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General Science Sites

ALA | Great Web Sites: General Science

Sites selected by the American Library Assocition.
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesgeneral.htm

OLogy

OLogy means "the study of." On this site from the American Museum of Natural History, you can study and explore paleontology, archaeology, marine biology, and a lot of cool topics.
URL: http://ology.amnh.org/

Nye Labs Online

Bill Nye the Science Guy's Online Laboratory. Check out the "Home Demos" for experiments and activities you can try out yourself.
URL: http://www.billnye.com/

Cool Science for Curious Kids

Information and activities, including some printable pages you can use for the activities. Choose from: Plant Parts, Air Junk, Classifying Critters, Butterflies, and Inch Square.
URL: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper -- Science Links

Links to lots of science websites in these topic areas: General Science, Anatomy, Biology, Botany (Plants), Chemistry, Dinosaurs, Earth Science, Entymology (Insects), Medicine, Meteorology (Weather), Physics, Science Fair Projects, Space Science, and Zoology (Animals).
URL: http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/bjscience.html

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Biomes

What is a biome? The dictionary defines it this way: A major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate. So, it's basically a habitat and the things that live there!
The Biome page has links to information on Rain Forests, Deserts, Grasslands, Freshwater Ecosystems, Oceans, and more.

Plants and Trees

eNature: Field Guides: Trees

Look at 783 different species of trees. Descriptions, habitat, range, and photographs.
URL: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=10

eNature: Field Guides: Wildflowers

An on-line field guide to wildflowers, including cacti.
URL: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=11

Geo-Adapt

Find out how plants have adapted to geographical locations and habitats by trying to match the adaptations of plants with the places they grow.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/10157/infadapt.html

Plants And Our Environment

A great web site about plants from Hinkle Creek Elementary School in Noblesville, Indiana. There are diagrams showing all the parts of a plant, a glossary of plant words, on-line activities, and more.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/

Wild About Plants

Check out "Plant Fun With Flora" for plant activities from the Brooklyn Children's Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
URL: http://www.brooklynkids.org/BCM1/BCM_HTM/1_waplat/wap.htm

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Cool Science for Curious Kids

Try out the "Plant Parts Salad" and after you do the activity, see the recipe for building a real salad. From there, try clicking on "suggestions on edible plant parts" to see a chart of what parts (stems, leaves, fruit, roots, flowers) of different plants could be in a salad.
URL: http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

Kids for Trees

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources presents "Kids for Trees," with a student's guide full of tree information, plus a teacher's guide, with lesson plans relating to the information in the student section.
URL: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/tree_kit/

Teaching Youth About Trees - The National Arbor Day Foundation

Learn about trees with these classroom activities and games. Try your hand at things like "Treevial Pursuit" or "Who Wants to be a Treellionaire?"
URL: http://www.arborday.org/kids/teachingYouth.cfm

Plant links from Kid Info

If you didn't find what you needed with the above links, a few more can be found here.
URL: http://www.kidinfo.com/Science/plants.html

Yahoo kids!> Science and Nature > Living Things > Biology > Botany

Need even more plant links? Try Yahoo kids.
URL: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Science-and-Nature/Living-Things/Biology/Botany

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The Space Links have their own page!

Animals

eNature: Field Guides

Featuring over 5,500 plants and animals in the these Nature and Wildlife Field Guides: Amphibians, Birds, Butterflies, Fish, Insects, Mammals, Reptiles, Seashells, Seashore creatures, Spiders, Trees, Wildflowers, and Native Plants.
URL: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/

AWF: Wildlife Gallery

Facts about many different animals from Africa can be found on this African Wildlife Foundation site. Click on the small picture of an animal to get a larger pcture and some important facts, then click "Learn More" to get a longer article about the animal.
URL: http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/gallery

Electronic Zoo Animal Resources

Lots and lots of animal links, arranged by species.
URL: http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

The Earthlife Web

An encyclopedia of living things on earth. Though this site is still under construction, the sections that are finished have lots of great information. Sections available now include: The Wonderful World of Insects, The Amazing World of Birds, and The Incredible World of Mammals, as well as general information on the living world, cells, and the six kingdoms.
URL: http://www.earthlife.net/

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Mammals

All About Mammals

Brief information about mammals, from Zoom School. Learn about the types of mammals, what they eat, and more. Or skip to the list of mammal printouts for information on specific mammals.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/

eNature: Field Guides: Mammals

Find detailed species descriptions and photographs in these on-line field guides. Very helpful for animal reports!
URL: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5

Zoom Whales

General information about whales, fact sheets for specific whales, activity pages, and more.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/allabout/

Animals of the Arctic

This is a great site made by students for ThinkQuest Jr. There is a lot of information on many different arctic animals, plus activities and a long list of resources (including both books and websites).
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/

Through the Eyes of a Wolverine

This is another site made by students for ThinkQuest. You may think it's only about the wolverine, but try clicking on "prey" (or "snack") and you can get information on a lot of other animals, too!
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/3592/wolv_b.html

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Reptiles and Amphibians

Reptile Printouts

Click on a reptile to go to its printout. The printout has facts about the animal and a picture you can color.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/reptiles/printouts.shtml

Amphibian Printouts

Facts and printouts to help you learn about a few amphibians. There are good diagrams of the frog's life cycle!
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/amphibians.shtml

eNature: Field Guides: Reptiles and Amphibians

Do you need to find out about a type of salamander, frog, toad, turtle, lizard, crocodilian or snake? Try this site and get pictures, descriptions and other information.
URL: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=7

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Dinosaurs

Zoom Dinosaurs

You might not need to go anywhere else after you've looked at all the dino information on this site.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html

Paleontology: The Big Dig

What is a fossil? How are different kinds of dinosaurs alike? How can you draw a dinosaur if you have only seen its skeleton? Find out here, in part of the American Museum of Natural History's kids' site, OLogy.
URL: http://ology.amnh.org/paleontology/index.html

Download A Dinosaur

Print out 15 different dinosaurs that you can cut out and glue together.
URL: http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html

Dino Russ's Lair

Dinosaur information and links to other dino sites.
URL: http://www.dinoruss.com

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The Insects & Spiders have their own page!

Earth Science

ALA | Great Web Sites: Geology

Geology and Earth Science links recommended for kids by the American Library Association.
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesgeology.htm

Rocks and Minerals

Gallery of Specimen Images

From the Bob's Rock Shop web site, a gallery of photos of rocks and minerals.
URL: http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/minimage.html

Minerals A-Z

Loads of information on minerals, including common uses, how to distinguish from similar minerals, pictures.
URL: http://www.minerals.net/mineral/index.htm

Desert Environment & Geology: Rocks, Gems & Minerals

Learn about and see photos of some of the rocks, gems and minerals found in the American Southwest.
URL: http://desertusa.com/Thingstodo/geo/geology.html

Fossils

Fossils and Fossil Collecting

Find fossil facts and photos on this British site.
URL: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/conker/fossils//

20,000 Fossils Under the Ground

Learn about fossils and where they are found or try your hand at a quick fossil finding game to see if you know your stuff!
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002743/5kcm.html

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Weather

ALA | Great Web Sites: Weather & Environment

Weather and Environment links recommended for kids by the American Library Association.
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesweather.htm

Fact Monster: Weather

Information on temperature, clouds, storms of all kinds, weather extremes, and more.
URL: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0772916.html

The Weather Dude

A weather education site from a TV meteorologist. Information on weather topics and lots of links to related sites.
URL: http://www.wxdude.com/

Weather Forecasts

Find out the current weather and the forecast for any part of the U.S. (or the world) from the Weather Channel at weather.com.
URL: http://www.weather.com/

Cloud Guide

Photos of the different types of clouds, with descriptions.
URL: http://www.uen.org/weather/html/clouds/cloud_id.html

PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique

More cloud photos and information!
URL: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html

Make Your Own Weather Station

Just like the title says!
URL: http://sln.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html

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The links for Technology, Inventions & Inventors, and Simple Machines have their own page.

Human Body

Human Body

Go on a tour through the human body, with lizards as your tour guides. Visit all the systems, then try your hand at the activities. A ThinkQuest Junior award-winning site from Hinkle Creek Elementary School.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/

Neuroscience for Kids

Plenty of facts, plus experiments and activities to help you learn about the nervous system.
URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

KidsHealth

Find out how different parts of your body work (but be patient -- the My Body section may take a while to load), get information about common injuries and illnesses, or find the answers to questions like "Why do I need to wash my hands?"
URL: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/

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