Instructional Materials

Acid Rain Program. Acid Rain Program is part of the EPA efforts to reduce emissions responsible for acid deposition. It provides for middle grade science student resources featuring a collection of classroom experiments and activities for exploring acid rain effects on the environment.

Air Travelers. Air Travelers, provided by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), contains resources for teaching the science of balloons and lighter-than-air flight in grades 4-6. The site includes four student investigations/activities, teacher and science background materials, and a picture gallery, and movies of balloons and blimps.

Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory! Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory! provides a collection of school projects and classroom activities for teaching about environmental education in grades K-12.

Anatomy and Physiology Database. Anatomy and Physiology Database features ten systems of our human body where students in grades 7-12 can explore them online. The systems include the circulatory, the respiratory, and the nervous.

Animal Information Database. Animal Information Database, provided by Sea World/Busch Gardens, is an online encylopedia of animals for grades K-6. Among its resources are: Animal Bytes , quick and fun facts about selected animals; Animal Quizzes , matching sounds with the animals who make them, and a topic Index of your questions answered about animals, called "Ask Shamu".

Animal Tracks Kid's Page. Animal Tracks Kid's Page, provided by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), offers a variety of online activities for grades K-8 including interactive games and quizzes, environmental tours, and an Web edition of the Ranger Rick magazine.

Bad Science. Bad Science, maintained by Alistair B. Fraser, corrects the myths and misconceptions about science often taught in schools and found in popular articles and even school textbooks. K-12 teachers can find "good" science explanations for the following subjects: Bad Astronomy, Bad Chemistry, Bad Meteorology, and Bad Physics.

Bang! Boing! Pop! Bang! Boing! Pop! is an online guide to high school physics. Students can explore the topics of energy, linear momentum, and angular momentumand take interactive quizzes. The site also includes a glossary to help students learn physics.

Beakman's Electric Motor. Beakman's Electric Motor provides simple illustrated directions for showing kids in grades 4-8 how to make an electric motor out of ordinary household items.

Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man. Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man from the Franklin Institute Science Museum is an online exhibit containing electricity and weather activities for grades 4-8.

Beverly Lynds' Home Page. Beverly Lynds' Home Page offers two online illustrated tutorials, about rainbows and about temperature for students in grades 7-12. For classroom demonstrations on rainbows, click here.

BioChemistry 321. BioChemistry 321, taught at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, provides 12 student laboratory exercises for developing further identification of pigments in leaves and investigations into anthocyanins. Although this is an university level course, the materials are useful for high school biology students.

Brain Poke for the World Wide Web. Brain Poke for the World Wide Web provides an interactive anatomical map of the brain for students in grades 6-12. Students click on a part of the map to learn its name or function.

Bubbles. Bubbles, provided by the Exploratorium's ExploraNet, explores the forces that mold soap bubbles. The site answers the question: Why a bubble forms a sphere and not a cube, tetrahedron, or another geometrical shape? The site includes the following topics: Sticky Water, The Shape of Bubbles, When Bubble Meets Bubble, Soap, Bubble Colors, Bubble Formulae, Bubbliography, and Internet Resources. Also, enter the Bubblesphere where you will learn how to make terrific bubbles and find answers to Professor Bubbles' questions. To still learn more about the science of bubble making, click on bubble solutions.

Bug Club. Bug Club, maintainted by the University of Exeter students in England , provides a quarterly 16 page newsletter with activities and puzzles for kids in grades K-6, a pen pal page , and a list of care sheets for insect pets. For other related links, click on Insects Hotlist from the Franklin Science Institute and Ask Orkin.

Canada's SchoolNet. Canada's SchoolNet Resources Menu contains science activities for grades K-6. Among the topics are Earth Science, and Resource Sciences.

Cardboard Cognition. Cardboard Cognition is a collection of 200 learning games designed by Bernie Dodge's students at San Diego State University for different subject areas. To find games for grades K-12 in health and science, click on a Content and Age Group Chart and scroll to these subjects.

Carolina Online: Tips. Carolina Online: Tips is a newsletter, published by the Carolina Biological Supply Company, offering ideas and activities for teaching biology in grades 6-12. To be added to the mailing list for the newsletter (school addresses only), click on Subscribe to Carolina Tips , scroll down the page, and check the Carolina Tips box.

Cell. Cell is an interactive tour of the world of cells for high school microbiology students. The site includes five lessons, quizzes, cell gallery, a glossary, and online resources.

ChemCom: Chemistry in the Community. ChemCom is a chemistry curriculum with eight units and test questions written for secondary school students by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The site also offers teachers and students a list of Web sites for exploring ChemCom on the Internet and science teacher's resource center with chemistry sites.

25 chemistry experiments for grades 9-12 can be found at ChemWeb online and CyberChemistry.

ChemMystery. ChemMystery, an exhibit in the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, contains a list of online chemistry experiments that elementary school students can do at home or at school.

Children's Butterfly Site. Children's Butterfly Site, for grades K-6, provides a gallery of beautiful photos of moths and butterflies, printable coloring pages of the Monarch butterfly's life cycle, facts about butterflies and moths, and links to other butterfly Web sites.

Cells Alive! Cells Alive! features a fascinating collection of pictures and animations including clear explanations to help you understand cells. You can see how penicillin destroys bacteria, how cells keep their shape, how they communicate, view microscopic parasites, and learn much more. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Cell Biology Laboratory Manual. Cell Biology Laboratory Manual, useful for high school biology classes, contains a variety of topics including the microscope, histochemistry, cell fractionation, electrophoresis, ezymes, and membranes. For the complete list of topics in the manual, click on its table of contents.

Chemistry Problem Sets. Chemistry Problem Sets, developed by Scott Van Bramer at Widener University, cover a wide range of introductory topics and solutions are provided. Although this material is intended for university students, many of the topics are well-suited for high school chemistry students too.

Chemistry Teaching Resources. Chemistry Teaching Resources, maintained by Knut Irgum of Umeå University in Sweden, is a comprehensive list of online resources for teaching chemistry in grades 2-12. Among the resources are courses and hypertexts, curriculum material, demonstrations and experiments, graphics and visualizations, periodic tables, and suppliers.

Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Children's Museum of Indianapolis offers a collection of online exhibits featuring fun science activities for students in grades K-5. Among the resources are Paleo Prep Lab, ScienceWorks with activities and links, Biotech Learning Center and Playscape for children 5 and under. In addition, the museum provides a list of Future Exhibits showing what will be opening in the near future.

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden offers a curricula with conservation and diversity activities for grades K-12. In addition, students can submit and view artwork or participate in a weekly animal photo quiz.

Cloud Catalog. Cloud Catalog from the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences (UIDAS) features classroom activities, background information, pictures and descriptions of the different cloud formations. UIDAS also includes an Online Guide to Meteorology containing a collection of multimedia instructional modules that introduce and explain fundamental concepts in meteorology for students and teachers in grades 5-8. Another good site for learning about clouds is Cloud Boutique, contributed by Plymouth State College in New Hampshire.

Computer as Learning Partner (CLP). Computer as Learning Partner (CLP) project provides an energy curriculum and integrated units on heat, light, and sound, with each containing experiments and activities for middle school students.

Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP). CPEP, a non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists worldwide, provides instructional materials to aid in the understanding of particle physics for high school students. The site features an interactive tour of the inner workings of the atom including reproducible classroom activities for students. The teacher pages for these activities are password-protected. Contact CPEP to obtain your password. In addition, the site offers an online course on fusion .

Critical Thinking Activities. Critical Thinking Activities by Sylvia Mader is a collection of activities useful to high school biology teachers.

Cow's Eye Dissection. Cow's Eye Dissection, provided by the Exploratorium for grades 5-8, is an online step-by-step demonstration of what is inside a cow's eye.

Curious Kids Science Newsletter. Curious Kids Science Newsletter offers online science activities for kids in grades K-8.

Current Science. Current Science , published by the Weekly Reader Corporation for students in grades 6-10, offers an online edition with sample articles and links to related Web sites.

Curriculum Maximizer. Curriculum Maximizer from Teachers.Net offers a collection of learning materials and Web sites for teaching science in grades K-12.

Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page. Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page is where kids in grades 3-6 can learn how the weather works, find out interesting facts, and follow links to other good weather sites.

Demonstration List By Outline Topic. Demonstration List By Outline Topic, provided by the University of Maryland Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility, features an annotated list of physics demos with photos organized by topic. These demos offer a fund of knowledge and activities for teaching physical science in grades 6-12.

Digital Anatomist Program. Digital Anatomist Program, provided by the University of Washington in Seattle, contains four online interactive atlases where students in grades 6-12 can see 2-D and 3-D views of the following structures: the brain, the neurosystem, the thoracic organs, and the knee.

Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology. Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology Michigan State University provides online microbiology resources for high school students and teachers. The site includes links to the Microbe of the Week, the Microbe Zoo, Microbes in the News, Meet the Scientists, and much more.

Dinosaur Dictionary. Dinosaur Dictionary is an interactive version of The New Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books. It includes 20 different dinosaurs where kids can click on the name of a dinosaur to see a picture of it, hear its name pronunced, and read facts about it. Kids can also find dinosaur facts and have their dinosaur questions answered at the Dinosphere in the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

Discovery Channel School. Discovery Channel School is an educational service of Discovery Channel Online for grades 6-12. It offers a wealth of supporting classroom materials including student activities, discussion questions, related links, vocabulary pages, and academic standards to accompany its television programs. For science, there are Understanding the Universe and Planet Ocean programs for Learning Adventures.

Dole 5 A Day Home Page. Dole 5 A Day Home Page provides nutrition information about fruits and vegetables for elementary school students. It offers a collection of fun interactive activities for kids, teaching suggestions (school), and facts about food in the nutrition center. Teachers can order a free CD-ROM from Dole.

Dragonfly. Dragonfly is a bimonthly science magazine for students in grades 3-6 featuring an online edition with different seasonal themes and interactive activities.

Earth Day. Earth Day, part of the the Wilderness Society's home page provides activities and historical background about Earth Day and encourages us to make Earth Day every day. To celebrate Earth Day, students in grades K-6 can color a coloring book with pictures of animals in the Arctic, listen to a message from the founder of Earth Day, and view an Environmental Timeline to observe Earth Day on April 22.

Earth Day Groceries Project. Earth Day Groceries Project, started by Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, is a yearly event where over 75,000 students in grades K-6 joined together in 1996 on the Internet to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. Click here to find out how you and your class can participate in the 2004 online project. For questions about the project, click on FAQ . For a list of other online activities to celebrate Earth Day, click here.

Earth System Science Community (ESSC). ESSC is a consortium of Wasington, D.C.'s Gonzaga College High School teachers and students using the Internet to research earth science phenomena.

Edu-Source: Resources for Environmental Education . Currently, the site includes an online ten-page on Red-tailed Hawks and printable clip art for a variety of environmental topics.

Electronic Desktop Project Home Page . Electronic Desktop Project Home Page from California State University at Los Angeles (CSLA) features two online science tutorials for high school students and teachers. Virtual Dating is an interactive exercise teaching about Geologic Time, and the Virtual Earthquake teaches the principles of epicenter and magnitude determination.

Elementary Science Program Homepage (ESP). Fred Arnold's ESP site provides a wealth of science resources for the elementary school including a collection of monthly student activities. To view a list of all the site's resources, click here.

Elementary Science This Month. Elementary Science This Month published by the Mankato State University College of Education in Minnesota is an online monthly magazine featuring timely science activities and articles of interest to students in grades K-6. For back issues, click here.

Encarta Learning and Research.Encarta Learning and Research from Microsoft Corporation provides a variety of topics containing online learning activities and Web links for students in grades 6-12. The science topics are devided into Life Sciences, and Physical Science and Technology.

Endangered Species. Endangered Species, part of the EE-Link Home Page contains an extensive collection of resources for grades 4-12. The site includes classroom activities and projects, lists and profiles of animals and plants at risk around the world, environmental law and policy, a collection of endangered animal images and factsheets, and a U.S. clickable table where you can find out which species are threatened or endangered in each state.

Energizer Learning Center. Energizer Learning Center provides clear instructions for doing electricity experiments with batteries. Students (grades 3-6) will be able to make a burglar alarm and an electromagnet.

Energy Quest. Energy Quest, provided by the California Energy Commission, offers a large collection of activities organized by difficulty levels for teaching about energy in grades K-12. Among the activities are Games and Puzzles, Science Projects, Super Scientists, and Devoured By The Dark.

Environmental Science 3205. Environmental Science 3205, part of the STEM~Net Science Working Group, provides a variety of topics for studying ecology organized by basic concepts, local Canadian issues, and global issues. Although this material is intended for university students, the site is useful for any (6-12) class studying the environment.

Environment Canada's Pacific and Yukon Green Lane. Environment Canada's Pacific and Yukon Green Lane offers a variety of educational (school) resources for grades 3-6. To find activites about the weather, scroll to Project Atmosphere Canada where students can learn about Wind Chill , the Arctic Ozone , climate change, and the UV index.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Students and Teachers. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a collection of environmental resources organized by topic for students and teachers in grades K-12. The topics include teaching aids/curriculum guides, facts about the environment, and are schools environmentally safe?

Evergreen Curriculum. Evergreen Curriculum, prepared by Saskatchewan Education Curriculum and Instruction Branch, provides curriculum ideas and activities for teachers in grades 1-12. For science, click here. There are instructional materials for elementary level science, middle level science, grade 10 science, Evergreen Curriculum., and physics.

Exploratorium Exhibits. Exploratorium Exhibits present an online collection of interactive experiments in sound, color, and vision for students in grades 4-8.

Exploring Leondaro. Exploring Leondaro, developed by the Museum of Science in Boston, is where students in grades 4-8 can learn about Leonardo da Vinci, one the greatest minds of the Renaissance. For interactive activities with machines, click on Gadget Anatomy and Leonardo's Mysterious Machinery. The hot list of Leondaro Links features other useful sites including Guide to Atmospheric Optics.

Fermilab Education Office. Fermilab Education Office offers instructional materials in physics for K-12 teachers. Click on samplers for a list of the materials and Sciencelines, a quarterly newsletter with classroom activities.

Fish FAQ: A Bouillabaisse of Fascinating Facts About Fish. Fish FAQ: A Bouillabaisse of Fascinating Facts About Fish is provided by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) at the Woods Hole Laboratory. It features more than a 100 of the most frequently asked questions about fish.

Fisher Teaching Tips. Fisher Teacher Tips is an online service featuring classroom ideas and activities categorized by subjects for high school science. Teaching tip categories include biology, chemistry, earth science, equipment & supplies, and physics. In addition, site provides a science calendar with weekly notable science facts and events.

Florida EXPLORES: Basic Skills and Activities. Florida State University's EXPloring and Learning the Operations and Resources of Environmental Satellites Web site provides instructional activities for meteorolgy in grades 6-12.

Food Guide Pyramid. The Food Guide Pyramid from the University of Minnesota for grades K-6 is a guide to help students choose a healthful diet. Other useful sites are the Food Pyramid Guide and the Food Guide Booklet from the Consumer Information Center.

Franklin Institute Spotlights. Franklin Institute Spotlights cover a wide variety of science topics that include classroom activities and related Web sites for grades 4-8. Among the topics are simple machines, living things, rocks and minerals, and animal migration.

Fremont Science Department. Fremont Middle School Science Department offers for grades 6-8 award-winning science fair projects, a collection of Web sites organized by topic for doing a research report, a collaborative science fiction writing project, rainforest and tornando activities, and links to science sites.

Frogland. Frogland contains interactive activities, photos, and information about frogs for grades K-12. Primary grade students can color frogs in a coloring book and teachers can visit teachers corner to find classrom activities.

Fun Science Gallery. Fun Science Gallery, for grades 6-12, contains instructions on how to build your own telescope, microscope and other instruments using easily-obtainable materials.

Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA). FSEA is a nonprofit organization that promotes science and engineering for students in grades 4-12. To find a list of projects organized by grade level, click on catalog.

Genetics Education Center. Genetics Education Center, sponsored by the University of Kansas Medical Center, provides instructional materials and activities for high school biology classrooms. There are online resources for the Human Genome Project , genetic education, networking, and miscellaneous sites such as the MendelWeb.

Genetics Source. Genetics Source is an on tutorial with six lessons about genetics for high school biology students. In addition, the site provides two easy-to-do labs for the students.

Good Green Fun. Good Green Fun provides songs and activities for grades K-6 to learn about the environment and conservation. Audio bytes and lyric sheets help the kids to learn songs, and the activities include easy-to-follow instructions.

Gordon's Entomological Home Page. Gordon's Entomological Home Page contains an alphabetical list of all his pages about insects for grades 6-12. Among the resources useful to students and teachers in grades 6-12 are an introduction to insect anatomy, the school page, the insect orders and the insect page.

Goose Holler. Goose Holler provides hands-on lesson plan ideas for middle school science.

Green Valley Recycling Coloring Book. Green Valley provides an online coloring book where primary grade kids can learn about recycling. Each page can be can be printed out and copied for the whole class to use.

Green Teacher. Green Teacher, a quarterly environmental magazine, provides cross-curriculum activities for grades K-12. To find the activities, click on online articles, scroll to "The Planet Earth Pages", and select a topic of interest to you from an issue.

Guess What? Guess What?, is one of the games provided by WNET/PBS. The site includes eighteen other interactive nature puzzle games for students in grades 2-6.

Hands-On Activities in the Physical Sciences. Hands-On Activities, contributed by Rick Bady, contains a wide variety of physical science experiments useful for grades 5-12. The categories include observation and measurement, physical and chemical properties, forces and their effects, and energy, and each category offers a large collection of activities.

Happy Earth Day Coloring and Activities Book. Happy Earth Day Coloring and Activities Book contains 11 pages of science fun for students in the primary grades. You must download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print out the pages.

Heart Preview Gallery. Heart Preview Gallery, created by Franklin Institute Science Museum, presents an online interactive tour showing how the heart works. The tour also includes activities and a glossary useful for grades 4-8. In addition, there is a list of Things to do and a list of Things to See during the tour of the heart.

High Plains: Land of Extremes. The High Plains: Land of Extremes, based on a September 1996 article in NSTA's magazine, Science and Children , features classroom activities and color pictures to help students in grades 3-6 to learn about this great ecosystem.

HistoWeb. HistoWeb or Histology on the Net, provided by the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, presents hundreds of microscopic anatomical slide images for cell structure, glands, nervous, bone, and eye & ear. The site is appriopiate for high school biology students.

Homework Hotline. Homework Hotline, a feature of TeachNet's Blue Plate Special, offers cross-curriculum homework activities for the primary grades.

Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam Web site provides a self guided tour, background information, pictures, and cross-curriculum learning activities about the Hoover Dam and the surrounding area for grades 6-8. There are classroom activities for the history, wildlife, water resources, and hydroelectricity which can be used without an actual visit to Hoover Dam.

How Does A Thing Like That Work? How Does A Thing Like That Work?, developed by David Willey of University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, presents more than 25 dramatic physics demonstrations useful for grades 6-12. The topics include Newton's Laws, heat, air pressure, electricity, and energy & pressure.

How Pollination Occurs. How Pollination Occurs is an online presentation for grades 3-6. In addition, ScottForesman offers a list of online health activities , teacher resources, and an interactive fitness Biathlon game from its K-8 Fitness for Life series.

How The Weatherworks. How The Weatherworks provides monthly cross-curricular activities and answers a question for studying about the weather in grades preK-12.

How Things Work. How Things Work is a monthly compilation of Physics Professor Lou Bloomfield's explanations to science questions asked by his readers. Use the pull down menu for questions organized by date or topic. Students and teachers in grades 5-12 may submit their questions for Professor Lou Bloomfield to answer.

IllusionWorks: Sensory Experience. IllusionWorks: Sensory Experience contains the largest collection of illusions accompanied by scientific explanations on the Internet for grades 4-12. The site also includes science projects for the classroom. Java and Shockwave are required to see the puzzles and interactive demonstrations.

InnerBody. InnerBody is an online anatomy exploration with over 100 illustrations of the human body for students in grades 6-12. InnerBody uses Java applets to show images and select anatomy parts. Java support must be enabled in your browser.

Internet Plasma Physics Educational Experience (IPPEX). IPPEX, pronounced "Eye-pecks", provides an introduction to fusion and tokamaks for students in grades 7-12. The site includes a series of interactive physics modules prepared by the Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). The online modules cover matter, electricity and magnetism, energy, and fusion. Students can also get answers to specific physics questions by emailing a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and review the archives of previously asked questions. To use of all the pages, you must have a Java-compatible browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.01 and Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in.

inQuiry Almanack. inQuiry Almanack is an online monthly magazine published by the Franklin Institute Science Museum for grades 2-6. Each issue provides links to a different science topic and features an exploration in the section "Minutes from ME". To find pevious issues dating back to March 1995, click on archives..

Inquiring Minds. Inquiring Minds, produced by TVOntario in Canada, is a weekly science program for students in grades 6-12. The site also includes an alphabetical item index containing a variety of topics from acne information to dinosaur bones, along with Web sites for each topic. Students can use the material independently of the telecasts.

Instructional Materials. Instructional Materials, provided from the CoVis Project, is a collection of geoscience materials and activities organized by topics for grades 5-12. The topics include atmospheric sciences, environmental science, geology, oceanography, and volcanoes.

Instructor Information. Instructor Information, provided by Sylvia Mader, offers a chapter-by-chapter list of student activities, study questions, and Web sites to accompany her textbook, Biology. The material can be used independently by any high school biology teacher.

Integrated Resource Packages. Integrated Resource Packages, developed by British Columbia Ministry of Education, are plans and guidelines for teaching the various curriculum areas in grades K-12. Included in each of the science packages for grades K-7, 8-10, 11 science & technology, and for 11-12 biology, 11-12 chemistry, 11-12 earth science & geology, and 11-12 physics are prescribed learning outcomes, suggested instructional and assessment strategies, and recommended learning materials.

Interactive Chemistry: Oxidation/Reduction. Interactive Chemistry presents topics for the study of oxidation-reduction chemical reactions for AP high school chemistry students. The site offers basic and extended concepts, exercises, and everyday examples including the rusting of metals, the process involved in photography, the way living systems produce and utilize energy (photosynthesis), and the operation of a car battery.

Interactive Frog Dissection Kits. The University of Virginia Interactive Frog Dissection Kit and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Virtual Frog Dissection Kit are designed for use as a tutorials in a high school biology classroom. They describe the preps, purposes, and procedures and also offer an online game with good graphics/pictures showing an actual dissection. The LBNL kit is available in English and Spanish.

Interactive Patient. The Interactive Patient allows students in grades 5-12 to simulate an actual patient encounter by examining an imaginary patient who complains of back pain. Students can ask him questions, take x-rays, make a diagnosis and prescribe medicine. Though mainly designed for med students by Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia, it's an ideal way to introduce younger students to the world of medicine.

Interactive Physics Problem Set. Interactive Physics Problem Set, provided by U.C. Berkeley Instructional Technology Program, contains almost 100 practice problems with detailed solutions for physics students. The site also offers interactive Mac computer experiments for physics classes. For another a collection of physics problems, click here.

International Access Online: How Things Work. International Access Online: "How Things Work" provides explanations for a variety of objects as the air conditioner, the ballpoint pen, the escalator, the motorcycle, the X-ray, and many others. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Invention Dimension. Invention Dimension, sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), contains biographical sketches of over 60 famous American inventors and their discoveries. Among the inventors are Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Grace Murray Hopper, and Granville T. Woods. The site is suitable for students and teachers in grades 4-12.

ION Science. ION Science is an online science and nature magazine for grades 6-12. It includes a featured article each month, weekly short science news stories, and an archive of past featured articles. For science news at a glance, click here.

JASON Project. JASON Project, sponsored by National Geographic Online, plans annual two-week scientific interactive expeditions around the world for students in grades 4-8. Students can participate online in JASON XV: Rainforests at the Crossroads , which is scheduled for January,2004. Through the Internet and live broadcasts, they will meet scientists, studying glaciers, volcanoes, geysers, and geothermal energy. The site also includes highlights from its past expeditions and its current online projects.

Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book. Joy of Visual Perception is an online book about vision for grades 4-12. Its table of contents offers many fun activities including famous optical illusions. To find a specific topic on vision, browse its alphabetical index.

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection. Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection contains a variety of collaborative and network activities that encourage communication through the use of email. For Internet-based science activities, click here .

Kendra's Coloring Book. Kendra's Coloring Book is an online interactive coloring book for grades K-3 with pictures of insects, plants, animals, frogs, and more. Students can chose from14 virtual crayons or mix their own colors.

Kid Crossword and Other Puzzles. Kid Crossword and Other Puzzles, published monthly by Brian Goss, is a 24-page collection of crossword and other puzzles with answers for grades 3-12. Among the current science puzzles are nutrition and dinosaurs. To find previous month's offerings for science, click here .Teachers and students can print out and solve these puzzles.

Kid's Corner. Kid's Corner, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Rsources Division, presents a coloring book of 20 endangered animals for students in grades K-3. In addition, the site offers an instructional slide show and facts sheets of various endangered species for students in grades 3-6.

Kids Did This in Science! Kids Did This in Science!, maintained by the Franklin Institute Science Museum for grades K-12, is a list of students' science home pages sorted by topic. The topics range from the life to the phsyical sciences, and the last topic on the page, "miscellaneous", features many classroom experiments.

KidsHealth.Org. KidsHealth, Nemours Foundation, contains a kids section for children and teens featuring where kids can have fun learning about health, play games, watch animations, read interesting articles and answers to kids' questions. Topics include nutrition, bug bites, how the ear works, medical words, safety, fitness, and behavior.

KinderGarden. KinderGarden, maintained by Texas A&M University, offers school garden considerations and a step-by-step guide to starting a school garden for grades K-6. The site also includes a fun page complete with activities for kids including ideas for fun projects.

Knowledge Adventure. Knowledge Adventure offers interactive science games from its popular CD-ROM software for primary grade kids. Kids can create their own dinosaurs, feed the fish, or play anatomy concentration.

Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) Curriculum. KIE Curriculum, from the University of California at Berkeley, contains online individual and group science projects for middle school students. The projects include "Aliens on Tour", "All The News", "Dinosaur Extinction", and "How Far Does Light Go?".

Let's Talk Science. Let's Talk Science, a Canadian science education organization, offers Hands-on Activities for grades K-12.

Making A Weather Station. Making A Weather Station, provided by the Miami Science Museum for grades 2-5, teaches students how to make weather instruments to observe the wind, moisture, relative humidity, temperature, and air pressure. Students also learn how to read a thermometer, graph temperature, make a barometer, and measure rainfall.

Mentors for Elementary. Mentors for Elementary from Access Excellent Activities Exchange provides hands-on, cooperative science learning activities for students in grades K-6. The topics include center of gravity, inertia, density, and sound waves.

Meteorology A to Z. Meteorology A to Z, created by meteorlogist Nick Walker, is a song about the weather with links to each letter. Each link provides an explanation, and there is a definition of each weather word. The site is an online source of weather information for grades K-6 and includes a list of weather topics for auroras, clouds, fog, forecasting weather, hurricanes, and others.

Monarch Watch. Monarch Watch, developed by the Department of Entomology at the University of Kansas, is an outreach program to promote conservation of monarch butterflies and to involve students and teachers in a cooperative study of the butterfly's fall migration. To find curriculum activities and materials for grades K-8, click on Monarch Biology, Conservation, Vocabulary, Terms and Concepts, Butterfly Life Cycles, and Rearing Monarchs. In addition, the site includes resources featuring books and educational sources about monarchs and butterflies.

Missouri Botanical Garden's Learning Network (MBGnet). MBGnet is a rich source of classroom activities and interactive science projects for teachers and students in grades 2-8. Students can learn about biomes and explore six online Virtual Biomes and six ecosystems.

Muscle Page for Kids. Muscle Page for Kids in grades 2-6, maintained by the OrthoDoc Pain and Posture Clinic, provides useful illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations helping kids to learn about the muscles in their bodies, what they do, and how they work.

Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) Education Department. MSI Education Department provides teacher's guides containing interactive science activities for students in grades 6-12. To find an activity, select a booklet and click on the sample exercise.

National Geographic Online. National Geographic Online takes middle and high school students on interactive online scientific expeditions around the world. Students explore a fantastic forest and discover plants and animals in the woods and learn all about their habitats, go on a Congo Trek and walk through Africa's forests, swamps, and grasslands, and learn about Wildfires, in the national parks and forests.

National Geographic World Online. National Geographic World Online, a magazine for students in grades 3-8, offers fun science experiments in its try this section and Surprise! section featuring links to far-out things, the world, and animals. The online magazine also includes interactive games and movies.

Nature's Best: The Human Body. Nature's Best: The Human Body presents information about the eight major biolological systems of our body for students in grades 7-10.

Nebraska Department of Education Gopher Menu. Nebraska Department of Education Gopher Menu provides an alphabetical list of Internet-based science activities for grades K-12. Among the topics are anatomy and physiology, archeology, paleontology, and dinosaurs, meteorology, and zoology.

New Scientist Planet Science. New Scientist Planet Science is a free weekly online edition of the international science magazine, the New Scientist for grades 9-12. It contains science news, features, reviews, and answers to questions about scientific phenomena in everyday life. In addition, the magazine includes a large collection of weblinks for science teachers.

Nova Online. Nova Online, produced by PBS/WBGH in Boston for grades 6-12, provides activities for students in the hot science library and teacher's guides library to accompany the popular science television series, Nova. You can also see a list of programs by title or by interest.

Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, part of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides water cycle experiments and word search activities for teachers and students in grades 3-8 that can be printed out. The office also publishes an online monthly newsletter featuring a different theme with fun facts, games, and projects for kids to learn about our water environment. For a list of other water-related activities for kids from the EPA, click here. In addition, try these simple water experiments complete with diagrams and instructions.

Optics For Kids. Optics For Kids is brought to you by the Optical Society of America (OSA). It provides educators with lesson plans that are segmented by grade level.

Organic and Biochemistry. Organic and Biochemistry, intended as an introductory college class, features a collection of Barry Ganong 's chemistry experiments that can be readily adapted for use in the high schooland also used as exciting demonstrations for students in grades 5-8 . The site contains step-by-step instructions for performing such attention-getting experiments as making your own soap and extracting the caffeine from tea. For other biochemistry experiments by Barry Ganong, click here.

Periodic Table Of The Elements. Periodic Table Of The Elements, created by Yinon Bentor, is an interactive site that breathes new life into the familiar high school chemistry chart. To find information on an element, click on it and for a periodic table that even a fourth grader can understand, click on Chem-4-Kids. Also, Yahoo's list of other periodic tables includes the award-winning WebElements and Chemicool sites.

Physics Challenges. Physics Challenges is a series of 21 questions and answers to acquaint high school students with Internet resources in physics.

Physics is Very Important. Physics is Very Important features a series of interactive mutiple-chioce questions in electricity and magnetism, wave phenomena, mechanics, and energy for high school physics students. Each question includes the answer along with the explanation.

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at Boston University. Physics Lecture Demonstrations at Boston University feature over 400 demonstrations with descriptions and diagrams or photos for a variety of physics topics. The topics include mechanics, fluid mechanics, oscillations and waves, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics. Although these demos are intended for college courses, they offer a fund of knowledge and activities for teaching science in grades 6-12.

Physics of Amusement Parks. Physics of Amusement Parks provides activities for learning basic concepts in high school physics. The topics include potential and kinetic energy, centripetal force, and free fall. The site also offers games for interactive play on the midway.

Plastic Bag Information Clearinghouse. Plastic Bag Information Clearinghouse provides interactive activities for environmental information about plastic bags in grades 3-8. The site includes "paper or plastic?", "who takes out the trash?", "earth mission puzzle" for kids, and a pop quiz for teachers.

QuarkQuest. QuarkQuest is an online newspaper in which middle school students can do a variety of fun activities and read a comic strip to learn about particle physics.

Quite Amazing! Quite Amazing! features a collection of exciting science experiments that elementary school teachers can use in their own classrooms. They include: the lichens bioindicators experiment; the supernewspaper air pressure experiment; the can crusher air pressure experiment; the Slinky toy physics experiments; the figuring your weight on other planets experiment; the bottle bandwidth paradox acoustics experiment; the heat and evaporation experiment; and the egg in the bottle mystery air pressure experiment.

Quirks and Quarks. Quirks and Quarks, hosted by Bob McDonald, is a weekly radio science program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The program presents the people behind the latest discoveries in the physical and natural sciences for grades. Archives features a list of past shows and a science quiz with questions and answers for students in grades 6-12 to particpate.

Rainforest Workshop. Rainforest Workshop, focusing on conservation issues for grades 6-12, provides information on the animals, the plants, and the people of temperate and tropical rainforests.

Safari Touch Tank. Safari Touch Tank is an online interactive tank where kids in grades K-6 can "touch" sea animals and plants with a mouse and find out more about each one.

Safe Eyes Quiz. Safe Eyes Quiz, provided by Prevent Blindness America for grades 2-6, features interesting facts about the eyes and an interactive quiz to test your eye safety knowledge. Kids can print and color pictures related to each quiz question.

Santa Barbara Science. Santa Barbara Science, maintained by Brian W. Rich, provides a list of classroom experiments that can be used in grades 4-8.

Safe and Simple Science Experiments. Safe and Simple Science Experiments, contributed by chemistry high school students in Winston, Oregon, is a collection of 40 experiments for grades K-12 covering a variety of science topics. Among the topics are foam, coin in the well, what makes popcorn pop?, egg In a bottle, corn starch putty, salt crystal garden, and ice on a string.

Schools Online (SOL): Science. SOL, provided by Sheffield Hallam University in England, offers a lab featuring a series of science experiments and investigations for students in grades 6-12. Students can also visit the Science Cafe to ask a question for an university scientist to answer, or to learn about the hot topic of the day, or to read the answers from previous questions by entering a word(s) in the Search box.

School Gardens. School Gardens provides a collection of curricular horticulture activities gathered from different Internet sources and 4-H plant activities featuring air, water, and soil experiments for grades K-6.

Science. Science from the online book 365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do With Your Child features a collection of science activities for grades K-6.

Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS). SAPS, based on the Wisconsin Fast Pants curriculum, is a plant science program in the United Kingdom for high school biology. To find worksheets and practical ideas for growing plants from its online newsletter, Osmosis, click here.

Science Club. Science Club features a colection of science projects and hands-on activities for students in grades K-8.

Science Explorer. The Science Explorer, a book written by the staff at Exploratorium Museum, contains a collection of online hands-on experiments to enliven science teaching in grades K-6.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide. Science Fair Project Resource Guide from the internet public library, provides a catalog of Web sites that help students in grades 4-12 to complete a science fair project. The site includes links to the following useful topics: "How to Do a Science Fair Project", "Samples", "Ideas", and online science MAGAZINES. For other useful science fair sites, click on Cyber-Fair, The Virtual Science Fair.

Science House, NC State University: Science & Math Stuff. Science House, an outreach program at North Carolina State University, features hands-on science activites for the middle school. Click on countertop chemistry which contains 32 classroom activities. The site also offers a list of demonstrations using the Van de Graaf Generator.

Science is Fun. Science is Fun, provided by chemistry Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri of University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a collection of experiments for home or school, handbooks for chemical demonstrations, and student hand outs for chemical of the week. In addition, the site includes a clock with chemical elements explaining each in everyday terms.

Science Is Here. Science Is Here contains a collection of hands-on science activities for grades K-6. The activities include paper rockets, sounds around the Kitchen, fizz and bubble, chromatography, and colored water chemistry. For other chemistry experiments with acids and bases, click on Newton's Apple Household Chemistry .

Science News Online. Science News Online is a weekly magazine covering a wide variety of science topics for grades 10-12. Stories include the discovery of the oldest known rock art in the world, the detection of several planets outside the solar system, the sequencing of various genomes, and the development of new drugs to combat AIDS. For past stories, click on 1996 index , 1997 index , 1998 index and most recent stories, click on 1999 index. In addition, the magazine offers three features: timeline, food for thought , and Science Safari. Each feature includes an an archive.

Science Now. Science Now, published by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and SIRS, is a quarterly online newsletter for science teachers in grades 6-12. Each issue focuses on a single science topic with an article about it, a classroom activity, and related sites.

Science Resource Center. Science Resource Center, for high school science teachers, provides a collection of lab investigations, demonstrations, teacher tips, and activities for chemistry I and II, life science, biology II, and physics.

Science Teachers Lounge. Science Teachers Lounge provides resources for secondary science teachers including Trade Secrets , Science in Action! with workshops and seminars, and Think Tank, resources and links.

Science Theatre. Science Theatre is an outreach program of Michigan State University that brings innovative science presentations and activities to K-12 students. Click on recipes which include a stage show script and two hands-on demonstrations.

Science World British Columbia. Science World British Columbia offers a variety of online exhibits with related links for students and teachers in grades 3-8.

Scientific American. Scientific American, one of the premiere science magazines for grades 9-12, offers weekly an online edition with science news and articles, reviews, commentaries, "50, 100, and 150 years ago" feature, and the "amateur scientist". It also includes a monthly archive of previous issues .

Scientific American Frontiers. Scientific American Frontiers, sponsored by GTE, offers a series of five science specials on PBS for students and teachers in grades 7-12. For videotaping and ordering information, click here , and to view teaching guides and quizzes, click on here. The site also includes teaching guides for the current and previous seasons.

Sci-Journal Sci-Journal, from the University of Southampton School of Education in England, is an online publication for science students in grades 6-12. Students can publish work they've done in their science classes so that other students around the world can read about it.

Sci-Tech. Sci-Tech, a feature of CNN Interactive for grades 7-12, provides the daily science headlines and coverage of their full stories.

Sci-Trivia Game. Sci-Trivia Game from Weekly Reader is an interactive game where you score points by choosing a point amount under a science category. You answer the multiple-choice question that appears by clicking on the circle in front of the one answer you think is correct. You then click "submit." A perfect score is 750 points! This online game is suitable for students in grades 4-12.

Southern California Orthopedic Institute (SCOI). The SCOI Home Page provides a wide variety of informational resources on anatomy, sports injuries, and orthopedic procedures. The site offers well-illustrated anatomy lessons on the knee, shoulder, ankle, spine, hand, elbow, hip, and toe for students in grades 5-12.

Southwestern Bell Science Education Center (SBSEC). SBSEC, provides classroom science activities for grades K-16.

Spark, Bang, Buzz and Other Good Stuff. Spark, Bang, Buzz and Other Good Stuff presents an array of dramatic science projects that that are easy to build for students in grades 6-12. Directions are clear and well illustrated. Another great source of science projects is Bill Beaty's Science Hobbyist.

Spotlighting Science Fairs. Spotlighting Science Fairs contains ideas, tips, sample projects, and visits to online science fair projects. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Static Electricity Page. Static Electricity Page, created by Bill Beaty, contains build-it projects, articles explaining static electricity, and related Web sites on static electricity for grades 4-9.

Street Smarts from Newton's Apple. Street Smarts from Newton's Apple. Street Smarts from Newton's Apple, for kids in grades 4-8, is a collection of online science quizzes with over 50 questions and answers from five seasons of its award-winning PBS television series.

TEAMS Electronic Classrooms. TEAMS Electronic Classrooms, for grades K-12, are part of TEAMS Distance Learning which is a service of the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). The electronic hallway contains two interactive science classrooms: Gary's Electronic Classroom and Judi's Electronic Classroom including student work, activities, a photo album, projects, Web links, a teacher's corner, email, and discussion groups. The sponsors welcome your active involvement in TEAMS Distance Learning and you can contact them at: TEAMS Distance Learning phone: (310) 922-6103, fax: (310) 922-6486.

Teacher's Corner. Teacher's Corner, provided by Intel, contains computer resources for grades 3-12. A collection of unit and project plans that range from safaris to genetics.

Thinking Fountain: Books You Can Use. Thinking Fountain: Books You Can Use is a collection of Science Museum of Minnesota's recommended books for enhancing science learning in grades K-6. Along with each book, there is a list of activities for use in the classroom.

TeachNet. TeachNet offers an extensive library of online teacher-developed classroom projects and activities for grades 4-12.

The Tornado Project Online A small company that gathers, compiles, and makes tornado information available to weather enthusiasts, the meteorological community and emergency management officials in the form of tornado books, posters, and videos.

U.C. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations. U.C. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations is an amazing collection of physics demonstrations, complete with clear diagrams and explanations for variety of topics. The topics include mechanics, waves, properties of heat and matter, electricity and magnetism, optics, and others. Although these demos are part of a Berkeley's physics courses, they are useful for science teachers in grades 7-12.

USA TODAY Weather Index. USA TODAY Weather Index is an online encylopedia of weather and other earth science information for students and teachers in grades 6-12. The index contains more than 300 topics and can serve as an idea generator of science reports or even science fair projects. Futhermore, to learn how the weather works, check out USA TODAY's alphabetical list of sites.

US EPA's Office of Water: Kids Stuff. US EPA's Office of Water: Kids Stuff provides entertaining ways to teach kids in grades preK-6 about water conservation.

UT Science Bytes. UT Science Bytes describes the work being done by scientists at the University of Tennessee. The site includes a variety of topics from animals to rocks for grades K-12.

Virtual Field Trips. The Virtual Field Trips Web site, created by Tramline for grades k-8, provides a variety of online field trips covering topics such as deserts, hurricanes, salt marshes, and volcanoes. Each field trip, arranged in sequential order, offers printable materials, short teacher's guides (trailheads), and related Web sites.

Visible Human Project. The Visible Human Project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine represents more than 9,000 digitized sections of the body. It is an interactive site with animations in which students in grades 6-12 can enjoy learning the names of body parts. Students can view a visible human with a Java-capable browser, or examine a visible human's cross sectional anatomy .

Water Resources Outreach Program - Water Education Posters. Water Resources Outreach Program offers a series of education posters with classroom activities for grades K-8. To find online activities, select one of the posters and then click on the grade level. To order free posters from the U.S. Geological Survey, click here.

WaterWorks. WaterWorks, provided by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), is an introduction to the physics of water and the mechanics of moving liquids for students in grades 2-5. The site includes classroom investigations on how fountains work, ideas for creating your own fountains, an online gallery of fountains, and teacher background information. Students can also contribute via email their findings and reactions to the investigations.

Weather Channel. The Weather Channel provides a variety of weather activities for grades 5-12. To find the activities, click on learn more which contains an education section with teacher resources, forecasting information for every major U.S. city and region and for selected international cities, links to storm sites, an alphabetical weather glossary, heat & wind-chill charts, the weather classroom, and information about tropical storms and winter. To find a list of offerings, click on the site map.

WeatherNet. WeatherNet, sponsored by the University of Michigan's Weather Underground, is a comprehensive, up-to-date source of weather information on the Web for grades 6-12. It provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and a huge collection of weather sites.

WhaleTimes SeaBed! WhaleTimes SeaBed! is a site for kids in grades 2-6 where they find out how seals, sharks, penguins, and whales survive in the sea and can take fun interactive quizzes at Kids Page. Kids can click on the Fishin' for Facts library, or Ask SeaDog email page.

Wilderness Society. The Wilderness Society, an action-oriented U.S.A. conservation organization, provides a wealth of information about environmental education in grades K-12.

Why? Files: Science Behind the News. The Why? Files, for grades 4-8, is an online bimonthly newsletter featuring topics in the areas of science, engineering, and technology. If you click on Filed Why Files, you can search for articles on a topic, or you can browse a list of past articles organized by subject. If you click on Sports, you can take interactive quizzes, try sports brain teasers, or even complete a crossword puzzle on biking.

Wondernet. Wondernet is an online science magazine published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for students in grades K-8.

WWF's Quiz Time. WWF's Quiz Time is a collection of interactive online monthly quizzes about various environmental topics including animals, climate, and plants for students in grades 6-12.

Wyland Marine Life Coloring Book. Wyland Marine Life Coloring Book contains downloadable coloring pages and interesting facts about whales, dolphins, sea otters, sea turtles and sharks for elementary school students.

ZooGames. ZooGames, provided by the San Diego Zoo for kids in grades 3-8, features a collection of animal and plant games where kids can have fun learning about animal conservation.

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