The Horse Online Resources for Educators

From the American Museum of Natural History

• The Horse for Educators
  http://amnh.org/education/horse
  The Museum’s educational home page for The Horse, where you’ll find free resources, activities, and more.

• The Horse Exhibition Website
  http://amnh.org/exhibitions/horse
  All the text and many photos from the exhibition are viewable here.

• OLogy: The Horse
  http://amnh.org/ology/horse
  Kids can explore the new OLogy channel to find more information and fun activities about these fascinating animals. Features include horse breeds interactive, making horse-gait flipbooks, dress up a horse activity, a horse quiz, stationery, a young readers booklist, and much more.

• Science Bulletins: Takhi-The Last Wild Horse
  http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/?sid=b.f.takhi.20080501
  Watch a documentary video on the reintroduction of takhi, the only surviving wild horse, to Mongolia. Essays, interactives, and educator resources accompany the video. (The video is also viewable in the Museum’s Hall of Biodiversity.)

Additional Web Links

• Florida Museum of Natural History: Fossil Horse Cybermuseum
  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fhc/firstCM.htm
  Produced in collaboration with Bruce MacFadden, one of the curators of The Horse, this witty, well-illustrated site breaks down tricky concepts for students such as the difference between even- and odd-toed ungulates, scientific and common names of members of the horse family, and the breadth of horse species over evolutionary time.

• American Horse Council: Horse Statistics
  http://www.horsecouncil.org/statistics.htm
  A page of interesting statistics about horse use in the United States compiled by the research organization the American Horse Council.

• FAOSTAT Livestock Statistics
  http://faostat.fao.org/site/573/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=573
  A fascinating database where one can search for and compare the number of horses (or other livestock animals) in any country-or worldwide-in any year since 1961. 

• Horse Genome Project
  http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap
  Meet the horses and scientists behind the Horse Genome Project, an international effort to sequence the horse genome to further understanding of equine physiology and disease. The first draft of the genome was completed in April 2007.

• Oklahoma State University: Breeds of Livestock
  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses
  A solid descriptive list of more than 200 horse breeds around the world, with photographs and references that support the text. This was the source list for the breed names used throughout The Horse exhibition.

• Rutgers Equine Science Center: The Basics of Equine Behavior
  http://www.escrutgers.com/publications/general/fs525.htm
  A brief, interesting fact sheet in web or PDF format on horse behavior.

 

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