General Science Sites

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BBC Education - The Essential Guide to Rocks  

Elementary and Middle school, links for adults
This site offers a variety of activities, experiments and resources. It provides an interactive time line, virtual rock walks around Great Britain, a Rock primer, and additional links to other geology sites.

Earth and Sky

Elementary & Middle School, teacher resources
This site is a companion to a daily science radio series heard by millions of listeners on over 950 commercial and public stations. This site offers radio and Internet broadcasts, transcripts, question and answer features, lesson plans, classroom activities and special Web articles. Subjects include astronomy, skywatching, earth sciences, biology, ecology, anthropology, weather and others.

Extreme Science

Elementary/Middle school, teacher resources 
This site features information, resources and web links on a large variety of topics including: time, weather, space, living creatures, earth science, scientists, maps, and technology. It also offers homework help.

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Franklin Institute

Elementary-High school, teacher resources
This site offers a variety of resource, information, and educational programs that correspond with exhibits and subjects offered at the Franklin Institute. It also offers “educational hotlists” of educational web links. The Institute offers special programs are available for girls interested in science and an online community of educators, schools and science museums. Topics include flight, oceans, the brain, math in other cultures, careers in science and technology, living things, weather, the earth, and the universe.

Frank Potter's Science Gems

All ages, teacher resources
This site features over 14,000 science resources sorted by category and grade level. Topics include: physical science, earth science, life science, mathematics, and engineering.

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Free: Science

All ages, teacher resources:
This site offers a wide variety of science and science-related resources on  topics including technology, health, mathematics, physical education, biology, chemistry, ecology, geology, pharmacology, space, vocational education, health, and history.

Interactive Science Site

Elementary, teacher resources
This site offers worksheets, activities, articles, movies, puzzles, activities and experiments on a variety of topics including: matter, food chains, the human body, and more.

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NationalGeographic for Kids

Elementary-Middle school
This National Geograpic site offers articles, games, news, stories, online activities, experiments, crafts, cartoons, recipes, maps, photos, homework help, and movie clips on a wide variety of science topics.

San Francisco Science Laboratory- The Exploratorium

Elementary and Middle school, teacher resources
San Francisco's huge hands-on science laboratory is for kids of all ages. This site offers a behind the scenes look at science at some of the world's major observatories. It also offers webcasts, activities and publications.

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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis - Geo-Mysteries

Elementary and Middle school, teacher resourcesThis site offers games, activities and on-line activities, for children as well as study units, project exchanges, and resources for teachers including such topics as dinosaurs, sound, transportation, bones, Native Americans

Try Science  

Elementary and Middle School
The content at this site changes from time to time as it is all contributed by science museums around the Web. It features a host of experiments, adventures, listings of science museums, and additional links.

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Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab  

All ages, teacher resources
This site offers fun, educational experiments in astronomy, chemistry, physics, and earth science. It provides links and ideas for finding additional experiments. Topics include, but are not limited to, flotation, capillary action, air pressure, chemical reactions, light, gravity, and inertia.

Internet Resource Guide for Zoology

Middle & High school, teacher resource
This site offers a variety of zoology resources including: a guide to organism names, an animal kingdom guide, biology facts, a glossary, a zoological thesaurus.

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