General Science Sites

 
  1. Using Life Science Knowledge (K-12)
  2. Using Physical Science Knowledge (K-7)
  3. Using Physics Knowledge (HS)
  4. Using Chemistry Knowledge (HS)
  5. Using Earth and Space Science Knowledge (K-12)
  6. Assessments for Science
  7. Concept Maps for Science
  8. Misconceptions for Science

 

5. Use Scientific Knowledge from the Earth Sciences in Real-World Contexts

 

The General Science Sites found here are Internet sites that do not meet specific science Standards.  The links are organized in the following categories: (click on the selected category to view that section): (1) Teaching Units / Lesson Plans; (2) Student Activities / Projects / Interactive Sites; (3) Information / Facts / Data / Reports; (4) Videos / Movies / Animations/Applets;  (5) Photographs / Slides / Diagrams / Graphics; (6) Periodicals / Journals / Newspapers; (7) Searches / Explorations / Investigations

Teaching Units/Lesson Plans

  1. 42eXplore New
    Why start with a search engine, when you can find a pathfinder to fit your needs at 42eXplore? When learning something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to eXplore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic. Go to the About Site page for more information about the website.
  2. Athena: Earth & Space Science for K-12
    This site offers several links to various earth science topics. The links take students and teachers to information, games and quizzes, and document files. Easy to navigate. There is something for students in all grades. Younger students will need help with reading.
  3. Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
    A very encompassing and comprehensive information and lesson resource on ocean science. It has a "Teachers' Top Picks" section and it's own search engine broken down by topic.
  4. Discovering Dinosaurs
    This site has many different activities for students to explore the possibilities of finding a dinosaur of their own.  They explore the questions of where did dinosaurs go?; did you eat a dinosaur for dinner? and what would you do if you adopted a dinosaur?.  There are teacher resources and lesson plans.  The site is easy to navigate through and very user friendly.
  5. Educating Young People About Water
    This site prvides links for teachers to order materials about water, watersheds and water quality. Many of the materials are free.
  6. Ground Water Foundations Kids Corner
    This is an excellent site for teachers and students covering every topic concerning water. The site has games and puzzles, coloring sheets, ground water basics, and activities.
  7. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory -Geosphere (EL)
    USGS web site monitoring Hawaiian volcanoes. This site contains teachers lesson plans.
  8. Imagine the Universe! Lesson Plans
    This is a list of lesson plans by subject.
  9. NASA Education
    This NASA site has various teaching and learning activities and provides information and links for students and teachers to learn about NASA. The site also contains links to a variety of activities and games for kids. The NASA Education Enterprise has the lead role in the accomplishment of the goal to "inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics".
  10. Online Meteorology Guide
    The Online Meteorology Guide is a collection of web-based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences. Selected pages link to (or will soon link to) relevant classroom activities and current weather products to reinforce topics discussed in the modules and allow the user to apply what has been learned to real-time weather data.
  11. Solar System SciPack
    This SciPack is a 10 hour online experience. Free access with registration at the National Science Teacher Association site. " The Solar System SciPack explores the solar system and the various bodies within it. The focus is on the Standards and Benchmarks related to how we have learned about the solar system and what we know about the planets, moons, and other bodies in the solar system. Special focus is also given to how the solar system and its bodies formed."
  12. Solar Views
    This is the table of contents for this site, everything and anything you want to know about our solar system from sun to planets, from asteroids to comets. Includes galaxy formation and the Big Bang theory. Check it out.
  13. Space Place
    This site is geared for Grades 4 to 8. Some materials could be adapted for high school. The Space Place includes activities and information related to the exploration of outer space, as well as Earth from space. Site contains printable images of Earth and Space. Dr. Marc's amazing facts tie space science into their everyday lives. The teacher's section has lesson plans and ideas. The activities support Standards for Technology Literacy as developed by ITEA.
  14. Space Science Hotlist
    Lists a variety of space science websites on topics ranging from the solar system, the stars, and the planets, to space travel and space images. Teacher resources, as well as basckground astronomical information, are provided.
  15. The Science Spot
    This site contains a multitude of links for a number of different science curriculum, including upper and lower grade levels. It also includes teacher lesson plans and interactive student activities.
  16. Windows to the Universe
    Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. Windows to the Universe has been in development since 1995. Our goal is to build an internet site that includes a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience. Our site is appropriate for use in libraries, museums, schools, homes, and the workplace. Students and teachers may find the site especially helpful in their studying (and teaching!) Earth and Space sciences. Because we have users of all ages, the site is written in three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels. These levels may be chosen by using the upper button bar of each page of the main site. There is a button to change language to Spanish.
     
Student Activities/Projects/Interactive Sites
  1. 42eXplore New
    Why start with a search engine, when you can find a pathfinder to fit your needs at 42eXplore? When learning something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to eXplore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic. Go to the About Site page for more information about the website.
  2. Bridges to Classroom
    This site is an interactive bridge building activity.  Students can read about people involved in the construction of a bridge.  Then they build a bridge, add safety features and test it with quakes from different faults and various magnitudes.  It provides background information on earthquakes.
  3. Earth Science Fun & Games
    This site contains links to games, crossword puzzles, and wordsearches. You can easily change the language to Spanish.
  4. ESA-kids- our- universe
    This is an interactive site covering Geosphere, Hydrospere, Weather and the Solar System. There are some acivities and games.
  5. Exploring Earth
    This is a great site adapted from a textbook that has very nice investigations and visualizations of all earth and space science topics. Nearly every page is interactive and animated.
  6. Ground Water Foundations Kids Corner
    This is an excellent site for teachers and students covering every topic concerning water. The site has games and puzzles, coloring sheets, ground water basics, and activities.
  7. Jeopardy Games
    This site gives teachers a fun way to review with students. This review would be great right before a test. The first slide is always followed by an answer slide. There are multiple topics which can suit most needs.
  8. Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - Environmental Education
    The site contains the following links: Kids Corner (games and activities), Student Center, Educators, General Public, Special Events, Ways to Care for our Environment, and External Fun Links.  This site contains brocures, lessons, games and activities dealing with the hydrosphere.
  9. NASA Education
    This NASA site has various teaching and learning activities and provides information and links for students and teachers to learn about NASA. The site also contains links to a variety of activities and games for kids. The NASA Education Enterprise has the lead role in the accomplishment of the goal to "inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics".
  10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    This is a great source for elementary students. This site has space related games, projects, animations, cool subjects, amazing facts and friends share.
  11. Ology
    This site was created by the American Museum of Natural History. It includes activities, videos, book lists, etc. to cover a wide variety of earth science concepts. It is appropriate for use at a variety of grade levels.
  12. The Science Spot
    This site contains a multitude of links for a number of different science curriculum, including upper and lower grade levels. It also includes teacher lesson plans and interactive student activities.
  13. Space Place
    This site is geared for Grades 4 to 8. Some materials could be adapted for high school. The Space Place includes activities and information related to the exploration of outer space, as well as Earth from space. Site contains printable images of Earth and Space. Dr. Marc's amazing facts tie space science into their everyday lives. The teacher's section has lesson plans and ideas. The activities support Standards for Technology Literacy as developed by ITEA.
  14. Welcome to WeatherWise
    Highly interactive teaching and training aids that you can use in class - with or without the descriptive information on weather. Useful for both middle and high school teachers.
  15. What on Earth?
    This is a jeopardy game for students, designed by NASA, which has questions on concepts about air, land, and water. Students answer the multiple choice questions and then find out the answers, while the computer keeps their score.
  16. Wonderful World of Weather
    By using hands-on activities and real-time data investigations, the students will develop a basic understanding of how weather can be described in measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind and precipitation. This is an interactive project that allows students to investigate weather locally and around the world.

Information/Facts/Data/Reports

  1. Ask An Expert Sites
    This site has an extensive list, by science topics, of "Experts" available to students to answer questions.
  2. Ask a Geologist
    You can email questions to an USGS geologist about volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, rocks, maps, ground water, lakes, or rivers.
  3. Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
    A very encompassing and comprehensive information and lesson resource on ocean science. It has a "Teachers' Top Picks" section and it's own search engine broken down by topic.
  4. Dinosaur Eggs-National Geographic
    Great photos and information about dinosaur eggs are included.  Hunt dino eggs around the world and visit the museum to learn more about dinosaur babies and parents.
  5. Earth and Moon Viewer
    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. In addition to the Earth, you can also view the Moon from the Earth, Sun, night side, above named formations on the lunar surface.
  6. Global Climate Change
    Deals with Global Effects of Climate change in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and more. Has graphs, pictures and interactions of the greenhouse effect and atmospheric change. Includes overview of the Earths systems including biospheres, hydro and atmospheres.
  7. It's All Mine
    This site has links to Mining, Minerals, Rocks, Gemstones, Environment, Mining Words, Mining Fun. There is background information, interactive quizzes, and interactive puzzles. There are also printer friendly versions of information sheets/quizzes. Covers a few 3rd grade GLCE's.
  8. Monitoring Glaciers to Watch Global Changes in Climate
    This site which is text, pictures, and descriptions explains how climatologists monitor glaciers to track climatic changes. Includes the following topics: Monitoring glaciers to watch climatic change; Types of glaciers; Challenges to detecting glacial change; Using satellites to measure glaciers; and Implications of glacial shrinkage.
  9. NASA Earth Observatory
    Using NASA datasets, you can produce global maps in the categories of atmosphere, ocean, land, life on Earth, and heat and energy. Examples include world maps showing annual rainfall, heat loss as infrared radiation, ocean surface temperature, vegetation cover, and more.
  10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    This is a great source for elementary students. This site has space related games, projects, animations, cool subjects, amazing facts and friends share.
  11. National Watershed Network
    The National Watershed Network is a registry of locally led watershed partnerships working to meet local goals through voluntary actions. This site enables you to access different watershed site for information.
  12. Space Place
    This site is geared for Grades 4 to 8. Some materials could be adapted for high school. The Space Place includes activities and information related to the exploration of outer space, as well as Earth from space. Site contains printable images of Earth and Space. Dr. Marc's amazing facts tie space science into their everyday lives. The teacher's section has lesson plans and ideas. The activities support Standards for Technology Literacy as developed by ITEA.
  13. Solar Views
    This site contains all the information you need to know on the solar system and beyond. It has information on the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and stars. It contains the creation of the galaxies, the formation and deaths of stars along with pictures and interactive views of outerspace phenomenom.
  14. Studying Earth's Environment From Space
    This site contains loads of quality general information. It's best features are the excellent figures, graphs, and diagrams of the main topics. These topics include: stratospheric ozone, global land vegetation, oceanography, and polar sea ice processes.
  15. The Hubble Space Telescope
    The Hubble Space Telescope Home Page has a 24-7 look into the control room of the Hubble Telescope located in MD. It also has live webcasts. It is a very cool site. Appropriate for grades 5-12.
  16. Volcano World
    Despite a rather low-tech design, this site lives up to its billing as the Web's premier source of volcano information. Check out the currently erupting volcanoes page to catch up with the dozens of mountains around the world that are blowing their stacks. There are pictures and videos, and even a section about volcanoes on other planets.
  17. WolframAlpha - Computational Knowledge Engine
    Outstanding Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation,and Wolfram Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Videos/Movies/Animations/Applets

Videos/Movies/Audio Clips

  1. Discovery Channel Beyond, Volcano Videos
    Videos on volcanoes and the science of Tsunamis.
  2. How Stuff Works
    This site contains real world videos that demonstrate a variety of earth science concepts. The videos include Discovery Channel , NASA, Science Channel, HowStuffWorks, and Mythbusters segments. It is appropriate for use at any grade level.
  3. JPL NASA Multimedia: Video Site
    Video shorts on a variety of Jet Propulsion Laboratory topics. A library of real and simulated clips (mostly large files) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs.
  4. NOVA
    Outstanding. Information regarding many science topics with downloadable video and podcasts. Teacher resource pages also available.
  5. Ology
    This site was created by the American Museum of Natural History. It includes activities, videos, book lists, etc. to cover a wide variety of earth science concepts. It is appropriate for use at a variety of grade levels.
  6. Optiputer Outreach
    This has an overview of earth layers, plate tectonics, its theory, plus interior Earth views. It includes pictures and animations along with quciktime views of Earthquakes and volcanoes.
  7. Savage Earth
    This site contains information from the PBS Series "Savage Earth". The site has information, animations, movies, about the earth's seismic activity. Major topics that are included: (1) Hell's Crust: Our Everchanging Planet; (2) The Restless Planet: Earthquakes; (3) Out of the Inferno: Volcanoes; (4) Waves of Destruction: Tsunamis. This is an excellent site for general information for teachers and students about the earth's seismic activity.
  8. Volcano World
    Despite a rather low-tech design, this site lives up to its billing as the Web's premier source of volcano information. Check out the currently erupting volcanoes page to catch up with the dozens of mountains around the world that are blowing their stacks. There are pictures and videos, and even a section about volcanoes on other planets.
  9. Water on the Web
    This site discusses real world environmental problems dealing with water. It contains a lot of water science information and data from many regional lakes and rivers. It is not very interactive, but it has very nice pictures, graphs, pop-downs, and some movies. Also included are teacher lessons with connecting student pages.

Animations/Applets/Simulations

  1. Earth and Space Science Applets
    The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs for earth science.
  2. Earth Science Animations
    Outstanding: This site from CMU has many animations for teachers to use in instruction. They are all earth science sites.
  3. Earth Science Animations
    This site contains several plate tectonic, continental drift, and geologic timeline animations.
  4. Earth Science Animations
    This site has animations on the following topic:Block Diagram, Plate Tectonics, Mineralogy, Volcanoes, Sedimentary Geology, Glaciers, Groundwater and Hydrogeology, Mass Wasting, Fluvial Processes, and Earthquakes and Seismology.
  5. Earth Science Animations-Portrait of a Planet
    A list of animations in earth science on the following topics: Our Island in Space, Earth Materials, Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet, History Before History, Earth Resources, and Processes and Problems at Earth's Surface.
  6. Earth Science Visualizations
    This site has links to numerous visualizations of earth science processes that students can use to help understand the various earth science processes that change the earth. Visualization cover a variety of topics: Volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain building, weathering processes, glaciers, atmospheric changes, weather, and many more topics.
  7. Exploring Earth
    This is a great site adapted from a textbook that has very nice investigations and visualizations of all earth and space science topics. Nearly every page is interactive and animated.
  8. Fowler's Physics (Space Science) Flashlets
    This website offers a number of flashlets that deal with space science. They include videos of eclipses, applets of orbits, and descriptions of wave phenomenon.
  9. From Cosmic Evolution to Human Kind
    Information from origins of the Universe to the present and beyond. It spans several changes in the composition of energy matter and life. Includes animations and interactions on particulate, galactic, stellar and planetary formation and more.
  10. Geology Animations
    This USGS site contains several animated gifs. You may use these animations for any educational purpose, you just need to cite the USGS as the source.
  11. Longshore Drift and Depositional Landforms
    This site shows animations of beach drift, wave patterns, and bar formations.
  12. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    This is a great source for elementary students. This site has space related games, projects, animations, cool subjects, amazing facts and friends share.
  13. Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction
    This site has a table with a large number of links to resources that can be used to teach earth science, and environmental sciences. In addition it contains other general links that contain information related to the above topics. Of particular interest is a site link to over 200 earth science animations that could be used to teach major concepts in your classroom.
  14. Savage Earth
    This site contains information from the PBS Series "Savage Earth". The site has information, animations, movies, about the earth's seismic activity. Major topics that are included: (1) Hell's Crust: Our Everchanging Planet; (2) The Restless Planet: Earthquakes; (3) Out of the Inferno: Volcanoes; (4) Waves of Destruction: Tsunamis. This is an excellent site for general information for teachers and students about the earth's seismic activity.
  15. Solar System Simulator
    Pick your planet, position, date, time, and field of view, and the simulator will show what it's like to see the universe from your own special standpoint.
  16. Star Gazer Videos
    These are the Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer video clips shown on PBS that are free to use. May be downloaded from this site or from iTunes.
  17. The Interactive Library
    Outstanding: This site has applets for all the science disciplines and they are all excellent. Mathematics is also part of the database.
  18. Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively
    This site has a great animation of the development of a waterfall.
  19. The Inner Solar System
    This site gives a animation of the planets orbiting the sun.
  20. USGS Videos and Animations
    This database contains a collection of USGS videos and animations. Topics include biology, climate change, geology, earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, and more.
  21. Weather Applets
    This contains a list of weather related interactive applets. Some excellent ones include topics such as hurricanes, tornados, relative humidity, rainbows, and precipitation.

Photographs/Slides/Diagrams/Graphics

  1. CCD Images From A Galilian Telescope
    This website presents digital images taken through an approximate optical replica of that used by Galileo Galilei for his astronomical discoveries of 1609-1611. Good links. Useable for all levels.
  2. Earth from Space: An Astronaut's view
    A small slice of a database containing more than 250,000 photographs of Earth, taken from beyond the bird's eye.
  3. Earth Science World ImageBank
    The Earth Science World ImageBank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This ImageBank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.
  4. Global Climate Change
    Deals with Global Effects of Climate change in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and more. Has graphs, pictures and interactions of the greenhouse effect and atmospheric change.
  5. Great South Gems and Minerals
    This site is an on-line collector's store for gems, minerals, and fossils.  It has wonderful photographs that can be enlarged and shown to a classroom.  It also has great descriptions of the items including dates and places regarding the fossils and chemical components of the crystals.
  6. Hurricane Hunters
    Fly into the eye of a hurricane with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve. No video, but this site takes you along for the cyber-flight in words and stills, and posts insider photos of the latest hurricanes as they come along.
  7. Science-Class.Net New
    Outstanding Within this site teachers will find a variety of earth science related power point presentations.
  8. TeraServer
    Microsoft's TerraServer serves up an astonishingly rich collection of aerial and satellite images of places on Earth. Simply type in or click on a location, then check out the bird-eye views and street maps.
  9. The Nine Planets - Earth and Space
    The Nine Planets is a great site to learning information about our solar system. Detailed information and numerous pictures showing features of the nine planets can be found at this site. Best used with students K-8.
  10. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Resources
    Image bank of soil profiles taken from around the U.S. (arranged by state)
  11. Volcano World
    Despite a rather low-tech design, this site lives up to its billing as the Web's premier source of volcano information. Check out the currently erupting volcanoes page to catch up with the dozens of mountains around the world that are blowing their stacks. There are pictures and videos, and even a section about volcanoes on other planets.
  12. Welcome to the Planets
    This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. It also contains a glossary of terms for Astronomy and the Solar System.

Periodicals/Journals/Newspapers

  1. Asteroids and Comet Impact Hazard
    Forget the movies, here's the real deal. Includes the latest scientific thinking on the 1997XF11 asteroid that will zip (relatively close) by Earth in 30 years. For high school students. This site is for the more advanced students.
  2. Earth and Sky Daily Radio Program
    This site provides access to the text and audio of the Earth & Sky daily radio program. Enhancements include feature articles on astronomical topics, resources for teachers, and a daily guide to viewing the sky.
  3. Goddard Space Flight Center HOT Topics
    This frequently updated and searchable roster of NASA news releases and images is a must for space junkies.
  4. Great Lakes Information Network
    A general site for Earth Science. The site is designed and maintained by the Great Lakes Commission. There are links to the Great Lakes: Great Lakes, Environment, Economy, Education, Maps & GIS and Tourism. This is a good general site for studies of the Great Lakes.
  5. Quest -NASA Projects
    This site contains many links to other NASA sites which have a vast amount of information dealing with K-12 science. Contains science lesson plans and activities.
  6. K-12 Earth Systems Science Project of the Network Montana Project
    This is a K-12 earth systems science project of the Network Montana Project. It includes online lessons in Atmosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Mountain Environments. This site features a desert plant of the month and discusses what it requires to survive. The site features an archive of desert plants. This archive is categorized by Wild Flowers, Cacti, Trees/Shrubs/Grasses, Poisonous Plants, and information. Includes links to desert life, maps, and index. Full color, loads fast.
  7. MarsNews
    MarsNews brings a daily dose of updates on the red planet, from new NASA images to the status of would-be expeditions. Its sections on Mars missions, planetology, and life possibilities can bring a novice up to speed. Lots of information on the red planet.
  8. NASA Human Spaceflight
    Read the latest news, meet the crew, chart their assembly progress, see the pictures, and peruses 3-D renditions of the station.
  9. NASA  Spacelink
    Outstanding site! Everything you ever wanted to know about space and space research.  Includes sections for educators, of projects, of current issues, and lots of links.
  10. Real Time Weather Information
    This site has a variety of links to real time weather information. It also includes links to weather projects and weather related lesson plans.
  11. SETI At Home
    At this stage of our technology, there's only one practical way to comb the cosmos for intelligent life: listen. At least that's the theory behind the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, and you may be able to help.
  12. Science Out of This World
    A Direct line (with search engine) to 1312 pages of Space and Science Content!  Video examples and many links.
  13. Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum Education Links
    This site contains numerous links to various Earth and Space topics: Aeronautics; Astronautics; Astronomy; Earth Science/Geography; Rocketry; Planetary Science; Space Exploration; and General Math & Science.
  14. The NASA Homepage
    This is NASA's homepage. It contains numerous links to science topics. An excellent site devoted to the exploration of space.
  15. U.S. Global Change Research Program
    Outstanding - Each year a report, (Our Changing Planet) is published by this program . The latest year's version is downloadable from this site.  The report is about 75 pages but it can be printed off all at once or in sections. The report includes how the changing geosphere affects the atmosphere and weather.  There are six focus areas on the site; Atmospheric Composition, Changes in Ecosystems, Global Carbon Cycle, Human Dimensions, Climate Variability and Change, and Global Water Cycle. Information on El Nino with daily graphs of the temperature of the Pacific Ocean is included Highlights section.
  16. USGS - Water Science for Schools
    This USGS site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.
  17. Weather
    You can learn what causes rain, thunder, tornadoes, and more.  Some of the links give good background or general resource information in the following catagories:  atmosphere, water cycle, powerful storms, ice/snow, forcasting, changing climate and ozone.  Students act as storm chasersby using guides to identify tornadoes and other weather events.

Searches/Explorations/Investigations

  1. Athena: Earth & Space Science for K-12
    This site offers several links to various earth science topics. The links take students and teachers to information, games and quizzes, and document files. Easy to navigate. There is something for students in all grades. Younger students will need help with reading.
  2. CIESE ONLINE Classroom Projects
    There are four project areas on this site; Collaborative Projects, Real Time Data Projects, Projects Primary Sources and Archived collections, Partner Projects and Past Projects.  Students can do the projects on-line.  Hyperlinks are given to students to go and find the data.  There are water projects, math projects, astronomy projects, population growth projects, Gulf Stream projects, weather projects and more.
  3. CIESE On Line Classroom Projects - Down the Drain
    The site has an on-line collaborative project where students can compare their water usage with water usage in different parts of the world.  Data to complete this project is found on the site.  There is a Teacher Area, that gives directions for the project and ideas on how to use it and a Student Area, where directions for the project are given right on-line.  There is also a place for students to submit their work and they will have an opportunity to have it placed on-line.
  4. Dinosaur Eggs-National Geographic
    Great photos and information about dinosaur eggs are included.  Hunt dino eggs around the world and visit the museum to learn more about dinosaur babies and parents.
  5. Earth Observatory
    You can read about them, or you can investigate changes in our climate and environment for yourself at Earth Observatory. An "observation deck" lets you see changes on Earth from the vantage point of outer space thanks to satellite imagery; at a "Lab" you can do some hands-on (or mouse-on) experiments in earth science.
  6. San Franciso Exploratorium
    The San Franciso Exploratorium has a home page with links to a Solar Eclipse Webcast, Science Wire, Hubble Space Telescope, Live Webcasts, Iron Science Teacher, The Learning Studio, and Observatory and a Sport Science link.
  7. Space Science Hotlist
    Lists a variety of space science websites on topics ranging from the solar system, the stars, and the planets, to space travel and space images. Teacher resources, as well as basckground astronomical information, are provided.
  8. Underground Adventure
    Students take a virtual tour of soil and participate in experiments along the way. This is a great site for upper elementary students.
  9. WolframAlpha - Computational Knowledge Engine
    Outstanding Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation,and Wolfram Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

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