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Snorta!

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Get ready for laughter as your friends and family suddenly start sounding like they were born in a barn!

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Primary
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Special Education
Play Time: 
20 min.
Snorta!

Zooloretto

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Each player is a zoo owner. Players score points by attracting as many visitors to their zoos as possible. To accomplish this, they must collect matching sets of animals in enclosures. If they have more types of animals than enclosures, they must keep the extra animals in their barn.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
45 min.
Zooloretto

Fauna

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360 animals on big cards are waiting for the players of Fauna. Every round a single animal presents itself by name and picture. The 2-6 players try to guess the animal's weight, length, height, tail length and - most important - the areas in which the animal lives on the Earth.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Science
Play Time: 
45 min.
Fauna

Amphibians (1996)

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Get ready for “toad-al” fun with Bill Nye and the “Amphibians” episode. Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (worm-like animals that have backbones) are all amphibians, animals that spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Amphibians are slimy. Amphibians are cold-blooded that means their body temperature changes with the temperature outside.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Amphibians

Animal Locomotion (1995)

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Bill’s in the swim with the “Animal Locomotion” episode.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Animal Locomotion

Communication (1994)

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Bill Nye’s trying to tell you something – about communication.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Communication

Wetlands (1995)

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Bill Nye the Science Guy is bogged down with information about wetlands.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Wetlands

Forests (1994)

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“Wood” you like to learn more about forests? Then watch this episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Forests

Mammals (1995)

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Bill Nye gives you the furry facts about mammals.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Mammals

Invertebrates (1997)

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Bill Nye the Science Guy is back to talk about invertebrates.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Invertebrates

Marine Mammals (1995)

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The Marine Mammals episode is smooth; it’s like blubber.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Marine Mammals

The Conquerors & Survival Game (2002)

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Part 1: The Conquerors: For hundreds of millions of years, animal life resided only in the oceans. And then, in one extraordinary event, something happened that enabled one group of animals to emerge from the sea. Follow scientists as they track how the shape of life transformed to create the animals that led the first successful land invasion and were the first to pioneer flight.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:46
The Conquerors & Survival Game

Ultimate Animal & Bones, Brawn and Brains (2002)

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The Shape of Life tells the gripping and magnificent tale of the beginnings of all animal life.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
01:46
Ultimate Animal & Bones, Brawn and Brains

White Fang (Unabridged)

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This is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, at the end of the 19th Century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, about a kidnapped civilized dog becoming a wild wolf.

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07:49
White Fang (Unabridged)

All Creatures Great and Small (Unabridged)

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These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year, the book became recognized as a masterpiece. And in the two and a half decades that followed, Dr. Herriot became one of the most universally loved authors of our time.

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Lexile: 
990L
Length: 
16:16
All Creatures Great and Small (Unabridged)

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