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Earth
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http://www.sln.org
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Explore Science Learning Network’s colorful,
award-winning site and all its resources, including online exhibits.
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http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/coolimages/index.msql
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For some seriously cool facts and space images, check
out this stellar site.
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http://www.windows.umich.edu
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Designed for Beginner, Intermediate and/or Advanced,
this University of Michigan site is a first-rate trip through earth and
space science by means of multimedia exhibits. Great for reference and
broad concepts.
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http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild
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This site spotlights topics for the classroom concerning
endangered species. A good source to learn about species that are close to
extinction and ones that have already vanished.
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http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe
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Led by the sleuthing of Detective LePlant, students in
grades 4 and 5 can go on a fun interdisciplinary adventure in botany.
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http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu:8001
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Athena’s site for K-12 highlights topics such as
space, weather, earth and oceans. Each section provides instruction and
resource materials. A helpful section that lists related links is also
featured.
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http://www.planetpals.com
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Alive with colorful cartoon characters, this interactive
resource teaches about the planet Earth, natural resources, ecology and its
care. Also, free recycling kits are offered.
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http://amazing-space.stsci.edu
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This site covers everything from space topics to the
Hubble telescope. Easy to navigate, the site has a good set of Web-based
activities, mainly for use in the classroom.
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
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University of California at Berkeley’s Museum of
Paleontology site includes information on dinosaurs, as well as online exhibits,
education and public outreach, catalogs, and paleontology resources.
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http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsys.html
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Packed with a poetic punch, this colorful and
informative site provides sections on biomes, plate tectonics, cycles,
geologic time, spheres, dinosaurs and more.
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http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space
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CNN’s Sci-Tech Space page showcases numerous
features, including extensive information. Links to official NASA sites,
interactive quizzes, and coverage of space science and exploration. Topics on
this site can be used for discussion in classrooms.
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http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/volcano/lessons.html
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Spotlighted here are science lessons and activities for
grades 4 through 8.
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/callisto
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NASA’s Galileo spacecraft adds Jupiter’s moon, Callisto,
a spiky landscape of bright ice and dark dust, to its gallery of
breathtaking images.
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http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids
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Good educational outreach site for kids who are studying
marine ecology and basic science. This resource keeps you afloat in a sea
of activities, projects, data and graphing lessons.
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http://www.centennialofflight.gov/
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The Centennial of Flight—The Future of Flight is
dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright
Brothers’ first powered flight and the development of aviation over the
past century. It offers aerospace-related products and programs that help
connect students and teachers to aeronautics and space flight. (USCFC)
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http://chandra.nasa.gov/
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory News features news and
information about NASA’s newest space telescope. As the world’s most
powerful X-ray observatory, Chandra joins the Hubble Space Telescope and
NASA’s other observatories in a study of our universe, providing insights
into the universe’s structure and evolution. Visitors can track Chandra in
orbit, watch live images from NASA-TV, and learn more about prior shuttle
launch preparations. (NASA)
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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The Earthquake Hazards Program offers frequently
asked questions about earthquakes, research on earthquakes, and more.
Visitors can follow recent seismic activity around the world, view hazard
maps, or learn what a geophysicist does.
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/
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Earthquakes for Kids is a gateway to dozens of
activities, animations, lessons and websites for learning about
earthquakes. Features include the science of seismology, science fair
project ideas, Become a Geophysicist, Today in Earthquake History, and a
list of recent earthquakes in your area (see “Did You Feel It?”).
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http://www.nps.gov/cave/cdl/contents.htm
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The Chihuahuan Desert Lab is a comprehensive
program to enhance high school science, math and technology studies by
involving students in monitoring natural resources in Carlsbad Caverns and
Guadalupe Mountains National Parks. The website offers a resource-based
curriculum, science projects, an online manual for teachers, and an
evaluation. Current projects include revegetation of the Chihuahuan Desert
ecosystem, reintroduction and monitoring of prairie dog populations,
banding and monitoring of cave swallows, and water quality monitoring of
human impact in cavern pools.
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http.//learn.arc.nasa.gov/
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NASA’s Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is
part of the government High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC)
program, whose mission is to accelerate the development, application, and
transfer of high-performance technologies to the U.S. engineering and
science communities. The website offers resources such as online
instructional materials tied to NASA missions, movies, aeronautics
projects, and the Remote Sensing Public Access Center, which makes space
instrumentation data available to the public. (NASA)
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http://hydropower.inel.gov/index.html
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This Department of Energy hydropower site presents facts
and research about hydropower, a history of hydropower, and diagrams of different
types of hydropower facilities. (DOE)
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http://www.nps.gov/cave/home.htm
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park, in the Guadalupe Mountains
of New Mexico, contains 86 known caves, including Carlsbad Cavern, home of
one of the world’s largest underground chambers. The website offers a
cultural history of the area and a teacher’s guide—About Bats, Caves,
and Deserts.
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http://www.nps.gov/meve/mvnp/teacher/edlist.htm
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Education Materials, Information and Activities at
Mesa Verde National Park helps students learn about plants, animals,
cliff dwellings, and archaeological sites of this National Park in the high
plateau country of southwestern Colorado. An enrichment package includes
activities on map-reading skills, investigative skills, and the development
of Pueblo society (about 1 to 1300 A.D.).
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http://www.nps.gov/dewa/kids/dewakids.html
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Just for Kids…of All Ages! is the kids’ website
of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
It explains a water gap and why beavers are “nature’s architects and
engineers.”
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http://earth/jsc.nasa.gov/
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Earth from Space presents selected photoes of features
and processes of the earth, including cities, as seen by astronaauts from
space. Photos are from the NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations
Photography database, which contains more than 375,000 images.
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http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ISTO/dro/global/
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A Global View from Space is an interactive
display of real-time satellite imagery from around the globe.
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
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NASA Earth Observatory provides new satellite
imagery and scientific information about Earth’s climate and environmental
change. It features stories about the atmosphere, oceans, land, life, heat
and energy, and remote sensing. Visitors may build and view animations
showing changes in population, vegetation, precipitation, and other
phenomena.
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http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/shuttle_oceanography_web/oss_cover.html
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Oceanography from the Space Shuttle is a
pictorial survey of oceanic phenomena visible to the naked eye from space.
Originally published in 1989, it is now out of print and available only on
this website.
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http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html
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SeaWiFS Project (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View
Sensor) provides data on global ocean bio-opticaln properties for the earth
science community. Resources for teachers include a tutorial on ocean color
and slides suggesting how SeaWiFS data can be incorporated into the
curriculum for grades 5–12.
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