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General Resources
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Includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries with an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. |
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Indices and Gateways to Astronomical Resources on the Internet. |
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More links to the world of astronomy. |
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Phil Plait's site debunking information in the media about astronomy. |
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From the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. |
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A wealth of information about Albert Einstein. |
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Articles are often lengthy, and may include photos, hyperlinks within the text, and chronologies. |
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The largest archive of free full-text science articles, and it's searchable. |
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Information on how many things work. |
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Videos of birds, emphasizing bird behavior. Approximately 50 percent of bird species are represented. Search options include common and scientific names, region, and rankings based on video quality and ornithological interest. |
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A medical dictionary sponsored by Mirriam Webster. |
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MedHist is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge. |
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This site contains articles discussing recent scientific research at NASA. |
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Excellent visuals and information about weather issues from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
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Searchable database of plant information by common name, scientific name, and symbol. |
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The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. |
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Site for science and hockey enthusiasts. |
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This edition of Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations is a free, searchable, online resource published as an adjunct to content on Wiley InterScience. Currently contains over 180,000 acronyms. |
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A partnership between textbook publishers and the National Science Teachers Association. |
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A science-specific search engine from Elsevier Science that searches web pages, journal sources, and non-text files, eliminating the extraneous results you might get from standard search engines. |
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NASA's space resources for education. |
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The timeline has been produced to celebrate 1000 years of scientific thought in the period 1000 to 2000. |
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Learn about the scientists and scientific events that happened on this day. |
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The University of Iowa provides Virtual Hospital as a "useful medical reference and health promotion tool" for both health care professionals and patients. Users have access to hundreds of authoritative sources of medical information. Easy to navigate, the site organizes information in a variety of ways; users can browse by medical problem, organ system, or hospital department. |
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Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. A complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. |
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An overview of famous women scientists. |
Biology
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A range of activities (K-12) and classroom resources for the study of aquatic biology, including habitats such as oceans, rivers, wetlands, and ponds, and such life forms as whales, dolphins, crustaceans, fish, mollusks, and living coral reefs. |
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Site from the Center for Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. |
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A new resource from Biosis. It's described as a "free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community." |
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From Washington University Libraries. |
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Life Sciences Resources and Tools to enrich the public's knowledge of Biology and Chemistry. Includes an illustrated dictionary of scientific terms; a Chemical Acronyms Database; interactive textbook; and many more resources for both students and professionals in a searchable website. |
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Access to 182 peer-reviewed open access journals. |
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The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health,has released this curriculum supplement as part of series designed to "deepen students' awareness of the importance of basic research to advances in medicine and health," as well as foster critical thinking and an understanding of how scientific discoveries affect their own lives. The Web site offers five outstanding student activities (grades 9-12) regarding cancer and cell biology. |
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Lists of endangered species as well as organizations. |
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Insect website from the Deptartment of Entomology at Iowa State University. |
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A variety of lesson plans are provided on this Biology Project Web page from the University of Arizona Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. The site provides a short description and suggested grade level for each lesson plan, along with a link. A wide variety of topics are covered, including insects, ecology, plants, genetics, and cellular biology. The lessons are aimed at students from middle school through advanced high school biology, and each is well organized and easy to navigate. |
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Bilingual Site on Healthy Living from the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry. |
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Site from the Native Plant Society of New Jersey, a non-profit organization. |
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Museum of Paleontology from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. |
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United States Department of Agriculture site with information on plants and their care. |
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Collaborative web project by biologists around the world composed of more than 2,000 web pages providing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. |
Chemistry
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This Internet site describes the instructional philosophy and methods of a progressive high school chemistry program. The program is based on student inquiry and experimentation, using lecture only as a last resort. Students are expected to learn by experimenting, analyzing, independent study, and through individual interaction with classmates and teachers. |
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This site contains chemistry applets including Molecular Weight Calculation and interactive graphs. |
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Includes pages for chemistry professionals, educaators, students at all levels, policy makers, and enthusiasts. |
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The Chemistry Hypermedia Project was started by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1993. One of the goals stated for the site is to use the Internet to provide supplemental educational resources to chemistry students. |
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The California State University Stanislaus developed these interactive chemistry Web tutorials to assist college students in mass spectrometry, proton NMR chemical shifts, and more. |
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Math and Science Gateway has links to a variety of disciplines from Cornell University, |
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A periodic table unlike any other. Resize your browser wider or narrow and it hides or shows more data. Click the Wide checkbox. Also try Properties. Each property has a different slider, like boiling point. |
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Official site for the US Environmental Protection Agency. |
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Information and study aids on Basic Chemistry concepts. |
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A series of annotated links for studying chemistry. |
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Roll the mouse over each element to find its atomic weight, atomic number, its state of matter at room temperature, and its common uses. |
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This site serves as a free resource of chemistry for students. Available for all chemistry students seeking homework help is a variety of tutorials, quizzes, test and information to help with your chemistry learning needs. |
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Links for Chemists, as part of the WWW Virtual Library, is a index of more than 8,400 chemistry resources found on the web. |
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This website developed by the Faculty of Chemical Technology in Croatia provides an interactive Periodic Table of Elements. Students and educators can find information dealing with each element's discovery history, thermal properties, ionization energy, minerals and use, isotopes, and reduction potentials. |
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From the United Kingdom, physical science gateway of the Research Discovery Network |
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Created by The Ohio State University's Chemistry Department. this site offers fifteen test banks covering an abundance of chemistry topics including Quantum Chemistry, Rates of Reaction, and Electrochemistry. Within each test bank, students will find numerous three-question quizzes. After taking a quiz, visitors can observe their performance and learn the correct answers. |
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The Oxford VR Group is developing a three-dimensional simulated laboratory for the teaching of chemistry. This laboratory will be modeled using virtual reality techniques and it will contain interactive multimedia experiments. Essentially, the student will be able to move around the lab in a web browser window and choose to take part in experiments that are distributed around this virtual lab. |
Environmental Science
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Nonprofit organization dedicated to protected and restoring rivers nationwide. |
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Site from environmental studies organization at University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Information on pollution. |
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Clearinghouse on the Internet for the environmental community. |
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Official website from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
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Site from the World Resources Institute, which is dedicated to protect Earth's environment. |
Genetics
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This site is a hypermodel for teaching high school genetics, developed with support from the National Science Foundation. It offers interactive features that enable students to manipulate processes to make observations and draw conclusions. In the Web Lab, students can study genetics either with dragons or peas in highly interactive activities and through quicktime movies. |
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This new database from the Institute of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, is designed to become a central repository for "information on the prevalence and/or incidence of Mendelian genetic disorders." |
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The Human Genome Project (HGP) began in 1990 as an effort by researchers from around the world to map and sequence the human genome - the totality of human DNA - as well as the genomes of important experimental organisms, like yeast, the nematode worm, and mouse." This website, though designed for high school students, offers so much new research it really is of interest to all. |
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This site has a wonderful animated explanation of the causes of Sickle Cell Disease. For other disorders, such as Cystic Fibrosis, Hemophelia, Neurofibromatosis, and Huntington Disease, there are areas where patients talk about the consequences of having the disorder, treatmentsand tests. |
Physics
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A professional web site for teachers of physics in college and high schools. |
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A site where you may post a question to a practicing physicist. |
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Site from the American Institute of Physics, which has visual information as well as text. |
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From Prentice Hall and Pearson Education comes the online Conceptual Physics Tutorial. The site provides information for students on mechanics, properties of matter, heat, sound and light, electricity and magnetism, and atomic and nuclear physics. |
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Offers a wide range of help for a wide variety of students. |
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Physics and Astronomy Online. |
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A general physics textbook in the making. Written in contemporary American English. A working knowledge of algebra, trig, and some calculus recommended but not necessary. |
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Archive of physics-related links. |
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Web-based activities which allow students to explore and examine resources and then complete specific tasks such as writing essays, taking quizzes, creating diagrams, etc. Linear Motion, Projectile Motion, Forces and Newton's Second Law, Waves, Lawnmowers and Physics, Einstein, Roller Coaster Physics, Exploring the Planets, and A Comet's Tale are some of the topics covered. |
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The Physics Van Outreach Program is a part of the University of Illinois Physics Department, whose Web site contains some good learning tools. The question database is an accumulation of over 1000 physics related questions and their corresponding answers. |
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Physical Sciences Information Gateway. |
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Physics Internet Resources from the American Physical Society. |
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Eric Weisstein's site to Math, Physics and Chemistry. |
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