Science

Interactive and fun activities for students from K-12. The Mummys Tomb (energy conservation), Dracula's Library (properties of light, waves and particles), Frankenstein's Lightning Laboratory (different forms of electricity and electrical safety), Phantom's Portrait Parlor (principles of atoms and matter), Wolfman's Ghostly Graveyard ( fuel conservation and energy transfer).

Browse the Animal Kingdom of Amphibians, Arthropods, Birds, Bony Fishes, Echinoderms, Insects, Mammals, Mollusks, Reptiles and Sharks. Information, pictures, specimens, sounds, classifications are available for each topic. Resources for K-12 teachers can be found under the "teaching" subtopic. This section has additional links for teachers and students, sample exercises, assignments, and web searching resources. There's a lot more here than initially meets the eye.

Offers several links to each of the following subtopics: All About Mars, Solar System: Planets, Solar System: Other Objects, Travel/Exploration, Distant Stars, Background Information and Facts, Images and Teacher Resources. There are some broken links on this site but many of the working ones are awesome.

Links covering the following topics: What is a Dinosaur?; Victorian Dinosaurs; Whatever Happened to Brontosaurus?; Dinosaur Metabolism; The Tyrannosaurus Page; Reptiles of the Ancient Seas; What is a Fossil?; Dinosaur Extinction; Dinosaur DNA; Legend of the African Dinosaur; Flying Reptiles in Texas; Stop Motion Photography; and The Paluxy Paradox.

General Research, Nutrition, Finess, Cancer, Diabetes, AIDS, Infectious Diseases, Drugs/Alcohol, Eating Disorders, Procedures, Miscellaneous Diseases/Ailments, Background Information/Facts, Images, and Teacher Resources.

Answers the following questions: What good are bats? How are bats like you? Why are they scarey? Should we protect them?

Video clips are available, animal guides, a TV schedule and a section for educators including Professional Development courses online.

Features online explorations, news from the Hubble, capturing the cosmos, homework help, and teacher resources. The section on graphic organizers has completed organizers for the following topics: Comparison of : comets and asteroids; rocky and gas planets; spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies; Eagle Nebula and Eskimo Nebula; Warped Galaxy and Whirlpool Galaxy; star clusters.

Even if you aren't interested in having your students participate in a webquest, you may find some of the links and resources at this site helpful. There are links to science resources, a metric conversion calculator, moon phase, scientific and numeric calculators, as well as conversion tables.

American Museum of Natural History. Covers Archaelogy, Astronomy, Biodiversity, Earth, Einstein, Genetics, Marine Biology and Paleontology. Fun interactive site.

The Smithsonian. Gems and Minerals; Rocks and Mining; Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes; The Solar System.

"Amazing Pests" (how pests have adapted in order to live with us); "Threats and Prevention" (dangers to our health and homes and what to do about it); "Learning Games" (interactive mysteries). Teacher Resources includes lesson plans, quizzes, coloring pages and links.

Really neat site that kids can relate to. Covers Gravity; The Planets; One on One With the Sun; Cosmic Connections; Don't Be Lost in Space; The Milky Way; How did the Universe Begin?; Stuff to Do; Meet the Ologists; What do You Know?; and Astro Poll.

"Meet the Microbes" (includes a link to a Size-o-meter), "Bacteria in the Cafeteria" (game to show both good bacteria and bad bacteria in the cafeteria), "Infection"(game of play Infection where you are the germ), "How Lou Got the Flu"(traces the flu path, tells difference between epidemic and pandemic), "The Amazing Microbe Hunters"(game including Pasteur, Salk to name a few), "The Mixed Up Microbe Mystery"(be an epidemiologist and solve the mystery, "The Prevention Convention" (Ten tips to be germ free).

Interactive site showing cell models, mitosis, meiosis, cell cycle, cell cams, "How Big?", puzzles and quizzes. There is also a cell gallery and a crystal gallery as well as a link to Babel Translation and Homework.