The Animal Detector
 | Very cool blog kept by a family who set up an automated device to video the animals that come at night to feed in their backyard. Features a grey fox, raccoons, possum, various birds, cats and even a human!
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AccessMyLibrary
 | Free access to 30 million magazine, journal and newspaper articles from top publications available at your library. All you need is your library card to get the full text.
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The Spider Myths Site
 | Spiders have gotten a bad rap. This spider expert from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture restores the spider's reputation by debunking such myths as "Spiders in the home are a danger to children and pets." and "The daddy longlegs has the world's most powerful venom, but its fangs are so small that it can't bite you."
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Slide Rule Museum
 | Fun activities and facts about slide rules. Slide rule course and loaner program available for educators.
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Molecularium: Kid Site
 | What lives in the nano world? You'll find out here through interactive activities, a gallery, and more! By Rensselaer’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures. You'll need the free Flash Player.
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SledDoggin
 | Learn about dog sledding from informative articles and blog postings from mushers.
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ARKive
 | A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species, both endangered and in the U.K.
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Chalkbored
 | Hundreds of Power Point lessons, labs, worksheets and activities created by a high school chemistry teacher. Information is free for educators and others. (See also http://www.chalkbored.com/lessons/chemistry-12.htm)
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NASA's First 50 Years: An Interactive Journey
 | An interactive tour of NASA's first five decades of exploration, featuring virtual pavilions, clickable models and exhibits, video galleries, astronauts, presidents, and a robot guide named Automa.
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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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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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ChemMatters
 | Great online resource for High School chemistry teachers brought to you by the American Chemical Society. Pdf versions of "ChemMatters" magazine, geared towards a high school audience, are available online along with the corresponding teachers’ guides.
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Soungle
| Category: Media | Cool Site: December 2008 |
| Recommended 3 times |
 | Free searchable database of hundreds of downloadable special effects and musical instrument samples.
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Planetpals Earthzone
 | Suitable for young children, this site features Planetpals, "characters that help kids learn about the earth in a fun way." You'll find activities, games, crafts, and information about earth science, ecology and Earth Day. There are also recycling kits, facts, lists and teacher/parent pages.
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Chemistry Comes Alive: Sample Movies
 | From the Journal of Chemical Education. Exciting movies of some explosive, flaming, and colorful chemical reactions. You will need the free QuickTime Player to watch.
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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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FiftyCrows: TV/New Media
 | This organization supports and promotes Social Change Photography because they believe that "Images inspire people to act." Once you see the photo and video essays on this site your view of world events will never be the same. You will be inspired to make the world a more just place. You'll need Quick Time to view the movies.
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Bugscope
 | K–12 students can view bugs under a scanning electron microscope via the World Wide Web by applying to the program and describing the type of project they want to do (from the University of Illinois).
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Molecule of the Day
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Exactly what it says. Tagline: “Molecules: You’d better learn to live with them.” What you don’t know about the chemistry that surrounds you could fill a blog.
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The Planetary Society Weblog
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Lost in space? Not at this blog, which keeps tabs on all things concerning space science, space exploration, and space advocacy.
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Museum of Online Museums
 | Includes links to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and subject. Also has links to brick-and-mortar museums with an interesting online presence.
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KinderSite
 | Offers preschool and kindergarten age children and English learners a safe and engaging environment where they can find and use appropriate content on the Internet, in the form of games, stories and songs.
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ForgeFX: Interactive 3D Simulations
 | A set of fun, interactive, and educational 3D simulation “games.” You’ll need the free Flash player.
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Math Vids
 | Site featuring hundreds of math instruction videos: teachers create math lessons using Smartboard technology and post them to the Math Vids site. Students access & watch videos and can rate them. Aimed at middle through college students. Must register, but is free.
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Space Time TV
| Category: Media | Cool Site: December 2008 |
| Recommended 2 times |
 | Site that features video clips from National Geographic, PBS, History Channel and others focusing on math and space. Users can watch up to 50 hours of free content (with commercials). Includes a fun arcade gallery of mind games, such as Tangram House.
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Whatta Blast!
 | http://www.whattablast.com/
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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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The Green Frog News
 | This great resource for teachers features experiments and lessons on science and the environment in pdf format.
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Water on the Web (WOW)
 | This nicely designed site aims to teach high school and college students to solve real-world environmental problems. Lesson plans and interactive modules are available for both teachers and students.
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Live! Universe
 | This Japanese project presents live webcasts and phenomena and events in astronomy and space science around the globe.
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E-Naturalist
 | How many times will a mosquito bite? What's the advantage to birds flying in a "V" formation? If you find an egg in a nest, should you "rescue" it? E-naturalist provides answers to these questions, and hundreds more. Visitors have the option of choosing a quick read or a full read on the subject. If that raises more questions than it answers, you can email your queries to a naturalist, browse more websites, or indulge in a hands-on activity.
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Irish Potato Famine
| Category: History | Cool Site: April 2006 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Engaging interactive exhibit about the Irish Potato Famine. You’ll need the free Flash player.
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Architect Studio 3D, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
| Category: Arts | Cool Site: February 2006 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Design a house in 3D with Frank Lloyd Wright! On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, then share it with the world. You can also learn more about architecture, past and present, and explore Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work. You'll need the free Shockwave plug-in.
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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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Van Gogh at Etten: Sketches and Billboards
| Category: Arts | Cool Site: October 2000 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | This ThinkQuest site features the life and work of Van Gogh, focusing on the time he lived in Etten. You can browse through the galleries to see his work and read about his life. You can also take an online art course.
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New York City: After the Fall
 | This site combines audio, text, sound, and motion beautifully. It is a thoughtful presentation about the psychological aftermath of September 11th in New York City.
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Cocktail Party Physics
| Category: Blogs | Cool Site: June 2007 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Jennifer Ouellette, author of the books Black Bodies and Quantum Cats and The Physics of the Buffyverse, explains physics to the layperson and specialist alike with abundant historical and cultural references.
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Architect Studio 3D, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
| Category: History | Cool Site: February 2006 |
| Recommended 1 time |
| Design a house in 3D with Frank Lloyd Wright! On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, then share it with the world. You can also learn more about architecture, past and present, and explore Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work. You'll need the free Shockwave plug-in.
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Litscape.com
 | Includes works of literature contained in books in the public domain. Can find works by author, themes, fables, songs, and more.
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Burarra Gathering
 | Go fishing and crab hunting with the Burarra people of Australia! You'll also learn how to navigate using stars and how to read animal tracks in this wonderful interactive adventure. Brought to us by Questacon, Australia's National Science and Technology Center. You'll need the free Flash Player.
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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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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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The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
 | This site calls itself "the grossest family site on the Net." With areas like Cockroach World, it's easy to agree. This site is well presented and a lot of fun.
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Florida-Friendly Landscaping
 | Irrigation of lawns and landscaping in Florida represents the single largest use of water from municipal water supplies. In addition, fertilizers and pesticides used on lawns are major sources of pollution in its lakes, rivers and bays. Get ideas on how to make your yard more earth friendly, no matter where you live. Interactive garden planner is very cool.
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The Package Museum
| Category: History | Cool Site: August 2008 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Take a walk down memory lane with many images of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century. Has an index by product name and 3D images of some of the products.
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Free Science
 | Large collection of free books, articles and websites about science. In Italian and English.
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The Mind of Leonardo: The Universal Genius at Work
| Category: History | Cool Site: April 2006 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Web site for the new exhibition “The Mind of Leonardo” at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s mode of thinking and his unitary conception of knowledge as the effort to assimilate, through bold theoretical syntheses and inventive experiments, the laws that govern all of the wondrous operations of man and nature. You’ll need either Window’s Media Player or the QuickTime player to access the video elements.
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The Renaissance Connection
| Category: History | Cool Site: February 2006 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Highly interactive, educational, and fun site about art of the Renaissance from the Allentown Art Museum. You'll need the free Flash player.
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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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World of Teaching
| Category: Media | Cool Site: August 2008 |
| Recommended 1 time |
 | Collection of free PowerPoint presentations for teachers, covering science, language, English and more.
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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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Endeavor Botanical Illustrations (Natural History Museum, London)
 | The voyage of HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) was the first devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. This site presents most of the botanical drawings and engravings prepared by artist Sydney Parkinson before his untimely death at sea, and by other artists back in England working from Parkinson's initial sketches.
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The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec
 | The site is well designed and the works are compelling. The site contains historical information as well as reproductions of the posters in two different sizes (for those who are bandwidth challenged). Presented by the San Diego Museum of Art.
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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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Delights of Chemistry
 | A trip to this site is sure to spark your interest in chemistry. You can watch videos of exciting chemistry demonstrations, view experiments illustrated with photos and complete with explanations, and browse through a chemical reaction photo gallery.
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Calculus Help
 | This zany site can lift the spirits and fortify the mind of anybody attempting to master calculus and/or prepare for the AP Calculus test. You can get your math problems from algebra to calculus answered by students from Mr. Kelley's AP Calculus class or try to solve the calculus problem of the week.
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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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101Science
 | Links to some 20,000 Websites containing science resources and definitions. Good starting point for research.
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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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Kids' Space
 | At this excellent kids' site you can view artwork from children around the world and submit your own (as long as you're a kid). You can also read and submit stories by children, hear music composed and performed by children, or search for a pen pal.
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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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