Thomas Intermediate School

Animal Safari Activity for 4^th Grade Science

Get out your safari gear and get ready for a Scavenger Hunt for animals! You are headed out into Cyberspace with your group to research animals. Use the sites listed below to search out the answers to the questions about animals. Download this page for recording your answers if your teacher does not give you one.

STEP ONE: Go over the Safari Group Rules so everyone will know what to do.

STEP THREE: Turn your record sheet in to your teacher.

Safari Group Rules

1) Each member will turn in an answer sheet.

2) Take turns being the Safari Guide. This person is the only one allowed to touch the mouse. Go in alphabetical order.

3) If you do not understand any of the words on the site, use a dictionary!

Here are your sites! Get ready….Get set…….Go!

http://www.selu.com/~bio/wildlife/links/animals.html

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/endangered/eagle/eagle.html

http://worldkids.net/critters/critters.htm

http://www.co.seminole.fl.us/library/kids/kids_sea.html

http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/kids/html/terp.html

http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm

http://www.mrtc.org/~twright/animals/english/alphabet.htm

http://www.pca.state.mn.us/kids/frogsforkids.html

Here are your Safari Questions. Good luck on your quest.

1) Who first invented a classification system for animals?

2) Is a terrapin a reptile or an amphibian?

3) Do beetles have backbones?

4) What do you study if you are a herpetologist?

5) List three animals the bald eagle considers prey.

6) What does a mother dolphin feed her calf?

7) What two factors threaten the extinction of bald eagles?

8) How do frogs "drink" water?

9) How many eyes do jumping spiders have?

 10) What do we call a male alligator?

 11) Does an ornithologist study hummingbirds?

 12) Are fish warm-blooded or cold-blooded?

13) Did hunters want the narwhal's tusk or eggs?