Children’s Malacological Links

Sammy Snail

About.com Kids site:

• Kid’s Collecting at About.com: Kids' Collecting:  with Robert Olson as Your Guide.
• Seashells Coloring Page  Print and color these pretty seashells from Jan Brett.
• Seashell Bookmarks  Print and clip out these pretty seashell bookmarks
• Seashell Rounding Activity  Keep your math skills sharp with this fun seashell rounding activity right online.

The Assateague Naturalist:  hosted by the Friends of Assateague & Chincoteague Islands, is a good and easy beginner page with thumbnail indexing of the photos available of indigenous marine species. Information included with the photos includes tidbits on the habits and natural history of the species.

Bailey Matthews Shell Museum: A great eductional site complete with kids interactive pages

Children's Book and Book Reviews:

• Molluscan.com: Listing over 1000 specialised shell books with comments and reviews including a page for kids and recommended shell books of the month.

  • Children's Books

• Man and Mollusc's own: "Sammy's Adventure"

Conchologists of America:  A GREAT site to learn all about molluscs and how to collect and organize your shells.

• Kid’s Section:

CyberSleuth For Kids:

• Mollusks:

• Aquatic Adventures: This website is brought to you by the 5th grade
  AIG Students at Beaufort Elementary School.

Enchanted Learning.com: Kids!!!! Be sure to "Tell your teachers about EnchantedLearning.com! and their "Mollusk Pages to Color Online" This a GREAT site for kids and teachers alike. Help teachers to bring molluscs into your classroom.

• Molluscan Printouts:
• OceanLife Printouts

Fun With Freshwater Mussels:  Primary School level:  So….You want to learn more about freshwater mussels?

Just for Fun!

• Make an Edible Octopus
• Make a Yarn Octopus

The Garden Safari:

• Snails, Slugs and Worms

Giant African Land Snail: by the Honolulu Zoo: facts plus. Even a live video of Wicked Willy

HappyChild: Wordsearch

Kiddyhouse.com  

•  All About Snails:  a GREAT Site for kids and educators alike

Man and Mollusc Articles for kids:

• A Beginner’s Introduction to Molluscs
• Amazing Molluscan Facts
• Avril"s Fun Page:
• Collecting Shells Links page:  watch for Sammy Snail to point you to the sites for you
• Kid’s Zone:
• Uses of Molluscs

Molluscan Pictures: Mollusc related books for Children

Mollusks: a good site for kids to learn all about the ocean animals. 

Mrs. Seagraves' QUEST Class and Thematic Units:

• Snails: A fun site to learn all about snails
  

Online Stories about molluscs:

Seashells.org.:

• Identifying your treasures-An identification guide to the many seashells, starfish, sand dollars, and more found along the shore
• Cleaning and preserving seashells-A how to guide for cleaning your seashells´ REMEMBER KIDS!!!! Have your parents or another responsible adult with you when handling live shells or using such things as chemicals for cleaning them
• What to do with your finds- Now that you know what you found, cleaned it, and preserved it , why not do something interesting with your seashells and sea life.

SeaSky.org. This is quite an interesting and unique site   Be sure to check out The Sea Page and The Mollusc Page

Smithsonian Institute: 

• Selected Sources of Information on Mollusks - compiled by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for the beginning shell collector or amateur conchologist and malacologist.

Snail video project: by Chris Elliott

Tahiti Shells: by Sagnieres, Hubert: Tahiti Shells: Buying and selling of shells. Why I put this commercial site on this page is due to Hubert's Kid's Section. The page is set up for children under 10 years of age.
"Young kid, If you want to receive free shells from the world, send me your picture and address, we will create a special page for you."

The Octopus's Garden: Peom and Clip art