Favorite Math/Science Links

Diane Corley

Sites that highlight physics:
  1. SandlotScience.com
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: An Interactive Guide to Optical Illusions. Explore hands-on demonstrations, artwork, animation, stories, projects, games and puzzles.

  2. The Art and Science of Bubbles
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: Lots of fun, lots of experiments and other information too

  3. The Exploratorium's Science of Baseball Page
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: An Interactive site examining the science and math of baseball. Explore hands-on exhibits, articles, interviews, games and puzzles.

  4. The Exploratorium Science Snacks
    • Intended Audience: Students and Teachers
    • Site Description: In the Exploratorium's dictionary a "science snack" is a miniature science exhibits made from common, inexpensive, and easily available materials. Although available in published form there are over 100 available here.

  5. The Science Explorer
    • Intended Audience: Kids of all ages
    • Site Description: Interactive science! Very easy experiments kids can conduct at home.

Math Sites:
  1. The Eric's Treasure Troves of Science
    • Intended Audience: Teachers, upper grades
    • Site Description: A fascinating site of encyclopedias for Astronomy, Biographies, Chemistry, Math, Music (hmmm), and Physics. Definitions and short, technical discussions of about every topic imaginable.

Sites for Earth Science:
  1. VolcanoWorld
    • Intended Audience: All ages - Most of the site has readability of 5th grade and up. There are enough graphics to insure learning for all ages.
    • Site Description: Get current information, pictures of erupting volcanes, and historical information There is also a Kid's Door page that encourages participation by the younger set. It includes web presentations written by students.

  2. The Weather Underground
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: University of Michigan's sit for Interactive Weather Maps, Weather cams, historical weather and classroom unit information.

  3. International Year of the Ocean
    • Intended Audience: Students
    • Site Description: This site was established in 1998 during the International Year of the Ocean. It is still kept up to date and has excellent information on marine life and ecological questions.

Sites for Space:
  1. StarChild
    • Intended Audience: Primary and Middle Grades
    • Site Description: Nasa's Learning Center for Young Astronomers Links to a site for older kids also.
  2. Liftoff to Space Exploration
    • Intended Audience: Anyone interested
    • Site Description: Up-to-date news stories, special explorations such as a 3D Solar System, and other space information and links
  3. KidSat
    • Intended Audience: Anyone interested
    • Site Description: Lots of stuff to explore: photo galleries, current mission information, educational links and activities
  4. Solar System Simulator
    • Intended Audience: Anyone interested
    • Site Description: See Earth from the moon or Jupiter from the point of view of Mars. Fascinating, beautiful pictures put together with software that examines maps made by various JPL spacecraft (Galileo, Cassini) and reconstructs it from whatever point of view you wish.
Sites for Biology:
  1. O. Orkin Insect Zoo
    • Intended Audience: Anyone interested
    • Site Description: This real zoo is located in the National Museum for Natural History. (I love their logo-- Every classroom a museum--electronically adjacent to the Smithsonian.) Take a virtual tour or research individual species. Teacher Resources available

  2. SeaWorld
    • Intended Audience: All levels
    • Site Description: Search the Animal Information Database or visit the Puffin Cam. Lots of educational resources available here.

  3. Arizona Highways Wildlife Portfolio
    • Intended Audience: All levels
    • Site Description: Great photographs of Arizona animals. Makes it easy to talk about camouflage and desert survival adaptations.

  4. Butterflies of Arizona
    • Intended Audience: Anyone interested
    • Site Description: This comprehensive list of local butterflies has easy to understand icons that allow even a young researher to gain access. Next to the butterfly's name is a book denoting more text available and a camera denoting a picture available. The butterflies are listed by their common name with the scientific name in parentheses.

  5. The Cub Den
    • Intended Audience: Primary & Middle grade students
    • Site Description: Dedicated to "Bears everywhere and for those children who are on their side." Facts, graphics, recommended books. It has an accompanying more sophisticated site called The Bear Den for more in-depth information.

  6. Bats4Kids
    • Intended Audience: students
    • Site Description: Although this site is oriented to kids visually, there is plenty of information here for anyone interested.

  7. Animal Network
    • Intended Audience: Pet enthusiasts
    • Site Description: This site is a parent site for all the specialized magazines you see about pets when you go to the pet store. Each magazine site has comprehensive information, links and graphics about the pet being investigated.

  8. Exploring Science at MESC
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: The Midcontinent Ecological Science Center online has lots of information on animals and the life of a wildlife biologist. There is information on glaciers too and is hosted by the US Geological Survey Site.

  9. The National Wildlife Federation Homepage
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: Information and Issues. There are links to the different kids' magazines that have age-appropriate material for all school-age students.

  10. The Dragonfly Web Pages
    • Intended Audience: "Investigators of All Ages"
    • Site Description: Lots of interactive activities exploring a variety of science topics. i.e. water, people & plants, webs of life, etc.

  11. The Phoenix Zoo Homepage
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: Lots of information on zoo animals and exhibits. A great place to explore before a visit.

  12. The San Diego Zoo Homepage
    • Intended Audience: All ages
    • Site Description: Lots of information on zoo animals and plant. Updates on the Panda program.

  13. The Zoological Record
    • Intended Audience: Teachers/Upper grade students
    • Site Description: An Internet Resource Guide for Zoology - a comprehensive listing of sites for endangered or threatened species.

  14. The Great Plant Escape
    • Intended Audience: 2nd-5th grades
    • Site Description: Solve mysteries with Detective Le Plant and learn basic principles of plant life at the same time. Has accompanying online teacher's guide

Sites that defy categorizing:
  1. The Magic School Bus
    • Primary and Middle Grade Students
    • Site Description: An activity lab and kids' art gallery. There are some learning games and activities for the kids to explore.

  2. Discovery Kids
    • Intended Audience: Kids of all ages
    • Site Description: Lots of information from the Discovery Channel, games such as "Build Your Own Rollercoaster," and cams such as Puppycam or Penguincam.

  3. Thinking Fountain
    • Intended Audience: Kids of all ages
    • Site Description: Interactive science! Try growing cool mold and post pictures of your results on this site.

  4. Mega Mathematics
    • Intended Audience: Upper grades and Teachers
    • Site Description: This site has some great problem-solving for students at all levels. Knots, maps, games of graphs are just a few of the topics to explore.

  5. Science NetLinks
    • Intended Audience: Upper grades and Teachers
    • Site Description: This site rates science and math sites to help teachers wade through the thousands of sites that a general site search might generate.