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Astronomy & Space |
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| A great web site for studying space! It includes links to facts about our solar system (and all planets), space puzzles and games, rocket information, and much more. Even discover how much you weigh and how old you would be on different planets! |
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| This NASA web site for the HEASARC provides students, educators, and the general public informative material to learn more about the universe on topics ranging from the solar system to black holes to distant galaxies. |
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Great site that shows the phase of the moon for any day and year. |
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. Chandra is designed to observe X-rays from high-energy regions of the universe, such as the remnants of exploded stars. |
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Research site for third graders studying space. |
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A nice site to see pictures of the evening skies as Venus and Jupiter are in relatively close proximity. There are other areas of this site that may be interesting to you as well. |
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| A site devoted to the celebration of Space Day. Lots of areas, including Mission:Fun, Plan Your Space Day, Friends of Space Day, and Teacher's Space. Mission:Fun includes games and brain teasers that students would enjoy. Games require Shockwave to run. |
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| Take a virtual tour of the planets through NASA's jet propulsion laboratory. |
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| A NASA site devoted exclusively to the exploration of Mars. Includes sections on whether or not there's life on Mars, a large image gallery, and some teacher resources. |
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| You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe. |
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| A jumping off point for various astronomy sites (specifically aimed at children). |
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| Multimedia tour of our solar system. |
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| Information about current topics in space exploration, particularly the planets. Also contains links to kids' projects through "Young Explorers". |
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| Look up location of planets at various times of the year. Can do only inner planets, or the entire solar system. |
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| Information about the Galileo mission to explore Jupiter and its moons. Includes a photo gallery, journal reports, and background information. |
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| SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) |
Incredible resource of space-related sites, including the planets, the Hubble telescope, Mars exploration, etc. Includes a kid-friendly search engine. Highly recommended. |
| This Web Quest takes 3rd grade students on a mission to another planet in our solar system. |
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Biology and Life Science |
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X-rays of various parts of the human body. Should be previewed and bookmarked so that kids don't get lost in the medical terminology. |
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Columbia University's Virtual Body site. Includes animated and narrated tours of the heart, brain, digestive, and skeletal systems. Requires "Shockwave" plug-in to view. |
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Interactive game to learn the human skeleton. Sponsored by the FOSS project site at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS). FOSS is a research-based science program for grades K–8 developed at LHS with support from the National Science Foundation and published by Delta Education. |
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Butterflies, Insects and Spiders |
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This site offers endless information about butterflies and moths. |
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A website wholly devoted to butterflies. Includes Questions and Answers, a picture gallery, and sties related to Butterflies in Education. |
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Lots of information about butterflies. |
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Take a virtual tour of the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminister, Colorado |
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United States Geological Survey's butterfly site |
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Great butterfly pictures! Don't forget to click on the thumbnails to see larger images. |
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A school in Illinois studies butterflies. |
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Hypertext book about butterflies designed for students of all ages |
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Search for different kinds of spiders |
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Click on the insects to get some great information and see lots of excellent photographs! You'll see some of the best insect photos on the internet and find great insect facts. |
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Enchanted Learning's Dictionary Links' page. Click on letters to see a page of words that start with that letter. Then click on the links to find out more information. |
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Geology & Landforms |
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Topographical images of various landforms courtesy of the US Geological Survey. |
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Learn about minerals, sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks in this slide show. |
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Learn all about volcanoes, talk to vulcanologists, visit the world's volcanoes, see which ones are erupting now, etc. Sponsored by NASA. |
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Microworlds |
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| Microscopic Images sponsored by Arizona State University |
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| Links to microscopic images, and other websites of scientific categories from the Usborne Science Series |
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| Image Gallery from the Museum of Science, Boston |
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| A-Z Microscope Corporation Website |
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| Southwest Schools in Harrison, Ohio History of the Microscope |
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Weather |
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| An interactive weather site for kids by Dan Satterfield, a Meteorologist in Alabama. Learn about clouds, rain, snow, and other weather phenomena. |
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| Learn what makes a rainbow, how they develop, about primary and secondary rainbows. |
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| KIDSTORM is a web site where kids can get information, see pictures and graphics and find links on tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing. It's author is Chris Kridler, a journalist and photographer at Florida Today, on the Space Coast of Florida. |
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| Scholastic's Weather Watch site is a starting point for weather observations and investigations. |
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| A weather education site especially for students, parents, kids and teachers from national TV meteorologist Nick Walker. Listen to his "Musical Meteorology" songs about weather. Mr. Walker can be seen on The Weather Channel. |
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| Weather site for students sponsored by Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) and KGAN TV station. It has information and activities about weather. |
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| Weather Web Site for kids by Crystal Wicker, a weekend meteorologist for WRTV-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is full of great information about all types of weather, including clouds, rains and floods, hurricanes, winter storms, and even earthquakes! |
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| Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool
activities, and become |
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| Information, activities and links to weather sites. |
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| Beautiful photographs of the aurora borealis. |
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General Science |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about bubbles and more! Great pictures of interesting bubbles. |
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The official site for the inquiry-based FOSS science curriculum. |
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The Franklin Institute describes the six kinds of simple machines. |
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Learn about Leonardo da Vinci and his contributions as a scientist, inventor, and artist. Created by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network. |
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PBS Kids.org's Kitchen Chemistry page has experiments and activities for students.
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