• Brainpop - Great Science movies

·Frog Dissection This program allows interactive dissection of a frog, and includes the capability to make on-the-fly movies. You may also test your knowledge of frog anatomy with the Virtual Frog Builder Game. 

·Genetics: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man From the NationalCenter for Biotechnology Information. Enter keywords for a disease or genetic quality you are searching for to get text information about the disease and references to journal articles about the keyword. 

·Genetics: Gene Map of the Human Genome The Human Genome Project is expected to produce a sequence of DNA representing the functional blueprint and evolutionary history of the human species. From this page click on a genetic disease to read text about it and see diagrams of the gene structure. An excellent resource for students researching genetic diseases. 

·Genetics: National Center for Biotechnology Information The homepage for the NationalCenter for Biotechnology Information sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Contains links to other sites on genetics. 

·Mammal Species of the World The Mammal Species of the World (MSW), from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus. By choosing "Search by Common Name" students can get textual information about the mammal and maps indicating its habitat. 

·Nanoworld Images visible only by microscope from the Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis at the University of Queensland, Australia. Examples of images: blood cells, bone marrow, chloroplast, mitochondrion, nerve, etc. 

·Volcano World A colorful and informative site discussing: volcanoes of the world, volcanic parks and monuments, and current eruptions. Students can also pose questions to a volcanologist. 

·Yahoo's Index of Science Resources Yahoo's menu of science related sources providing links to sites around the Web on a variety of scientific subjects. 

·GLOBE Home site of the GLOBE project.

Chemistry

·Chemicool Periodic Table http://www.chemicool.com/ - A great site on the periodic table

·The Learning Mattersof Chemistryhttp://www.knowledgebydesign.com/tlmc/tlmc.html : Computer-enhanced learning of chemistry  - online quizzes, tutorials, 3D models, links etc.

·ChemFinder Searching http://chemfinder.camsoft.com - a chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight

·The Pictorial Periodic Table http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/periodic.html

·General Chemistry Online http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/ - a must see site for every Chemistry teacher and student

·Instructional Materials in Chemistryhttp://www.cln.org/subjects/chemistry_inst.html - The WWW sites linked to from this page provide practical assistance for Chemistry teachers wanting to use the Internet as part of their classroom planning/instruction.

·ChemBearhttp://www.chemmybear.com/- an excellent site

·Chemistry Functions at Stanfordhttp://www.stanford.edu/~glassman/chem/index.htm

·American Chemical Society http://www.acs.org

·Wilson-Squier Group http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education - maintained by the University of Ca. 

·Chemistry Links http://www.shs.nebo.edu/Faculty/Haderlie/Bookmarks/science/chemistry.html - great Chemistry links

Physics

·Amusement Park Physics http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/

·PhysLINK.com – Physics, science, engineering reference http://www.physlink.com/

·Physics Teacher Institutehttp://science.usfca.edu/PTI

·The Official String Theory Web Sitehttp://superstringtheory.com

·The Big Book of Physical Sciencehttp://home.earthlink.net/~dmocarski/index.htm - These pages are a modest attempt at providing beginning high school science students with an accessible physical science resource.

·U.C. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrationshttp://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/

·U of I Physics and Astronomy Lectures and Demonstrations http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~dstille/

·>Physics pagehttp://www.cln.org/subjects/physics_inst.html - "Theme Pages" which focus on specific topics within Physics. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information.

·Quarks to Quasars: Powers of Ten
 

Biology

·Access Excellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/index.html

·United States Geographical Survey: The Learning Web http://www.usgs.gov - U.S. Geological Survey

·Turtle Trax http://www.turtles.org - A Page Devoted to Marine Turtles

·Virtual Frog Dissection http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect- This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game.

·Biosciences http://mcb.harvard.edu - maintained by HarvardUniversity

·The Visible Embryo http://visembryo.com

·Rainforest Action Network http://www.ran.org - Welcome to the Visible Embryo, a comprehensive resource of information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical student and interested lay people.

·University of Arizona Biology Project http://www.biology.arizona.edu - an interactive resource in learning about biology

·Yuckiest Site on the Internet http://www.nj.com/yucky

Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations

·Mars Academy http://www.marsacademy.com - a terrific site about Mars

·The Nine Planets http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp - The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.

·UNI Astronomy resources http://nitro9.earth.uni.edu - great astronomy sites

·Space http://space.rice.edu - The mission of the Rice Space Institute is to "Make the Universe Smaller" by interdisciplinary research and education at all levels, charting the course for the next generation of peaceful uses of space.

·Space Telescope Science Institute http://www.stsci.edu

·NASA Spacelink http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html - Hubble space links

·NASA Education Program

·NASA Observatorium

·Hubble Scavenger Hunt http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/991207tuesday.html

·PhysLINK.com – online education and research

·Que Tal in the Current Skies -- Loose translation: "What's up in the sky?" - Here you will find useful observing information about the visible planets, our moon and other moons, the sun, as well as other 'things' celestial.

·A Virtual Journey into the Universe - A Virtual Journey into the Universe" is an information-rich interactive, educational tour of the Solar System. It covers a range of topics from planets and their moons to theories and phenomena. (ThinkQuest)

Earth Science

·Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment http://www.globe.gov

·NASA Earth Science Image Gallery -A new way of accessing and downloading images, animations and visualizations of the Earth is now available: Visible Earth. VE is a growing, central index of Earth science-related images being produced by several NASA projects including Terra and SeaWiFS

·NASA Earth Observing System Education Web Site - NASA Links, Non-NASA Links

·NASA Education Program

·NASA Global Change Master Directory Learning Center - The LearningCenter is the place to come for all sorts of data and information about global environmental change.   NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is an online card catalog of data sets covering just about every scientific area of global change research.

·NASA Observatorium - NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. We have pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images

·NASA Quest Project – dedicated to bring NASA to the classroom.

·NASA Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Resource File - The Students’ & Teachers’ Page of the Office of Solid Waste” 

·Blue Ice - http://www.onlineclass.com/BI/blueice.html>A virtual field trip to Antarctica

·Geology pagehttp://www.cln.org/subjects/geology_inst.html>

·GeoResourceshttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~drayner/indexgcse.htm - great geology links

Environmental Science

Environmental Health Center (EHC)
conducts a variety of outreach and
education activities on climate change.

·Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) - The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) is a Colorado non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing understanding of global scale environmental change and the role of human beings in that change. AGCI also helps to educate decision makers, students, and the public about the science of global change and its ramifications

·Canada's Global Climate Change Web Site

·Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides: Environment - The Environment category includes guides on topics pertaining to the care and protection of the natural world, and especially concerning the condition of the air, water and soil as well as the preservation of plant and animal species.

·CNN: The Global Warming Debate (1997) - CNN correspondents around the world examine the science, the economics and the politics of the global warming debate in this special

·Common Questions About Climate Change - This document answers some of the most commonly asked questions about climate change.

·Cornell Center for the Environment-Cornell's gateway to environmental research, education and outreach.

·DOE Argonne National Laboratory Division of Educational Programs - Environmental Earth Science Topics

·DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Education Center "Cool Sites"- The web sites listed below are broken into three areas: Global Warming, Weather, and Other Science Sites.

·EPA Environmental Education Center - Want to learn about the environment? Want to share what you know with someone else? With fact-sheets, interactive games, and more, EPA’s website can help you with all sorts of information about EPA and the environment.

·EPA Environmental Education Web Site - Welcome to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental
Education Web Site

·EPA Global Warming Web Site - Welcome To Epa'sGlobal Warming

·Global Change Electronic Edition - A Review of Climate Change & Ozone Depletion

·Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)

·Global Warming Central (Pace University School of Law)

·National Center for Atmospheric Research: Environmental and Societal Impacts Group- ESIG studies environmental change and responses to such change in order to gain insights into how decision makers, from individuals to governments to international coalitions, might better understand and cope with impacts associated with the complex relationship of the atmosphere, environment, and society.

·Endangered Species 2000 - http://library.advanced.org/25014/english.index.html - ES2000 - Endangered Species of the Next Millennium" is a site undertaken to unravel the cruel fact that human beings are the ultimate cause of the disappearing Animal Kingdom.

·Environment Education Link (EE-Link)http://eelink.net/ee-linkintroduction.html - Your Link to Environmental Education Resources on the Internet

·American Rivershttp://www.amrivers.org/

·Six Billion and Beyond- a great PBS site

General

· ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education http://www.ericse.org - The Clearinghouse is a component of the Educational Resources Information Center, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Our goal is to provide access to the best information available for teaching and learning about science, mathematics, and the environment.

·National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org

·Physical Science Resource Center http://www.psrc-online.org

·SEED (Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development http://www.slb.com/seed - The SEED Educational Web Site is a nonprofit Schlumberger initiative in educational development, where scientists and engineers share their expertise with learners from around the world. It is a place dedicated to science education–a source of knowledge for teachers and students.

·Explore Science http://explorescience.com - an interactive learning experience for science

·Discovery Channel Online http://www.discovery.com/

·Paleoanthropologyhttp://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/bornstein_research.html> - Paleoanthropology: Making journal research accessible (to high school students)

·Science Learning Network http://www.sln.org

·New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Last Updated April 24, 2002

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