WWW Links

List of internet sites that discuss a variety of topics relating to Education.

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SCIENCE EDUCATION SITES

The NASA Homepage
http://www.nasa.gov/
The home page for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Welcome to Quest!
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

The home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative.

The Why? Files
http://whyfiles.org/
Explains the science behind the news. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Helping Your Child Learn Science
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/

The U.S. Dept. of Education sponsors this home page listing many activities relating to science you can do at home or in the community.

The Discovery Channel
http://exn.ca/index.cfm
The home page for TV's Discovery Channel.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html

The Franklin Institute Science Museum's Home Page brings exhibits, resources and fun to your desktop.

Berkeley's Paleontology Museum
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
Berkeley's Paleontology Museum has online exhibits, catalogs, and more.

San Francisco's Exploratorium Museum
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

San Francisco's Exploratorium has exhibits, news and resources for the young and old to explore.

Science for the Millennium
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/

NCSAí' Multimedia Online expo, "Science for the Millennium" contains many pavilions of science and industry.

Physical Science Activity Manual
http://www.utm.edu/departments/ed/cece/cesme/PSAM/PSAM.shtml
This manual contains 34 hands-on activities for the classroom.

Computer as Learning Partner
http://www.clp.berkeley.edu/CLP.html
CLP, maintained by Univ. of California at Berkeley, is dedicated to informing and improving middle school science instruction.

The Smithsonian's Ocean Planet Exhibit
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
This is an online exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Bad Science
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
Alistair B. Fraser maintains this site to sensitize teachers and students to examples of the bad science often taught in schools/universities, in textbooks, and in the media.

National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/
The National Science Foundation's home page.


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