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American Museum of Natural History
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| This splendid site is user friendly, contains current scientific information and interpretations, and is compelling to audiences from children through senior citizens. |
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Annenberg Media
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| This is the essential website for educators, parents, librarians, and students. |
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AskERIC
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| AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents. |
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Astronomy Cafe
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| This is a vast and well-organized site for astronomy teachers, students, and enthusiasts. The sheer amount of information is breathtaking—a patient explorer could spend years following the many paths into the interstellar wilderness. |
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Athena Project
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| This is a thoughtfully organized location for K-12 science teachers and students. |
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BBC Science & Nature
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| BBC Science& Nature is a website chock-full of science content. |
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Boston Museum of Science
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| The Boston Museum of Science (MOS) has something for everyone. |
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CERES Project
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| This is an excellent website and has a well-organized first page. |
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Earth & Sky
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| Teachers should definitely add this site to their resource list. Students should add it to their list of places to look for answers to questions they have about the world. |
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Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands on Astronomy Activities for Kids
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| Designed primarily as a resource for teachers, this site is a treasure trove of 75 fun activities in introductory astronomy. |
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Lawrence Hall of Science
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| There is something for everyone in this site—teachers, students, and the general public. |
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MESSENGER
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| The Mars rover Spirit is enthralling people on Earth as it just begins its mission, but the next planetary mission will be to Mercury and the MESSENGER website provides all the information about the mission and the planet. |
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Miami Science Museum
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| The Miami Science Museum website is a very polished, eye-catching representation of activities, outreach programs, and exhibits of the museum. |
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NASA Kids
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| NASA Kids is an excellent site for "kids" of all ages and provides an abundance of information, images, and interesting things to do on astronomy and the space sciences. |
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National Geographic
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| The website is easily accessed, readily navigable, provides an extraordinary variety of up-to-date information, and is recommended to students at all levels and the general public. |
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National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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| This site has excellent resources and ideas for teachers of K-12 students, including comet recipes, crater experiments, and pointers to hands-on activities which drive home the scale of the solar system. |
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Nebraska Earth Science Education Network
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| Nebraska Earth Science Education Network, NESEN, maintains a richly informative Web page designed for "Educators Networking to Improve Earth Science Education." |
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Science Education Gateway (SEGway)
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| This is one of the most useful sites. I recommend it particularly for parents, teenagers, and science educators. It would also be very useful for researchers, librarians, college professors, and the public. |
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Science Is Fun
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| Science Is Fun in the Lab of Shakhashiri is an excellent website describing the chemical education work of Bassam S.Z. Shakhashiri, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Science Learning Network
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| The Science Learning Network(SLN) is a partnership among six science museums and funded by Unisys Corporation and the National Science Foundation. |
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Science Museum of Virginia
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| The Science Museum of Virginia website has much to offer those curious about science. |
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Space Educators’ Handbook
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| NASA’s Space Educators’ Handbook is a treasure trove of information, visuals, and ideas relating to the space program. |
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The Center for Science Education
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| The Center for Science Education is one of a growing number of websites designed as a resource for teachers, students, and parents. The focus of the site is space sciences and astronomy. |
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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| This website for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis is designed to supplement the exhibits and activities at the museum, however it stands on its own as an excellent resource for children, parents, and teachers. |
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The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
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| The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook (K8AIT) is a gold mine of multimedia resources, information, projects, experiments, and lesson plans for students and teachers who are interested in aviation. |
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USA TODAY Weather
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| USA TODAY's online weather site provides much more than daily weather reports and forecasts. As a teaching tool, the site can be used in numerous ways... |
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Utah Science Home Page
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| This resource consists of links and specially designed lessons that correlate with the Utah State science curriculum. |
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Windows to the Universe
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| An excellent site for students of all gradeswith over 4,500 pages crammed with information, data, and visuals on all aspects of astronomy. |
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Zoom Dinosaurs
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| This is the best site I have seen. "Breathtaking" may be stretching it a bit for an adult, but not for the students eager to learn about this ever popular topic. This site is going to be on a lot of "favorites" lists. |
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