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These web sites were used to brainstorm ideas for our topics:

EcoMuseum
Their mission is to educate as well as to protect animals. It is a society takes special care in protecting injured or captured animals that have been threatened by environmental factures. Such animals include small fish, amphibians, turtles, birds, owls, eagles and much more.

National Wildlife Federation
Did you ever think of building a habitat for the wildlife in your backyard? The National Wildlife Federation can show you how.

Backyard Nature
Learn how animals are related to one another. Find out what "Higher" and "Lower" animals are.

Animals in our Backyard
Did you ever wonder where Canadian geese go in the winter? Check it out here.

Kids.com Animals
Test your knowledge about the animals of the world.

International Fund for Animal Welfare
This organizations works towards protecting animals and their environments worldwide.

Adopt Pets with a Virtual Life

These web sites were used to write essays in the animal in me:

Animal in You was used to learn about the personalities of various animals. It includes a quiz where you can learn your animal personality!

Animal Planet is a great site to find information about many animals.

KidPlanet Animal Fact Sheet

Oakland Zoo's Animals A to Z
Find the facts about your favorite Zoo animal.

eNature

National Geographic Animals and Nature

These web sites were used to learn about pets gone wild

Captive Exotics and Wild Animals as Pets

An article in USA Today about snakehead fish in Maryland

National Geographic News article about the Burmese Pythons in Florida

Chesapeake Bay Mute Swans in National Geographic News

Assateague Island Horses were once tame horses that live on this isolated island in Maryland.

An interesting story about a group of wild parrots that live in San Francisco, CA.

These web sites were used to do research about our animal friends:

Dogs, Wolf, Myth, Hero and Friend

Cats! Wild to Mild

Domestic Rabbit History

Encarta Encyclopedia has many articles about animals

Here is a list of resources we used for our project:

Inspiration was used to create the concept maps used to write the stories.

SmartMorph is freeware that we used to create the morph movies.

We used Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver to create the web pages.

Blogger was the software we used to create our collaboration blog.

We found copyright free images at Pics4Learning.

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