School Without Walls Biology

Invertebrates

• Here is PowerPoint for animal diversity: 14Ch31Animals2008_edited
• Start by looking at the Wikipedia page for invertebrates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate.
• Check out “Invertebrates: The Silent Majority:” http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/default.cfm
• Another site on invertebrates with nice info on life cycles: http://www.biology4kids.com/files/invert_main.html
• The Encyclopedia of Life with pages for specific organisms: http://www.eol.org/.
• The Tree of Life project: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
• A nice overview of invertebrate phyla: http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Invertebrates.html.
• LOTS of info on worms and other little-studied invertebrates: http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/DrewesC/htdocs/
• Just for fun! A pretty project illustrating types of invertebrates: http://members.shaw.ca/adms/abc/abc.html.
• Parasite of the Day: http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/
• My Delicious pages for diversity of life (a collection of articles on the wild, weird, and awesome): http://delicious.com/biowithoutwalls/Diversity_of_Life

Chordates

• Here is PowerPoint for animal diversity: 14Ch31Animals2008_edited.
• Start with the Wikipedia page for vertebrates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate
• A nice overview of vertebrates: http://www.biology4kids.com/files/vert_main.html
• The Encyclopedia of Life with pages for specific organisms: http://www.eol.org/.
• The Tree of Life project: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
• A nice intro to vertebrates: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vertebrates.html
• Reptiles and amphibians: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/
• Mammals: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mammals/index.htm
• Birds: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mammals/index.htm
• Fishes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish
• My Delicious pages for diversity of life (a collection of articles on the wild, weird, and awesome): http://delicious.com/biowithoutwalls/Diversity_of_Life