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http://www.accessexcellence.org really good on-line lessons like web quests and simulations.

http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/sciencepg.html

http://www.sciencemaster.com

http://www.scienceiq.com/links/Index.cfm

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/kids/index.html for younger students

http://www.weatherbugachieve.com/exploration_zone.asp sample interactive lessons on weather

http://www.yeconline.ca/library.html

http://whyfiles.org/index.php

http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/kids/index.html#kidsite

http://www.nsta.org

http://www.readtofeed.org/for_kids/explore_the_world/ for k-4, students identify animals, learn geography and cultures; more activities for older students too.

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest_collections.htm link collection to webquest directories

How to Write a Better Report

http://www.tellmehowto.net/education/essays_31 List of short how-to's on writing essays and discussion questions

Writing Thematic Essays A lesson for high school that includes links to other sites with advice on how to write

Questions for a book report

Mining a Web Site Tricks for finding information at an internet site, taking notes and writing reports on the fly

http://www.lousywriter.com for tips on grammar and improving your writing

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Curricula for teaching reading and writing for school and homeschool use.

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Featured Essay: Using Chi-Square A lesson with an experiment

Read this example of a thematic link with comments. Topics are listed to give the student starting points, ideas, and notepaper keywords. Students are expected to add multiple links of their own.

This link set is from the topic Invasive Species.

http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/melainv.html Report on Melaleuca tree that is invading Florida wetlands. This site is owned by Univ. of Florida and links to a several reports that would also be useful references.

http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html is the home page for this site and will link you to other plants invading Florida and programs that are active in management of the invasive species.

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This is a copy of an essay written by Dr. Brown. It is a really fine set of instructions for doing college-level reports. Students, you might like it as a guide for learning how, but might not achieve this level of competence without much practice. Teachers, let students know this is a goal that they can work towards. the short papers for class and the term paper. More papers

Try this website of science journal articles: scirus.com

This website is a source of archived news articles, links to websites, and an RSS newsfeed all with science and engineering information on all areas of the physical sciences. If the topic is earth science, astronomy, chemistry or physics, you should be able to find a set of sources here at scirus.com. More science sites

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Here is a site for downloading a program that will allow you to view images of your home town and even your house from a geosynchronous satellite.

http://earth.google.com/

There are associated programs and an entire community of users that are discussed on the home page.

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Directories of Links to Scientific Information
URL's (more directories are on topics pages)	Comments and Descriptions	Subjects
http://www.sciencenews.org	webpage for the weekly periodical Science News. Excellent source of current research summaries of interest to the general public.	All
http://www.wikipedia.org	search for science, technology, and engineering terms and concepts. Just remember that many of these entries are written by professionals in the field, but that is not a requirement for adding or editing an entry. Entries are usually self-correcting over time in that if someone adds or edits an entry that is incorrect, someone else will fix it. Just be aware that you will need to double-check info by looking at another source to be sure you didn't get an incorrect entry that has yet to be reviewed and edited.	All
http://www.scirus.com	papers in journals and periodicals on physical science topics	All physical sciences and engineering
http://www.apsnet.org/education/stdntinfo.html	papers by scientists for college level students	Plants: physiology and pathology
http://www.epa.gov	all types of information. You might have to mine the site for information useful to you. For a how-to on mining this site, go to my essay.	Ecology information and issues
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sci-tech/scigs.html	directory of sites for science and technology, especially those written for students k-12	all sciences
http://www.navdanya.org/about/index.htm	A site in India about biotechnology and issues of sustainability. It is against corporate farming. Counter with information from this site: vechur.org as site about the species of dwarf cow species of India.	Sustainablilty, food programs, biopiracy, biopatents, agriculture
http://www.naturalhub.com	hundreds of links to information on small and hobby and family farms food production with emphasis on small breed livestock for the smaller acreage.	Organic farming and sustainability, small farm breeds and seeds, information on food science
http://www.scirus	Search engine for more technical papers in all science fields. Read abstracts for free: many papers must be purchased. Get the reference for a hard copy search.	All sciences and medicine: locates technical articles.
http://www.google.com/Top/Science/	This page lists links to top 100 sites and the keywords for the areas of science according to the Google search engine. To get a better picture of how it works, enter a narrow keyword like sustainability and see what crops up.	All science areas by search engine keyword and top 100 sites by popularity
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf /Resources/Links.html!OpenDocument&Expandview combine the link. backspace until link works and and you get to info needed.	This page lists lots of organization sites involved in land and soil research from ecology to geology to government policy. It is a UK site.	Links to dozens of other organization sites for topic in environmental and ecology and agriculture
http://virtual.finland.fi	Site of Finland's Foreign Ministry, it links to education, nature, and science pages within the site. There are fabulous images of auroras and mirages in the site.	science, nature, education, culture
http://www.spaceweather.com	Lots of links to other sites, sunspot update, auroras, solar winds, NOAA data links, lots more about astronomy, solar conditions, space news, and our atmosphere.	space, solar system, sun, astronomy, atmosphere
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/	At the bottom of CNN's education page is a list of links to things like the Supreme Court and CIA facts on the world.	various, economics, politics, current events
http://whyfiles.org/index.php	Articles, interactive activities, and teacher files put together by National Institute of Science Education and NSF.	all science topics, animations and lessons
http://www.makezine.com/	A crafts site with a twist: things that graphic artists, engineers, computer science, IT , and gaming pros do for hobbies--make things for fun using tech.	engineering for fun
http://dmoz.org/Science/Educational_Resources/	a directory of resources compiled by a community of science teachers in a wikipedia-type way	science and science teacher resources
http://www.reefbase.org/	a database of information on coral reefs	marine science
http://www.nature.org	A site devoted to nature conservation and endangered species. Lots of free pictures, info and short videos. Nature Conservatory	ecology and endangered species.
http://www.archive.org/index.php	A collaborative collection of sites that have books, music, videos, and all things internet. Look for science documentaries to stream and books in the text section.	all subjects
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/index.php and http://scienceblogs.com	posts articles from Space, Energy and Environment. There will be some technical discussions, some pholosophy of science and science in culture discussions initiated by science majors and professionals	Space, Energy, Environment, Biology, Genetics, Medicine
http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/index.html	website on climate change with directory of hands-on science sites for kids, links to other sites, lessons, news articles and facts.	Global Warming and sustainability
http://www.nsta.org	National Science Teachers Association. Lots of information about teaching science, science, links, other science organizations, and hands-on activities online and off.	all sciences, science teaching
http://www.sciencedaily.com	Daily news publication dealing with all sciences. Archived articles.	all sciences
http://www.actionbioscience.org	articles on biology and the theories that move this modern science presented in 6 themes plus educational material.	biology
go to the tv networks for lots of past shows and articles in their archives.

Report Topics/ Themes on this Site
A-C	Arctic Circle, Living in the bioremediation (coming in future)
D-F	ecology (see sustainability, invasive species, and Arctic Circle)
H-J	invasive species
K-M	MEMS (and nanotechnology)
N-P	nanotechnology (and MEMS)
Q-S	Robotics species variation (coming soon) sustainability
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W-Z

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Downloads for Science and Technology Feeds
URL	Program	Description
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/	Celestia	Take a virtual tour of the solar system, the universe and earth from space. These images are based on NASA photos.
http://earth.google.com/	GoogleEarth	satellite map of earth and locations by address
http://www.trendmicro.com	virus info, virus scan, virus map	get current info on computer viruses, a map of viral spreads, and a scan of your computer--download each to place on a web page. Go to site for this and other information. See examples of these items on this site.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/	various Widgets and Widgets Engine like the ones used in Science with Widgets.	Nifty shareware type "gadgets" for your desktop, computer desktop, that is. You'll find newsfeeds, pets to wander across the screen, dice and other stuff. There is even a space on-line for making your own widgets.
http://www.sketchup.google.com	free 3-D drawing program	Free from Google, this is a CAD program that is easy to use. Google invites teachers to use it in the classroom and provides a website for posting student work (k-12) and a separate site for posting adult sketches. View animated tutorial at the website.
http://www.nrel.gov/homer/	Model the electrical system as a combination of generation sources: wind, solar, power company grid, etc., and produce spreadsheets and graphs.	Download this software. Use it to analyze the power usage of electrical power systems that incorporate multiple sources: solar, battery, wind, powerco grids. Alternate energy modeling system.Site is .gov Probably a bit technical, but think Science Fair.
Science gadgets1, Science Stuff 2	A set of science gadgets from Google, different search engines and other items collected by VCCTI for you.	General and astronomical, designed to help you locate information on the physical sciences, first page, and on other areas, second page.
Computer Stuff	A set of gadgets/widgets and links to trusted computer virus maps, viral threat lists and articles on computer viruses.	Includes a widget to scan your computer for viruses and other information about computer viruses. Also includes some gadgets for nifty computer information.