• Animals
• Biomes
• Body/Cells
• Chemistry
• Dinosaurs
• Earth and Environment
• Energy
• General
• Graphing
• Insects
• Inventors
• Matter
• Oceans
• Plants
• Science Fair
• Simple Machines
• Space
• Technology
• Weather
• Zoo Pages

ANIMALS/WILDLIFE

• www.kidsgowild.com/
• African Wildlife Foundation   www.awf.org/wildlives   
• All About Frogs   allaboutfrogs.org
• All About Nature: Animals   www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/Australia.shtml
• Enchanted Learning
• Especies Fact Sheets  http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
• Frogs on the Net  cgee.hamline.edu/frogs/resources/internet.html
• From A to Z   www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/atoz.html    Oakland, California Zoo, information about birds, mammals, marsupials, reptiles in Knowland Park.
• Kids Planet Wildlife Site   www.kidsplanet.org/
• Petstation    www.petstation.com   Links to every kind of pet page you can imagine.
• SciLinks-Harcourt   www.scilinks.org/harcourt
• Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Information   www.seaworld.org/animal-info/index.htm    Information site designed especially for students andteachers.  You can download quizzes, activities, animal facts, and check out the live animal cams! 
• The Electronic Zoo   netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm    If it has to do with animals, pets, or vets on the Net you can find it here.
• Welcome to Freddo's Pond    www.greenweb.com.au/freddo/index.html   Games and activities designed to learn about the environment and children's safety issues with cute icon Freddo the Frog. 

BIOMES

• Great Basin Desert    www.desertusa.com/du_basin.html
• The Missouri Botanical Gardens-Biomes   mbgnet.mobot.org     Good site to find out about the Rainforest, Tundra, Taiga, Desert, Grasslands and Temperate biomes.

GENERAL

• American Museum of Natural History  www.amnh.org/
• Bill Nye the Science Guy   www.billnye.com   Internet site from the popular T.V. show.
• BrainPOP   www.brainpop.com 
• BrainPOP Jr.  www.brainpopjr.com
• DuPage Children's Museum-Fun Stuff for Kids  http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/online_stuff.html
• Enchanted Learning  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html  Kid friendly site on a variety of subjects.
• Explore Science  www.explorelearning.com/
• Fun Stuff for Kids  
• Kid Info
• Nova-PBS   www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
• Nova Science Now-PBS     www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/
• Schools Online from the Univ. of Illinois Extension    www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/SchoolsOnline/index.html 
• Sci4Kids   www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids 
• Science Explorations--American Museum of Natural History
• Science Learning Network    www.sln.org     Excellent site for all types of science information and fun.
• Science Photo Library
• The Skinny On...  www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon.html   Get explanations of scientific questions from Hannah Holmes of the Discovery Channel.   Why is there no channel 1 on your TV?  Why is snow white?  Why do people get crazy during a full moon?  Find out these and many more here.
• The Exploratorium   www.exploratorium.edu    Have fun exploring featured topics in science, math, and technology.
• The Why Files

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GRAPHING

• Create a Graph   nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/index.asp?ID=84B547D18297C2A9F

INSECTS

• Monarch Watch
• The Butterfly Website   www.butterflywebsite.com/
• The Spider Page    www.uark.edu/~dksander/spiders.html   Anything you ever wanted to know about spiders.
• The Wonderful World of Insects   www.earthlife.net/insects/

INVENTORS/INVENTIONS

• National Inventors Hall of Fame    www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp  Check out the Dead Inventor's Corner to learn about famous inventors and their inventions.
• The Invention Dimension    web.mit.edu/invent  

MATTER

• Chem4Kids: Matter   http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html

OCEANS

• Monterey Bay Aquarium On-Line    www.mbayaq.org   Take a look at how this aquarium works, learn about some of the marine animals, check out the Habitat Paths Tours and the Live Cam updates every 3 minutes.
• National Aquarium in Baltimore   www.aqua.org    This aquarium has a featured online exhibit, good pictures and info, and trivia quizzes.
• National Geographic OceanNow
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Kids and Teachers Korner
• The Ocean Planet   seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html   Site about oceans, developed by the Smithsonian.

PLANTS

• Investigating Living Things-Plants  Learn all about plants and take a quiz to see what you have learned.
• How to Be a Plant: A webquest for 1st and 2nd graders
• Plants  www.nelsonthornes.com/secondary/science/scinet/scinet/plants/cells/content.htm
• Plant Explorer   www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/index.html
• The Great Plant Escape   www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html

ROCKS AND MINERALS

• Identifying Rocks Game
• Rocks for Kids
• The Mineral Gallery mineral.galleries.com/default.htm  Explore rocks and minerals with short descriptions and pictures.

SCIENCE FAIR

• CIESE Collaborative, Real-Time, Primary Source and Partner projects in engineering and science.
• Discovery Channel School:  Science Fair Central
• KidSpace Science Fair Resource Guide
• Projects
• Projects: Science News for Kids
• Project Ideas
• Project Ideas Science Club
• Science Buddies
• Science Fair Primer
• Science Fair Projects
• Science Fair Project on the Web:  Step by Step Instructions
• Science Project Ideas
• The Ultimate Science Fair Resource

SIMPLE MACHINES

• AppliancePartsPros---Simple Machines for Kids
• Edheads Simple Machines  www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines
• Simple Machines Learning Site   www.coe.hu.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm

SPACE

• Apollo 11-The History Place   www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11   Timeline of apollo Missions to the Moon, blast off to splashdown, includes pictures and sound files.
• Astronomy for Kids   www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/astronomy.html   Learn about the Solar System, planets, sun, stars, asteroids, comets, meteorites, moon, galaxies, and space exploration. Good site for younger elementary students, includes a dictionary.
• Hubble Space Telescope's Public Pictures   oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html    This site presents a selection of Hubble's most spectacular images.
• Journey into Space: Gravity, Orbits, and Collisions
• Kennedy Space Center-Mercury  
• Kids Astronomy http://www.kidsastronomy.com Astronomy and Space for kids
• NASA Human Spaceflight    spaceflight.nasa.gov   View the INternational Space Station and much more about space flight.
• NASA Image Exchange  nix.larc.nasa.gov
• Nova-Mars Up Close  www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/upclose.html
• RocketCam-EclipticEnterprises   www.eclipticenterprises.com/gallery_rocketcam.shtml
• Solar System Exploration   
• Space Kids   spacekids.hq.nasa.gov
• Star Child     starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov    Learning center for young astronomers (Solar system, universe, space stuff, glossary...
• Star Journey   www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars    Travel among the stars using the Hubble Telescope images and the work of the National Geographic.   Reading level if fairly high at this site.
• The Constellations and Their Stars  www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations   This is a good place to go for star and constellation information.
• The Nine Planets     Great info and pictures about our solar system.
• View of the Solar System   www.solarviews.com    Solar System info, missions, apollo, astronauts, space history, rocket history, Pioneer, Voyager, Magellan, Pathfinder info and more......
• Windows to the Universe   www.windows.ucar.edu   

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TECHNOLOGY

• Packetville

WEATHER

• Edhead Weather Activities  www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
• FEMA for Kids   www.fema.gov/kids      Federal Emergency Management Agency produced this site to teach about disasters.  Learn about hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, wildfires, tsunamis, winter storms.  Play games and take the disaster quiz.   Also teacher resources area.
• The Weather Channel    www.weather.com/homepage.html 
• USA Today Weather    www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm   Current weather, info on weather, homework help, Ask Jack, good hurricane and tornado info with movie clips and other weather links.
• What is a hurricane?    bird.miamisci.org/hurricane/toc.html   
• Weather Science Hotlist    sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/weather.html    
• Weather World   www.ems.psu.edu/WeatherWorld/kidstuff/kidlinks.html    Weather site from Penn State.

ZOO PAGES

• Kansas City Zoo-Wild Bunch Kids Page
• National Zoo, Washington, D.C.    www.si.edu/natzoo   Play puzzle games, encounter new births in the zoo, great animal pictures, and live cams (OranguCam, Elephant Cam, Mole-Rat Cam, Rhino Cam)
• San Diego Zoo     www.sandiegozoo.org/   This zoo cares for 3,800 animals in outstanding natural habitats.  Info about animals at the zoo, play "Gulp", or do a puzzle. 
• The Los Angeles Zoo    www.lazoo.org 

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