Links to Family Educational Sites on archaeology, astronomy, space, biology, botany, chemistry, computers, disasters, earth science, gardening, geography, government, inventions, patents, museums, photography, physics, science, technology, social studies, transportation, travel, U.S. history, weather, world history, zoology

The Family Friendly Web Data Base

A Directory of over 175 Educational Web Sites

Solidly educational URLs for all ages. Another worthwhile resource offered you by sdadefend This web data base was prepared by the undersigned, the editor of sdadefend, especially for this web site and our sister web site: http://www.pathlights.com. It is our prayer that this data may help guide you and your young ones toward very worthwhile educational web sites. —vf

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

- Archaeology

- Astronomy and Space

- Biology

- Botany

- Chemistry

- Computers

- Current News

- Disasters

- Earth Science

- Gardening

- Geography

- Government

- Inventions and Patents

- Children Only

- Medical and Health

- Natural History Museums

- Photography

- Reference and General

- Science and Technology Museums

- Science in General

- Social Studies

- Student Helps

- Transportation

- Travel

- U.S. History

- Weather

- World History

- Zoology

- 1 ARCHAEOLOGY

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.

- 2 ASTRONOMY AND SPACE

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.

- 3 BIOLOGY

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.

- 4 BOTANY

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.

- 5 CHEMISTRY

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.

- 6 COMPUTERS

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.

- 7 CURRENT NEWS

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.

- 8 DISASTERS

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.

- 9 EARTH SCIENCE

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.

- 10 GARDENING

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.

- 11 GEOGRAPHY

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

- 12 GOVERNMENT

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.

- 13 INVENTIONS AND PATENTS

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.

- 14 CHILDREN ONLY

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/

- 15 MEDICAL AND HEALTH

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.

- 16 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

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.

- 17 PHOTOGRAPHY

- 19 REFERENCE AND GENERAL

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.

- 21 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUMS

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.

- 22 SCIENCE IN GENERAL

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.

- 23 SOCIAL STUDIES

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.

- 24 STUDENT HELPS

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.

- 25 TRANSPORTATION

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.

- 26 TRAVEL

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.

- 27 U.S. HISTORY

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.

- 28 WEATHER

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.

- 29 WORLD HISTORY

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.

- 30 ZOOLOGY

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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