Who topped the chart as the Most Challenged Book of this decade? The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Animal Sounds
In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Visit the world’s biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. For languages that use a different alphabet, they have tried to transliterate the word into the English alphabet for ease of comparison. http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html

Farm
Animal Names – Fill in the correct name for the gender http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmclips/animalgender.gif
Find more links to Farm activities at: http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/

Jane Goodall
Animals and us: Close encounters – Read an interview with Jane Goodall. She started working with chimpanzees in 1960. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625025.900

Pets
Petpourri is a collection of puzzles, games, and playsheets that will provide hours of entertainment while teaching children about responsible pet ownership. http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/kidscorner/default.asp

Plants toxic to animals
ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center’s list of toxic and non-toxic plants to dogs, cats, and horses. http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants/
This database brings together information available in library books, plants grown in the Poisonous Plant Garden, mounted specimens of plants, and the reference notes for a toxicology course (VB320) which is taught during the fall semester each year. http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/toxicintro.htm

Animal Sciences
Waterfowl Web of Life presents a journey into the world of sea ducks with a hands-on Activity Guide for 4-6th graders
Sea Ducks of Alaska Activity Guide. http://www.akcoastalstudies.org/SeaDucks.htm
The Food Chain Instruction Plan – this pdf unit contains, rubrics, worksheets, goals & objectives & more. http://ischool.umd.edu/research/students/FoodChain.pdf
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Wetland Pictionary, Animal Game & more. Click on the activity below to learn more about the activity or in some cases, the entire resource booklet. http://www.cpaws-southernalberta.org/education/edu_resources.php#4
Information units on North American animals and plants with illustrations, text, activities, and access to a naturalist. http://www.enaturalist.org./
http://www.zoo.org.au/Learning/Animal_Profiles Many animals covered here!
http://www.waterfordpress.com/index.php/Educator-Resources/Waterford-Activity-Zone.html Many work/activity sheets
Live cameras where you can watch for different animals. It has several different camera sites set up-polar bears, fish, africa, etc. You have to check it early mornings or late evenings due to time zones http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php

Online Statistics Textbooks
http://www.isixsigma.com/st/online_textbooks/

Comprehensive listing of freely available online textbooks for undergraduated and graduate Mathematics and Physics
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html

Online Math & Science Texts
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html

Textbooks, Lectures & Tutorials in Mathematics
http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html

I was unable to find any infomation at FloraCraft’s website other than a picture of Solar System and a link on their front page to CPSC’s website for the recall info. I saw the DNA Kit pictured also but cannot access anything on their website at the moment.

Thanks to The Daily Green for posting Latest Toxic Toy Recalls: Educational Science Kits. They say that Floracraft will replace the wires. For information, call 866-775-8781. We have the Solar System kit. We hadn’t used it yet. You can leave a message with your phone number and they are to call you back. I did also leave them the model number from the bottom of the box. While writing this post, FloraCraft did just call back, so it’s quite a quick turn-around.

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