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Animals: Raccoons

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Title: Animals: Raccoons
Description: Learn about the familiar Northern American animal, the raccoon. The following pages include information about the raccoon's classification, history, habits, and habitats. Includes photographs, games, and coloring pages.
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6
Resource Links: Animal Tracks: Raccoon
Find out about the history of raccoons and learn where you can find their tracks. Includes photographs.

Raccoon: Procyon Lotor
Learn about the specifications of raccoon's tracks. NOTE: The site has a link to forums.

Procyon Lotor: Information
This web site has a lot of scientific information about raccoons as a representative of kingdom animalia. Click on blue tabs to view pictures, specimens, and classification. NOTE: The reading level is for older students.

Wildlife WayStation
Learn why feeding raccoons might be not a very good idea. NOTE: The site includes ads.

Wild Life Help Center: Raccoon
This page contains suggestions how people and raccoons can be neighbors and live without conflicts. NOTE: The site has a link to a moderated discussion forum.

Raccoons: Rescue Report
This page has information not only about raccoons, but how they interact with people and how people can unknowingly harm these animals.

Enchanted Learning: Raccoon Printout
Use online coloring tools or print out the page and learn how correctly to color a raccoon. NOTE: The site includes Google ads.

Enchanted Learning: Raccoon Printout
Learn how to make a raccoon from a brown paper bag. NOTE: This site includes Google ads.

Coloring Page Cute Raccoon
Print out this page with a cute smiling raccoon and color it. NOTE: The site includes ads.

National Geographic: Raccoon
Learn more about the eating habits and habitat of raccoons. Listen to the sounds a raccoon makes. NOTE: This site includes ads.

Education Standards: MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 3, 3, 4


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Reviewed December 7, 2004.

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