Links

Biology

The Wonderful World of Trees: http://www.domtar.com/arbre/english/start.htm

Earth's oldest living being: A Bristlecone Pine T ree http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html

The Rainforest Action Network: http://www.ran.org/ran/

Endangered Species Home Page: http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/EndSpp/Endangered.html

The Electronic Zoo: http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

Butterfly World: http://www.butterflyworld.com/index.html

The Insects Home Page: http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html

Educational Resources / Lesson Plans

PBS TeacherSource (more than 1000 free lesson plans and activities) http://www.pbs.org/teachersource

Educational Internet Links: http://www.studyweb.com/

Literature-related lesson plans: http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/

Lessons plans on endangered species: http://www.nwf.org/wildlifeweek/
National Wildlife Week is April 16-22

Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection lessons site: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/info.htm#P

General Information

The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Phila, PA: http://sln.fi.edu/

Lawrence Hall of Science: http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/

The Science Learning Network: http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/sln/sln.html

Pictures on the Internet: http://www.ditto.com/

Historical information about World holidays: http://www.holidays.net/

"Ask Jeeves" is a GREAT search engine on the internet: http://www.askjeeves.com/

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering: http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/wom_and_min.htm

National Association of Science Teachers http://www.nsta.org/

Cool spot for kids- promoted in newspapers nationwide: http://www.4kids.org/

Cool Science for Curious Kids: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html

Bill Nye: http://nyelabs.kcts.org/flash_go.html

Grand Illusions: http://www.grand-illusions.com

Geology

Earth Science Hyperstudio Stacks: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/downloads/stack.html

RockHound Home Page: http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html

Physics

Brian Jones at CSU-L ittle Shop of Physics: http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/

Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works web site. A great science resourse: http://www.howstuffworks.com

Simple Machines: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002079F/sub3.htm

How Stuff Works: http://www.howthingswork.com

Space

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Student Involvment Program http://www.nsip.net

Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/

Hubble Heritage Project : http: //heritage.stsci.edu

Space Science Institute: http://www-ssi.colorado.edu/

Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

GSOC Satellite Predictions: http://www.heavens-above.com/

Interesting facts, fun activities and exciting contests for students in grades K-6: http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Starchild: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild

Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Introduction to the Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/intro.html

NASA Kids: http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov

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