Science Curriculum Links
Click on a link below for websites on that subject.

Animals: Animal Search: http://animalsearch.net/ Amphibians http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/herp/herpetol.htm Bees Amphibians http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/hive.html Birds: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/ Bird Printouts and much more... http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/ Classifying Animals: http://www.enature.com/ Fish: Good index on fish http://fins.actwin.com/  Mammals of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/mammalogy/mamwash2.html Marine Mammals http://www.cetacea.org/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Orca.shtml NOAA's Marine Mammal Education Site: http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/education/ Piranha http://fs.broward.cc.fl.us/~ssimpson/zoostuds2000f/rodriquez/Rodriguez.html   Reptiles: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/herp/reptwash.htm Reptile Care: Expert advice on raising snakes, lizards, etc. http://www.anapsid.org/ Who Zoo:  groupings of animals and an image gallery http://whozoo.org/ Wonders of the Sea:  great info & pictures on the animals in the ocean http://www.oceanicresearch.org/lesson.html     BACK TO TOP

Astronomy:

Our Place in Space 
http://ology.amnh.org/astronomy/index.htm
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens and His Experiments  
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/experiments.html
Barbara Morgan - Astronaut and Teacher
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr219.shtml
Windows to the Universe - wow, what a site!  
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/windows3.html
Space Food
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/space.food/
Great sites for kids (and supervised adults!) on many topics
http://www.skypub.com/sights/sights.shtml  
http://www.meteorlab.com/  
Moon and Tides Lesson Grades 6-9
http://can-do.com/uci/lessons99/moon-t.html
U.S. Naval Observatory: Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase. html
Zoom Astronomy:  All About Space (great! great! great! site)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/
All About Our Solar System (not fancy, but wonderful info!)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/solarsystem/
Coloring Pages to do with Astronomy:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/activities/coloring/
Online Coloring Pictures of the Solar System - kids have fun with this!
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/coloring_book/index_java.html
Earth Size Chart
http://www.planetpals.com/planetsize.html

The following sites contain a wealth of information, images, and links about each world:
NASA in Spanish:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/espanol
The Hubble Space Telescope Images:
http://heritage.stsci.edu/
The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/smb.htm  
Planetary Sciences Site  
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html
Planetary Photo journal 
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
The Naming of Planetary Objects:
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html 
American and Soviet Moon Exploration 
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/expmoon/lunar_missions.html  
Jupiter and its moons  
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo  
Cosmic Impacts
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/   

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Biodiversity
http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/index.html

Biology
Interactive biology learning activities
http://www.biologyinmotion.com/ 
Animal Migrations
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Cells
Cells Alive!  What do disease, sourdough bread, biological weapons, and gold mines have in common?
http://www.cellsalive.com

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Chemistry
http://www.chemcenter.org/
http://www.discovery-school.org/science.html  
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html (click on chemistry) 
http://www.chemistrycoach.com 

Chem for Kids
Chem4Kids - http://www.chem4kids.com/

Periodic Table
http://www.webelements.com/
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://140.198.18.108/periodic/Sb.html 
http://www.chemistrycoach.com/periodic_tables.htm#Foreign%20Language%20Periodic%20Tables 

What's the Matter?  
http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/matter/
Polymers - lesson plans for all grade levels
http://www.uwsp.edu/chemistry/polyed/
The Atoms Family
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/

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Earthquakes

All About Earthquakes - great info, graphics and much more...
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/
Earthquakes in Hawaii
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
Investigating Earthquakes (upper middle school, high school)
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/Module/
Savage Earth - the PBS special on quakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis; interactive
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/index.html
Seismic Monitor - where are earthquakes occuring?  Updated every 30 minutes.
http://www.iris.washington.edu/seismic/60_2040_1_8.html
Virtual Earthquakes (high school)
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/

Ecosystems
Missouri Botanical Garden - Biomes of the World
http://www.mbgnet.net/
National Park site - The Living Forest:
http://www.nps.gov/olym/teachers.htm
Ecosystems, biomes and habitats
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
Desert Ecosystems
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/desert_eco.html&edu=elem
Tropical Rainforest Ecosytem
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/rainforest.html
Temperate Forest Ecosystem
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/forest_eco.html
Tundra Ecosystem
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/tundra_ecosystem.html
Grassland Ecosystem
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/grassland_eco.html
Ocean Ecosystem
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/ocean.html

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Electricity

What is static electricity?
http://www.waterw.com/~science/static.html
What is electricity?
http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/story/story-html/chapter02.html
The Atoms Family: electricity
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/frankenstein/
Exploratorium's Electricity Snacks:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconelectricity.html

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Endangered Species
The Endangered Species Web Site
http://www.eelink.net/EndSpp/  
The Endangered Species Program (Dept of Fish and Wildlife)
http://endangered.fws.gov/
Canada Wildlife
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/cwshom_e.html  
US Wildlife 
http://endangered.fws.gov/  
Links to the top 100 Wild Life sites
http://www.100topwildlifesites.com/
Cat Conservation - Cat Survival Trust 
http://members.aol.com/cattrust/index.htm
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources- Database
http://www.redlist.org/search/search-basic.html 
Wildlife Conservation Network 
http://www.wildnet.org/index.htm
Yahooligans! Directory Search on Endangered Animals
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Science_and_Nature/Living_Things/Animals/Endangered_Species/ 

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The FIVE Kingdoms
Raptor Center: 
http://www.buteo.com
Five Kingdoms Table 
http://curie.uncg.edu/~esmith/kingdom.html
Five Kingdoms Links to good Info
http://server.uofdhigh.k12.mi.us/library/acasci5k.htm
Kingdom Taxonomy (Good Link!)
http://wwwmc.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/elc/learning_resource_center/taxonomy.html
Good summary of each kingdom
http://24.72.1.60/Science/TAP/5Kingdoms.htm
Great graphic of five kingdoms
http://www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/Biology/weblife/5kpage.htm
Five Kingdoms Slide Show
http://www-classes.usc.edu/engr/ms/125/MDA125/living/sld004.ht

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Food Webs/Chains
Contains a description of food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
http://www.arcytech.org/java/population/facts_foodchain.html

Ecosystems, biomes and habitats
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
A research site for students
http://www.aresearchguide.com/biomes.html
Biomes of the World
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets
Biomes - Virtual tour of a tropical rain forest
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

Gardening
Bees
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/hive.html
KidsGardening - Teacher's Resource Room:
http://www.kidsgardening.com/teachers.asp
Monarch Watch: Spring Migration
http://www.monarchwatch.org

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Genetics
Elementary: 
Genes and DNA  
http://www.eurekascience.com/ICanDoThat/dna_intro.htm
Smart Mice:
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/1999/090799mice/index.html
Cloning Dinosaurs  
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/biology/biology1.html
DNA From A to Z 
http://dna2z.com/a2z/index.html

High School: 
The Gene Scene
http://ology.amnh.org/genetics/index.html 
Onion DNA Extraction  
http://www.carolina.com/biotech/onion.asp
A Gene Map of the Human Genome
http://www.hhmi.org/GeneticTrail/
DNA/Protein Synthesis Project
http://chem.lapeer.org/Bio2Docs/DNAProject.html

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Habitats

Ecosystems, biomes and habitats
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
A research site for students
http://www.aresearchguide.com/biomes.html
Biomes of the World
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets
Biomes - Virtual tour of a tropical rain forest
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

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Health
The Virtual Body
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
Interactive Frog Dissection - great for Body Systems!
http://www.froguts.com
The Online Biology Book  
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
Body Quest
http://library.advanced.org/10348/ 
A Guided Tour of the Human Body 
http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/
The Heart: An Online Exploration  
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
Human Anatomy Online (interactive!) 
http://www.InnerBody.com/htm/body.html
Healthy Teeth
http://www.healthyteeth.org

Diabetes
http://kids.jdrf.org/ 
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/index_cwd.htm 
http://www.diabetes-kids.org/ 
http://www.dyp4kids.org/ 
http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com/forkids.htm
http://diabetes.about.com/cs/kidsanddiabetes/a/obesity_kids.htm 

Drug and Alcohol Info
http://www.teenchallenge.com/main/drugs/index.html
http://www.schoolwork.org/drugs.html
http://www.acde.org/
http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/
http://www.theantidrug.com/

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Insects 

3-D Insects
http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/3d/3dinsect.html
Insects in the Classroom  
http://insected.arizona.edu/lessons.htm
http://www.insectclopedia.com
http://www.insects.org
Great Information and Photographs
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/bugmenu.html
Magic Schoolbus on Insects
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/tour/tour.htm?insects
Insect Coloring Pictures (plus links to all other animals - excellent!)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/books/insectbook/
Insect Safari
http://www.insectsafari.com/home.asp

Inventors and Inventions

A GREAT STARTING SPOT!
http://www.invent.org/book/index.html  
Leonardo de Vinci
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
Patents information and a list of inventions and dates.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/patent/srs136.html  
American Inventions. 
http://americanhistory.miningco.com/education/americanhistory/msub16.htm  
American Inventions and Inventors from 1840 to 1940.
http://www.psd.k12.co.us/schools/tavelli/invent.html  
Inventors from A to Z:
http://inventors.miningco.com/cs/famousinventors/
African American Inventors. 
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/glptc/aaid/  
The Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week A-Z
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ archive.html
Inventors Online Museum
http://www.inventorsmuseum.com

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Light
How do things look to colorblind people?
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html
Rainbows and Spectra (interactive site)
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/rainbows/layouts/U0.html
Light Basics:
 http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html#LightBasics
Light:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html (click on the Light link)
Reflection: 
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html (click on the Reflection link)
Refraction:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html (click on the Refraction link)
Perception:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html (click on the Perception link)
Eye Tricks (click on the list of optical illustions on the left-hand side)
http://www.eyetricks.com/
Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

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   Marine Life/Intertidal Areas
What lives in the tidal zones? http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/intertidal/intertidal.shtml

Microscopes and Microbiologists 

Take a virtual pond dip!  Look in the jar and click on an organism.  See common pond protists and information about them
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/

Microbiologists:

• FLEMING
• JENNER
• LISTER
• PASTEUR
• SALK
• VON
  LEEUWENHOEK

High Quality Microscopic Images
http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/images_1.html
Microbe Zoo
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/

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Oceanography
Everything Ocean
http://www.ocean.com/
Marine Mammals
http://www.cetacea.org/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Orca.shtml
Aerial Photos of Washington State's coastline:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/apps/shorephotos/index.html
NOAA's Marine Mammal Education Site:
http://nmml01.afsc.noaa.gov/education/
Oceanography/plate tectonics http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/regions/default.htm

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Olympic National Park slide show
http://www.nps.gov/olym/eco.htm

Paleontology

http://ology.amnh.org/paleontology/index.html 
BBC - Walking with dinosaurs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/
Berkley Dinosaur Web
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html 
Zoom Dinosaurs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html 
United States Geological Survey - Dinosaurs
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/ 
UC Berkley Dinosaur Links Page
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinolinks.html 

Physics
The Physics Zone (gr. 9-12)
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/
Amusement Park Physics - 
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
Physics 2000 - An interactive journey through modern physics
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

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    Properties of Matter
What's the Matter?  
http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/matter/
The Atoms Family
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/

Plants
Fast Plants  
http://www.fastplants.org/home_flash.html
Bees
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/hive.html
Photosynthesis and Transpiration: 
http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/life10.html
Great Plant Escapes - plant parts, plant cycle, what plants need to grow
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html 

Plate Tectonics 
Plate Tectonics
http://www.can-do.com/uci/ssi2001/plate-tectonics.html
Plate Tectonic Animation - See the continents move apart in this animation
http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/animation.html
Plate Tectonics - The cause of earthquakes
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
Savage Earth - the PBS special on quakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis; interactive
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/index.html
Oceanography/plate tectonics      
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/regions/default.htm  
The Earth Floor
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html

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Rockets
http://www.launchpad2000.com/catalog.html

Rocks and Minerals:

Rockhounds - Geology with a canine twist - lots of good information at a kid's
level plus nicely done teacher lessons and support materials.
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/
Stock Images of geologic formations and rock types
http://stockpix.com/stock/nature/geology/index.htm 
Various Sites:
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/rocks/rocks.html
http://dmoz.org/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology/Rocks_and_Minerals/
http://www.rogersgroupinc.com/ourcommunities/rockology/index.htm
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/rock.htm  (great for elementary)
The Essential Guide to Rocks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/rocks/index.shtml

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Salmon
Olympic National Park site  
www.nps.gov/olym/hand/fish/memory/mem_run.html
Amazing Salmon
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001392/LIFECYCLEFINISHED.html
How to Raise Salmon in the Classroom  
http://www.renton.wednet.edu/Science/salmon/index.html
The Salmon Cycle
http://www.pugetsound.org/kids/salmon/default.html
http://www.streamnet.org/pub-ed/ff/Factsheets/Lifecycle.html
The Salmon Challenge - can your salmon survive?  Salmon Facts - for Washington State
http://splash.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/salmonch.htm 
Salmon in the Classroom 
http://wdfw.wa.gov/outreach/education/salclass.htm 
Color a Northwest Salmon
http://www.bpa.gov/Power/pl/columbia/allpix.htm 

Scientists
Coloring pictures of scientists which students color online - really neat!
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/coloring_book/index_people.htmlScientists from ancient times to now.  Easy biographical info for students.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/people.html

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Senses

Soundry - An exciting, interactive, and educational web site about sound
http://www.abc.lv/thinkquest/tq-entries/19537/main.html

Virtual Frog Dissection (wow!)

http://www.froguts.com

Volcanoes 
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/  
http://library.thinkquest.org  (this site was developed by three teenagers in different countries working together)
Beauty and the Beast (interactive site from Hawaii that contains information about volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis - wonderful!!)
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003007/
The Volcano Field Trip
http://www.field-trips.org/sci/volcano/index.htm
Mt. St. Helen's Virtual Climb  
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/mshvr/mshvr.html
Plate Tectonics
http://www.can-do.com/uci/ssi2001/plate-tectonics.html
Savage Earth - the PBS special on quakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis; interactive
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/index.html
A Virtual Fieldtrip to Iceland's Volcanoes:  
http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~geology/department/staff/colgan/iceland/welcome.htm
http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~geology/department/staff/colgan/iceland/husafell.htm
http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~geology/department/staff/colgan/iceland/skaio.htm
Volcanic Hazards
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/hazards/primer/index.html

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Water and Water Quality Topics:

Water Bugs (Macroinvertebrates)
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla/Stream-Study/StreamStudyHomePage/StreamStudy.HTML
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/pond/life.html  (Very suitable for high school and upper middle school)
Virtual Pond Dips
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pond3.html
http://www.hants.gov.uk/sparsholtschoolscentre/ponddatabase/virtual_pond_dip.htm
Water Science For Schools
http://wwwga.usgs.gov/edu/mearthall.html
Kids in the Creek  
http://www.bpa.gov/Corporate/KR/ed/kidsinthecreek/curriculum.htm
The pH Factor
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/
Water Cycle, Watersheds, etc
http://www.wavcc.org/wvc/cadre/WaterQuality/waterLesson.htm
The Water Cycle
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
Riparian Zone:
http://www.wavcc.org/wvc/cadre/WaterQuality/riparianZone.htm
Macroinvertebrates:
http://www.wavcc.org/wvc/cadre/WaterQuality/macroinvertebratesNew.htm
Water Quality Testing
http://www.wavcc.org/wvc/cadre/WaterQuality/water_quality_testing.htm
Salmon
http://www.wavcc.org/wvc/cadre/WaterQuality/salmon_information.htm

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Weather
Tsunamis
Pictures of Dec 2004 Tsunami : Before and After
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/9.html

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