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CosmicQuest @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis  --  CosmicQuest features: Living in Space: Design a Space Station. Can you match wits with NASA engineers and design a human habitat as good as the new International Space Station? Starting with a basic aluminum module, choose the best components to make it safe for astronauts. Focus on the basics at first, then try to improve your space station so astronauts can really work and live there for a long time!  Field Guide to the Universe. Learn about the planets, great astronomers of history and today, and the robot spacecraft that have discovered so much about the universe in this online field guide. In the Sky Tonight? What's that bright star up there? Is there a meteor shower this month? Find out what's up each month here.  SpaceWatch Webcasts. Streaming video programs about NASA spaceflight, astronomy, and more.  Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole. Follow a May 2000 expedition that will search for the magnetic pole's current location. (Added 02.08.2000)

JASON Digital Lab: Spacecraft Engineer  --  NASA needs your help! Can you design a spacecraft to protect the International Space Station from orbital junk? First learn how NASA engineers designed the STARDUST comet-sampling spacecraft, then design your own spacecraft for this new mission. (For fourth grade to adult) (Added 02.08.2000)

On the Prairie: Prairie ecology and environmental education from Bell LIVE!  --  Can you turn a barren plain into a healthy prairie? Take the Build-a-Prairie challenge! Choose the best plants and animals to bring to your prairie restoration site--and be sure to avoid dangerous exotic species! Then watch the prairie come to life in exciting animations!  (Added 02.08.2000)

ALICE HOMEPAGE (Active Learning In Chemistry)  --  Course materials that can be used by high school students/teachers interested in pursuing independent study. There are 29 chapters in the program - each with reading materials, questions to answer, problems to solve, and many laboratory activities to perform. The course material is free upon request and can be printed, photocopied, and given to students one chapter at a time. Caution: This is a Geocities site with intrusive advertising.  (Added 02.02.2000)

Amazing Science at the Roxy: Teaching Resource Center  --  In addition to some professional development resources/articles ("Constructivism in the Science Classroom", "Principles of Discovery Learning", "How to Present an Effective Classroom Demonstration", and "Science & Science Ed."), there are five lesson plans on the topics of bubbleology, cell theory, data analysis, ecology, and mixtures & solutions. The lesson plans have dual target audiences and can be used at the 5-8 or 9-12 grade levels.  (Added 02.02.2000)

The Circulatory System  (Added 02.02.2000)

Anatomy and Physiology  (Added 02.02.2000)

Beekeeper Server Home Page  --  University of Montana project offering data archives, snapshots and live bee video.  (Added 01.14.2000)

ANSMET - The Antarctic Search for Meteorites  (Added 01.14.2000)

About SETI   --  Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Added 01.12.2000)

BrainConnection   --  Everything you wanted to know about the brain and more. See current news, get information about medical conditions that affect the brain, download medical illustrations, get BrainFacts, look at the NeuroLite comic, and find out how your senses work in the NeuroSeries section. Also check out the Illusions section to give your brain a whirl. (Added 01.10.2000)

The Space Place --  Designed for kids, this site contains space projects and activities.  (Added 01.10.2000)

AAAAI National Allergy Bureau: Pollen/Spore Counts  --  This allergy industry site provides counts for pollen and spore produced by trees, weeds, grasses, and molds for select cities in the United States. Historical data for some cities is available from March 27, 1997. In addition there are FAQs on allergies and pollen , and a useful section on reading the count charts. (Added 01.10.2000)

EPA's Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Home Page  --   Information on common sources and health effects of indoor air pollution in homes, schools, and offices. Special emphasis on asthma, radon, and environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) [also known as secondhand smoke (SHS)]. (Added 01.10.2000)

The DNA Learning Center  --  This site provides DNA from the Beginning, "a multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heredity." The Resources section offers Bioservers, which allow for the use of bioinformatics or the use of computers to solve biological problems; Bioforms, interactive exercises; the Biology Animation Library covering DNA concepts; and Nucleotide Sequences, complete nucleotide sequences for a set of plasmids. GeneNews has links to recent news about genetics and genetic research. (Added 01.10.2000)

Fossil Horse Museum   --  Study the evolution of the horse at this virtual exhibit. See a Gallery of fossil horses, with many branches of the history of the horse; a Stratigraphy, a layer by layer description of how the fossils were made; Sedimental Journey, a geological time scale; Amazing Feets: Tales Told by Toes, with detailed information on the evolution of the hoof; and general information on the use of Latin or Greek names for species identification. An archive is also provided of the Pony Express, their newsletter about fossil horses, with issues back to 1992. (Added 01.10.2000)

Bizarre Stuff You Can Make in Your Kitchen (Added 01.10.2000)

FROG DEFORMITIES  --  Are elevated levels of nutrients and fertilizers in our watersheds damaging our ecosystems? Ecology Guide Jim Merickel reports on the strange plight of a bellwether species, the green tree frog. (Added 01.10.2000)

Free K-12 teachers resources, lesson plans, geology & minerals.  --  This site offers lesson plans, activities, posters, maps, and student help. You can download the lesson plans for free, or have them mailed to you for a charge of $8. This site really offers a tremendous amount of free or almost free resources for educators.

Helping Your Child Learn Science   --  This site encourages parents to introduce their children to science at home, even if they don't have a strong background in science! The Activities at Home section offers directions for a number of science experiments.

Engaging Science - Lesson Plan Exchange  --  The lesson plans at this site are searchable by category -- Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, and Life Science -- of by keyword. You can also submit your own lesson plans.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

How Fossils Are Formed  --  Colorful graphics and photographs of scientists at work accompany explanatory text in these excellent pages about fossils from the Royal Ontario Museum

Plant Fossil Record   --  Although this Website is maintained for botanists, it is a prime example of
how basic knowledge resources are taking root in the Internet, and it is well worth looking over as a model of academic digital technology. By clicking first on the Taxonomy icon, you arrive at an informal system of vascular plant classification based on C.J. Cleal 1993. The listing here is interactive, allowing you to click down from phylum, to class, to family, to genus. Other icons lead to ways to search the database by descriptions and occurrences. Paleo maps can be generated of locations by genus.

Science of Ballooning  --  Filling the mind with Hot Science and lifting students beyond rote study routines, these pages from PBS’s NOVA series are beautiful, exciting, and informative. The density section comes first, coming down to the basics of why a balloon leaves the ground and what causes it to come back to Earth. Next is a rule of thumb for how to tell how far away a balloon is from where you are -- a clever use of interactive steps through pages to teach a
practical calculation. Excellent small tutorials follow on the atmosphere and the jet stream.

FDA/CFSAN RFE0 Header   --  This searchable site lists fish and other seafood by market, common, regional, scientific, and family names. Images of whole fish and market cuts are provided. Taxonomic (physical characteristics) and other scientific information is available for some species and market and consumer hazard notes are given where applicable.

EPA - Kids, Students and Teachers  --  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put together a group of Web sites designed to help teach kids about the importance of protecting our environment. Users can visit the Explorers Club for ages 5-12, the EPA Student Center for middle school and high school students, or the Environmental Education Center for teachers. Each site has lots of games, projects, and learning activities to choose from.

The Soundry  --   The Soundry is an award-winning, interactive, and fun Web site about the science of sound. The site is broken up into five categories -- The Ear and How We Perceive Sound, The Physics of Sound, Applications of Sound, a Timeline, and the Interactive Sound Lab.

The Exploratorium's Science of Hockey  --  The Science of Hockey is the first in a series of "Sports Science" resources developed by the Exploratorium. This site takes you inside the game: you'll hear from NHL
players and coaches from the San Jose Sharks, as well as leading physicists and chemists.

Amazing Space Web-Based Activities  --  Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom: hands-on science activities  --  More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences.

Static Electricity   --  A lesson answering the question, WHAT IS STATIC ELECTRICITY?

Whelmer #31: Static Charged 2x4s -- www.mcrel.org  -- An experiment for all grade levels to show the effects of static electricity.

Main Menu for Y.E.S. Minibeast World  --  A lesson for grade 3-5 on bugs.

Microbes -- Special Section on Microbes and Disease on the Health Page.

Be sure to check the Health Category if you don't find what you want!