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ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology links and references: http://www.anthro.net/

Anthropology news: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

Anthropology resources: http://www.anthropologie.net/

Persons important to anthropology: http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/

Resources listed by the American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm

The American Folklore Center (Library of Congress): http://www.loc.gov/folklife/


ASTRONOMY AND SPACE

Astonomy Center: www.astronomycenter.org

Astronomy information portal: http://astroplace.com/

Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Eclipses (NASA): http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/

Hubble Heritage Project: http://heritage.stsci.edu/

Infrared and multi-wavelength astronomy: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

Lunar atlases, etc. from the Lunar and Planetary Institute: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/

Mars exploration (NASA): http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Planets, moons, constellations, galaxies, nebulas, Messier objects: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/

Solar system: http://www.eightplanets.org/

Solar system exploration (NASA): http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Space flight news: http://spaceflightnow.com/

Space weather: http://spaceweather.com/

Star chart (National Geographic): http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html


CHEMISTRY

Chemical landmarks (American Chemical Society):  http://center.acs.org/landmarks/

Chemical profiles (Environmental Defense):  http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/

Chemistry timeline:  http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/timeline.html

General chemistry:  http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

General chemistry case studies:  http://www.chemcases.com/

Learning tools (Chemistry Collective):  http://www.chemcollective.org/

Learning tools (Creative Chemistry):  http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/

Links for chemists:  http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html

Material Data Safety Sheets: http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Safety/msds.html

Nobel Prize in Chemistry:  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/

Organic chemistry resources:  http://www.organicworldwide.net/

Periodic Table (Los Alamos National Laboratory): http://periodic.lanl.gov/

Superconductors:  http://superconductors.org/

Understanding chemistry: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/

What’s that stuff?:  http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html

Women in chemistry:  http://www.chemheritage.org/women_chemistry/


EARTH SCIENCES

Cartography (UN): http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/

Climate event images (NOAA): http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

‘Earth and Sky’ radio series:http://www.earthsky.com/

Earth discovery activities: http://www.discoverourearth.org/

Earth images acquired by astronauts (NASA): http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/

Earth observatory (NASA): http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Earth science images (AGI): http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

Earth Science Picture of the Day: http://epod.usra.edu/

Earth Scope project (NSF): http://www.earthscope.org/

Earthquakes (USGS): http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Environmental science resources and news: http://www.envirolink.org/

Environmental science resources (WRI): http://earthtrends.wri.org/

Geology: http://geology.com/

Geographic information systems (GIS): http://www.gis.com/

Meteorology: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

Mineralogy: http://webmineral.com/

Mineralogy Links: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html

National Climactic Data Center (NOAA): http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

Oceanography: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/index.html

Polar meteorology: http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/genpp.cgi

Rainforests (RAN): http://rainforestweb.org/

Soil Science: http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/index.htm

Storm Terminology (NOAA): http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/glossary.php

Tornadoes (NOAA): http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/tornado.shtml

Tsunamis (NOAA): http://www.noaa.gov/tsunamis.html

Volcanoes (UND): http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Wildland fire science (USDA): http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/index.html


GENERAL

Atlas of Cyberspaces: http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html

Breaking Through: www.eweek.org/site/nbm/index.html
Explores how creativity is expressed through the work of modern engineers.

Eric Weisstein's World of Science: a Wolfram Web Resource
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

The Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.org

FirstGov for Science:  www.science.gov
Selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.

House Committee on Science:
http://www.house.gov/science/welcome.htm

How Products are Made:  http://www.madehow.com

How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com

Molecular Expressions: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html
Exploration of the fascinating world of optical microscopy.

National Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov

Nobel Prize Internet Archive: http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html

Science.gov: http://www.science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.


Science Reference Services: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/
From the Library of Congress.

The Science Place:
http://www.scienceplace.org

The Why Files: http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu


LIFE SCIENCES

BiologyBrowser: http://www.biologybrowser.org/index.shtml
An interactive portal with annotated links to current, scientific articles about the life sciences.

Cells Alive!:
http://www.cellsalive.com

FishBase: http://www.fishbase.org

Monarch Watch:
http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Dedicated to education, conservation and research on the monarch butterfly

National Human Genome Research Institute:
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov


MAGAZINES, RADIO, TV

Archaeology:  http://www.archaeology.org/
A publication of the Archaeology Institute of America.

Discover:  http://discovermagazine.com

Earth and Sky:  http://earthsky.com/

LiveScience.com:www.livescience.com

Odyssey Magazine Online:
www.odysseymagazine.com/
Website of the award winning science magazine for readers aged 10-16.

PBS Science and Technology:
www.pbs.org/science/ 
Site material derived from PBS shows.

PLoS Biology:
www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html
Open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, featuring significant works in all areas of biological science.

ScienceDaily:
www.sciencedaily.com
Breaking news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects in everything from astrophysics to zoology.

Scientific American:
www.sciam.com

Science Friday: www.sciencefriday.com
National Public Radio program hosted by Ira Flatow.

Sky and Telescope:
http://skyandtelescope.com/
The essential magazine of astronomy


MATHEMATICS

For help on math Homework, click here.


Knot a Braid of Links: http:// camel.math.ca/Recreation/kabol/knotlinks.html
A portal to hundreds of interesting math websites, searchable by topic.


PALEONTOLOGY

Dinosauria Online: http://www.dinosauria.com

University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu


PHYSICS

For Physics Homework help, click here.


AIP Physics News: http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/ 
A weekly bulletin from the American Institute of Physics reporting the latest advances in physics from cosmology to nanotubes.

Contemporary Physics Education Project:
http://www.cpepweb.org/ 
A rich site presenting the current understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy.

Funderstanding Roller Coaster:
http://www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/ 
Design your own roller coaster while learning about acceleration, mass, velocity, centripetal force, etc.

High-Energy Physics Information Center:
http://www.hep.net 
A site for physicists.  The "General Physics Links" could be helpful to students.


SCIENCE FAIR

For Science Fair information and ideas, click here.