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General Science Specialized Areas People in Science
General Science
Encyclopedia of Earth This site is a free collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language in order to be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public. The site's stated goal is to be the largest reliable information resource on the environment in history. From the Encylopedia of Earth: |
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How
Stuff Works Ever wonder how a plasma display works, or a coffee maker, or a diesel engine or even a mortgage? Want to know what to do when your car’s “check engine” light comes on? If so, this is the site for you. It’s run by a private company and contains advertising and marketing for its own products, but it’s loaded with clear and accurate information. |
Exploratorium This site is run by the San Francisco Exploratorium, a non-profit organization which has more than 650 science and arts displays at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. The site has more than 15,000 web pages explaining the science behind music, sports, weather, cooking and many more subjects and also offers live webcasts. The site gets more than 15 million visitors a year. |
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Try
Science This site is a partnership between IBM, the New York Hall of Science and the Association of Science-Technology Centers. It has dozens of experiments you can do at home, on-line interactive adventures, a guide to many science centers and science field trips, and live cams from many science and technology centers worldwide. |
Nova The web site for the award-winning Public Television series lets you watch or read transcripts of hundreds of programs and offers interactive material to go with each program. Programs can be searched by category. It also has teacher’s guides for the programs and sells DVDs and videos of programs. |
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The
Why? Files This site was started by the National Institute for Science Education and is now run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. It has a new science article every week–there are now hundreds in the archives as well as many images and interactive features. The articles are accessible but not dumbed down, and the site has won many awards. |
PBS
Kids ZOOM PBSKidsZOOM. This site has lots of experiments and activities to do at home, from the PBS kids show. |
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Science
for the Fun of It Science and Engineering Libraries Resources, University of Virginia Library. The main feature is links to about 140 of what it calls “whimsical and unusual science-related web sites” (including this one), with lots of topics of interest to web surfers of all ages.
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What's
That Stuff? What’s That Stuff? Home page of the on-line version of Chemical and Engineering News. Great articles on 40 common items from baseballs to jell-o to kitty litter! |
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Mr
Wizard Studios Mr. Wizard Studios, the web site of Don Herbert, television’s Mr. Wizard. “Watch Mr. Wizard” went on the air in 1950 and ran for more than 500 episodes. Herbert has been an inspiration to Professor Shakhashiri, who dedicated the fourth volume of Chemical Demonstrations “To Don Herbert...who has perfected the art of communicating science to kids of all ages.” The site has video clips, a newsletter for teachers, and offers books and DVDs of programs. |
NCES Students' Classroom Students Classroom, from the National Center for Education Statistics. This unique site allows students to test and compare their science and math knowledge with students in the rest of the world. Each question has an explanation of the answer and links to other good sites that elaborate on the answers. |
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Cool
Science for Curious Kids Cool Science for Curious Kids, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has several interactive lessons designed for grade school kids.
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