3/4 African Animals

Online Resources

Grolier Online http://go.grolier.com/ This is a collection of several online encyclopedias: the New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Roget's Thesaurus and the American Heritage dictionary of the English language.
Female ostrich, Masai Mara. Photograph by David Orgel

Web Sites
African Wildlife Foundation http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/otherspecies Search the gallery for information and photographs about species of animals found on the African continent.
Wild Animals A to Z from Discovery Channel's Animal Planet. http://animal.discovery.com/animals/ Searchable comprehensive database of information, photographs and videos of different species of wild animals.
National Geographic Kids: Animals/Creature Feature http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature Search for an animal to find information, see photographs and watch videos.
Seaworld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database http://www.seaworld.org/ Click on "Animal info" for information and photographs about a variety of animals.
Ranger Rick's Kid Zone--National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/kids/ A searchable database of illustrated articles from NWF children's magazines. Just type the name of your chosen animal in the search box at the top of the web page and you will get links to a selection of appropriate articles.
Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ Do a search for your favorite African animal on this site where you'll find facts, illustrations, arts and crafts, worksheets and printable books on topics of all kinds.
Kid Friendly Search Engines (see right hand panel)
Search these sites for kid safe web sites about animals and countries.

Print Resources
Our school library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system, which is also used in most public libraries. If you browse along the shelves in the following areas in the children's books section you will find some useful titles:031 General reference area where you'll find illustrated encyclopedias such as World Book; 500 area for books about wild animals; 900 for books about individual countries. For example, 966.7 for books about Ghana; 968 for books about South Africa; 968.91 for books about Zimbabwe.