1200 Years of Italian Sculpture
 | This site offers a wide-ranging archive of images, organized by sculptor and by region.
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Vignette
 | This site offers daily notes about the history of architecture and design, and it has a clean, elegant look.
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Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
 | Produced by High School students, this site has a rich store of information about the life, art, and science of Leonardo da Vinci. Check out the MIDI recordings of da Vinci's musical compositions!
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Global Children's Art Gallery
 | This site makes the most of a simple idea: Let children from around the world submit their artwork, and display the pictures in an online gallery. Children ages one through twelve have posted their work, and free scanning is provided if needed.
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The Useum
 | A visually elegant experiment into what an online, interactive museum might be like. This site will disappear for revision in September, so take a look!
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International Supernovae Network
 | Amateur astronomers worldwide scan the skies for signs of exploding stars. Their efforts and discoveries are collected on this site.
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The Space Place
 | This NASA site offers information and activities about the upcoming deep space probe missions. An excellent resource for students K-6.
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StarMap
 | Enter a time, date, and location, and this site will generate a detailed star map for you. You will need to download a free program to view the maps, but they are worth the time.
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NASA Space Weather Bureau
 | Find out what's stirring with the solar wind, or read about the latest research on the aurora borealis. Another informative site from NASA.
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NASA Infrared Astronomy Center
 | This clear, informative site includes the first images of a possible planet around another star.
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Peoria Astronomical Society
 | This well-designed site offers an interactive astronomical handbook. Click on the names of constellations to see detailed star maps and pictures of the star formations, or explore the life cycle and physics of black holes.
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The Galileo Project
 | This site uses the visual metaphor of Galileo's family villa to enable visitors to explore the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Find out about the struggles, triumphs, and lifelong curiosity of the man who set the stage for modern science.
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The Maya Astronomy Page
 | Learn about these accomplished early astronomers. This site is concise, clearly written, and easy to navigate. It's a great starting point for exploration into the fascinating culture of the Maya.
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Solar System Simulator
 | This simulator lets you view planets, moons, and spacecraft from different points in the solar system. No plug-ins or special software are required.
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The Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
 | This site contains stunning X-ray images and movies of the sun taken by the Yohkoh orbital telescope. The site also includes background information on the Yohkoh telescope and learning activities for classroom use.
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The South Pole Adventure Page
 | Want to know the current temperature at the South Pole? This clear and interesting site offers a range of science activities related to the South Pole. Or submit your weather experiment ideas, and maybe scientists will conduct it and send you the results!
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Ocean AdVENTure
 | Take a multimedia dive into the ocean's depths to learn about deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where some of the earth's most unusual creatures live! Another excellent resource from ThinkQuest students.
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Volcanoes
 | Learn how volcanoes work, explore plate tectonics, and much more. This site was designed by students in the ThinkQuest competition.
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USGS Earthquake Information
 | Comprehensive and clear, this site has information on the latest earthquakes around the world, current earthquake research, and much more.
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Terraserver
 | This site offers a vast database of satellite images of earth. Zoom in to see amazing detail! Terraserver requires a Java-enabled browser
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The Calcite Palace
 | Visit this site for beautiful pictures of a unique group of microscopic fossil algae, some as old as 200 million years!
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GardenGuides
 | If you've ever wondered when to start your cantaloupe seed for best growth, or what companion plants will keep tomato worms off your tomatoes, this site has the answers. A rich resource for gardeners, from beginner to expert, with a simple and effective interface..
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The Living Africa
 | Learn about Africa, with its rich cultures, geography, and wildlife. This site was designed and built by students in the ThinkQuest competition.
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Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly
 | This site offers an indexed, searchable archive of the informative Rachel's Newsletter --a huge source of information about environmental issues.
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ARM's Education Center
 | Check out this excellent resource on global warming and environmental science. Good information and curriculum activities.
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The Living Edens
 | Journey through the forests of Bhutan, or the coral reefs of Pulau! This site is a beautiful and informative online companion to the PBS television series of the same name.
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Water Science for Schools
 | Did you know that Americans used 341 billion gallons of fresh water in 1995? At this site you can find out where it all comes from, and where it all goes.
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Carolina Coastal Science
 | A quality educational resource with inquiry-based activities covering the Carolina coastline, including barrier island erosion, development pressures, and habitat conservation.
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Global Warming Central
 | This site has everything you want to know about the growing debate over global warming, including the text of the Kyoto Protocols, news of recent scientific and political developments, and expert testimony from both sides of the debate.
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World Wildlife Fund
 | Get the latest environmental news and read special features on protecting species and habitats. The story on the 1997 fires in Indonesia was particularly enlightening.
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NOVA Online
 | Unlike many Web sites that promote TV shows, this site is a valuable resource on its own. With a simple and appealing design, it presents well-written articles derived from the documentary series, including images and video clips.
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The Galileo Project
| This site uses the visual metaphor of Galileo's family villa to enable visitors to explore the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Find out about the struggles, triumphs, and lifelong curiosity of the man who set the stage for modern science.
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Strange Science
 | An fascinating look at "the rocky road to modern paleontology and biology." Strange Science examines the early development of paleontology and biology during the Renaissance. The site is well organized, informative, and contains very unusual images.
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The Atomic Archive
 | This well-organized site presents the history of nuclear power and the atomic bomb, with biographies of major figures, updates on current developments in nuclear science and diplomacy, a timeline, and a teacher's guide for classroom use.
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Experience Nicaragua
 | Another beautiful, rich site from the ThinkQuest students. This site explores the history and culture of Nicaragua, including a large archive of Spanish-language audio and video interviews (with English transcripts).
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Ancient Scripts of the World
 | Take a look at some beautiful ancient scripts, and explore the phenomenon of human language.
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The History Place
 | This well-designed site has extensive exhibits on the American Civil War, WW II, and other major periods. Each exhibit offers informative essays, timelines, and photos. The content changes frequently as new exhibits are added.
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The History of Education
 | This is a well-organized index of links and information on the major ideas, movements, and individuals who have influenced education over the past 300 years. A calm and clear visual design, too.
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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
 | A history of the Nazi atrocities during WW II, with lesson plans and links to original materials, including letters, photos, and art. Though not particularly innovative in its design, this site deals thoroughly and well with a crucial period.
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4000 Years of Women in Science
 | This site offers a wide ranging look at the roles of women in science, dispelling any notion that women's involvement in science is a recent development. This site has frames and non-frames versions, though the frames version is easier to navigate.
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Antique Medical
 | A fascinating photo collection of antique medical and surgical instruments from the past two centuries. This site's presentation style is basic, but the photos are fascinating.
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The Maya Astronomy Page
| Learn about these accomplished early astronomers. This site is concise, clearly written, and easy to navigate. It's a great starting point for exploration into the fascinating culture of the Maya.
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Perseus Project
 | This site describes itself as a "continually growing digital library for studying the ancient world." You'll find ancient texts, maps, art catalogs, and other information. I particularly liked the encyclopedia and map-creating application (which can be found under the "atlas" section).
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Private Art
 | A collection of World War II letters to and from the home front. Graphically the site is quite impressive and the letters are interesting, I just wish there were more of them.
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Cyber Telephone Museum
 | Ignore the goofy title and melodramatic title font, and you will be rewarded by the content of this site, which offers amazing pictures and stories from the history of the telephone.
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FirstFlight
 | This visually attractive site explores the Wright brothers' first flight. You can check out the experiments that lead to the successful flight. The site includes a flight simulator that requires the Shockwave Player.
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Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Student
 | This site offers a range of online resources related to traditional arts, folklore, anthropology, and oral history, including RealAudio interviews.
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KinderArt
 | This site boasts over 130 art lessons (and growing) that teachers and parents can use in their home or school classroom. Users can add their own lesson ideas to the site as well.
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Hamsterscope
 | This beautiful site, with illustrations by children's book artist Peggy Rathman, offers step-by-step instructions to make a visual illusion called a Phenakistoscope.
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The Virtual Cell
 | This ambitious site presents an interactive, animated exploration of the cell, along with a good virtual textbook.
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The Temple of Alife
 | This is an experimental site at the intersection of art and science, where you can play with visual representations of artificial life algorithms.
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HMS Beagle
 | This magazine-format site is an excellent upper-level source for news and information about developments in biology, biotechnology, and medicine. Registration is required, but it's free.
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DNA: the Instruction Manual for All Life
 | Aimed at a younger audience, this site offers a good basic introduction to the workings of DNA, with a clear, colorful design.
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Exploring Marine Ecosystems Online
 | This guide to the Smithsonian's Marine Ecosystems exhibit is an excellent ecology site in its own right. It free QuickTime Player VR tours of the exhibit hall, classroom activities, and a lot more.
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The Great Plant Escape
 | This site uses a mystery-story format to help kids explore and understand the life cycles and structure of plants. The mystery may seem strained to some kids, but the site still offers a wealth of accessible information.
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The Biotechnology Information Center
 | A searchable site that contains information on many aspects of agricultural biotechnology. The site also contains bibliographies, including one for educators.
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The Virtual Body
 | A well-executed interactive tour of the human body put together by health insurance giant Columbia/HCA. This site requires the Shockwave Player to view.
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The Cephalopod Page
 | Find out about cuttlefish, squids, and octopuses at this informative site. There are some excellent high-resolution photographs.The images are a bit large, but worth the wait. Check out the photo of Octopus dofleini (the Giant Pacific Octopus).
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The Moonlit Road
 | Read or listen to folktales from the American South. This storehouse of Southern history adds new stories every month.
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The Literary Traveler
 | This site explores the human enthusiasms for travel, self-discovery, and literature. Its correspondents wander a different region of the world each season, examining life and writing along the way.
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The American Verse Project
 | This site offers an ever-growing archive of poetry, with digital versions of poetry published before 1920. Though access to some collections of texts is restricted, the site is still a great public resource.
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Bartlett's Quotations
 | Never be at a loss for the right quote again! This site provides an on-line version of Bartlett's Quotations, with a search engine and an author index.
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Native American Geometry
 | Explore an elegant proportional geometry based on the circle, and used by Native Americans for over 2000 years.
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Virtual Polyhedra
 | Want to learn what an icosahedron is? Or the 53rd stellation of the icosahedron? Explore the complex and beautiful world of many-sided geometric figures.
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Mathworld Interactive
 | Join an on-line community of students working on math challenges! Since 1991, this successful community has offered its participants a new math challenge every nine weeks.
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The New Venue
| Category: Media | Cool Site: June 1998 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Check out this site to see state-of-the-art movies produced just for the Web! Best viewed with a fast internet connection.
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The Book Arts Web
 | This site is dedicated to the art of bookmaking, and to artists using the book as an art form.
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Close to Home: Moyers on Addiction
 | A companion to a PBS television special of the same name, this is an excellent resource on the many facets of addiction, including the science behind addiction, downloadable education guides for parents and teachers, and an online discussion forum.
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Brain Candy
 | This site collects an ever-growing resource of puns, word games, limericks, misunderstood song lyrics, and even insults! It's not much to look at graphically, but there is plenty to read.
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OtterNet
 | Explore the world of the otter! This site has interviews with otter biologists, materials on otter conservation, otter movies, and more.
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The Dawn of Animal Life
 | Explore the early formation of the planet Earth, and the earliest appearances of animals.
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AfriCam -
 | Tune in to this webcam, and you'll be tranported to a watering hole in a South African game reserve. Watch waterbuck, hyenas and elephants come down to drink!
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Zoom Dinosaurs
 | This site offers thorough information about dinosaurs, presented in a simple frame-based format. Learn about the Albertosaurus or the Sinosauropteryx!
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Dolphins: The Oracles of the Sea
 | A comprehensive source for dolphin information, this site was a ThinkQuest collaboration of three high school students, one from Holland, one from Singapore, and one from the USA.
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The Fish Out of Time
 | The Coelacanth, a 400 million-year-old species of fish long thought extinct, still exists. Explore the biology of a possible human ancestor!
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Strange Science: the rocky road to modern paleontology:
| Mistakes are part of science, too. This site explores the many unusual and sometimes goofy wrong turns taken in developing the modern science of paleontology.
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Belinda's Beekeeping Spot
 | Everything you need to learn to keep bees. Also a good resource for advanced beekeepers.
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Wired for Conservation
 | This site has news and information about efforts to conserve endangered habitats and species. Be forewarned: the interface is somewhat vague.
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NetFrog
 | This site guides your own frog dissection, with detailed series of pictures and QuickTime Player video clips documenting the procedure and outlining major anatomical features. An earlier Cool Site, the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit, offered an interactive dissection of an animated frog, rather than the "real" frog seen here.
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Bat Conservation Internationa
 | Though visually unremarkable, this site is a veritable compendium of information about bats, including descriptions and pictures of different bat species, audio files of bats' echolocation calls, and reading lists about for students and teachers.
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The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
 | Find out everything you need to know about bees from this rich site. Learn how to raise bees in your backyard, or how Malaysian villagers hunt for honey. Follow bees through their hive using the BeeCam, or explore the fluctuations of bee populations with a simulated hive.
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The Amazing Picture Machine
 | Have you ever spent hours online in a frustrating search for that perfect picture? No more; find pictures of penguins or pachyderms with this site's image search engine. This is a useful, time-saving tool.
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Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991
 | This site is a huge, detailed history and archive of panoramic photographs in America. Over 4,000 images, provided by the Library of Congress.
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Edweard Muybridge of Kingston Upon Thames
 | Learn about this photographer who is called "the father of the motion picture." The site contains a number of interesting photos, which you can click on to see up close. You'll also learn about Muybridge's fascinating and tragic life.
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Stanford Linear Accelerator
 | Have you ever wondered what a linear accelerator really does? This cleanly organized site offers clear explanations of an advanced area of physics.
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The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
 | Did you know that the earth is a huge magnet, one whose magnetic influence extends far into space? Learn how the earth produces this field, and how the field is affected by "magnetic storms" from space! An information-packed site, which may take some time to explore completely.
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The ABCs of Nuclear Science
 | A soup-to-nuts site exploring the atom, with a detailed glossary and many activities and high-school level experiments. This site requires frames and, due to its horizontal layout, may be hard to view on small monitors.
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