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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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Colonial Williamsburg
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| This site, sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, offers a rich array of interdisciplinary educational resources from colonial history, social science, science, math, and archaeology to lesson plans and quizzes. |
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Earth's 911
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| This website is the result of a public-private partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, all 50 states, and several committed organizations and companies. |
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Education for Sustainability
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| This is a large site that hosts educational and factual materials about the sustainable use of resources, including water, general waste management, and textiles. |
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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| This site would be very useful for research about fisheries. It is well organized and provides many resources for the student. |
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International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management
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| ...I came to the FishBase. This is a wonderful resource for information about fish species of the world. |
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Kids Health
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| KidsHealth.org is a website devoted to the health of children and teens. The site has three main areas: one for kids, one for parents, and one for health care professionals. |
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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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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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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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| I highly recommend this site as a launching point for future online science activities. The links are very good and the site is well maintained. |
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Orphan Trains of Kansas
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| Orphan Trains of Kansas is a fast-loading, but not very expansive, website that navigates easily and is an obvious "labor of love" of Connie DiPasquale. |
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Orphan Trains of Nebraska
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| The website is not very expansive, but is fast loading, navigates easily, and has excellent hotlinks. |
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The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc
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| The website is easily accessed and is readily navigable, provides compelling sample color images of the cave’s extraordinary Paleolithic art, and documents current and ongoing modern scientific research. |
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The Critical Thinking Community
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| The notion of critical thinking has been around for many years. This site attempts to bring it down to earth, in useful form for practitioners and students. |
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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 National Fisheries Institute
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| The National Fisheries Institute website offers an important perspective of global environmental issues related to the fisheries industries. |
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The Titanic in the Classroom
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| This valuable site puts a 'human face' on the tragedy and has significant pedagogical potential for elementary- and secondary-school history and advanced classes in mathematics (especially statistics). |
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Titanic: A Special Exhibit from Britannica Online
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| Titanic, thought to be an unsinkable ship, went down on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic on April 14-15, 1912. This website is from Britannica Online and describes the history of this passenger liner. |
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U.S. Census Bureau
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| The U.S. Census Bureau website provides a wealth of data about the people and economy of the United States. |
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