Monday, March 29, 2010

Elephant Wallwisher

Check out all the neat things we've learned so far about elephants on our Wallwisher page.
www.wallwisher.com/wall/elephants

Elephant Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Books from our library

These books can be found in our very own library! Take a look to find great information!





Elephants and Their Calves by Margaret Hall



Elephant by Jinny Johnson








Elephants by Patricia Kendell







Elephants by JoAnn Early Macken





Elephant by Lisa Magloff

Elephant: Trunks and Tusks by Adele Richardson








Elephants by Duncan Searl









Elephants by Melissa Stewart


Jumbo: the Most Famous Elephant in the World! by Bonnie Worth
Hall, Margaret. 2004. Elephants and their calves.Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press.
Johnson, Jinny. 2001. Elephant. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing.
Kendell, Patricia. 2002. Elephants. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn.
Macken, JoAnn Early. 2002. Elephants. Milwaukee, WI : Weekly Reader Early Learning Library.
Magloff, Lisa. 2005. Elephant. New York: DK Publishing.
Richardson, Adele. 2002. Elephants: trunks and tusks. Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books.
Searl, Duncan. 2006. Elephants. New York : Bearport Publishing.
Stewart, Melissa. 2002. Elephants. New York: Children’s Press.
Worth, Bonnie. 2001. Jumbo: the most famous elephant in the world! New York: Random House.

Resources

Use these resources to conduct research about elephants. Hit the "back" button on your browser to come back to this page.

1) https://www.elephants.com/about-elephants
This is an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. The site also has a webcam.

2) http://sdzsafaripark.org/elephant-cam
This is the elephant webcam at the San Diego Zoo. Also from this page you can access information about African and Asian elephants.

3) http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/animals/elephant
This is also a site by the San Diego Zoo. Be sure to click on the "Learn More" button at the bottom of the article.

4) http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/African-elephant

5) http://sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/elephant.html
This site is text only.

6) http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Feet/the_feet.html
This site has information about elephant feet (& toenails).

This site has a chart comparing African and Asian elephants.

8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzassDm7eM
The story of Tarra and Bella.