• Adventures in Energy from California Energy Commission

• Inventors and their remarkable and unconventional inventions

• Museum of Science and Industry's Home Page to several projects including gears and transportation

• Archive of Past Inventors

• Steps in becoming an inventor - from a question to inventing to marketing
• Multimedia report on Benjamin Franklin

• Wacky machines

• Pictures and explanations of gears and simple machines

• Links to several great sites about inventions for kids

Apollo Space Program

• Excellent site for information and images on all Apollo missions

• Astronaut who flew two Apollo missions

• Information and images on the moon and space

Bubbles

• Exploratorium in San Francisco

• Necessary searching on New Scientist page for the bubbles information

• Links to sites containing information about the spill

Oobleck

• Story starters and scientific process

• Bubble pictures, information, and FAQ's

• Univeristy of Minnesota, alphabetical index for bubbles, filtering, and layering activities

• Physics of water and moving liquids by exploring fountains

Amazing Insects--Songs!

• Songs about insects written to familiar tunes

• Photographic essay of various insect species

• Yuckiest site on the web
• All about insects and worms
• Inquiring Worm Reporter for students' questions

• Great images and information about a different bug each month as well as a collection of previous months

• Basic information on the anatomy and metamorphosis of insects

• Images and links of insects

• Texas A&M University, lesson plans, information, images

• Collection of a variety of information about insects, life cycle, images, classification, pets, clubs

• University of Illinois, 50 to 60 year old original drawings as teaching aids for entomology

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Projects, sightings, and activities

Insects Hotlist

• Images, teacher resources, background information and facts

• The art of preparing insect meals

• Insect images

• Images of some common insects, including information on the foods they eat as well as their habitats

The Aurora Page

• Information, links and images about the Northern Lights

• The Storm Track system weather information servers for new tropical depressions, storms, or hurricanes in the Atlantic or the Pacific

• Online guide to meteorology including definitions and animation

• Online real time weather data from your neighborhood and the world

• How to make a water cycle in a jar

Cloud Boutique

• The PSC Meteorology Program server providing explanations of and access to detailed pictures of some basic cloud forms

• Earth sciences related web server incorporating real time weather products with instructional resources using state of the art technologies

• University of Wisconsin, real time data on tropical storms

• Comprehensive earth sciences related web server incorporating real time weather products with instructional resources using state of the art technologies

• Excellent images of clouds

• Animated water cycle

• National Hurricane Specialists giving the storm's position and predicting what the storm will do

• A small company gathering, compiling, and making tornado information available to weather enthusiasts, the meteorological community and emergency management officials in the form of tornado books, posters, and videos

• FEMA hurricane links including: advisories, reports and other information

• USA Today newspaper daily weather information

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Source for data on breaking weather and forecasts

• Kid friendly

• Integrated weather unit lesson plans

PBA: Paper or Plastic

• How to make an informed decision in choosing paper or plastic at the grocery store, "reduce, reuse or recycle"

• Map of town
• Student activity for identifying and cleaning up the environment

• Experiments with acids including an experiment on testing ants

• Experiments on volume, and mass

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