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A Walk Through Time
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| This site contains a great deal of information about the history of timekeeping. |
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Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
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| The Adler Planetarium provides exciting hands-on learning for students of all ages. |
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Amazing Space
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| Amazing Space is one part of the Hubble Telescope educational projects sponsored by the Space Telescope Institute (STScI), operated for NASA. It has some of the most interesting and lively, as well as useful, space information on the Web. |
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American Museum of Natural History
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| This splendid site is user friendly, contains current scientific information and interpretations, and is compelling to audiences from children through senior citizens. |
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Annenberg Media
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| This is the essential website for educators, parents, librarians, and students. |
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Apogee's Model Rocket Educational Guide
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| A 'list of sites' website, this page is remarkably well organized and easy to navigate. |
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AskERIC
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| AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents. |
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Astronomy Cafe
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| This is a vast and well-organized site for astronomy teachers, students, and enthusiasts. The sheer amount of information is breathtaking—a patient explorer could spend years following the many paths into the interstellar wilderness. |
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Athena Project
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| This is a thoughtfully organized location for K-12 science teachers and students. |
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BBC Science & Nature
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| BBC Science& Nature is a website chock-full of science content. |
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Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets
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| This page is a launching pad for a physical science unit on rocketry. All the background information an instructor might need can be found linked through this site. |
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Beyond Discovery
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| This site was established by the National Academy of Sciences in order to present a series of articles (ten as of this date), each of which highlights the role of basic research in solving or answering a scientific question or problem. |
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Boston Museum of Science
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| The Boston Museum of Science (MOS) has something for everyone. |
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California Academy of Sciences
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| The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is "to shed light on the wonders and value of the natural world" through the sponsorship of expeditions, research, and teaching. |
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Canada Science & Technology Museum
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| This is an easily accessible site with short, illustrated text pages, available (via a choice at the beginning) in either English or French. |
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Canadian Museum of Nature Online
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| The Canadian Museum of Nature Online site provides introductions to the many and varied programs available from its Ottowa and Alymer, Quebec facilities. |
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CERES Project
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| This is an excellent website and has a well-organized first page. |
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Chemical Heritage Foundation - Classroom Resources
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| Directed to teachers and students, the site’s goal is stated as providing a way to “incorporate the history of the chemistry and molecular sciences into the classroom.” |
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Earth & Sky
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| Teachers should definitely add this site to their resource list. Students should add it to their list of places to look for answers to questions they have about the world. |
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Earth From Space: An Astronaut’s Views of the Home Planet
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| This excellent site, which offers a well-organized library of images of the earth taken by the astronauts from space, is a testament to NASA’s goal of making space imagery accessible to the general public. |
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EMuseum
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| EMuseum's mission is to foster graduate and undergraduate education "through participation in research and scholarly activities." |
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
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| This U.S. Department of Energy site is the federal government's primary Web destination for public information on energy use. |
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Energy Quest
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| Energy Quest is a comprehensive energy education resource produced by the The California Energy Commission. |
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Environmental Protection Agency
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| The EPA website contains a multitude of environmental parts, including air, water, ecosystem, waste, and prevention subject areas. |
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ExploreLearning
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| This is a top-of-the-class learning site for anyone curious about scientific concepts and phenomena. |
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Explorezone.com
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| This site is easy to navigate and, I believe, it would be good for use in classroom teaching. |
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General Chemistry Online
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| The material is designed for general college chemistry, but is quite suitable for advanced high-school chemistry students also. |
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Glacier
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| GLACIER is a website devoted to Antarctica and the part Antarctica plays in our global system. |
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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| The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was established to do basic research in space and Earth sciences. |
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How Stuff Works
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| How Stuff Works (HSW), created by Marshall Brain, a computer scientist and award-winning educator formerly at North Carolina State University, is designed to provide science information and electronic links to science and technology sites, museums, magazines, and other question and answer sites. |
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HyperHistory Online
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| The primary function of this site is the description of history under four subsets: Science, Culture, Religion and Politics. |
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Infrared Astronomy
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| This website is by NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, part of the California Institute of Technology. It is a wonderful, voluminous presentation of infrared astronomy. |
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IPPEX
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| This site presents a very good view of the underlying physics and the research techniques involved in the the process of nuclear fusion. |
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Jefferson Lab
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| This site has a student zone with "homework helpers" as well as a teacher resource zone. Together they contain: games and puzzles, worksheets for students and teachers, student activities and teacher's notes. |
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Jefferson Lab - Science Education
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| Jefferson lab's long-term commitment to science education focuses on increasing the number of teachers with a substantial background in math and science, strengthening the motivation and preparation of all students, and addressing the serious under representation of minorities and females in science, math, engineering and technology careers. |
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Lawrence Hall of Science
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| There is something for everyone in this site—teachers, students, and the general public. |
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Learn About Energy
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| I recommend this site to teachers and students from middle school to the freshman year of college. I would urge parents and libraries to access this valuable site with many links. |
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Liftoff to Space Exploration
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| This site is quite interesting, informative, and large. It is useful as a resource site for information about NASA missions and topics related to our solar system and space exploration. |
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Little Shop of Physics
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| This site, with its collection of hands-on experiments designed to be used by students at all grade levels, is a great place to go to get ideas for physics experiments. |
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Making Science Make Sense
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| This is one of the best sites I have been asked to review. I enjoyed it immensely. |
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MathMol
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| MathMol (Mathematics and Molecules) is designed to serve as an introductory starting point for those interested in the highly specialized field of molecular modeling. |
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MESSENGER
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| The Mars rover Spirit is enthralling people on Earth as it just begins its mission, but the next planetary mission will be to Mercury and the MESSENGER website provides all the information about the mission and the planet. |
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Miami Science Museum
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| The Miami Science Museum website is a very polished, eye-catching representation of activities, outreach programs, and exhibits of the museum. |
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NASA Connect
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| NASA Connect is an annual series of free integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance-learning programs for students in grades 6-8. |
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NASA Quest
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| This is an excellent site for teachers and for a large range of ages of students. The site is a resource for educators and students interested in meeting and learning about NASA people and space science. |
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National Geographic
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| The website is easily accessed, readily navigable, provides an extraordinary variety of up-to-date information, and is recommended to students at all levels and the general public. |
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National Marine Sanctuaries
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This federal government website loads quickly, navigates easily, and provides links to associated federal and other websites. The up-to-date information provided is basic and non-technical, and very useful to grade-school students, educators, and the general public. |
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National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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| This site has excellent resources and ideas for teachers of K-12 students, including comet recipes, crater experiments, and pointers to hands-on activities which drive home the scale of the solar system. |
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Nebraska Earth Science Education Network
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| Nebraska Earth Science Education Network, NESEN, maintains a richly informative Web page designed for "Educators Networking to Improve Earth Science Education." |
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NOVA Online
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| There is something here for everyone with topics ranging from the bugs in your bed to the dinosaur fossils in the bedrock. |
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Observatorium
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| The Educator's Resources section is especially useful (mostly for grades 6-8 and 9-12), and there are also space-oriented versions of arcade and other games that young people will find interesting. |
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Particle Adventure
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| Overall, this is a very interesting site that offers an understandable, step-by-step approach to particle physics theory. |
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PBS Science & Nature
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| The science and nature portion of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) website provides an extraordinary educational experience. |
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PlanetScapes
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| “PlanetScapes” is an award-winning site hosted by the Hawaiian Astronomical Society. |
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Purdue University Department of Chemistry
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| The Department of Chemistry at Purdue University provides a main page of links, called Visualization and Problem Solving for General Chemistry, that leads users to difficult chemistry concepts for those studying or teaching general, undergraduate chemistry. |
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Reciprocal Net Common Molecules
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| Reciprocal Net Common Molecules could certainly entice a student of any age to study chemistry further, and even become a chemist! Cheers for this site and its builders. |
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School For Champions: Succeed in Physical Science
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| Perhaps the greatest advantage of the site is its organization. |
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Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
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| This is one of the most useful sites. I recommend it particularly for parents, teenagers, and science educators. It would also be very useful for researchers, librarians, college professors, and the public. |
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Science Is Fun
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| Science Is Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri is an excellent website describing the chemical education work of Bassam S.Z. Shakhashiri, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Science Learning Network
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| The Science Learning Network(SLN) is a partnership among six science museums and funded by Unisys Corporation and the National Science Foundation. |
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Science Museum of Virginia
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| The Science Museum of Virginia website has much to offer those curious about science. |
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Science@NASA
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| Science@NASA is one of NASA’s many first-rate websites for the general public. Its mission is to inform and excite the public about science begin done at or through NASA. |
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ScienceMaster
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| Overall, this is one of the most worthwhile sites for science educators I have encountered. |
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Scientific American
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| This website is a useful area for high-school and properly prepared middle-school students, as well as college students, to find items for discussion and exploration that are well presented, and accurate, to boot. Recommended. |
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SEED (Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development)
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This site is sponsored by the Schlumberger Corporation, an international firm with a strong interest in science and its applications. |
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Smithsonian Institution
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| The Smithsonian Institution site is extremely valuable, easy to use, compelling, and an excellent starting point for anyone seeking to know about science, its processes, outcomes, and history. |
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SOHO Exploring the Sun
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| This site, like many other NASA sites, is a wealth of information showing the full drama of solar activity, flares, and sunspots. |
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Solar System Exploration
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| This website is an extensive doorway to information about our solar system. It has goals, schedules, and plans for future exploration as well as well documented chronologies and histories of past missions and discoveries. |
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Space Educators’ Handbook
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| NASA’s Space Educators’ Handbook is a treasure trove of information, visuals, and ideas relating to the space program. |
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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
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| Of a number of similar sites that I have reviewed, this is one of the most comprehensive. |
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The Aurora Page
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| Although the many gorgeous photographs of auroras are a sufficient reason for searching through this site, it is also worthwhile to use it as a doorway into the entire field of astronomy. |
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The Center for Science Education
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| The Center for Science Education is one of a growing number of websites designed as a resource for teachers, students, and parents. The focus of the site is space sciences and astronomy. |
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The Educational Space Simulations Server
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| Chris Rowan developed this site devoted to space simulation, in a collaboration between the Houston Independent School District and Rice University. |
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The Exploratorium
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| The Exploratorium collects and reviews scientific websites. |
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The Franklin Institute Online
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| The Franklin Institute Science Museum website strives for currency and accuracy while preserving the 'entertaining' side of learning for the child in all of us. |
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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
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| Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth is just exactly what the title implies. There are many thousands of cataloged images from all or most manned space missions. |
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The International Boiling Point Project
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| This is one of the most delightful sites I have reviewed. The boiling point project is so universal, that it brings together climbers from Mt. Everest, professors from Wyoming, and children from Bolivia. |
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The JASON Project
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| The JASON Project has tremendous educational value. It is easily navigated by students and has a high interest level for all ages. |
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The Mineral Gallery
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| The website is scientifically accurate and includes basic and intermediate-level information. It navigates with ease and can be used confidently by science-minded students from middle school through university, as well as by professionals and the informed public. |
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The Mineralogy Database
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| The site is designed as a reference work for the serious student and a professional audience. |
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The National Air and Space Museum
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| The National Air and Space Museum's internet site is organized primarily to highlight the exhibits in the museum. |
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The Nine Planets
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| The Nine Planets site, created by astronomer Bill Arnett, is a comprehensive overview. |
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The Pendulum Lab
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This is a well-done site that can be used by a wide range of people. |
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The Physics Classroom
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| Among Internet sites that attempt to teach classical physics, this is one of the best. It is one of the very few sites that actually tries to teach the fundamental concepts of mechanics without oversimplifying the subject matter. |
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The SolarNow Project
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| The SolarNow Project, funded by the United States Department of Energy, is dedicated to education and research of alternative energy sources, with emphasis on photovoltaics. |
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The Sun - A Multimedia Tour
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| This site consists of eight main pages which are packed with visual information about the Sun. |
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The USGS and Science Education
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| The USGS and Science Education site, designed for K-12 education and lifelong learning, is a component of the United States Geological Survey website and is maintained by USGS. |
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The Why Files
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| I believe it to be an excellent site for both general audiences and classroom use for science topics of general interest. I have added the URL to my list of favorites. |
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The Yellowstone Net Geyser Information
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| As part of Yellowstone Online, this page provides teachers, students, and parents with photographs and information about geysers. |
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Theoretical Physics Fun
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| Overall, Theoretical Physics Fun seems to be a good popular science site. |
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U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department
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| The U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department has done an excellent job making the dry pages of numerical information of the Nautical Almanac come alive in interactive form. |
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Page
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| This site doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles. It does, however, contain useful information on what species are currently endangered, which is updated monthly. |
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USA TODAY Weather
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| USA TODAY's online weather site provides much more than daily weather reports and forecasts. As a teaching tool, the site can be used in numerous ways... |
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Utah Science Home Page
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| This resource consists of links and specially designed lessons that correlate with the Utah State science curriculum. |
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Virginia Air & Space Center
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| This website showcases the Virginia Air & Space Center, which is the official visitor center for NASA Langley Research Center. |
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Virtual Biochemistry Laboratory
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| This site presents computer animated laboratory experiments and lectures on biochemical techniques for which Nobel Prizes were given. |
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Visualization and Problem Solving for General Chemistry
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| Well worth a look by anyone confused about major concepts in beginning chemistry. |
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Water Resources of Utah
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| The website serves best as an introduction to brine shrimp and is a wonderful starting point for further investigation. |
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Whelmers-McREL's Accessible Science Series
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| The Whelmers website is a tremendous place for simple presentations and demonstrations. |
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Windows to the Universe
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| An excellent site for students of all gradeswith over 4,500 pages crammed with information, data, and visuals on all aspects of astronomy. |
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WW2010
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| WW2010 strives to integrate current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new technologies. |
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Yellowstone Net
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| This site is a mixture of many different kinds of information about Yellowstone Park. |
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Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
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| The Yohkoh Public Outreach Project website is a wonderful resource, containing more information about the sun than any student could want to know. |
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Zoom Dinosaurs
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| This is the best site I have seen. "Breathtaking" may be stretching it a bit for an adult, but not for the students eager to learn about this ever popular topic. This site is going to be on a lot of "favorites" lists. |
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