500-599 Pure Sciences

American Museum of Natural History Science Bulletins: Examine science bulletins via video, photographs, multimedia, and other interactive options featured at this site on a variety of science topics.

LiveScience.com: This site focuses on the innovative and intriguing in science and technology.  It covers news, views and scientific inquiry with articles by respected science journalists and contributors.

The Why Files:  Explore the “science behind the news” at this up-to-date site.

Exploratorium:  This is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. The Exploratorium's Web site is an extension of the experiences on the museum's floor.  The site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments, interactive games, webcasts, science news, video clips, and a searchable database of educational activities.  A wide variety of topics ranging from sports science to global climate change are featured. 

Museum of Science and Industry: Take a virtual tour of the U-505 submarine, learn about genetics at a chick hatchery, or visit a coal mine.  Click on the exhibits tab to view a listing of special exhibits at this Chicago museum.

Wired Science: This site from Planet Science offers an online exploration of science concepts.  Build your own planet, find an archive of challenging questions to test yourself in science, try to be a lightning designer, and more.

All Science Fair Projects: Science fair projects with complete instructions.

The Atoms Family: Find experiments and activities from energy to light to the principles of matter.

BJ’s science: Find science fair project ideas, science and math resources, study guides and strategies, webquests, and much more.

Cyber-Fair: Idea Generation: This site will help you put together your own ideas for some great, hands-on experiments to conduct for a science fair project.  Check out their other links to the steps involved in doing a project, samples, and more.

Dr. Shawn's Super Science Fair Support Center: This site contains all kinds of information on science fair projects, including ideas, writing reports, the steps in creating a project, etc.

Elementary Science Fair Projects: Stumped for a project idea? Here’s an extensive list of science fair projects for grades 4 to 6.

Exploratorium Hands-On Activities: An online science museum, which provides hands-on science activities and links to other resources.

IPL: Science Fair Project Resource Guide: “Are you looking for some help with a science fair project?”  This site gives you step-by-step help along with many links to additional resources.

Science Fair Help: Find links to projects and ideas.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide: This site will help you get started with your science fair project with tips, resources, projects, processes, methods, and links to other sites to help you.

Science Fair Projects: Here is a megalist of resources to help you prepare for science projects, with information from various sources across the country.

Science Fair Studio: Janice VanCleave’s Science Fair Handbook offers the resources available at this comprehensive site, offering tips for project research, presentation, scientific method, and more.

Super Science Fair Projects: “Complete guide to science fair projects, topics, and experiments.”

Girls to the Fourth Power: Get help with the concepts of algebra with everyday problems at this site.

Asteroids: Learn more about asteroids, their composition, and size. Hyperlinked terms throughout the page will take you to more detailed information on that topic.

The Astronomy Cafe: This site is designed for beginners and offers many resources including FAQs about astronomy and space science.  Also included is an Astronomy Career Guide.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: A new photograph or image is posted each day along with a description and link to additional relevant information.  An archive allows viewing of every picture since June 16, 1995.

AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources: The Space Telescope Science Institute tracks Internet astronomy resources through this site. Categories include Space Agencies, Solar Telescopes, and Astronomical Societies.

Center for Science Education: Discover space weather, sunspots, the planets, auroras, geographical features from space and more at this site.

Deep Impact: This portal provides information on the NASA Deep Impact Missions to study comets.  Videos, photographs, facts, and lesson plans are among the many choices.

Field Guide to the Universe: Explore the planets in our solar system, discover famous astronomers, and probe spacecraft from the past to the present, in this interactive field guide to our universe.

Hubble: Edge of Space: View the inner workings of NASA’s amazing orbital telescope. Recorded Webcasts feature tours of the clean room, where the telescope is tested, and follow the progress of the creation of a full-color Hubble image from raw data.

National Geographic Virtual Solar System: Information on the solar system, the planets, the sun, and small bodies can be found at this great site.

The Nine Planets: One of the best sites for information about the planets in our solar system. Click on a planet for its statistics: size, orbit, brightness, satellites and moons, composition, and mysteries.

Planetary Fact Sheets: Facts about the nine planets, the sun, and selected comets are found here including an image of each planet.

The Planetary Society: Learn about Earth's neighbors in space and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.  This features the latest news of U.S. and foreign space exploration projects.

A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Big Bang Theory is Introduced, 1927: A short summary of the Big Bang Theory is presented along with a link to Edwin Hubble who proved the theory in 1929.

Views of the Solar System – “Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos.”

Welcome to the Planets: Find information on all the planets including stunning images of the planets, comets, asteroids, and meteors.  There are links to other similar sites.

Amusement Park Physics: Learn all about the physics behind rides at amusement parks, including a glossary, and then design your own roller coaster.

Funderstanding: Explore how to make a roller coaster work while learning some physics.

Northern Lights: Discover what causes auroras, when and where they occur, and other interesting facts.

Theater of Electricity: Discover the shocking world of electricity at this site.  The history of electricity, Ben Franklin’s kite, Tesla coils, and more can be found here.

What time is it—Exactly?: When you have to know exactly—to the second—what time it is, try this site. Master time clocks, animated GIF clocks, standard time zones, and more.

CHEMystery: This interactive textbook, created by students, explains many chemistry topics from atoms and molecules to states of matter, the periodic table, energy, chemical reactions and more.

Rader’s Chem4kids: Study everything from elements and atoms to matter and biochemistry.

Web Elements: Click on a graphic of the periodic table to explore individual elements.

Rader’s Geography4kids: Study everything from energy and the sky to water and climate.

The Virtual Cave: Become a spelunker at this site and learn about stalagmites, stalactities, splattermites, shields, flowstone, bell canopies, and topics dealing with caves.

AccuSchool: Hurricane Center: “Read about the development of a hurricane, powerful hurricanes of the past, storm safety tips, the storm surge, and more!”

Current World Seismicity: The world has nearly a dozen earthquakes every day. View an interactive map of the globe with locations of today's temblors. Click each location to see details, including close-up maps of the epicenter, depth and more.

Dan’s Wild Wild Weather Page: 12 difference weather topics are covered from climate to lightning to hurricanes.  Basic information is given along with links, activities, and experiments.

Flying Into the Eye of a… Hurricane!: Discover what it is like to fly into the eye of a hurricane, gain survival tips, hurricane paths, and more information about them.

National Doppler Radar Sites: View Doppler radar images from around the country to spot incoming storms, wind speeds, precipitation and more.

The Next Wave: Science of Tsunamis: View a slide show on the devastation wrought by the Dec. 26 tsunami, view an interactive map on how the earth’s crust started this disaster, or view a computer animation of its path.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Find information on weather, gardening, food, home, and more in this online almanac.

Snow Crystals: “This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes, and how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures appear, quite literally, out of thin air.   The many facets of snow crystals are described here, along with our attempts to understand their formation.”

Tsunami: The Great Wave: Read more about tsunamis, their causes, the way they are tracked by meteorologists and steps you should take in case you ever find yourself facing one.

UN Atlas of the Oceans:  Find out about the origin of the oceans, maps, charts, issues, ecology, geography, and more at this site sponsored by the United Nations.

The Weather Channel Storm Encyclopedia: “This is the place that can answer your questions on severe and extreme weather.  Here we cover the basics and some notable examples of Mother Nature’s handiwork.”

Weather Watch: This site by Scholastic provides information on hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, and weather forecasting.  Links to other sites are provided.

WeatherEye: Find all kinds of weather information at this site.

Web Weather for Kids: Find a great deal of information on weather and activities at this site.

Fossil Horse Museum: Discover the paleontology and evolution of horses at this site. 

Field Trip Earth: Go on various field trips around the earth and learn about wildlife conservation.

Great Barrier Reef: The Great Barrier Reef extends more than 1,250 miles along the coast of Australia, supporting more than 400 species of polyps and 1,500 species of fish. This National Geographic destination provides a colorful, information-rich interface to help you find out more about each species. Just click on an inhabitant to see a picture complete with detailed information.

Rader’s Biology4kids: Study and classify everything from cells and microbes to plants and animals.

Doctor Fungus: This online reference site explains everything dealing with fungus in people, animals, and plants.

Fun Facts about Fungi: Discover the world of fungi at this site as well as experiments, puzzles, and games.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Learn more about plant species and biological diversity. Every species is listed by its common and scientific name and includes a color photo, description, distribution, habitat preferences, planting tips, a bloom calendar and more.

Animal Printouts: Print out simple outlines of many animals and learn information about them as well.  You can search alphabetically and there are groups listed under fish, amphibians, biomes, fish, mammals, invertebrates, endangered, insects, and more.

Bagheera: Find lots of information on endangered and extinct animals.

Crittercam Chronicles: Explore animals living in Antarctica, the Arctic, and the deep sea through cameras safely attached to animals.

e-Nature: America’s Wildlife Resource: Sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, this site provides the sights and sounds of 5,500 species.  Included are many special features.

Froguts: This site contains interactive simulations of animals and their habitats.  It also provides access to dissections of various organisms in an eco-friendly manner.

The Jane Goodall Institute: This site is dedicated to wildlife research, education and conservation.  There are links to Chimpanzee Central, Jane Goodall, Africa Programs, Research, and more.

Ocean Animal Printouts: Print out simple outlines of many ocean animals and learn information about them as well.

Jellyfish: Learn about the lifestyle of the jellyfish, their composition and their relatives.

Amphibians: Print out simple outlines of many amphibians and learn information about them as well.

AmphibiaWeb: This Web site on amphibian biology and conservation contains information on over 130 species. It provides descriptions, life history information, conservation status, and photos. There are photos of over 140 species, and range maps of over 300 species.

Fish FAQ: You'll find the answers to more than two-dozen fish-related queries at this collection of frequently asked questions.

Freshwater and Marine Image Bank: “The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is an ongoing digital collection of images related to freshwater and marine topics, in all their diversity. It includes images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects.”

Frog Facts: Find out some facts about frogs and other amphibians on this site.

Froguts: This site contains interactive simulations of animals and their habitats.  It also provides access to dissections of various organisms in an eco-friendly manner.

Reptile Printouts: Print out simple outlines of many reptiles and learn information about them as well.