Online Discovery Mammals

ScienceWiz(R) Online Discovery Mammals: The age of non-avian dinosaurs is over. We live in the age of MAMMALS! You are one of them. Explore the rise of the mammals. Crack open concretions. What's inside? Fossils! Is it a mammal? Is it a reptile? Is it a geode? Discover what such concretions have to do with recent discoveries about the rise of mammals. Learn how a young boy in Colorado helped to figured it out.

What makes a mammal, a mammal? Mammals have hair, but do ALL mammals have hair?

Hooves, claws and paws: Which mammal visited your front porch last night? Can you tell from the footprints? Play the footprint identification game. Make your own footprints.

Mammals breathe with lungs. How do your lungs work? Build a model of your lungs and find out. Explore how mammalian teeth, bladders, hearts and brains differ from other types of animals. Some differences are quite surprising!

Play Twenty Questions online with Electra to guess which mammal she is thinking about. Electra talks and recognizes both text and speech. She answers yes/no questions. She gets cheeky if you ask obnoxious questions. Can you guess which mammal she is thinking about?

This product comes in a handle box for convenient storage. It includes materials for the projects. It also includes an online discovery flip-book that integrates the hands-on projects with videos, online story telling, simulations, apps and with Electra, who talks and plays games.