Ninth through Twelfth Grade Education Resources

Can Captive Breeding Save Species?
When studying endangered and threatened species and habitats, students should become familiar with programs that strive to preserve biodiversity, such as captive-breeding programs and species-survival plans adopted by zoos, aquariums, and other institutions. This lesson asks students to research and assess these programs.

Lizard Mates
The life of a lizard seems pretty simple—find a nice, sunny rock to sit on, find a decent mate to have babies with. Now, a new study shows that for the descriptively named side-blotched lizard, these two pursuits are intimately connected.

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