Resources for the Science Department of NRHS

Chem Lab Safety Web (intended for high school classes)

http://www.chem.unl.edu/safety/hslabcon.html

http://www.sciencebyjones.com/safety_rules.htm

http://tigger.uic.edu/~magyar/Lab_Help/Lab_Safety/lab_safety.html

National Geographic Science Center

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/science.html

Interactive Chemistry Concepts Quizzes

http://science.widener.edu/svb/tutorial/index.html

General Chemistry Online (very comprehensive)

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

Creative Chemistry worksheets, activities and games relating to chemistry

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/index.htm

Balancing Equations Tutorials

http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Equations/Equations.html

http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/betha/nealChemBal/

http://newtraditions.chem.wisc.edu/FPTS/fbeqns/chemeqnf.htm

http://studyworksonline.com/cda/explorations/main/0,,NAV2-100,00.html

Accompanying Tutorial, Drill and Quiz Index

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/tutorials/index.shtml

Chemical & Engineering News:  What’s in that Stuff? The chemistry behind stuff…

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html

NOVA Interactives for Chemistry

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/int_chem.html

A Guide to Molecules at MathMol

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/

Free Chem Resources for Teachers

http://www.chemfiesta.com/

Chemical reaction videos

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/cca0/sampmovs.htm

Chem Matters from the American Chemical Society (comprehensive)

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\curriculum\chemmatt.html

AP Digital Library for the Sciences at Rice (Chem, Physics, Biology)

http://apdl.rice.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx

AP Chem Warehouse of Exams and answers (downloads)

http://chem.lapeer.org/Exams/Index.html

Regents Prep Chemistry at Oswego

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/core/resources/resources.cfm?Course=CHEM&TopicCode=2b

AP and General Chem Study Cards that can be printed and  used

http://www.chemmybear.com/stdycrds.html

Chemistry Matrices (rubrics, checklists) from Georgia QCC

http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/pandp/science/mx-ch05.htm

ChemWeb Online Complete Tutorial

http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/low/indexl.htm

University of Wisconsin Lab Demonstration Pages (photos w/descriptions)

http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/demonstrations/

Chemical Jigsaw Puzzle

http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/jig/index.html

Comic Book Pages that Feature Periodic Table Elements

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

Delights of Chemistry (videos and experiments w/images)

http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/

ChemBalancer Game

http://www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/

Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry from the USGS

http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/aii-home.htm

Chemistry Coach Online (links to other resources for every topic)

http://www.chemistrycoach.com/tutorials-2.htm

Chemistry Webzine

http://www.reactivereports.com/index.html

Matters of Chemistry includes computer visualizations, exercises, applets and more!

http://www.knowledgebydesign.com/tlmc/tlmc.html

Visual Elements Periodic Table

http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/

Chemicool Comprehensive Periodic Table from MIT

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/

http://www.webelements.com/

Chempire Online Textbook for Student Learners

http://library.thinkquest.org/28330/Learn/learn.html

Chemweb Online

http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/

Chemtutor Tutorials

http://www.chemtutor.com/

Chem4Kids

http://www.chem4kids.com/index.html

Biology and Chemistry Hypertextbook at MIT

http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/chem/chemdir.html

http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/chapters.html

Purdue Chem Tutorial – The Basics

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/beginners.html

Chemistry Related Quicktime Movies and Animations

http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/sound.html

AP Chem College Board AP Central

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/

AP Chem Class Notes Online

http://www.tvgreen.com/apchem/apnotes.htm

Aminated Molecules

http://www.chemmybear.com/shapes.html

Self Tests with Problems and Solutions

http://science.widener.edu/svb/tutorial/index.html

Yridium Project Chemistry Simulations

http://ir.chem.cmu.edu/irproject/applets/

Chemical Bonding, Reactions and Equations at Vision Learning

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=55

Atomic Alchemy Thinkquest

http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/

Amino Acid 3D Database

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/bio/amino-acids.html

Atom Basics at the Jefferson Lab

http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/

Molecule Library at ChemLib

http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/vchemlib/mol/mol.html

Images of Crystal Lattice Structures

http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html

Crystallographic Visualizations (3D Morphology)

http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html

Universe Within Molecular Interactive Tutorials (great intro from outer space to quarks)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Writing Chemical Formulas Review Resource

http://newtraditions.chem.wisc.edu/FPTS/fbform/newformf.htm

Sheffield CHEMputer

http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/chemputer/oxidation-number.html

Nobel Prize Org - Chemistry

http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/

Nomenclature of Organic Chem

http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/

Chemistry Resources at Discovery

http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/chemistry/

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/

Cosmic Evolution

http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/

Xpeditions at National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/

Exploring the Environment

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/

BBC Science and Nature Home Page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

Earth Science Studyworks Online (Exhibits)

http://studyworksonline.com/cda/explorations/main/0,,NAV2-77,00.html

Extreme Science Web – Earth Science, space, weather, maps

http://www.extremescience.com/earthsciport.htm

NASA Earth Science Education Site

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/subjects/earthscience/

Atmospheric Phenomena Interactive Online Quiz

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?id=50603&origin=64

Earth Science Lessons at Discovery School

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/earthsci.html#9-12

Animated Exploration of the Itubi Forest from the Brookfield Zoo (forest facts)

http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/ways_index.html

Tsunami Satellite Images

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

Volcano Expedition Web

http://scripps.ucsd.edu/marianas/

http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/volcano/

Nature Interactives at NOVA (Earth)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/int_eart.html

How Volcanoes Work

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/

National Geographic Science Center

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/science.html

Stormy Weather

http://www.educationcentral.org/stormy/

Online Guide to Meteorology

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

Hurricane of 38 at PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38/index.html

Online Map Creation

http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

SEED Science Center Articles and Images

http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/index.htm

Water Science fro Schools at the USGS

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/

Earth Calendar

http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php

Universe Within Molecular Interactive Tutorials (great intro from outer space to quarks)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Terra Satellite from NASA

http://terra.nasa.gov/

Understanding Geologic Time

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html

Gemstones and Minerals Image Gallery

http://www.theimage.com/

Geography IQ with Climate, Culture and Historic Info

http://www.geographyiq.com/index.htm

Earth from the Space Shuttle – NASA

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/

Earthpulse currently has online laboratories for hurricane and earthquake study as well as simulations!

http://www.riverdeep.net/earthscience/data/earthscience/earthscience_jump.jhtml

Interactive Topographical Map

http://www.topozone.com/

EPA Students Center (ecosystems, conservation, waste, human health)

http://www.epa.gov/students/

Biodiversity and Conservation

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/biodiversity/

OceanAdventure Multimedia Undersea Exploration (hydrothermal vents)

http://library.thinkquest.org/18828/

PBS Science Resources

http://www.pbs.org/science/

FEMA Tropical Storm Watch

http://www.fema.gov/storm/trop.shtm

National Weather Service Doppler

http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/mosaic/DS.p19r0/ar.us.conus.shtml

Action Bioscience

http://www.actionbioscience.org/

Connecting the Continent

http://www.connectingthecontinent.com/ctcwebsite/index.html

Earth History Illustrations

http://gallery.in-tch.com/~earthhistory/

Operation Montserrat (interactive volcano learning game)

http://emissionhq.com/

BBC Science and Nature Home Page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/The Morrison Planetarium Online Sky Tour and Other Features

http://www.calacademy.org/planetarium/

Exhibit Halls: Phylogeny, Geology, Evolution Tutorials

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/exhibits.html

National Hurricane Center

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Amazing Space

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

National Geographic Science Center

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/science.html

Elegant Universe at NOVA

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

Windows to the Universe

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

CERES Project

http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/

Explore Mars Now

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

The Solar System at NASA

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

SkyMap Generator

http://www.fourmilab.to/yoursky/

CoolCosmos Tutorials

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html

Death Star at NOVA

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gamma/

Viewing the Sun (Berkeley)

http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/flash.html

Solar System

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/

Anglo-Australian Observatory Images

http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html/

Space Shots from Kodak

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/space/mainIndex.shtml

NOVA Interactives:Biology

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/int_biol.html

BBC Science and Nature Home Page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

Froguts demos are still available for virtual dissections

http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html#loaderdone

Animal Classifications

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

DNA Interactive

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

Genome Exploration at the Canadian Museum of Nature

http://nature.ca/genome/

Bioscience

http://www.actionbioscience.org/

Heart and Knee Surgery Video Clips at Way Cool Surgery

http://www.waycoolsurgery.com/index.shtml

Electron Microscope Image Gallery

http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/index.html

Brain Basics, Animations and Image Gallery

http://www.brainconnection.com/library/?main=explorehome/main

Biology Interactive Virtual Labs and Animations

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Infectious Diseases at the American Museum of Natural History

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/

Beetle Science at Cornell

http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Beetle%20Science

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/

Reptiles Featured Exhibit at PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/reptiles/gators.html

Bird Orders at BirdNet

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ORDERS/BIRDACCOUNTS.html

Natural History Notebooks For Learning from the Canadian Museum of Nature

http://nature.ca/notebooks/english/mon2.htm

Smithsonian National Zoo

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/default.cfm

enature Field Guides (5500 species)

http://www.enature.com/home/

Incredible Bugs

http://www.insects.org/

Animal Sounds Audio Site

http://www.naturesound.com/corepage/core.html

National Geographic Science Center

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/science.html

Online Exhibits at the Natural History Museum (UK)

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/index.html

The Virtual Cell

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/index.htm

Entertaining and informative Biology in Motion site

http://biologyinmotion.com/

The Virtual Body: Animated Exploration & Tutorials (brain, skeleton, heart, digestive tract)

http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

The Visible Embryo

http://www.visembryo.com/

Mammalian Embryo Development Images  

http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/

Epidemic: The World of Infectious Disease

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/

Virtual Plant Cell Dissection

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/cell/

Center for Human Simulation Gallery at Univ. of Colorado (3D - cadaver)

http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/chs/gallery/gallery.html

Visible Human Videos – Navigate through a human cadaver

http://collab.nlm.nih.gov/webcastsandvideos/visiblehumanvideos/visiblehumanvideos.html

  NOVA Online:  The Killer’s Trail

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/

Forensics at NOVA Interactives

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/int_fore.html

Forensic Science at the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/forensics.shtml

Virtual Autopsy

http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/titlpag1.html

Forensic Reconstruction of King Tut’s Face at Natnl Geographic (use search field as well)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0511_050511_kingtutface.html

FBI Handbook of Forensic Services

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro.htm#forensic

Forensic Science Communications (articles on analysis and documentation)

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/current/index.htm

Forensic Techniques, Timelines and a Glossary at Court TV

http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfiles/index2.html

Science News for Kids

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20041215/Feature1.asp

Crime Scene Photography Overview

http://www.rcmp-learning.org/docs/ecdd1004.htm

Evidence Collection Articles

http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/csi-collection.html

Fingerprinting at Cyberbee

http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/dusting.html

Flame Test from the UK

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/activities/flametests.htm

Forensic Entomology Overview

http://folk.uio.no/mostarke/forens_ent/forensic_entomology.html

Serology at the Crime Library

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/serology/3.html?sect=21

Urine Analysis

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/activities/urine.htm

FBI Interactive Investigation

http://www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/investigates/investigates.htm

Truth in Justice Foundation

www.justicedenied.org/truthinjustice.htm

Forensic Resources at PsychWatch

http://www.psychwatch.com/forensic_page.htm

Vancouver Police Dept. Lists & Briefly explains its standard crime scene procedures

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/police/investigation/FIU/anthropology.htm

Oblique Lighting…

http://www.volpi.ch/F_foot.html

Case Closed at the BBC:  Profiles of infamous criminals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/index.shtml

NOVA Hoaxes, Crimes and Mysteries

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archive/int_fore.html

Forensics for Children at PBS

http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/show/forensics.html

DNA Forensics:  How It Works (Human Genome Project)

http://genome.gsc.riken.go.jp/hgmis/elsi/forensics.html

Glossary of Forensics Terms

http://sunny.moorparkcollege.edu/~forensic/terms.html  

Life, the Universe and the Electron

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/electron/index.asp

Incredible Physics Animations

http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/index.htm

Einstein’s Big Idea

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

Light: A Thinkquest

http://library.thinkquest.org/28160/english/index.html

The Particle Adventure

http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/startstandard.html

Physics Central

http://www.physicscentral.com/

Physics Lessons with demos and microlabs…

http://www.physicslessons.com/

The Science of Baseball

http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/

Conservation of Energy Animation

http://www.slcc.edu/schools/hum_sci/physics/tutor/2210/potential_energy/

Design a Rollercoaster at Annenberg

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/

Interactive Plasma Physics

http://ippex.pppl.gov/

Kepler’s Laws

http://home.cvc.org/science/kepler.htm

Cosmic Evolution

http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/

The Basics of Space Flight

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf-toc.htm

Reflection/Refraction

http://geom.math.uiuc.edu/education/calc-init/rainbow/

Infinite Secrets: Pi

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/

Optics Overview

http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html

Fear of Physics – Physics Made Easy

http://www.fearofphysics.com/

Physics for the Beginner (tutorials)

http://physics.webplasma.com/physicstoc.html

Physics at the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/physics/

Faster than Sound at PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/barrier/

The Physics of Speeding Cars

http://www.science.org.au/nova/058/058key.htm

A Century of Physics Interactive Timeline

http://timeline.aps.org/APS/

Time and Frequency Exhibits at NIST

http://tf.nist.gov/general/exhibits.html

AP Physics Resources at Rice

http://apdl.rice.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=35

Albert Einstein at the American Museum of Natural History

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/revolution/index.php

Astrophysics Lesson Plans

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lesson_plans.html

The Elegant Universe

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

Conversion Maestro

http://www.ptloma.edu/Physics/conversions.htm

Cosmicopia

http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Music Acoustics

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/

Cosmic Evolution

http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/

Antimatter

http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/

NASA Guide to Aerodynamics

http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html

The Physics of Soccer

http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/EINSTEIN.HTM

Virtual Physics Laboratory w/ Many Applets

http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/java/ntnujava/index.html

Mini Exhibits Regarding Physicists at the American Institute of Physics

http://www.aip.org/history/esva/

Linear Accelerator

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/Default.htm

ABCs of Nuclear Science w/movies and lectures

http://www.lbl.gov/abc/

Museum of Physics Dept

http://www.na.infn.it/Museum-old/Museum.html

Many Physics Applets

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

Physics Web has a lengthy list of interactive experiments

http://physicsweb.org/resources/index.cfm/Education/Interactive_experiments/

Physics Lecture Demonstrations

http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/physics.html

Physics History Exhibits

http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html

The physics of Fast Moving Planets at National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0526_050526_extremeplants.html  

Virtual Exhibits at the Boston Museum of Science

http://www.mos.org/doc/1016

National Museum of Science and Technology – Milan (also includes Leonardo exhibit)

http://www.museoscienza.org/english/

Questacon National Science & Tech Center (select Teen section)

http://www.questacon.edu.au/index_flash.asp

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm

Museum of the History of Science  (look for Museum Exhibits)

http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/

The Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/f_exhibits.html

Annenberg Online Exhibits with Videos (free)

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/

The Franklin Institute Science Museum

Online Exhibitions at the Museum of Nature in Denver

http://www.dmns.org/main/en/General/Exhibitions/OnlineExhibitions/

The Smithsonian Institute

Ontario Science Center

Science Museum of London

Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide

National Air and Space Museum

The Science Museum UK

Virtual Dissections

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit

http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

 Sheep Brain Dissection at Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu./memory/braindissection/index.html

Cow’s Eye Dissection (with Audio)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/step01.html

Frog Island

http://k-2.stanford.edu/

Virtual Pig Dissection

http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html

Zoolab Earthworm Dissection  

Zoolab

Reproduction Basics

BrainPop has some incredible (and humorous) movies relating to all of the biological systems, the reproductive system included.  It’s worth a visit.  

http://www.brainpop.com/

Unbelievable site at the Anatomical Travelogue – Orderly, animated and fascinating, the site covers every stage from egg to fetal development with a wealth of info and images.  

http://www.anatomicaltravel.com/

The Learning Company offers a wealth of information about human reproduction.  However, you will want to view the animations and images before sharing the site with your students. Do a serach at the main site.

http://www.riverdeep.net/students/high_school/high_school.jhtml

Reproduction at Inner Body  

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

A more complicated site, but I believe it can be accessed in Spanish as well.

More reproduction info

There is a body parts game at the Smithsonian…  

http://americanhistory.si.edu/anatomy/bodyparts/nma03_bodyparts.html

 Biological Systems

BioInteractive

http://www.biointeractive.org/

BioInteractive – Click on “The Visible Heart” section – 3D rotating heart w/info

http://www.hhmi.org/lectures/webcast/1998.htm

A Look Inside the Human Body – Covers each of the major systems w/ great graphics and clear prose

http://users.tpg.com.au/users/amcgann/body/index.html

BrainPop has a fun/engaging site that offers basic info about each system

http://www.brainpop.com/health/

Foss Human Body Game (put the skeleton together by dragging bones with the mouse) – Loads of fun for the entire family!

http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html

Evolution at PBS  

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/index.html

Body Basics Library at KidsHealth for Teens

http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/

http://www.kidshealth.org/misc_pages/bodyworks/bodyworks.html

Neuroscience Coloring Book

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/colorbook.html

Learning is Fun (w/animations, etc)

http://www.learning-is-fun.co.uk/kidney1.html

Choose a body system at “Yucky Discovery” and you will learn much more than you may have wanted to know about each of the systems. 

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html

Medtropolis allows students to take a virtual tour of each system (narrations and zoom feature included)

http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

Human biology crossword puzzles and games  at Junior Science

http://qldscienceteachers.tripod.com/worksheets/junior/biology/

Children’s Heart Institute – The Heart as a House

http://www.childrenheartinstitute.org/educate/heartwrk/hearthse.htm

The Human Body at BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/standard/nerves.shtml

Inside your bones…

http://depts.washington.edu/bonebio/bonAbout/structure.html

Images of all of the bones…

http://www.bio.psu.edu/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm

Inner Body has information on each of the major systems

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Brain Explorer

http://www.brainexplorer.org/index.html

Gray’s Anatomy at Bartleby

http://www.bartleby.com/107/

The brain and its functions at the Brain Connection Library

http://www.brainconnection.com/library/?main=explorehome/animations

Anatomy Dictionary

http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/anatomy.htm

A Human Biology Thinkquest

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=10348&url=10348/

Big Chalk always has something to offer…

bigchalkofferings

Interactive Biology quizzes

Machines and Catapults

Beautiful catapult animation

http://www.catapultsystems.com/company/funstuff/catapults/animation/

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question127.htm

** Medieval Siege Site at PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/

Franklin Institute Site on Simple Machines

http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

Onager Simulator calculates angle, etc.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mdgsoft/catapult/sim/

How Do Weapons Work?

http://www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Weapons

Cool Catapult Animations and Simulations (including the cowflinger)

http://www.ripcord.ws/

Virtual Trebuchet

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oddharry/blide/vtreb.html

Physics for Kids

http://plabpc.csustan.edu/java/

Motion, Energy and Simple Machines

http://www.necc.mass.edu/MRVIS/MR3_13/start.htm

Catapult movie

http://mrfizzix.com/trebuchet/

The History Channel – Search “catapult”

http://www.historychannel.com/

Seige Engine Blueprints

http://198.144.2.125/Siege/Blueprints.htm

Seige Prototypes

http://198.144.2.125/Siege/SiegePrototypes/Prototypes.htm

Basic Physics Formulae

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mdgsoft/catapult/ballistics.html

Lego Trebuchets

http://www.weirdrichard.com/trebuchet.htm  

Cells

Cells Alive!

http://www.cellsalive.com/

Cell Visualization Project

http://www.biografx.com/cvp/cvpindex.html

Virtual Cell

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/cell/

The Biology Project

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

Visual Library at Access Excellence

Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Our Skies

National Geographic – Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, etc.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/volcanoes/volcanoes.html

Plate tectonics, glaciers (shockwave interactive activities)

http://www.eoascientific.com/prototype/newcampus/earth/earthmult.html

Plate tectonics animation at USGS (gov)

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/plate_tectonics/plate_anim.html

Museum of Earthquakes

http://kepu.jsinfo.gov.cn/english/quake/

Recent Earthquakes

http://www.scecdc.scec.org/recenteqs/

Virtual Earthquake

http://www.sciencecourseware.com/VirtualEarthquake/VQuakeExecute.html

Earthquake Data Center

http://db.cosmos-eq.org/scripts/earthquakes.plx

El Nino Theme Page  

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home-low.html

US Geological Survey

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

SkyWatch at Nasa  

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

Virtual Skies at NASA  

http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/vsmenu/vsmenu.html

Virtual Astronaut  

virtualastronautatnasa

Multimedia Online  

http://www.eoascientific.com/prototype/newcampus/campus.html

Lessons at NASA  

http://aerospace.nasa.gov/edu/webexp.html

The Franklin Institute  

http://sln.fi.edu/explore.html

The Exploratorium  

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Natural History Galleries  

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/index.html

US Geological Survey  

Physics and Engineering Simulations

RollerCoaster Physics at Annenberg

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/

Java Applets/Simulation for:

projectile motion  Speed & Acceleration Linear Motion with Uniform Acceleration. Elastic Collisions in One Dimension Elastic Collisions in Two Dimensions

Centripetal Acceleration of a car being steered around a bend in the road.

Center of Mass of an ensemble of point particles

http://plabpc.csustan.edu/java/  

Discover Engineering Online (for kids)

http://www.discoverengineering.org/eweek/

Classical Mechanics at PhysLink

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae_mechanics.cfm

Making Physics Fun Franklin Inst – Pendulum Fun

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/exhibits/mechanic.html

Ten Cool Physics Sites at Exploratorium (aerodynamics, rollercoaster physics, etc)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/physics.html

Physics Fun Sites (Motion, etc)

http://www.nativeaccess.com/links/cool_physics.html

Isaac Newton

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/newt.html

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/telescope.html

Mysteries of Deep Space

http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/index.html

Explore Science site includes all sorts of simulations regarding motion and forces

http://www.explorescience.com/

General Physics Lab (simulations)

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeoacw1/applet_menu.html

The Physics Classroom Tutorial

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/about.html

Acceleration and Velocity Applet

http://users.erols.com/renau/velocity_applet.html

Interesting Properties of Projectile Motion (do NOT install Chinese)

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/projectile3/projectile3.html

Shoot a Cannonball Simulation (trajectory, etc.)

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Cannon/

Interactive Fun Physics Site (Enter data and calculate!)

http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/physics/2d.html

Simple Machines Site

http://www.brainpop.com/tech/simplemachines/

Simple Machines ThinkQuest

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

Excel Projects, Tutorials and Stats

Excel Project Ideas

http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~ebrunner/ExcelSuggestions.html

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qKAW-cGCgmIJ:www.remc

11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/handouts/excel6.pdf+excel+projects&hl=en

Excel Tutorials

http://www.baycongroup.com/el0.htm

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/pc/excel97/excel.html

http://www.bcschools.net/staff/ExcelHelp.htm

http://www.functionx.com/excel/

http://isds.bus.lsu.edu/cvoc/learn/introit/excel/

Statistics and Databases

Weather Databases

http://www.weatherbase.com/

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/stats/

Disease Stats

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/statistics.htm

Sports Scores

http://www.sportsstats.com/

Sports Ranking

http://www.phys.utk.edu/sorensen/cfr/cfr/SportsRanking.html

Soccer and Football Data

http://www.football-data.co.uk/results.php

Sports Stats at CBS

http://www.sportsline.com/

Hockey Stats

http://www.hockeydb.com/

CEO Salaries

http://www.aflcio.org/corporateamerica/paywatch/ceou/

Salaries in Biotech

http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf/0/F416F5A8CA16A28A88256807007E2234

Salaries in a variety of fields

http://midcareer.monster.com/articles/businesslife/salaries/

Unemployment Rates by State

http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstrk.htm

http://www.bls.gov/web/lauhsthl.htm

http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstcm.htm

HIV Databases

http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsd.html

Plants Database

http://plants.usda.gov/

World Population Information

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

Women in Decision Making Positions

womendecisionmaking

Missing in Action Database

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html