Build Your Wild Self is a great web site which is very suitable for students. Students get to choose a variety of characteristics to make themselves have different animal body parts. I would use this in my classroom. Possibly, I would use it as a starting point to write a creative story. It could also be used by students to allow them to express the kind of person they are. Possibly, a really lous person would give themselves a lot of lion characteristics and a really musical person may give themselves a lot of bird characteristics. I would require the students to explain their reasoning for choosing certain animal characteristics. This would be a good activity at the beginning of the year to understand more about the students and to help them learn about each other.