site for wacky inventions)
Biographies - search for inventors 
Enchanted Learning - great for K-5
Rube Goldberg - need a laugh. Look at what the famous cartoonist "invented"
www.patentmuseum.com - click on alphabetical listing to look for an invention or "Search our Archives for a patent"

Animals

United States Geological Survey--coloring pages of some endangered animals. Good site to look for animals
Endangered species - find out the endangered species in your state
San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park - great site to explore the famous zoo
Electronic Zoo - huge list of links to animal sites
Animal bytes - site from SeaWorld Busch Garden.  Pictures and fun facts about all types of animals.
Whales - many links to whale sites
National Wildlife Federation - protection of wildlife ..  Ranger Rick for Kids
Earthlife.net has listings for birds and insects.  
National Geographic - great site with information and graphics
  FrogWeb - links to frog information, pictures and fun pages.  Click on Resources for Kids
animal pictures - vast assortment of animal pictures and facts
Kratts' Creatures - animal facts from the PBS show
Flamingo sites - American Flamingo Chilean Flamingo 
whozoo.org - awesome site from the Fort Worth Zoo.  Site created by students at Texas Wesleyan U.

Insects & Other Critters

Monarch Butterfly Watch
Insecta_Inspecta - nice site for insects (limited assortment)
eNature.com Nature guides - pictures and descriptions of animals and plants
The Adventures of Herman Great site for K-3 students studying worms.  Interactive site.
Projects - finding &collecting insects, butterfly garden, building an ant farm
Spiders - links to spider pages

Plants

The Great Plant Escape from the University of Illinois presents an interactive curriculum for 4th and 5th graders.
Kindergarden (not just for kinders) is a site to introduce students to plants.
4H Children's Garden - Michigan's fantastic site for gardens (and insects,too) information, games, virtual gardens and so much more
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom - Kid's Corner is very good
 What Tree Is It? - interesting experience about plants 

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