SCIENCE RESOURCES
Search Engines for Scientific Journals and Web Pages

Find abstracts of scientific articles.

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Science E-Zines

First Science.com

National Geographic Science News

New Scientist


Science Online   

21st Century Science and Technology

Science Media Presentations
and Interactive Lessons

Astronomy Movie Database

BioEd Online
-- resources from Baylor College of Medicine includes downloadable media presentations (slides, .mpg videos)

General Chemistry Online -- This site maintains "construction kits" (online interactive tutorials) for learning chemical equations, ionic compounds, and unit conversions.

Harcourt Science Videos -- Videos used in CNN Science broadcasts.

Leonardo: Interactive Virtual Science Museum  -- Electronic media (slide shows, videos and java applets) for demonstrating diverse scientific principles

Mad Scientist -- an eclectic collection of scientific studies and multi-media presentations designed to amuse students and teachers. The site offers a research service where students may pose queries to a forum of scientists.

Physics Demonstration Videos from Wake Forest University

PhysLink.com -- Organized links for astronomy and physics students and educators plus an exceptional reference section with links for useful tools for conversions, computations, equations, constants, etc.

Science Animations -- R.M.Chute from North Harris College provided this list of links to web sites with online science videos. Get the Shockwave player.

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RESOURCES FOR SCIENCE CLASSES
ASTRONOMY RESOURCES

Amazing Space   

Cambridge Handbook of Space, Astronomy and Astrophysics

NASA: CERES Project Gateway   

SEGway: NASA and UC Berkeley's Science Education Gateway


UC Berkeley: Space Sciences Laboratory

University of Alabama's Astral Images Gallery  

NASA Astrophysics Data System -- a database offering free access to 700,000 articles

NASA Space Educator's Handbook

Space.com -- an e-zine and astronomy portal in one web site with links to media presentations from NASA, virtual space tours, and image galleries

Virtual Amateur Astronomer

BIOLOGY  RESOURCES

Pathfinders:

Anatomy
    Botany    Cells   Zoology        
BioEd Online -- resources from Baylor College of Medicine includes downloadable media presentations (slides, .mpg videos)

Biology Browser -- a free resource from Thomson

Dictionary of Biomechanics

Biosciences Virtual Library  

Epress -- Biolinks --resources from the World Wide Web Journal of Biology and BIOSIS

Online Biology Book

PLos Biology Public Access Online Journal of Biology

High School Hub: Biology-Chemistry

 

CHEMISTRY RESOURCES

About.com: Chemistry

General Chemistry Online
-- This site maintains "construction kits" (online interactive tutorials) for learning chemical equations, ionic compounds, and unit conversions.

Links for Chemists
-- Chemistry section of the WWW Virtual Library

Martindale's Virtual Chemistry Center   

Rader's Chem4Kids   

Visual Elements of the Periodic Table   

WWW.Chemistry Place  -- Interactive tutorials for high school and college chemistry courses

Web Elements -- Professional edition with a link to the companion student edition

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  -- 85th edition of the science reference

Mr. Rosen's Chemistry Links -- from the Central H. S. Science Department
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE RESOURCES

DOE: Open Source Information Bridge -- The Information Bridge consists of full-text documents produced and made available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.

Earth Trends  -- Environmental Information portal       

The Globe Project
  

General Science Full Text -- a database service from the Free Library of Philadelphia: requires library card and PIN

Google Directory: Environmental Education
  

Office of Science -- U. S. Department of Energy

NCDC NOAA -- Resources for climatic studies and metrology

NCDC Climatic Extremes and Weather Events

Rainforest Alliance

World Meteorological Organization

GEOLOGY RESOURCES

Center for International Earth Science Information Network -- from Columbia University

Earth Sciences Resources Hotlist
 -- from the Franklin Institute

Earth Science World -- Internet resources from the American Geological Institute

Internet Resources for Earth Science --  from the virtual library of Berkeley U.

ONR Science and Technology Focus: Oceanography

USGS: Education and Outreach

USGS Learning Web

MATHEMATICS  RESOURCES

Click on the compass for additional mathematics resources.

Study Hall SAT Math   

Math.com    

Mathforum@Drexel U.
   

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

BIO Hunt:   Search engine for molecular biology web sites and documents

BIO Med Central -- Directory to over 100 open access magazines

Gene Almanac  

Human Genome Browser   

Human Genome Project Education Resources

MedBioWorld -- Virtual library for biological and medical sciences

Virtual Library of Genetics
PHYSICS RESOURCES

DCTech.com: Help for Physics Students   

Education Index: Physics   

Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Physics Central 

Physics Classroom -- a high school physics tutorial from Studyworks Online

PhysLink.com -- Organized links for astronomy and physics students and educators plus an exceptional reference section with links for useful tools for conversions, computations, equations, constants, etc.

RESOURCES FOR SCIENCE PROJECTS

Exploratorium:The museum of science, art and human perception at the Palace of Fine Arts -- A virtual science museum from the science museum of San Francisco

First Science -- a resource for high school general science classes: articles, news, 
experiments, puzzles and more!.

Frank Potter's Science Gems

Franklin Institute Online

FREE Science: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Mad Scientist
-- an eclectic collection of scientific studies and multi-media presentations designed to amuse students and teachers. The site offers a research service where students may pose queries to a forum of scientists.

Museum of Hoaxes
  

Natural History Museums Gateway  

SciCentral  -- Gateway to the best scientific research news sources

Science Fair Links  

The Science Lab  -- Science directory

Science Fairs Homepage

Leonardo: Interactive Virtual Science Museum  -- Electronic media (slide shows, videos and java applets) for demonstrating diverse scientific principles