Science Sites
Physical Science Sites: Chemistry and Physics
 
Internet Address
Description of Site
http://www.chem4kids.com/ Information about chemistry to kids.
http://www.sprocketworks.com/shockwave/load.asp?SprMovie
=chemistrysubweb&ReturnURL=/
default.asp&Title=Chemistry
Learn about the behavior of gas.
http://www.sprocketworks.com/shockwave/load.asp?SprMovie
=periodictableweb
Interactive periodic table.
 http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/ An Interactive site-The Atom's Family.  Learn about insulation, electricity, principles of atoms, and much more.  Try it you'll love it.
 http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Cool Science for Kids.  Has different experiments kids can do.  Take a look at it.
http://www.chem.uky.edu/misc/howitworks.html U. of Kentucky Chem. Dept. Periodic Table Challenge for all students of chemistry.  Web-based teaching resource that presents the user with a blank periodic table. 

Space Sites
 
 
Internet Site Address
Description of Sites
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/
astro/astroindex.html
Astronomy Education Resources:  University of Washington K-12 resource. Great links
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/ Adler Planetarium-has a Chicago web cam of various sites in the city as well as Internet-based activities.
 http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ Great resources for space.  Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
 http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/saturn.html NASA site with information about the rings of Saturn.  Has diagrams, video, text, animation, links and much more.
 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo-gallery/ NASA space photo collection
 http://library.advanced.org/27322/ Planet Quest- Great site with tons of information.  Check this out to see if the vocabulary is appropriate for you age students.
 http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html NASA for Kids - has many different kinds of information about space, stars, planets, air planes, and etc.
http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA official web site- lots of information
http://www.telescope.com/default.asp?page=inTheSky Summary information about the sky.  Site will tell you which stars are out, the moon phase, and much more.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/ Nine Planets' site.  Great information about planets for upper elementary-high school age students.
http://windows.engin.umich.edu/sparc/ See the Earth from a space satellite in real time-- a must see site
http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~woodfill/SPACEED
/SEHHTML/astronomy.html
An educators handbook for space education

Earth Science Sites
 
 
Internet Site Address
Description of Site
 http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/land/global/index.html Global Change:  organized a huge site of information about the forces that are at work changing our environment.  Many student activities.  Useful for upper elementary through high school.  A must see site.
 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/ Possibly one of the best sites on the Internet for helping students learn about earth processes: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and the structure of the earth.  Has interactive video clips.
 http://members.aol.com/QuestSite/1/index.html EcoQuest: Desert Edition.  This is a desert web quest designed for middle school students.
 http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/index.html Live from Antarctica.  Site covers the firs of two Live from Antarctica projects.   Designed to be an aid to educators, its Teachers Guide and Classroom Activities provide interactive activities for students to learn about Antarctica and research that was done during the project.  Photos, maps and a virtual field trip make this interesting.
 http://zebu.uoregon.edu/geol.html Not an official University of Oregon site, but the site contains some really good information about geology.
 http://www.scecdc.scec.org/ Latest information on earthquakes in California.  Site keeps data up to an hour ago.
 http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/ Michigan Technological University volcano page.
 http://www.rideau-info.com/ken/rockpage.html Ken's Rock and Geology Page.  Site is worth a look if you are teaching or learning about rocks.

Biological Science Sites
 
 
Internet Site Address
Description of Site
 http://www.sp2000.org/ Species 2000:  Site has a database link of all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth.  You can obtain the scientific name, status, and classification of any known species.
   http://www.waterforlife.com/solution.html Water for Life is a site that explains about different ways to keep drinking water safe.  Interesting and timely.

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