Chemistry Guide
 | This directory and search engine of chemistry-related resources on the Internet searches the content of more than 250 Web sites.
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Hubble Telescope: Black Holes
 | Take an interactive voyage into the universe of black holes with the folks who operate the Hubble Space Telescope.
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory
 | When completed (in 2011), the IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole will serve as a deep-space telescope, enabling scientists to see distant cosmic events by detecting the neutrinos they generate. This site offers great images, movies, educator and community activities, and more. (To see Webcasts of people who work on the IceCube project, check out the Exploratorium's Ice Stories project at www.icestories.exploratorium.edu.)
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Incredible Art Department
 | This arts Web site includes a slew of activities for formal and informal learning; links art, math, and science; and much more.
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Luminarium
 | This anthology of English literature includes poets and writers, and their work from medieval times through the Renaissance, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Restoration.
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Math Playground
 | A teacher-created site that features math games, interactive word problems, and logic puzzles for elementary to middle-school students (but fun for all ages).
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National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventure
 | This site immerses the user into the dynamic world of maps and introduces kids to the essentials of mapping and geospatial representation through engaging (and fun!) games.
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Nick Cobbing Photography
 | This photographer's Web site features stunning, award-winning images of the Greenland Ice Melt. His work focuses primarily on landscape and people's changing relationship with the natural world. Frequent visits to the Arctic have produced a powerful body of work about the wilderness of Greenland and the complexity of ice systems.
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Sungazer
 | You can't usually stare at the sun, but here, you can. This site provides several ways to see the sun close up. Includes images, equipment needed, resources, and podcasts.
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Unit Conversion
 | This Web site allows you to easily convert between different units of measurement.
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101Science
 | Links to some 20,000 Websites containing science resources and definitions. Good starting point for research.
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AboutKidsHealth
 | A teaching tool with age-appropriate animations for kids on many different health topics including nutrition, how the body works, diseases, and more. AboutKidsHealth is an initiative of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
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Drew Lesso
 | An art-music site created by the artist Drew Lesso. He writes ?computer music algorithms that investigate visual form as music, through an application with the discipline of Harmonics.?
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Education.com
 | One section of the larger education.com site, this specific area provides free activities and craft ideas for pre-K through high school. Includes math, science, and many other topics, sorted by both topic and grade level.
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Exploring Nature
 | A natural science reference site for students and educators. Lovely drawings and engaging activities. There is a lot of free content, and more is available for a nominal joining fee.
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Florida Everglades Story
 | An educational Web production about the Florida Everglades and the world?s most ambitious ecosystem restoration program. The site includes in-depth content and is a companion to the HDTV documentary that aired on PBS stations.
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Info Visual
 | Intended for educational purposes, this site uses images to explain objects, listing component parts in English, Spanish, and French. Videos and animations are also featured.
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Maeslant Barrier
 | The site, an initiative of the Deltaworks Online Foundation, is one of the biggest and most complete online resources of information about the Deltaworks and water management in the Netherlands.
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Oceanus
 | Online version of the magazine Oceanus, which explores the oceans in depth, highlighting the research and researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in news, features, and interviews written by magazine staff, with full-color photographs and illustrations.
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Whatta Blast!
 | http://www.whattablast.com/
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4-H Enrichment Projects
 | The 4-H page sponsored by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. It features many useful links, especially the embryo/egg cam http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/Embryology and gardening activities for youth http://lancaster.unl.edu/hort/youth.
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ActivityTV
 | Fun activities for kids, with video instructions and printables. Topics: crafts, magic, music, puppets, science, and more.
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Bay Area Mycological Society
 | Site focusing on the knowledge of and appreciation for the world of mushrooms, informing users how to be ?citizen scientists,? and instructing them about safe practices. Includes recipes.
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Creative Glossary
 | A glossary that provides information specifically about creative terms from the arts, crafts, design, fashion, culinary/gardening, performance art, story art, and the trades.
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Histology-World
 | Filled with educational histology material. Most useful is the ?Learn Histology? link; from here, users can listen to audio of students explaining images and can click on hundreds of organized histology images with text explanations. Best for middle school and above.
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Math Is Fun
 | Aimed at basic math skills for K?12, although there is some more complex stuff. Math + fun = Mathfun.
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Meet Me at the Corner
 | Virtual field trips for kids. A dynamic, interactive site that encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide.
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Mr. Martini's Classroom: Math Flash Cards
 | A fun way for anyone to learn math, whether it be the basic multiplication tables or algebra and more.
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Olafu Eliasson: Take Your Time
 | Site that accompanied the MoMA exhibition of the same name. The exhibition closed on June 30, 2008. However, the Website includes images taken by visitors who were given special cell-phone cameras to wear that document their journeys through the show, thereby depicting a candid and experiential view of the exhibition (and one that is in accordance with the artist?s practice).
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Tardigrades
 | Dedicated to this little-studied phylum of animals, also called water bears. This site is filled with scientific images, videos, facts, and useful research geared towards education. It?s sponsored by the Goldstein Lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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