MERLOT Materials

Here you can find various activities and lesson plans to help teach students about how animals and plants are able to... see more

Online collection of information on breeds of livestock covering cattle, goats, horses, sheep, swine, and others... see more

In this game, you will find out if you can train a dog to drool on command! Ivan Pavlov's description on how animals (and... see more

A collection of on line labs for introductory Zoology or Animal Biology. Mostly annotated images some at different levels... see more

A searchable collection of taxonomic and physiological information on many species of animals. Also contains an extensive... see more

This tutorial/simulation consists of three topics. In topic 1, students learn how blood glucose, pH, and other variables... see more

The Biomedia database is designed to provide Biology students with a large number of high quality light microscope, TEM... see more

Veterinary nurses need to have a firm grasp of the normal structure of an animal s body and how it functions before they... see more

This site contains several anatomy atlases that were formerly maintained at the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital... see more

Students dive into signal transduction with a journey into the olfactory neuron of a mosquito. They look at how lactic... see more

This guide provides a structure and case study material for a computer-based course in ichthyology for upper... see more

Students learn about negative feedback regulation of glucose and play the role of doctor to determine if Ben, a fellow... see more

Short tutorials on on the Linnean classification system, using primarily vertebrate examples. Each tutorial includes nice... see more

AmphibiaWeb is an online system enabling anyone online to search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology... see more

This site shows, describes, and explains in fair detail, the anatomy of a spider. This site is user-friendly; to see an... see more

The companion website to the Nova documentary presenting the history to the discovery of the coelocanth. Included in the... see more

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Macaulay Library contains an amazing biodiversity (sound/video)collection of recorded... see more

This unit takes the basic definitions of animal behaviors and provide concrete, realistic examples of each type of... see more

Useful site for obtaining information on zoology, ecosystems, conservation. A page just for teachers, and a fun zone for... see more

This lesson plan comes from EDSITEment, an educational Web site from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the... see more

A series of narrated animations covering a variety of topics of animal reproduction including: Neural-Endocrine Reflex... see more

Challenge students to become ‘species experts’ for an endangered species and explore biogeography concepts using species... see more

Bioinformatics is a Museum Victoria web site that provides public access to some of Victoria?s vertebrate and... see more

This collection of 65 short video clips and several interactive movies is part of the USDA-funded bioMovies project to... see more