The Kids' Planet website has a variety of habitat activities available for students. The "Web of Life" game follows the life of a spider, "Worldwide Wolves" is a lesson plan that teaches about wolves and their habitats and the "Defend It" section offers ecological activism ideas ranging from letter writing to home conservation programs. The site also has electronic fact sheets for over 50 species and a "Teacher's Table" section with lesson plans and a bibliography. Mr. Nessbaum's website offers an interactive habitat game that allows students to drag and drop animals into different chosen habitats, such as savannah, desert, mountain and rain forest habitats, while playing the "Habitat Maker" game.
Several different Earth Day Memory Matching Games are available on the Sheppard Software website. Players choose between habitat themes of African Savannah, Amazon Rain Forest, the Great Barrier Reef, Deep Sea Creatures and a "What's The Problem?" game tht allows players to identify habitat problems with virtual scenarios. Sheppard Software also has a preschool area with habitat games and videos about ocean, forest, jungle and farm habitats. Students can drag and drop animals into animated scenarios, play with flashcards and play count-and-find habitat games on this site.
Students can learn about habitats by going on a scavenger hunt for habitat clues, which they document on a worksheet available in PDF form, from the Klamath Birding Trails website. Students are prompted to find sources of water, shelters on and off the ground, food sources and to identify the types of animals that would live in the habitat on the PDF forms, and also are instructed to draw their own map of the habitat visited. Habitat Books is an online bookstore that specializes in habitat books. Their catalogue includes children's habitat books ranging in topic from the forests and deserts to the oceans.
Purdue University has a free "Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Food Flash Card" set on its website, which can be downloaded and printed out for later use. The card deck includes aquatic plants, bark, birds, bugs, carrion, worms, eggs, fish and numerous other categories of habitat foods. Each card includes a picture of the food source and a list of animals that eat it. Ranger Rick's website offers several habitat activities such as information about certifying backyards as part of an national habitat certification project, a bat house project to help bats losing their natural habitats and a butterfly habitat improvement project.