BAYCAT: Bayview Hunters Point Center for the Arts & Technology
 | Featured here are samples of the work of some inspired San Francisco youth who are using art and technology to express themselves and thrive! BAYCAT provides education in the arts, culture, and enterprise to underserved youth and adults. Free Flash plugin recommended.
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World Heritage: World Wide Panorama
 | Here you'll find beautiful and amazing virtual reality panoramas of some ofthe most interesting places on earth taken during a world wide panorama shoot on the solstice, June 19 to 21, 2004.
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MFAH: Inverted Utopias
 | This gorgeous site from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores avant-garde art in Latin America. You'll need the Flash player to enjoy this fabulous site.
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SFMOMA: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis
 | This interactive exhibit features and helps you explore modern works of art donated by cultural philanthropist, Phyllis Wattis. For this site, you'll need the free Flash plug-in.
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Mystery of the Poison-Dart Frog
 | Discover the art and biology of the Costa Rican rainforest and "solve a mystery with clues from ancient treasures." From the North Carolina Museum of Art. You will need the free Flash Player.
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Canto do Brasil
 | Sights and sounds from one of the most magical and complex places on earth from the perspective of photographer and interactive designer Geoffrey Hiller. You will need the free Flash Player.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Online Conservatory
 | Explore some of the fascinating dimensions of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's performances, view documentaries on the lives and works of the composers, learn about the musical concepts exemplified by each piece of music, and experiment with your own musical arrangements. You will need the free Flash Player.
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Pop-Up and Movable Books: A Tour Through their History from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 | Did you know that the first movable books appeared in the thirteenth century and that they were made for an adult audience? Visit this site to learn more about the long history of this literary genre.
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Earth as Art
| Category: Arts | Cool Site: March 2004 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Don’t let the less-than-fancy front page fool you: There’s art in here. NASA’s Landsat has taken some remarkable pictures of our earth and given us views that would be at home on the walls of your local gallery. Browse by continent, or look through the index of all the photos at once.
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Solar Folklore
 | Most cultures have recognized the significance of the sun as prime controller of all life on earth. Read myths, legends, and tales about the sun from the Stanford Solar Center.
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Cool Cosmos
 | Learn about infrared light through fun games, cool movies, images, and more. Classroom activities and a Spanish-language version of the site are also available. You'll need the free Flash plug-in to access the Flash version of the site. HTML version also available.
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Venus Transit 2004 Sun-Earth Day
 | What's the Sun's connection to the Earth? What is the Transit of Venus? Find out through the many multimedia resources at this NASA site.
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Earth as Art
| Don’t let the less-than-fancy front page fool you: There’s art in here. NASA’s Landsat has taken some remarkable pictures of our earth and given us views that would be at home on the walls of your local gallery. Browse by continent, or look through the index of all the photos at once.
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Amazing Space
 | At this site, students can use Web-based activities to learn about the solar system, train to be a scientist, follow a star's life cycle, and more. Click on "For Educators and Developers" to access interactive activities, science-content reading selections, and answers to astronomy basics. There’s also helpful information on developing and funding education/public-outreach programs. (This site uses Flash.)
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What’s That Stuff?
 | What exactly is in your toothpaste? What about that paper you’re writing on or the bug spray you use in summer? This site puts science into everyday life, with informative descriptions of the chemistry behind the products we use on a regular basis.
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Volcano Expedition to the Mariana Islands: The Ins and Outs of How Earth Works
 | This Web site will take you to nine volcanic islands in the Mariana chain. The site offers a guided tour through photos, videos, day-by-day accounts of what the research team finds, a history of the islands, and links to cultural and scientific resources. From the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Terra: The EOS Flagship
 | In 2000, the Terra satellite, part of the Earth Observing System, began collecting data on our complex home planet. NASA scientists are planning "a thorough evaluation of the Earth system: land, ocean, atmosphere, and life, as well as the exchange of nutrients, carbon, heat, moisture and ... pollution among them."
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Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
 | This site features an interactive world map that illustrates the local consequences of global warming. Curriculum materials are also available for high school teachers.
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GreenHouse Gas Online
 | A frequently updated resource dedicated to greenhouse gas news and scientific publications.
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The Science Toy Maker
 | This non-commercial site features projects that use easily-available, inexpensive materials, and don't require special skills, tools materials or facilities. Activities are thoroughly tested to work, yet also have the potential to be improved by creative inventors and tinkerers.
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PBS Science & Nature
 | Visiting this site is like being a kid in a math-and-science candy store. "ZOOMsci" offers games and experiment ideas for kids. "Science for the Classroom" not only provides hundreds of lesson plans and activities for preschool through grade 12 but also recommends books and other science links to help teach math and science. (This site uses Flash and RealPlayer.)
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SciDev.Net
 | Sponsored by Nature and Science magazines, this site reports on and discusses "those aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development and the social and economic needs of developing countries."
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Animated Engines
 | These pages are an attempt to share the magic of mechanical engines through animated examples.
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Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War
 | Find out what is the human cost of war on teens at this engaging site. Teenage war refugees from seven war zones tell their stories and struggles. From ITVS, the Independent Television Service. Free Flash plugin required.
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www.nycsubway.org
 | NOT New York City’s official rapid transit site, this site offers everything else! Here you’ll find loads of historical information about New York City’s 150-year-old rapid transit system, from historical maps and articles to a gallery of old tokens.
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Transportation Futuristics: Visionary Designs in Transportation Engineering
| Category: History | Cool Site: September 2004 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | This virtual exhibit accompanies a gallery installation at UC Berkeley's Doe Library. It explores the marvelous things people have dreamt up to solve the basic problem of how to get from one place to another in the least amount of time with the least amount of trouble.
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Jewish Women's Archive: Women of Valor
 | Profiles of 16 remarkable Jewish women who had "the courage and conviction to overcome social, cultural and religious barriers to achieve their goals." Each profile has a timeline, biography, photographs, and images of historical artifacts. From the Jewish Women's Archive.
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Tales of Future Past
| Category: History | Cool Site: July 2004 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | A funny, and sometimes enlightening, look at what futurists from the past predicted our world would be like today.
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EyeWitness to History
 | History through the eyes of those who lived it. Here you'll find first-person accounts of historical events, combined with lots of images, photos, andsome sound recordings. You'll need the free RealPlayer to hear the sounds.
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Picturing Modern America 1880-1920: Historical Thinking Exercises for Middle and High School Students
 | Fun, interactive activities will help deepen critical thinking skills by encouraging students to "…actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century." A project of the Center for Children and Technology/Education Development Center.
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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
 | documents and interprets the obstacle-ridden but life-affirming experiences of enslaved African peoples in the Americas, and examines the extraordinary capacity of human beings to confront and transcend oppression, and to triumph over state-sanctioned evil and injustice." By the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture and the UNESCO Slave Route Project. You will need the free Flash Player.
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Pop-Up and Movable Books: A Tour Through their History from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
| Did you know that the first movable books appeared in the thirteenth century and that they were made for an adult audience? Visit this site to learn more about the long history of this literary genre.
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Theban Mapping Project
 | For the budding (and experienced) Egyptologist, this site provides a wealth of information from the archeological digs at Thebes. Visitors can zoom into the atlas of the Valley of the Kings and explore the hundreds of tombs by watching movies, using interactive diagrams, and viewing thumbnail shots. Interactive maps allow users to measure distances and elevation, and there are even printable PDFs of the tomb maps. (This site uses Flash.)
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Slates, Slide Rules, and Software: Teaching Math in America
 | Devoted to "tools used to teach math across American history, from the 1800s to the present."
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The Port Chicago Disaster: A Resource for Students and Teachers
 | A history of the events of 1944, when a major explosion rocked the naval base at Port Chicago, CA. The working conditions, explosion, mutiny, court martial, and pardon of African-American servicemen involved are reviewed. Also included are related questions for teachers and students.
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Transportation Futuristics: Visionary Designs in Transportation Engineering
| This virtual exhibit accompanies a gallery installation at UC Berkeley's Doe Library. It explores the marvelous things people have dreamt up to solve the basic problem of how to get from one place to another in the least amount of time with the least amount of trouble.
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Tales of Future Past
| A funny, and sometimes enlightening, look at what futurists from the past predicted our world would be like today.
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The Great Plant Escape
 | Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life. A teacher’s guide is also available. Another great site from the University of Illinois Extension.
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BAYCAT: Bayview Hunters Point Center for the Arts & Technology
| Featured here are samples of the work of some inspired San Francisco youth who are using art and technology to express themselves and thrive! BAYCAT provides education in the arts, culture, and enterprise to underserved youth and adults. Free Flash plugin recommended.
|
Cool Cosmos
| Learn about infrared light through fun games, cool movies, images, and more. Classroom activities and a Spanish-language version of the site are also available. You'll need the free Flash plug-in to access the Flash version of the site. HTML version also available.
|
The Science Toy Maker
| This non-commercial site features projects that use easily-available, inexpensive materials, and don't require special skills, tools materials or facilities. Activities are thoroughly tested to work, yet also have the potential to be improved by creative inventors and tinkerers.
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PBS Science & Nature
| Visiting this site is like being a kid in a math-and-science candy store. "ZOOMsci" offers games and experiment ideas for kids. "Science for the Classroom" not only provides hundreds of lesson plans and activities for preschool through grade 12 but also recommends books and other science links to help teach math and science. (This site uses Flash and RealPlayer.)
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Amazing Space
| At this site, students can use Web-based activities to learn about the solar system, train to be a scientist, follow a star's life cycle, and more. Click on "For Educators and Developers" to access interactive activities, science-content reading selections, and answers to astronomy basics. There’s also helpful information on developing and funding education/public-outreach programs. (This site uses Flash.)
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The Particle Adventure
 | Find answers to the eternal, fundamental questions of physics: "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?" The information on this site is clearly presented and well organized, with fabulous resources for teachers, including student activity sheets and links to particle physics education sites. (This site uses Flash and Shockwave.)
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The Great Plant Escape
| "Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life." A teacher’s guide is also available. Another great site from the University of Illinois Extension.
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The Science Toy Maker
| This non-commercial site features projects that use easily-available, inexpensive materials, and don't require special skills, tools materials or facilities. Activities are thoroughly tested to work, yet also have the potential to be improved by creative inventors and tinkerers.
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Mystery of the Poison-Dart Frog
| Discover the art and biology of the Costa Rican rainforest and "solve a mystery with clues from ancient treasures." From the North Carolina Museum of Art. You will need the free Flash Player.
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Count Us In
 | The games on this Web site are geared to younger children, with fancifully-illustrated exercises to help them grasp basic number concepts. Addition, subtraction, and number recognition are conveyed through cartoons of everyday activities such as bowling, boarding a bus, and visiting the beach. (This site uses Flash.)
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ProtoZone Interactives
 | A fun collection of web-sized drawing interactives that are are excerpts from larger software programs designed by Al Jarnow.
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BBC Gardening: Virtual Garden
 | Whether you’re looking to design a new garden from scratch, or simply want to take a fresh approach to re-designing an existing garden, the virtual garden offers a user-friendly source of inspiration. Free Shockwave plugin required.
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The Great Plant Escape
| Help Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life." A teacher’s guide is also available. Another great site from the University of Illinois Extension.
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Animal Info: Information on Endangered Mammals
 | This searchable index of endangered mammals provides of variety of information about such topics as history, habitat, and the world’s rarest mammals, There are photos of the featured animals as well. The site is also available in Chinese.
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Urban Bird Studies: Helping Scientists Answer Questions about Birds in Cities
 | Help scientists learn more about birds in cities by participating in a variety of different projects! Scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will use the data you collect to answer scientific questions about urban birds.
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Austrailian Museum Online: Fish Site
 | From virtual fish dissections to underwater movies of fish--anyone interested in fish is sure to enjoy this site. Various plug-ins required.
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World Wildlife Fund: Games
 | Learning about biodiversity and conservation is fun with the many excellent games featured here!
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Putting DNA to Work
 | Through interactive activities, learn how DNA is used to detect inherited diseases, catch criminals, and improve crops. You'll need the free Flash plug-in to fully enjoy this exhibit from the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences.
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All About Birds
 | This site is a must visit for bird lovers! It boasts a video gallery, a guide to birdwatching, and a dynamic online bird guide complete with sound files of bird songs for your listening pleasure. You'll need the free RealPlayer to access the video and audio features at this site by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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PBS Science & Nature
| Visiting this site is like being a kid in a math-and-science candy store. "ZOOMsci" offers games and experiment ideas for kids. "Science for the Classroom" not only provides hundreds of lesson plans and activities for preschool through grade 12 but also recommends books and other science links to help teach math and science. (This site uses Flash and RealPlayer.)
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Changing the Face of Medicine
 | This site celebrates some of the United States’ extraordinary women physicians. Students can post their own stories of memorable woman physicians, and the resources section offers standards-based lesson plans for grades K–12 that explore health and medicine topics. Students can also explore interactive activities such as the "Circulation Station," where visitors guide a red blood cell through the body and then learn about a woman physician who helped infants with a congenital heart condition. (This site uses Flash and QuickTime.)
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COSI's Virtual Knee Surgery
 | Perform a virtual knee replacement! In this guided virtual surgery you will use tools such as the scalpel and bone saw. You can also view photos from a real knee surgery. (This site uses Flash.)
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Beastly Garden of Wordly Delights
 | A nice page with a list of over 150 collective nouns for animals (a charm of finches); the commonly associated sounds that various animals make (ducks quack, deer bell); the various names given to animal young (a baby kangaroo is a joey); and animal adjectives (if you are foxlike, you're said to be vulpine).
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Solar Folklore
| Most cultures have recognized the significance of the sun as prime controller of all life on earth. Read myths, legends, and tales about the sun from the Stanford Solar Center.
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Pop-Up and Movable Books: A Tour Through their History from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
| Did you know that the first movable books appeared in the thirteenth century and that they were made for an adult audience? Visit this site to learn more about the long history of this literary genre.
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Mathcats
 | Like no other math site on the Web! This site really makes learning math fun for kids. From wild, cat-based interactive animations that explain statistics to exciting projects you can do at home, this site is a winner.
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Game Theory
 | There’s plenty of material here to draw students young and old into the math of everyday life. Background essays describe how game theory works, and interactive games give visitors a chance to explore risk, strategy, and probability. But the real clinchers are sections describing how mathematics underlies plots in popular films, literature, and headline news stories.
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Count Us In
| The games on this Web site are geared to younger children, with fancifully-illustrated exercises to help them grasp basic number concepts. Addition, subtraction, and number recognition are conveyed through cartoons of everyday activities such as bowling, boarding a bus, and visiting the beach. (This site uses Flash.)
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Slates, Slide Rules, and Software: Teaching Math in America
| Devoted to "tools used to teach math across American history, from the 1800s to the present."
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Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War
| Find out what is the human cost of war on teens at this engaging site. Teenage war refugees from seven war zones tell their stories and struggles. From ITVS, the Independent Television Service. Free Flash plugin required.
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Nationmaster.com
 | Which is the richest country in the world? How about the most murderous? Here you’ll find tons of statistics on the nations of the world. You can also generate cool maps and graphs from all the data available.
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www.nycsubway.org
| NOT New York City’s official rapid transit site, this site offers everything else! Here you’ll find loads of historical information about New York City’s 150-year-old rapid transit system, from historical maps and articles to a gallery of old tokens.
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Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
 | Here you'll find some of the Exploratorium's most familiar illusions and many others. Brought to us by Michael Bach, President of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision.
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BBC Gardening: Virtual Garden
| Whether you’re looking to design a new garden from scratch, or simply want to take a fresh approach to re-designing an existing garden, the virtual garden offers a user-friendly source of inspiration. Free Shockwave plugin required.
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MIT's OpenCourseWare
 | MIT for free, for you, for me? Yes! This site features lecture notes, reading lists, and problems sets for hundreds of courses in many academic disciplines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Soundscape FM: Phonographic Migrations #03
 | A collaborative sound work in the form of an FM radio broadcast, combined with a user-uploadable database filled with field recordings taken from all over the world. Local radio becomes an interface to the global as listeners can hear sounds from diverse sources such as an Amazonian rainforest, a Baltic ice-flow, or a Vietnamese street market, as well as combinations of sounds from the various sources.
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Tales of Future Past
| A funny, and sometimes enlightening, look at what futurists from the past predicted our world would be like today.
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The Scribbler
 | Another fun and amazing interactive doodad from Ze Frank. Make a simple line drawing online, then use The Scribbler to turn it into a different kind of masterpiece. A must visit!
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The New Americans
 | Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century. Watch video clips, listen to music and take a quiz that will challenge your idea of what it means to be "American." Companion site to the independent film shown on PBS.
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COSI's Virtual Knee Surgery
| Perform a virtual knee replacement! In this guided virtual surgery you will use tools such as the scalpel and bone saw. You can also view photos from a real knee surgery. (This site uses Flash.)
|
Changing the Face of Medicine
| This site celebrates some of the United States’ extraordinary women physicians. Students can post their own stories of memorable woman physicians, and the resources section offers standards-based lesson plans for grades K–12 that explore health and medicine topics. Students can also explore interactive activities such as the "Circulation Station," where visitors guide a red blood cell through the body and then learn about a woman physician who helped infants with a congenital heart condition. (This site uses Flash and QuickTime.)
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What’s That Stuff?
| What exactly is in your toothpaste? What about that paper you’re writing on or the bug spray you use in summer? This site puts science into everyday life, with informative descriptions of the chemistry behind the products we use on a regular basis.
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SciDev.Net
| ponsored by Nature and Science magazines, this site reports on and discusses "those aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development and the social and economic needs of developing countries."
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Ask Asia: A K-12 resource of the Asia Society
 | This beautiful resource features lesson plans, a large collection of country and regional maps and timelines, full-text articles on a broad range of Asia-related themes, an origami lesson, a Japanese onomatopoeia game, student-produced art, and more.
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ProtoZone Interactives
| A fun collection of web-sized drawing interactives that are are excerpts from larger software programs designed by Al Jarnow.
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Animated Engine
| These pages are an attempt to share the magic of mechanical engines through animated examples.
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Dino Directory
 | A great guide to "127 of the most well-described dinosaurs, including over 600 images." Search or browse it, either way is fun and informative. From the Natural History Museum in London.
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Canto do Brasil
| Sights and sounds from one of the most magical and complex places on earth from the perspective of photographer and interactive designer Geoffrey Hiller. You will need the free Flash Player.
|
Picturing Modern America 1880-1920: Historical Thinking Exercises for Middle and High School Students
| Fun, interactive activities will help deepen critical thinking skills by encouraging students to "…actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century." A project of the Center for Children and Technology/Education Development Center.
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Physics Central
 | We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news. We'll describe the latest research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where to go on the Web. Brought to you by the American Physical Society.
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The Particle Adventure
| Find answers to the eternal, fundamental questions of physics: "What is the world made of?" and "What holds it together?" The information on this site is clearly presented and well organized, with fabulous resources for teachers, including student activity sheets and links to particle physics education sites. (This site uses Flash and Shockwave.)
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Animated Engines
| These pages are an attempt to share the magic of mechanical engines through animated examples.
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SciDev.Net
| Sponsored by Nature and Science magazines, this site reports on and discusses "those aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development and the social and economic needs of developing countries."
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