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CONTENT for Science Classrooms

GENERAL SCIENCE

Bad Science - an attempt to sensitize teachers and students to examples of the bad science often taught in schools, universities, and offered in popular articles and even textbooks

Bill Nye the Science Guy Labs Online - popular television personality's science labs and experiments online (needs Shockwave)

Exploring the Structure of Materials - an interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source

Great Canadian Scientists - meet some Great Canadian Scientists and learn about their sciences

Hands-On Science Centers Worldwide - page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education

Nanoworld Homepage - an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macromolecular scales

The National Science Foundation - an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering

echo Science and Technology Virtual Center - a Virtual Library of the history of science, technology, and medicine

Yahoo! Math and Science a collection of math and science links

You Can with Beakman and Jax - offers answers to scientific questions and interactive experiments for kids

ASTRONOMY

The Aurora Page - information, links and images about the "Northern Lights"

Educational Space Simulations Project - promotes the development of education via simulation

Hubble Space Telescope - latest Hubble Space Telescope observations

Space Image Libraries - site contains variety of sources for space-related images,presented by NASA's Aerospace Education Services Program at Oklahoma State University

Spacelink - one of NASA's electronic resources specifically developed for use by the educational community

BIOLOGY LIFE SCIENCE

B-Eye - see the world through the eyes of a honey bee

Biology Links - a collection of biology links hosted by Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Hadrosaurus - a Web site that details the historic discovery of the creature known as Hadrosaurus foulkii

Interactive Frog Dissection: An Online Tutorial - designed for use in high school biology classrooms

International Wolf Center - this site contains about wolves found on the North American continent

MBGnet - biomes, freshwater ecosystmes, marine ecosystems, and plant biology with Internet activities for primary grades from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Museum of Paleontology - mission is the conservation of paleontological materials, collections development, and research and instructional support

Journey North Homepage - this site engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change

MendelWeb Home Page - an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science

Mutant Fruit Flies - this site deals with DNA and how it structure changes using the natural fruit fly population as an example

National Institutes of Health - offers informational links to health, science, and grant information

National Wildlife Federation - focuses its efforts on five core issue areas (endangered habitat, water quality, land stewardship, wetlands, and sustainable communities), and pursues a range of educational projects, and activist, advocacy, and litigation initiatives, within these core areas

Project LEAP - designed to assist Indiana teachers in integrating environmental education into existing science and health curricula in addition to assisting in the development of a student's knowledge about the quality of Indiana's environment.

Tree of Life - A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity

U.S. Fish & Wildlife - mission is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people

Whole Frog Project - goal is to provide high school biology classes the ability to explore the anatomy of a frog by using data from MRI imaging and mechanical sectioning, with 3D surface and volume rendering software to visualize the anatomical structures of the intact animal

Yuckiest Site on the Internet - combines the power of learning and the value of entertainment in a safe environment where kids ages 8-15 can "laugh and learn.

CHEMISTRY
Chemicool Periodic Table - interactive online periodic table of the elements

EARTH SCIENCE

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - goal is to understand and predict the earth's climate and weather, including the impact of human activities

Liftoff to Space Exploration - NASA sponsored site that keeps kids up-to-date with the latest NASA missions

Martian Sun Times - gives you daily weather on Mars as well as Earth and leads students on explorations about the seasonal changes that affect the weather on Mars

MTU Volcanoes Page - provides information about volcanoes to the public such as: current global volcanic activity, research in remote sensing of volcanoes and their eruptive products, hazard mitigation, links to government agencies and research institutions, and even some volcano humor.

National Weather Service - current weather information

Nine Planets Tour - overview of history, mythology, and scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system, with text and images, some sounds and movies

Solar System Live - interactive Orrery of the Web, view the entire Solar System or just the inner planets (through the orbit of Mars), controls allow setting time and date, viewpoint, observing location, orbital elements to track an asteroid or comet, and a variety of other parameters

Scripps Institute of Oceanography - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, center for global science research, graduate training , and public service, part of the University of California, San Diego

USA Today: Weather - world weather highlights

Virtual Cave - browse the mineral wonders unique to the cave environment, images from around the world generate an 'ideal' cave-one with an example of every major type of speleothem or secondary mineral deposit.

The Virtual Sun - trip through the sun, flames on the sun larger than ten earths, winds going 1000 mph, and how the earth eventually will be scorched by the dying sun, 20 minutes, contains several MPEG movies

Volcano World - provides authoritative information about volcanoes to kids and others, actual scientists interact with the public in the USA and around the world, funded by a NASA grant

Weather Here and There - weather unit incorporates interaction with the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem solving activities for grades four through six, lessons integrate math, science, geography, and language arts in the process of teaching and learning about weather phenomena

Weather Unit - database for resources for elementary educators interested in teaching a thematic unit on weather

Welcome to Tsunami - general information about tsunamis, large water waves, typically generated by seismic activity, that cause significant damage to coastal communities throughout the world

Woods Hole - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a world leader in the field of oceanography, probe the mysteries of the oceans with online expeditions for k-12 students

MUSEUMS - ZOOS

American Zoo and Aquarium Association - links to zoos in all of the states

California Academy of Sciences - in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, natural history museum, aquarium and planetarium

Charlotte, The Vermont Whale - beluga" or "white" whale, an animal that inhabits arctic and sub arctic marine waters in the northern hemisphere, found in 1849 in Charlotte, Vermont, 150 miles from the nearest ocean, the Charlotte whale is used to aid in the study of the geology and the history of the Champlain Basin

Chicago Academy of Sciences - museum specializes in the ecology and natural history of the Midwest from the Great Lakes to the prairies, cultural and educational institution dedicated to promoting scientific literacy for all citizens. Web site includes activities for kids, resources and professional development for teachers

Children's Museum of Indianapolis - extensive science exhibits, resources for students and teachers, planetarium, environmental education,

Field Museum of Natural History - natural history museum with a world-renowned scientific staff and collections of more than 20 million specimens and cultural objects, in Chicago

Franklin Institute Science Museum - Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fosters the development of a scientifically and technologically literate society, many activities, events, exhibits, and programs, and online exhibits

Houston Museum of Natural Science - Natural history museum with many exhibits and opportunities to participate in museum activities such as Challenger Learning Center missions and Science Quest broadcasts online using free state-of-the-art Internet teleconferencing software

Miami Museum of Science - Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education, incorporates inquiry-based teaching approaches, telecomputing, collaboration among geographically dispersed teachers and classrooms, and Internet/World Wide Web content resource

National Air and Space Museum - part of the Smithsonian Institution, maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world, vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight

National Museum of Natural History - to understand the natural world and our place in it, Smithsonian Natural History Web is an Internet resource with documents and data about museum research and national collections, more than 120 million scientific

Science Inquiry Hotlists - hotlist categories from the Miami Museum of Science correlate with the National Science Education Standards

ECOLOGY

Cultural Survival - activist organization in support of indigenous peoples, Web site includes curriculum resource program, materials for educators, curriculum planning, holds teacher workshops, and student conferences Durian OnLine Homepage - Web site about the durian, a big, green, thorny, smelly fruit.

EnviroLink - environmental information clearinghouse

Good Green Fun - commercial children's CD with positive, sing-along styled messages about protecting forests and animals

Internet Green Marketplace - shopping for environmentally friendly products from cosmetics to garden supplies, details the environmental impact product use

National Geographic Online - online edition of the famous publication

NatureServe - network connecting science with conservation, information on biodiversity, data centers operate at the national, provincial and state level, most often as part of a government agency, in universities and non-governmental organizations, focus on local biodiversity information

National Wildlife Federation - core issues (endangered habitat, water quality, land stewardship, wetlands, and sustainable communities) pursues a range of educational projects, and activist, advocacy, and litigation initiatives

PLANTS Database - U. S. Department of Agriculture, provides standardized plant names, symbols and other plant attribute information

Rainforest Action Network - nonviolent activist network with campaigns to influence lage corporations

Rainforests Diversity and Destruction - 1997 student report with nice literature review

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Aerodynamics In Car Racing - a student project at the NASA site with physics of race cars, specs for race tracks and Indy cars

Electricity - a study of electrical circuits from Newton's Apple, educational materials developed with the National Science Teachers Association, a production of KTCA Twin Cities Public Television, made possible by a grant from 3M.

Energy Quest - energy education site from the California Energy Commission

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere - source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics, astronomy and their history

Force and Motion - one section of Science: A Curriculum Guide for the Middle Level from Saskatchewan Education

The Particle Adventure - Particle Adventure is an award-winning site that introduces the theory of fundamental particles and forces

Theater of Electricity - activities for learning about electricity

The Wind: Our Fierce Friend - Franklin Institute Science Museum, activities on wind