Resources For Educators: Lizards and Snakes Alive!

Part of the Lizards and Snakes: Alive! exhibition.

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Lizards & Snakes: Alive! explores the diversity of squamates—legged and legless lizards, including snakes. This comprehensive guide will help you explore the exhibition with your students. 

Educators Guide and Materials

Lizards & Snakes: Alive! Educator's Guide

 

Be an Exhibition Explorer in Lizards & Snakes: Alive!
A Family Guide to Lizards & Snakes: Alive! (English)
A Family Guide to Lizards and Snakes: Alive! (Spanish)

More Resources

Use these free online resources to further explore themes presented in the Lizards and Snakes: Alive exhibition.

Educator Materials Lizards & Snakes Booklist for Educators Separate snake facts from folklore. View and read up on hundreds of squamate species. And find out what it takes to keep snakes as... Educator Materials Lizards & Snakes Booklist for Kids Want to learn more about the legged and legless lizards known as squamates? You'll find everything from colorful field guides to... Educator Materials Lizards & Snakes Online Resources Search a database with more than 8,300 reptile species. Learn about amphibian biology and conservation. Review the evolutionary history... Educator Materials Lizards & Snakes: Alive! Coloring Book How does a Veiled Chameleon's body resemble its environment? What colors are a Burmese Python's spots? Use what you know about squamates... Educator Materials Lizards & Snakes: Alive! Glossary What are squamata? Why is the term "cold-blooded" incorrect? And how does chemoreception work? Find out with this glossary—from... Article Squamate Fun Facts Did you know that squamates have a third eye? Or that the Gila Monster and the Bearded Lizard are the only two known venomous lizards?...

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