Acid Rain

• Acid Rain (EPA: Policy Issues)
• Acid Rain (The Educator's Toolkit)  
• Acid Rain (primer on acid rain for environmental journalists)
• Acid Rain and... (Environment Canada)
• Acid Rain in our nation's capital (Washington D.C.)(USGS)
• Acid Rain in Wisconsin (Wisconsin DNR)
• Acid Rain Program: EPA
• Almanac of Policy Issues
• 'Ask Jack' FAQ
• Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Environment (click on Acid Rain at left)
• Foundation for Clean Air Progress (Just for Kids page)
• Jump Start-Acid Rain
• National of Policy Issues
• National Environment Trust
• Our Changing Plant:  Acid Rain (Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium)
• Water Science for Schools (USGS)

 

Animals

 

    General Sites:

•  Animal Diversity Web

•  Animal Printouts (labeled drawings & some information--mostly on anatomy of animal)   

•  BBC Children's Zone: Animals

•  EcoWorld - Animals 

•  enature.com (look in field guides for your animal)  

•  National Geographic Creature Features (bats, crocodiles, frogs, sharks)                 

•  Sea World/Bush Gardens: Animal Info

•  Webshots (pictures of animals)

•  Western North Carolina Nature Center (bat, snake, wolf, skunk, brown recluse spider)                 

•   ZooBooks - Click on 'Pet Me' to learn more about the animal.

•   San Diego Zoo Animal Bytes

Wolves:

•     BoomerWolf University (good pup information

•     International Wolf Center    

•     The Wild Ones

•     Wildlife Science Center:  Wolf Behavior

•     Wolf Country (wolf pups & links to other wolf information)

•     Wolf Education Research Center

 

Bats:

• Bat Facts (Smithsonian Institution)

• Wisconsin DNR

• Bats Are Unique Mammals

Sharks:

• World of Sharks

• Sharks (information and conservation)

Bees:

• Bee Biology (Capital Area Honeybee Stewards)

• Honey Bees (and other types)

Alligators and Crocodiles:

• The Gator Hole

• American Alligator (Kratts Creatures)

• Crocodilian Biology Database

Snakes:

• Animal Planet - Snakes - Anatomy & Physiology

• Diamondback Rattlesnake (explains pit organs /photo)

Octopuses:

• Adopt a Giant Octopus (National Zoo)

• Common Octopus (National Geographic)

Skunks:

• Living With Skunks

• Striped Skunk

Spiders:

• Spiders in and Around the House

• The Spider (advanced text, but wonderful teaching pictures)

Frogs and Toads:

• Exploratorium: Frogs

• Frog Facts

• Frogs and Toads

Websites for Vertebrate Scavenger Hunt:

• http://homepages.wmich.edu/~s1moore1/Moore.ppt

• http://www.biology4kids.com/files/vert_main.html
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• http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/Animals/AnimalIndexV.htm

• http://www.quia.com/pop/141298.html

 

Bridge Building

• Building Big: Bridges (PBS)
• Nova: Build a Bridge
• Toothpick (and other) Bridges
• U.S. Bridge (bridge building company--a few pictures)

Chemical Elements

• chem4kids
• chemicalelements.com
• Chemicool Periodic Table
• Periodic Table of Elements at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
• Web Elements

Earthquakes

• Earthquake for Kids
• Earthquake News 
• Latest Earthquake Information (USGS)
• Plate Tectonics: Cause of Quakes
• Savage Earth Online (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis)
• This Dynamic Earth   Story of Plate Tectonices (USGS)
• USGS National Earthquake Info Center
• What Are Earthquakes? More Info

 

Environmental Studies

• Canada's Freshwater Web Site
• Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development (causes effects of, and control on air pollution and climate change)
• Environmental Defense Fund
• European Environment Agency (water)
• National Renewable Energy Lab 
• Nature Conservancy
• Products from Trees
• Renewable Energy (Dept. of Energy)
• Renewable Energy Fact Sheet (Common Purpose for Clean Energy)
• Renewable Energy World
• Rocky Mountain Institute (energy links for kids)
• Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
• Solar Energies Industries Assn. (information about the solar industry & solar technology)
• Voyage to the Deep
• Water (USGS)

General

Science News Sites:

• EurekAlert (comprehensive news for up-to-date research in science, medicine, & technology)

• Science Daily (online magazines and web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine)

• Scientific American (has a "Today's News")

• Why Files (the science behind the news)

Other:

• Bill Nye, the Science Guy

• Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum

• Chicago Historical Society

• Eisenhower Nat'l Clearinghouse (math & science education)

• Exploratorium museum of science, art, & human perception)

• FirstGov for Science (connects you to U.S. government science and technology)

• Franklin Institute Science Museum

• Morton Arboretum

• Museum of Science & Industry

• National Geographic

• National Wildlife Foundation (wildlife)

• Nature Conservancy

• Shedd Aquarium

• Sierra Club

• Smithsonian

• USDA for Kids (health, nutrition, and cutting edge science related to agriculture)

• U.S. Geological Survey Learning Web (explore the earth: land, water, plants, animals, maps)

• U. S. Patent & Trade Office (kids page & links to other gov't. kids pages)

Space

• Adler Planetarium
• Aurora Borealis (northern lights)
• Exploratorium Home Page
• Exploring the Planets (Smithsonian)
• Exploring the Planets: Mars (Smithsonian)
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Kennedy Space Center
• Kids Astronomy
• Mars Exploration Program (NASA)
• Mars: The Red Planet (Enchanted Learning)
• NASA
• NASA: Just for Kids
• NASA Mars Exploration Program:  Rover Mission
• NASA Space Hotlist (links)
• Nine Planets
• Nine Planets (Mars)
• Northern Lights
• Planet Mars
• Planets
• Project Mercury (The Space Place)
• Project Mercury (NASA)
• Red Planet Rovers
• Sky & Telescope Magazine (Astronomy & Space links)
• Space Daily
• Space Day (solving real-life problems facing our space pioneers)
• Space Place (NASA)
• Space Program: A Timeline (History Channel exhibit)
• Stars & Constellations
• To The Moon (NOVA - Apollo astronauts on the moon)
• Windows to the Universe (kids` space & teacher resources from Univ. of Mich.)
• Water on Mars
• Whole Mars Catalog
   

Volcanoes

• Alaska Volcano Observatory
• Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Hawaii Center for Volcanology (Hawaiian Volcanoes
• Savage Earth Online (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis)
• VolcanoWorld (good overall site for students)
• Webquest: Discovering Volcanoes

 

Water

• Beneath The Sea (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)

• Blue Planet

• Coastal Watersheds (EPA)

• Dams and Diversions (NASA)

• Drinking Water for Kids (EPA)

• Drinking Water Treatment (American Society for Microbiology)

• Freshwater Biome

• Fresh Water Ecology & Pollution

• Fresh Water Ecosystems (rivers & streams, ponds & lakes, wetlands)

• Glaciers and icebergs (from Yahooligans)

• Life in the Ocean

• Marine Ecosystems (shorelines, temperate oceans, tropical oceans)

• National Marine Sanctuaries (NOAA)

• Natural Ponds (site of a pondkeeping club in the UK)

• Nature of Water, the (aquatic ecosystems, properties of water, groundwater, etc.)

• Ocean Planet (Smithsonian)

• Ocean Waves (nature science update)

• Oceanography (Office of Naval Research) (covers many of your topics)

• Oceans: Deep Blue Sea (CNN Student News)

• Salt Marsh Field Trip

• The Big Help:  Our Water, Our Planet, Our Future

• UN Atlas of the Oceans (4 main topics: about, uses, issues, geography)

• Water Cycle

• Water Education Posters (posters and information on each area: wetlands, water use, waste water, navigation, ground water, water quality)

• Water Pollution and Other Water Issues

• Water Science for Schools (USGS)

• Water Shortages in Water Rich Areas (Academy of Natural Sciences)

• Water Supply of the World 

• Cousteau Society

• Jacques Cousteau (E Magazine interview)

• Jacques Cousteau (short bio)

Weather
 

	Chicago--Meigs Field Weather
	Doppler Radar - Chicago
	El Nino
	Hurricane Names
	Hurricane News
	National Hurricane Center
	National Weather Service
	One Sky Many Voices (weather links & temperature statistics)
	USA Today Weather Site (content information on many aspects of weather)
	Weather Channel (HomePage)
	Weather Channel Classroom
	Weather Lesson Plans (DiscoverySchool.com)
	WeatherNet (Forcasts, Images,Links)
	Weather Underground at Univ. of Michigan
	World Weather

Wolves

• Callof the Wild: Wolf Education
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Grey Wolf (B.C. Adventure)
• International Wolf Center
• Moose & Wolves of Isle Royale (2005 Winter Report)
• North American Wolf Association
• Timber Wolf Information Network
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (U.S. endangered species) 
• Wild Ones: Gray Wolf
• Wolf Haven International
• Wolf Education Research Center
• Wolf Information & Updates (Yellowstone/Idaho Wolf Recovery Efforts)
• Wolf Recovery Foundation