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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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Ask a Biologist
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| A reference site for students and their K-12 teachers, Ask a Biologist is a friendly, well-organized tool. |
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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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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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California Native Plant Society
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| I strongly recommend this website to students and teachers interested in studying botanical topics as part of their science curriculum. |
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Captain's European Butterfly Guide
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| This webpage is loaded with a wide variety of information that the researcher, student, or science teacher may want to use. The photography is superb. |
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Cool Science for Curious Kids
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| If you are a teacher in the early grades, who is looking for projects or activities in science, then this may be the site for you. |
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Cornell Composting
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| Whether a hobbyist composter, industrial researcher, or curious enthusiast, the Cornell Composting site is one-stop shopping for how, why, where, and what is in fact, composting. |
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Cyber Zoomobile
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| This interesting site contains original photographs of various zoo animals taken by Jim Rang, the site owner. |
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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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Education for Sustainability
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| This is a large site that hosts educational and factual materials about the sustainable use of resources, including water, general waste management, and textiles. |
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Environmental Education Center
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| The EPA site for teachers and students is good at giving information to a wider audience and the EPA is to be commended for this outreach. |
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Explorers' Club
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| The EPA's Explorers Club website is one-stop shopping for kids ages 5-12 on a quest to find out more about general issues and major themes on the environment. |
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GEARS (Global Entonmology Agriculture Research Server)
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| The Global Entomology Agriculture Research Server, GEARS, run by the USDA, provides a busy site, that includes a CCD camera view into an active bee colony. |
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Insectweb
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| Insectweb is an excellent teacher resource for developing lessons about insects for kindergarten students. |
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Journey North
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| At Journey North, students, teachers, and adults will find a huge, skill-oriented reservoir of information and lessons on global wildlife migration and seasonal change. |
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Katerpillars (& Mystery Bugs)
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| This is a wonderful site for discovering interesting facts about insects. It is easy to navigate and has information for students and teachers. |
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Kidsgardening.com
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| As part of the National Gardening Association (NGA) web site, this page is the association’s forum for teachers, teacher educators, and community partners interested in using plants and gardens to enrich learning. |
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Kinder Garden
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| This is a great site for teachers, parents, and kids. It is sponsored by the Texas A&M University, which is performing research about human issues in horticulture. |
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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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MBGnet
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| This webpage is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden's website. |
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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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Missouri Department of Conservation
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| This website, designed by the Missouri Department of Conservation, is an exceptional resource with broad depth of material in the biological 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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Science Activities Manual: K-8
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The activities suggested are keyed to the state curriculum framework and to the National Science Education Standards of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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Scientists in the City
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| Scientists in the City is an Internet-based project in which students, teachers, families, and science enthusiasts around the world investigate the interaction of the natural and manmade worlds. |
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Smithsonian National Zoological Park
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| The Smithsonian National Zoological Park website, besides being a comprehensive introduction to the institution, is a valuable tool for anyone interested in zoology. |
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Society of Toxicology: Toxicology for Educators
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| The educator’s section of the Society for Toxicology website is a comprehensive resource for teachers wishing to incorporate toxicology principles into their teaching. |
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The Bear Den
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| The Bear Den and its junior model, The Cub Den, provide very comprehensive information on bears. While the Cub Den has information appropriate for elementary students, the rest of the site goes into great detail about 10 bears, then provides a well—developed resource of bear information. |
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The Butterfly Website
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| The youthful fascination with nature is fostered in this child-friendly website. |
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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 Magic School Bus
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| The Magic School Bus website has fun games, riddles, word search, and a mystery name search based on Magic School Bus characters. |
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The Shape of Life
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| The Shape of Life is typical of PBS collaboratives online: beautifully illustrated, content rich, scientifically accurate and alluring, and accessible to a broad audience range. |
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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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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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