Educational Links

Educational Links-Science

The Bad Astronomy site discusses common misconceptions about astronomy. It also covers some "good science" and contains links to many other astronomy sites.

Hubble Heritage Project. New Images rom the Space Telescope put art into the science, and vice versa.

Science U offers interactive online science exhibits and reference information for science students, teachers, and hobbyists. The emphasis is on geometry and astronomy.

Sonoma State University Dept. of Phyics and astronomy favorite astronomy links.

The Space Telescope Science Institute operated for NASA by AURA. Information regarding the Hubble Space Telescope.

About.com links to many areas of biology including AP Biology, animal behavior, botany, evolution, and much more.

Access Excellence "provides high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web."

Biomes around the World contains a small number of great photos and clip art dealing with plants in each of the different biomes.

Cells Alive -- pictures, text and lots of information on various kinds of cells.

The Explorer Web Site contains lots of natural science activities and lesson plans including Observing and Growing Grass Seeds, Preserving Leaves, Measuring Plant Growth, Observing the Growth of Growing Seeds, and many more.

MindQuest.net is for biology teachers and students and contains outlines, notes, exams, quizzes, video clips, digitized images, and more.

NetVet and the Electronic Zoo has information for every animal you could possibly need to know anything about. Includes simple do's and don'ts of pet care to extensive information about the rarest animals on the earth.

The Neuroscience for Kids home page has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system.

Scorecard. the Environmental Defense Fund rates states and counties for pollution.

SeaWorld offers an online animal informatl database as well as educational resources for teachers.

Community Learning Network Dinosaur Theme Page. This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of dinosaurs. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.

Dinosaur Data Base is selling a dinosaur CD -- BUT -- the web site contains many links to dinosaur information as well as downloadable clip art, jokes and puzzles.

Dinosaurs -- Zoom Dinosaurs .

Dinosaur Themes including resources, lesson plans (K-12), handouts, and web based activities.

Another Dinosaur site, Discovery Room Online, is looking for dino-detectives to find the real dinosaurs, unscramble dinosaur bones, and make your own dinosaurs!

Mac Download -- This is a collection of unit study lesson plans for grades K-5. There are over 20 activities, including decorating a bulletin board, making books, artwork, names of dinosaurs, and digging for bones. There is also a reference area, including tips for where to find more information (for the Macintosh computer).

Paleontology Museum Database. Are you or the kids you know fascinated with dinosaurs? Then visit the Cyberspace Museum's Paleontology Museum database with its extensive listing of dinosaur-related museums and exhibits in the United States.

ProTeacher - dinosaur related activities for elementary students.


The Worldwide Museum of Natural History contains information on vertebrates (including dinosaurs), fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, invertebrates, planetary science, gems and minerals.

Galaxy - site contains lots of links to the geosciences including academic organizations, articles, collections, directories, discussion groups, organizations, and more.

The Learning Web is the education site for the United States Geological Survey and contains lots of earth science related information including the latest earthquake and volcano news, facts about radon and acid rain, educational resources and much more!

National Geophysical Data Center - part of US Department of Commerce / NOAA includes a satellite archive, glaciology, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics and links to world data centers.

The Regents of the University of California - Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities.

The World-Wide Earthquake Locator -- the name says it all!

National Science Foundation home page.

ZineZone.com - information on Anthropology.

AccuWeather is a great weather site. Type in a city name of zip code and view the current temperature, forecast, weather map, and radar map.

AWS -- Meteorological association between schools, TV broadcasters, and corporate sponsors developed by AWS and the National Association of Partners in Education, (NAPE).

An interesting weather site is provided by the National Weather Service. This site contains storm warnings, forecasts, weather data, maps, climate and historical data, weather topics and links, and weather videos (two very nice ones on tornadoes). This site also has links to the regional offices of the National Weather Service and to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The home page of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

This site contains the weather for any place in the world. The NBC Weather site has radar images, satellite photographs, Atlantic and Pacific IR images, tropical system tracking chart and the SunCast UV Index. This site is great for anyone teaching a meteorology unit. If you don't have internet capabilities in your classroom you can use a color ink jet printer and transparency film to make overheads of the weather images. If you access this page every few hours you can follow the path of a storm as it moves across a region.


Tornado Project Online - a 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.

The Weather Doctor - This site offers articles on many different weather topics: from weather phenomena to weather history, from stories of some of the interesting people who have been involved with the weather to some weather verse and weather's impact on the arts. The articles presented here are aimed at an audience with some understanding of high school-level science and more scientifically advanced younger readers. In the works is Weather Eyes for Kids, where you will find articles with less technical detail.

Two great sites for information about batteries is Duracell and Energizer.

BioChemNet - "a guide to the best biology and chemistry educational resources on the web."

The Catalyst. This site has been developed specifically for the secondary education/high school level teacher, as a resource for finding relevant information for use in the teaching of chemistry.

World Wide Wolfe Chemistry Education Links - lots of educationl links.

Excel in Physical Science is a series of basic Physics and Chemistry lessons and labs at the middle school and high school level.

Jefferson Lab, a Department of Energy Lab, has a brief overview of atomic structure, a tour of their accelerator, many hands-on experiments that kids can try, science links, education links, internships, as well as other resources.

Sonoma State University Dept. of Phyics and astronomy favorite phyics links.

The University of Colorado's Physics 2000 web site is an interactive journey through modern physics. The site explains x-rays, CAT scans, microwave ovens, lasers, the Bose-Einstein Condensate, EM waves, the quantum atom, has a periodic table complete with moving atoms, and much more.