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A Directory of over 175
Educational Web Sites
Solidly
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Young people will find
much of interest here. Parents will find this something they can do
together with their children in the evenings.
You will probably find
the biology and science sections to be especially interesting.
Sites were selected
because they were for young people and their parents, and fitted into
one or more of the following categories (in the order of importance):
Database or links - The
site had a good database of links to similar sites, or it had a few
worthwhile links to them.
Children - The site had
photos and arrangement especially suited for Children.
Information - In some
instances (for example, in Archaeology), advanced information was
provided for the serious young person or adult.
We tried to avoid
technical data, but our databases sometimes refer to it.
If you cannot locate a
given web site, try again later. We found that we cannot connect with
some sites while friends elsewhere can, and vice versa. And some days we
can connect, while at other times we cannot. So be patient.
DIRECTORY
Biblical Archaeology
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kmeyers/archaeol/
Information and links to
maps, organizations, and ongoing excavations.
Institute of Egyptian
Art and Archaeology
http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html
Photos of museum
objects, plus Tour of Egypt with option of choosing the city to explore.
Mesoamerican Archaeology
http://copan.bioz.unibas.ch/meso.html
http://www.realtime.net/maya/
http://www.netaxs.com/~mckenzie/
Mesoamerica refers to
people who lived anciently in Central America. Here you will find what
archaeologists have found there.
Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html
Avast collection of
information about ancient objects, buildings, vases, coins, and
archaeological sites.
Underwater Archaeology
http://www.gotropical.com/archaeol.htm
http://www.pophaus.com/underwater/
Information on
shipwrecks, articles, objects, and links to related sites.
Near Eastern Research
Archives
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/oi
Includes photo galleries
of archaeological finds.
Human Spaceflight
http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov
NASA’s new home for
manned mission information: both the space shuttle and International
Space Station. Outstanding: SkyWatch, which tells you when and whree the
shuttle and station can be seen overhead with the naked eye. You can
link directly to NASA TV from this site.
Apollo 11
http://www.gsfc.nasa,gov/hqpao/apollo_11.html
Apollo 11 mission, plus
other data. The film, "One Small Step" takes 26 minutes to
download.
The NASA Shuttle Web
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/redirectfilenotfound.html/
When a launch is in
progress, view it here.
International Space
Station
http://station.nasa.gov/
All about the space
station, now under construction. Updated weekly.
Automated Telescope
Facility
http://inferno.physics.uiowa.edu/
How a 7" automated
telescope works. With links to other automated telescopes on the web.
EarthRise
http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/
Database of photos of
Earth from space, taken out Space Shuttle windows. Thousands of images
on each country you click on. Updated almost daily.
Solar and Lunar Eclipses
http://www.skypub.com/eclipses/eclipses.shtml
http://www.earthview.com/resources/links.htm
Photos and discussion.
HST’s Greatest Hits
1990-1995
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BestOfHST95.html
Photo gallery of
spectacular images taken by Hubble Space Telescope.
Webstars
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/www_info/webstars.html
A collection of
astronomical resource sites. Go to the images section to see all the
photos.
NASA Home Page
http://www.nasa.gov/
Photos, historical data,
etc.
Solar System Simulator
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov
Simulator color
renderings of any planet at any phase or time, prepared by science labs.
Regional Planetary Image
Facility
http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/rpif.html
Over 300,000 images of
planets and their satellites, plus photos of Earth from space. Plus
links to related sites.
Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
Some of the best images
from NASA’s planetary exploration program, plus information.
More Planet Sites:
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/sensors_page/planets.html
http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
The Planet Mars
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmars/expmars.html
Photos, atlas, and
discussion of what Mars looks like.
MarsNews
http://www.marsnews.com
Older and the latest
news from or about Planet Mars.
Constellations
http://galileo.gmu.edu/constellation/constellation.html
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
http://www.physics.
csbsju.edu/astro/asp/constellation.faq.html
Information and pictures
of the several types of constellations, each of which contains millions
to billions of stars.
Astronomy Software
http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/yp_software.html
A comprehensive
collection of links to different sites with astronomy software.
Starpages
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sf.htm
The internet site which
has master links to all sites about astronomers and astronomy.
The Star Trails Society
http://www.StarTrails.com
NASA-sponsored program
to help you become involved in scientific research projects in
astronomy, and other natural sciences.
Biodiversity
and Biological Collections Web Server
http://muse.bio.cornell.edu
A basic bibliography and
search database, continually updated. Outstanding for the serious
student.
Cincinnati
Zoo and Botanical Gardens
http://www.cincyzoo.org/
All about how zoos
operate
Cells Alive!
http://www.cellsalive.com/
Animated graphics of
real cells, moving around the screen.
Natural Resources of
Canada
http://www.nofc.forestry.ca
All about the forests of
Canada (which has 10% of all the forests in the world).
Zoological Resources
http://www.york.biosis.org/
Web resources on
zoology, museums, studies, databases, and image galleries.
Skelton’s African
Wildlife
http://www.nature-wildlife.com
Photos of African
wildlife.
Botany Images
http://www.wisc.edu/botany/virtual.html
Thousands of pictures of
plants, flowers, trees, fungi and other vegetation.
Smithsonian Botany
Resources
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/botany.html
Databases, images and
links to botanic collections.
Missouri Botanical
Garden
http://www.mobot.org/welcome.html
Information about the
MBG, plus research information on flowering plants throughout the world.
Many photos. Begin by going to "Plants in Bloom."
Botanical
Gardens
http://www.botanique.com
Database of gardens and
aboreta of U.S. and Canada.
Ferns
http://www.visuallink.net/fern/
All about ferns, plus
photos and links.
Botany Databases
http://meena.cc.uregina.ca/~liushus/bio/botany.html
Links to thousands of
resources for plant lovers.
Plantlife links
http://www.wildflowers.com
Links to sites dealing
with plantlife.
Visualizing Chemistry
http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html
http://www.mdli.com/download/chimedown.html
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/
Resources, data, and
images.
Generations: Through the
History of Computing
http://www.dg.com//about/html/generations.html
Slide tour of computing
from the 1960s to today.
Computer Museum Network
http://www.tcm.org
Tour through the
Computer Museum in Boston. Much here to see, learn, and do.
CNET
http://www.cnet.com
The latest news on a
computer virus, best price of a new Pentium III system, etc. How to
install a socond hard drive, etc. Information for computer enthusiasts:
news, reviews, commentary, etc.
Boston Globe Online
http://www.boston.com/globe/
Boston Globe newspaper:
breaking news stories updated every 30 minutes from Associate Press
CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com
Updated hourly. Banner
at top lists latest stories.
Discovery Channel Online
http://www.discovery.com
Online news updated
daily, in categories of history, technology, nature, exploration, and
science.
Electronic Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
London Daily Telegraph
newspaper: News stories with British and European slant, most popular
site in Europe.
Hotlinks
http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/
Newspaper Association of
America: Links to all U.S. and Canadian newspapers on web.
The Daily News—Just
the Links
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gerben/news.html
Links to news sources
around the world.
Time Daily
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily
Time magazine: Much of
the weekly content, without pictures. Stories from Time International
also included. Archival data helpful. Not best source for daily news.
How to Prepare for
Disasters
http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/
How to prepare for
various types of diassters.
Earthquake Information
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
Information on
earthquakes and recent ones. Updated every half hour.
Global Map of
Earthquakes
http://cires.colorado.edu/people/jones.craig/EQimagemap/global.html
http://www.scec.gps.caltech.edu/glossary.html
Location of fault lines
and strike points everywhere on the planet.
More on Earthquakes
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/cgi/bin/quakes
http://www.eqe.com/publications/homeprep/
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
The last URL, above,
consists of a large collection of links.
Flood Locations
http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/geog/floods/
Before you relocate,
learn the areas where floods tend to occur.
Hurricanes
http://www.gobeach.com/hurricane/
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
http://www.edwards.cc/tcp/
http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Information on current
hurricanes, and how to prepare for them.
Tornadoes
http://www.tornadoproject.com/
http://www.txdirect.net/~msattler/tornado.htm
http://www.fema.gov/library/tornadof.htm
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/stormchase.html
http://www.storm-track.com/
Where they are
happening, plus other information.
Wildfires
http://www.firewise.org/pubs/wnn/
http://www.nifc.gov/news/sitreport.html
The current wildfire
situation in the U.S.
Geological Image Library
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~eoswr/cgi/bin/db_gallery/searchframe.html
Type a keyword into its
seach engine, and you will see beautiful images relating to geology.
Smithsonian Gem and
Mineral Collection
http://galaxy.einet.net/omages/gems/gems-icons.html
Almost 50 images and
descriptions of different types of gems and minerals.
More on Minerals
http://www.minerals.net/
Still more photos,
databases, and information.
Rock Collecting
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.html
News, features, and lots
of photos.
SeaWiFS Project Home
Page
http://www.seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov
Here you will find
NASA’s global color monitoring project (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view
Sensor), showing changes in oceanic vegetation. Begin with the Project
Flipbook.
Learning Web
http://www.usgs.gov/education/
A variety of information
and data links to geological materials concerning the U.S.
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
Possibly the best site
on volcanoes. Listings and photos of volcanoes, including current
eruptions. Films take time to download.
Volcanology
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/
Desecription of several
volcanoes, plus ongoing research at them.
The Glacier Site
http://www.glacier.rice.edu
All about Antarctica,
its weather, expeditions, and worldwide effects. Also other glacial
areas.
Glaciology
http://www.nsidc.colorado.edu/NOAA/glacier_inventory/
http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/chulbe/igs/igs.html
All about glaciers
throughout the world.
The Cave Page
http://rschp2.anu.edu.au:8080/cave/cave.html
Articles on caving and
rescues, knot tying, best caving areas. Slow to load.
The U.S. Geological
Survey
http://info.er.usgs.gov/
A massive amount of
information and links about earth science data in the U.S.
Gardening Links
http://www.gardenweb.com/vl
Links to many gardening
sources.
Agview
http://www.agview.com
Database to most
everything a gardener might want.
Aggie Hortculture Just
for Kids
http://tamu.edu/kindergarden
Learnings and activities
More about Agriculture
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/7967
More sources.
Color Landform Atlas of
the U.S.
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Color landform maps of
each of the 50 states, plus information about them. Three links (USYahoo,
City Net, and Virtual Tourist) enable you to research about each state.
Color Shaded Relief Maps
of the U.S.
http://www.zilker.net/
Two maps can be
downloaded.
National Mapping
Information
http://mapping.usgs.gov
Up-to-date cartographic
data for the U.S., plus related information.
Taking the Long View
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html
About 4,000 images of a
wide variety of things in the U.S., from 1851 to 1991. Some foreign
countries included.
Xerox PARC Map Viewer
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map/
The screen shows a world
map. Click on any spot (or provide coordinates), and zoom to it. A
detailed outline map will be quickly drawn. You can download them. A
link to the "U.S. Gazeteer" is included, which will retrieve
detailed city maps, which are also zoomable.
TerraServer
http://terraserver.microsoft.com
Aerial and satellite
images of places on Earth. Simply type in or click on a lcoation, then
see bird’s-eye views and street maps.
Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps
Click on the area you
want, and zoom in to a map of a specific continent or country (either a
political or physical map).
Perry-Castaneda Library
Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Color maps from
throughout the world, over 300 U.S. maps, plus historical maps of all
the continents, and links to other map sites.
City.Net
http://www.city.net
You can obtain an exact
map of almost any location in any city of the world. If you live in a
city or town, type in your own home address, and see what you get.
More Localized Maps
http://www.mapblast.com/
http://www.mapquest.com/
http://www.atlapedia.com/
http://www.mapsonus.com/
Local maps in cities and
towns, plus cross-country ones—all customized to what you want.
Subway Navigator
http://subwaynavigator.com/bin/cities/english
Maps of city subways
throughout the world.
GORP: Great Outdoor
Recreation Pages
http://www.GORP.com
Information about most
any U.S. or foreign park you might wish to visit.
Nice Geography Sites
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html
List of geography
servers throughout the world.
Time Zones
http://www.01digital.com/time/
Learning the time zone
any town on earth is in.
Time and Time Zones
http://www.bsdi.com/date
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html
More about Time and Time
Zones
World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
This Central
Intelligence Site includes the World Factbook, which is filled with data
on foreign countries.
Congress.Org
http://www.congress.org/
Complete Congressional
directory, today’s schedules, and more.
Thomas Web
http://thomas.loc.gov/
See what is happening in
Congress this week. Review the full text of recent House and Senate
bills, summaries of pending legislation, daily updates to Congressional
Record. Find e-mail addresses for all members and committees, and all
C-SPAN transcripts. ( http://www.house.gov
has a similar site; this one only about the House of Representatives.)
Yahoo List of U.S.
Government Organizations
http://www.yahoo.com/Government/States
Information on federal
and state organizations. (Especially good for locating state agencies.)
FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov
A large site, which can
be browsed from a catalog or keyword searches.
Legal Information
Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct
Supreme Court decisions,
plus current calendar. Too technical for most people.
Library of Congress
http://marvel.loc.gov/
Documents, photos, sound
recordings, plus new exhibitions and features. Can be searched. You will
never see it all!
The American President
http://AmericanPresident.com
A virtual walk through
each of six rooms, and what happens in each; plus more.
The National Budget
Simulation
http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html
With a budget simulator,
you have to trim the U.S. budget.
Inventure
Place
www.invent.org
Everyone in the National
Inventors Hall of Fame.
National Laboratories
home.doe.gov/people/labsmap.htm
Basic science research
developments at Argonne, Brookhaven, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and
Sandia.
U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office
www.uspto.gov
Information about issued
patents and patent applications. You can search its vast data base to
see if your patent or trademark is already taken.
Intellectual Property
Network
www.patents.ibm.com
Search and see patent
applications from the U.S. and other nations. Especially interesting:
Gallery of Obscure Patents.
Cool Science for Curious Children
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience
Interesting biological
questions, answered by explanations, illustrations, animations, and
projections based on children’s science museums across the nation.
Earth Science Enterprise
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov
Here is the NASA site
for kids! Something for all ages; so there is also data here for older
youth and adults.
AOL Net Find Kids Only
http://www.aol.com/netfind/kids
Here you will find safe
searching and links to web sites to inform.
PetStation
http://www.Petstation.com/
Where you can go to
learn more about your pet, and talk to others who have one.
Pet Channel
http://www.thepetchannel.com/
Pet of the Day
http://www.petoftheday.com/
Send in a photo of your
pet, and he might become the pet of the day!
Cat Sites
http://www.best.com/~sirlou/cat.shtml
http://www.afn.org/~afn47757/
http://www.io.com/~tittle/cat-faqs/
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/catstuff
Especially for cat
lovers. The last URL, above, has over 3,000 cat-related graphics, plus
more.
Dog Sites
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/
http://www.dog-play.com/
http://www.akc.org/
http://www.chazhound.com/doglinks/pages
Birds and Bird Songs
http://www.naturesongs.com/birds.html
Bird and other nature
songs are at this site.
Other bird sites
include:
http://www.birder.com/
http://www.theaviary.com/bi.shtml
http://www.upatsix.com/
Ornithology
http://www.aves.net/the-owl/
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/
Still more about birds.
Aquarium Fish
http://www.aqualink.com
All about aquariums and
fish.
Other Animals
Horses:
http://www.horseadvice.com/
Hamsters:
http://www.hamsters.co.uk/
Rabbits:
http://www.rabbit.org/
Rats and Mice:
http://www.afrma.org/afrma/rmindex.htm
http://www.rmca.org/Resources/faqs.htm
Monkeys:
http://members.primary.net/~heather/
First Nine Months
http://www.pregnancycalendar.com/first9months
Photos of the changes
inside the womb through the entire nine months.
Dissections of the Real
Brain
www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/BrainAnatomy/BrainAnatomy.html
Photos of the brain and
its parts. This is a portion of the Virtual Hospital website.
drkoop.com
http://www.drkoop.com
Health news and
resources, by Dr. C. Everett Koop. More than 100 support groups and
dozens of specific health topic areas. Its Drug Checker helps you check
drug interactions.
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
www.mayohealth.org
News on health,
medicine, diseases.
InteliHealth
www.intelihealth.com
Health advice, from
Johns Hopkins. Includes a Drug Resource Center with an index of drugs by
brand and generic names, plus a medical dictionary.
National Museum of
Natural History
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/
The immensity of what
you will find in this Smithsonian museum is remarkable.
Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk
Another large museum,
this one in London. Download all the plug-ins, and start in.
Natural History Museum
of Los Angeles County
http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/lacmnh/
Both and history and
science exhibits will be found here, plus links to other area museums.
You may want to start with the Discovery Center and Insect Zoo.
Treasures of the Czars
http://www.sptimes.com/Treasures/TC.Lobby.html
Presented by a Florida
museum, you tour the exhibits from the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Much to
see and do.
Treasures of the Louvre
http://www.paris.org./Musees/Louvre/Treasures/
Antiques from Egypt, the
Orient, Greece, and ancient Rome.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum
http://www.ushmm.org:80/index.html
Much to see, and much to
think about.
Scrolls from the Dead
Sea
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
This Library of Congress
exhibit was organized from a special exhibit, and provides historical
data plus views of some documents.
Encyberpedia
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.html
Provides reference links
to a variety of web encyclopedias. A number are devoted to specific
topics (African wildlife, etc.)
National Geographic
Online
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Updated daily, there is
always something new. Fabulous archive of pictures and information.
My Virtual Reference
Desk
http://www.refdesk.com
Hundreds of sites to
reference books are listed here.
Roget’s Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/
The most helpful and
comprehensive book of synonyms and related words.
Museums on the Web
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Web links to museums and
archives. Many interesting destinations.
California Academy of
Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/
A large site. Take an
online tour of this large science museum, or select the topic or
creature of your choice. Something new each week.
Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu
You can work with some
of the 650 interactive, hands-on exhibits in the Exploratorium. Ten
special sites selected each month, which you may want to start with.
American Museum of
Natural History
http://www.amnh.org
Regular exhibits plus
special ones.
Museum of Science and
Industry
http://www.msichicago.org
Tours, exhibits, and
lots more.
The Franklin Institute
Science Museum
http://sln.fi.edu
Each month, the staff
selects five favorite web sites, and explains them.
Boston Science Museum
http://www.mos.org/
London Science Museum
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/
Maritime Museum
http://www.bobhudson.com/Smiths/
Exhibits of ships and
artifacts.
Discovery Begins Here
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/
Explore six
science/social studies discovery sites.
Henry Ford Museum and
Greenfield Village
http://umd.umich.edu
Tour the museum and
village. It is full of automobiles. It is the largest indoor/outdoor
museum in the U.S.
Virtual Museums
http://www.icom.org/vlmp
Several dozen sites
listed.
Science Daily
www.sciencedaily.com
The latest news from the
world of science.
If it is news about
science, you are likely to find it in the Why Files, along with some
in-depth analysis.
The Why Files
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/index.html
This is about current
"science in the news," and related activities which can be
done. Frequent updates.
The Mad Scientist
Network
www.madsci.org
Come with your science
questions—and find the answers! The site’s Q&A archives have
thousands of answres you can search through by keyword, subject, or
date. Or ask a new one. More than 500 scientists provide answers.
How Stuff Works
www.howstuffworks.com
How things work
(batteries, engines, cellphones, etc.), with illustrations, explanation.
The Cornell Science
Gateway
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
Future scientists will
love this one. All about labs and resources in a dozen different fields.
Plus scientific field trip links.
Science Sources
http://www.albany.edu/~knee
You name it and you find
it.
Nova Online
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
Stories, illustrations,
and videos about science topics.
Microsoft Research
www.research.microsoft.com
Pictures, 3-D graphics,
explanation of possible future developments in software.
American and British
History Resources
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html
Classified links to a
variety of online catalogs, texts, and documents.
Vose Social Studies
Resource Links
http://www.teleport.com/~vincer/social.html
Another list of links;
this one to special topics (Christopher Columbus, U.S. Congress, etc.)
American Sign Language
http://www.aslinfo.com/
An interesting study,
which might help you help another.
Homework Helper
http://www.tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13
Elementary through high
school: Several strong search engines to help locate information in
several subjects.
Ask an Expert Page
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
For elementary through
high school: You can ask a question of professionals in a wide area of
fields.
Study WEB
http://www.studyweb.com/
All students: A student
research encyclopedia of site listings, where you can find what you are
looking for; classified by grade level.
Ask Dr. Math
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/
Students and teachers:
Send your math questions in an e-mail.
Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com
Ask a question.
Inner Auto
http://www.innerauto.com/innerauto/htm/auto.html
What is under the hood:
antilock bakes, automatic transmissions, etc. Descriptions, images,
animations.
Cars.com
http://www.Cars.com
Source of information
for car buyers and owners, links to car reviews. Also search for car
sales.
Innovative
Transportation Technologies
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans
High speed rails, meglev,
monorail, personal transit, etc.
Hawaii
http://www.realwaves.com/
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/hawaii.mpg
http://www.mhpcc.edu/tour/Tour.html
Pictures and videos
about Hawaii.
Caribbean
http://www.cweek.com/
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa462/carib.html
What it is like in the
Caribbean
Jerusalem
http://www1.huji.ac.il/jeru/jerusalem.html
Tours around the area.
Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Photos from all over the
world.
Russia
http://www.moscow-guide.ru/Culture/Walk/
http://www.travel-library.com/europe/russia/
U.S. National Parks
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_National_Park/main.htm
Information on all the
National Parks in America.
Antarctica
http://www.terraquest.com/va/
http://www.theice.org/
Traveling in Antarctica.
A Walking Tour of
Plimoth Plantation
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Historic/Plimoth/Plimoth.html
A tour of Plimoth
(Plymouth), founded around 1620.
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln.html
Lincoln’s speeches and
writings, comments about him, links, and more.
Betsy Ross Homepage
http://www.libertynet.org/iha/betsy/
All about U.S. flags
down through the years.
Historical Sounds and
Speeches
http://web.msu.edu/vincent/
Sound file of comments
and speeches of famous people.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://japan.park.org/Japan/Peace96/sakuin-e.html
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
http://129.171.129.67/mf/hibakusha/
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/
All about the first two
nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945.
The Titanic Disaster
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/phind/
http://www.skarr.com/titanic/
http://www.titanic-online.com/
All about the April 14,
1912 disaster of this British passenger ship.
Earth Observatory
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov
An "observation
deck" on a satellite lets you look down on Earth, so you can
investigate changes—taking place right now—for yourself.
Hurricane Hunters
http://www.hurricanehunters.com
Fly into the eye of a
hurricane with the 53rd Weather Reconaissance Squadron. Words and
stills; no videos. Latest activities!
Current U.S. Weather
http://www.mit.edu/usa.html
From a weather satellite
above us, a graphical map of current weather conditions in the U.S. You
can click on any specific location.
Current Weather Maps
http://clunix.cl.msu.edu/weather/
Weather information,
current maps for North America. or any location within it. Updated every
hour.
El Nino and La Nina
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html
Primarily about El Nino,
and plenty about it.
The Weather Visualizer
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/visualizer/
Make your own customized
weather maps, using radar and satellite images. Includes information on
weather forcasting methods.
Other Weather Images
http://www.weatherimages.org/
http://wxp.eas.purdue.edu/
Still more of the latest
satellite images, so you can check for the best one to bookmark.
The official site for
such information.
Canadian Weather Reports
http://www.tor.ec.gc.ca/text/
The latest weather
forecasts, maps, satellite images, etc.
International Weather
Reports
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/basemaps/wworld1.htm
Weather reports for most
areas in the world.
Ancient Civilizations
http://www.taisei.co.jp/cg_e/ancient_world/ancient.html
Pictures of ancient
civilizations throughout the world.
Animated Oxford Tour
http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/personal/tour.html
A virtual tour of old
Oxford, England. Links on this site enable you to download two
important, free software programs: Shockwave and Quick Time
Movies. Although downloading is slow, you will be happy with the
speed the tour after that.
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~wcweb/wc101/
Visit one or more of
eight ancient cultures.
Hieroglyphs
http://khety.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/PortraitE.html
Information on this
ancient Egyptian picture-writing language, plus how to put your own name
into hieroglyphics.
The Jerusalem Mosaic
http://jeru.huji.ac.il/jerusalem.html
Travel through
Jerusalem. A very interesting site.
The Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World
http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Wonders/
Details and pictures
about each of these ancient structures, only one of which exists today.
Historical Timelines
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/keithco/history.htm
What happened and when,
down through history.
Historian’s Database
http://www.ukans.edu/history/
Very large source for
historical information on the web. It is a history warehouse.
Animal Resources
http://www.SeaWorld.org
Sea World: Information
and photos of animals and plants in the ocean.
Animal Information
http://netvet.wustl.edu
A very great deal of
information about animals, some of it technical.
ZooNet
http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/gallery.html#zoo
Links to zoos all over
the U.S. and overseas, and lots of photos.
Other Zoos
http://aazk.epower.net
Where to go to find
them.
Zoo Atlanta
http://www.zooatlanta.org
Very interesting
material, but pictures somewhat slow to load. Educational activities
classified by grade level.
The San Diego Zoo
http://www.sandiegozoo.org
Information and pictures
about America’s greatest zoo,
Wildlife Conservation
Society
http://www.wcs.org
The Bronx Zoo takes you
on an adventure with animals.
Mammals
http://www.selu.com/~bio/wildlife/links/animals/mammals.html
Lots of information
about mammals.
Herpetology
http://www.herpetology.com/
The branch of zoology
which deals with reptiles and amphibians (snakes, lizards, frogs, etc.)
The Froggy Page
http://frog.simplenet.com/froggy/
All about frogs,
literally, plus database of other sites. Includes pictures and sounds.
Especially for kids.
The Interactive Frog
Dissection
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog
Virtual frog dissection
program.
Entomology
http://www.ColoState.edu/Depts/Entomology/ent.html
Said to be the best site
on insects and their relatives. Beautiful pictures.
Nanoworld
http://www.uq.oz.au:80/nanoworld/nanohome.html
High-tech equipment
looks at microscopic things. Fabulous images, not normally seen. Need a
highspeed modem.
Welcome to the Bug Club
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub
Lots of information for
those interested in insects, plus links. All of it interesting to
bug-lovers.
Bee Research Center
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov
A lot of information,
and some pictures (including a zoom camera through the hive).
Arachnology
http://www.ufsia.ac.be/Arachnology/Arachnology.html
All about spiders,
scorpions, mites and ticks.
The Electronic Zoo
Human Body Image Browser
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/gva/gvaview
Here are 27 still images
and animation of different parts of the human body. Can zoom in. But
lacks explanation.
The Heart: An Online
Exploration
http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/
All about the heart and
vessels. Photos, sounds, and lots more.
Fish FAQ
http://www.wh.whoi.edu/homepage/faq.html
Frequently asked
questions about oceans, plus excellent photos.
Marine Life
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/
http://www.mbl.edu/html/MRC/specimens.html
Still more on ocean
life.
Whales
http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/research/Whales
Whales, whales, and more
whales.
Malacology
http://www.club.innet.be/~year0078/
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/grp_moll.htm
This is all about
mollusks, which are the second largest invertebrate phylum (clams,
oysters, scallops, bivalves, squid, etc.)
Catalog of Marine Fish
and Invertebrates
http://www.actwin.com/fish/species.html
A catalog of over 300
pictues of marine fish and invertebrates. There are several ways to
search it.
Sharks
http://www.oceanstar.com/shark/
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/
All about sharks.
Great White Shark
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/Doug/shark.html
Images, facts, details
and research on this shark.
Zoological Resources
http://www.susx.ac.uk/library/pier/subjects.dir/sci.dir/zoology.html
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/zoolinfo.htm
Web sites, databases,
museums, web servers and image galleries.
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