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4-H Virtual Farm |
| The 4-H Virtual Farm website gives an excellent insight into potential vocational directions in agriculture. It is designed for young students in the agricultural sciences and may be best suited for junior-high students, although high-school students may also benefit. |
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Access Excellence |
| Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high-school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. |
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American Museum of Natural History |
| 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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Animal Info – Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals |
| This site is specifically about rare, threatened, and endangered mammals worldwide. |
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Annenberg Media |
| This is the essential website for educators, parents, librarians, and students. |
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ArchaeologyInfo.com |
| For students and teachers who need and welcome a primary source for information related to human evolution, anthropology,and archaeology, ArchaeologyInfo.com should become a well-used resource and should be bookmarked and checked frequently. |
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Ask a Biologist |
| A reference site for students and their K-12 teachers, Ask a Biologist is a friendly, well-organized tool. |
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AskERIC |
| AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents. |
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Baltimore Ecosystem Study |
| The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) website is an ambitious and comprehensive urban ecology model-for research, education, and community engagement. |
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BBC Science & Nature |
| BBC Science& Nature is a website chock-full of science content. |
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Becoming Human |
| Becoming Human is thoroughly engaging, wonderfully complex,accurate, in-depth, and richly informative, making an ideal classroom resource. |
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Beyond Discovery |
| This site was established by the National Academy of Sciences in order to present a series of articles (ten as of this date), each of which highlights the role of basic research in solving or answering a scientific question or problem. |
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BioEd Online |
| The BioEd Online website highlights the foremost current developments in biology. It is written in a news format that is simple to read, even for young adults. |
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BioInteractive |
| Biointeractive is a useful website for school teachers and students. |
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Biology in Motion |
| This website, entitled Biology in Motion, provides a solid introduction to biological science concepts and can be easily used by students, teachers, and the general public. |
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BioMoleculesAlive.org |
| BioMoleculesAlive.org is a free subscription website designed to get peer-reviewed research and scientific innovation out quickly to the scientific community. |
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BioTech |
| The Biotech site has an automated tour, a dictionary of 8300+ terms, professional resources links, science resources links, and original pages on Cyberbotanica, Glycolysis, and Bioinformatics. |
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BioTech Adventure |
| This website contains material for junior and senior high-school students and teachers pertaining to genetics and molecular biology. |
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Birds of Prey |
| As a resource for teachers and students interested in birds of prey, there's no 'talon' what treasures will be nested in Birds of Prey. |
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Blue Crab Archives |
| This site is simple to navigate and is a good starting point for gathering difficult-to-find information about crabs and the crab industry. |
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Boston Museum of Science |
| The Boston Museum of Science (MOS) has something for everyone. |
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BugBios |
| The site currently contains 150 insect photographs from California, Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia and Hawaii. |
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California Academy of Sciences |
| The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is "to shed light on the wonders and value of the natural world" through the sponsorship of expeditions, research, and teaching. |
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California Native Plant Society |
| I strongly recommend this website to students and teachers interested in studying botanical topics as part of their science curriculum. |
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Canadian Museum of Nature Online |
| The Canadian Museum of Nature Online site provides introductions to the many and varied programs available from its Ottowa and Alymer, Quebec facilities. |
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Captain's European Butterfly Guide |
| 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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CELLS alive! |
| This site is a feast for the young cytologist's eyes! Detailed cell diagrams, 3-D models, and animated cell cams allow the navigator to learn about cell structure and function in a colorful environment. |
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Center for Coastal Studies |
| For anyone interested in whales, their rescue, the coastal environment, and habitat studies, this is an excellent site to visit. |
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Cheetah Conservation Fund |
| ...it is a wealth of information on the cheetah's life history, associations with man, difficulties (both genetically and environmentally) in surviving, and links to other sites with additional excellent background information. |
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Chesapeake & Coastal Bay Life |
| The Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Life website is an instructional resource on SAV and other coastal aquatic organisms provided by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. |
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Cornell Composting |
| 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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DNA for Dinner |
| This site is well constructed, and its information is accurate. |
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DNA From the Beginning |
| DNA From the Beginning is an animated website on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity. |
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DNA Interactive |
| The DNA Interactive website is an award winning site that is all inclusive in its coverage of DNA. |
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Earth & Sky |
| 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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Ecological Cities Project |
| The Ecological Cities Project is described as a "national study of new approaches to urban watershed and estuary management" and a "quasi-independent program for research and outreach." |
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Education for Sustainability |
| 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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EMuseum |
| EMuseum's mission is to foster graduate and undergraduate education "through participation in research and scholarly activities." |
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eNature |
| The main body of information consists of a well-designed, easily searched database on the contents of the Audubon guides. |
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Environmental Education Center |
| 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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Environmental Inquiry |
| Environmental Inquiry, developed by Cornell University, strives to provide educators and students with helpful links for researching environmental issues. |
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Environmental Protection Agency |
| The EPA website contains a multitude of environmental parts, including air, water, ecosystem, waste, and prevention subject areas. |
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Euro Turtle |
| EuroTurtle is a website out of the Department of Biology of King’s College, UK, dedicated to sea turtles. |
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Exploring the Environment |
| Exploring the Environment is a web-based series of modules and activities for studying a diverse collection of topics from Korean nightscapes to Yellowstone fires to Everglades health. |
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Fabio's Sealife Picture Gallery |
| Hosted by Fabio Ehrengruber, dive master and photographer, this underwater photography website is extremely educational and well designed. |
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GEARS (Global Entonmology Agriculture Research Server) |
| 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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Genetic Science Learning Center |
| Designed especially for teachers in Utah schools, this site features articles about genetic research at the University of Utah, announcements of workshops for teachers, and ways of integrating the material with the approved Utah curriculum. |
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Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves |
| This website about the Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves is outstanding in delivering information that can be understood by students and the general public. |
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Lawrence Hall of Science |
| There is something for everyone in this site—teachers, students, and the general public. |
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MendelWeb |
| MendelWeb pleasantly surprised me with its excellent hypertext presentation of Mendel's classic paper on pea plant hybridization and its use of that paper to model scientific reasoning for teachers and students alike. |
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Miami Science Museum |
| 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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Microbe World |
| This is a fantastic site for all individuals interested in microbiology and/or biological sciences in general. |
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Microbe Zoo |
| Microbe Zoo is a colorful and informative tour of microbial ecology put into common concepts. It is simple to navigate and is written in an understandable mixture of plain language and scientific terminology. |
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Micscape |
| Micscape is a free, monthly British Web magazine dedicated to exploring the "miniature world" both on a microscopic and macroscopic scale. |
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Missouri Department of Conservation |
| 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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Molecular Expressions |
| Molecular Expressions introduces visitors to the field of microscopy by providing textbook-type fact, supplemented by ingeniously designed interactions with simulated microscopy processes. |
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Mono Lake Website |
| If I had a student interested in doing a paper or project on saline lakes, this would be one of the first sites I would suggest visiting. |
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Mysteries of Çatalhöyük |
| The most useful activities and 'mysteries' are for grades 3-7 and revolve around the use of art by the people of Çatalhöyük. |
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National Aquarium in Baltimore |
| If you have ever wanted to visit an aquarium but couldn’t, this site is for you. |
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National Geographic |
| 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 Marine Sanctuaries |
| This federal government website loads quickly, navigates easily, and provides links to associated federal and other websites. The up-to-date information provided is basic and non-technical, and very useful to grade-school students, educators, and the general public. |
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NOVA Online |
| There is something here for everyone with topics ranging from the bugs in your bed to the dinosaur fossils in the bedrock. |
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PBS Science & Nature |
| The science and nature portion of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) website provides an extraordinary educational experience. |
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Pea Soup: The Story of Mendel |
| This website, Pea Soup: The Story of Mendel, is a solid site for students in grades 9 and 10. |
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Periodical Cicada Page |
| The Periodical Cicada Page is packed with information on the 17 and 13 year cicadas. |
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Planet Earth |
| Planet Earth is a well-conceived website that captures the potential for using the Internet as the powerful learning tool that it can be. |
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Plant Physiology Information Website |
| The site would be very useful to students and teachers learning or teaching general botany or plant physiology. |
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Science@NASA |
| Science@NASA is one of NASA’s many first-rate websites for the general public. Its mission is to inform and excite the public about science begin done at or through NASA. |
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ScienceMaster |
| Overall, this is one of the most worthwhile sites for science educators I have encountered. |
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SeaWorld |
| This site is packed with definitions, fun games, classroom Lessons, songs and poems, simple black and white and colorful graphics, animal facts and descriptions of habitat, conservation suggestions, lists of books and other resources. |
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Smithsonian Institution |
| The Smithsonian Institution site is extremely valuable, easy to use, compelling, and an excellent starting point for anyone seeking to know about science, its processes, outcomes, and history. |
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Smithsonian National Zoological Park |
| 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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Snapshots of Science and Medicine |
| Snapshots of Science and Medicine is a creation of the Office of Science Education, National Institutes of Health. It is designed to be a website for high school students and teachers interested in biomedical research for the science classrooms. |
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Society of Toxicology: Toxicology for Educators |
| 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 American Society of Plant Biologists |
| The website for the American Society of Plant Biologists is an appealing, well-organized site for individuals interested in exploring the realm of plant sciences and how plants work from a physiological and biochemical standpoint. |
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The Bear Den |
| 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 Biology Project |
| The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona. |
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The Butterfly Website |
| The youthful fascination with nature is fostered in this child-friendly website. |
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The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc |
| The website is easily accessed and is readily navigable, provides compelling sample color images of the cave’s extraordinary Paleolithic art, and documents current and ongoing modern scientific research. |
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The Exploratorium |
| The Exploratorium collects and reviews scientific websites. |
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The Franklin Institute Online |
| The Franklin Institute Science Museum website strives for currency and accuracy while preserving the 'entertaining' side of learning for the child in all of us. |
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The JASON Project |
| The JASON Project has tremendous educational value. It is easily navigated by students and has a high interest level for all ages. |
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The National Fisheries Institute |
| The National Fisheries Institute website offers an important perspective of global environmental issues related to the fisheries industries. |
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The Owl Pages |
| The Owl Pages is a commercially supported compendium that serves best as an in-depth resource for educators and their advanced students on any topic having to do with owls—their lifestyle, habitat, physiology, identification, rehabilitation, and more. |
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The Shape of Life |
| 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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The Sleep Well |
| Has there ever been a day where you can’t seem to keep your eyes open? Have you ever been tossing and turning for what it seems ages before eventually falling asleep? |
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The USGS and Science Education |
| The USGS and Science Education site, designed for K-12 education and lifelong learning, is a component of the United States Geological Survey website and is maintained by USGS. |
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The Why Files |
| I believe it to be an excellent site for both general audiences and classroom use for science topics of general interest. I have added the URL to my list of favorites. |
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The Yellowstone Net Geyser Information |
| As part of Yellowstone Online, this page provides teachers, students, and parents with photographs and information about geysers. |
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Page |
| This site doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles. It does, however, contain useful information on what species are currently endangered, which is updated monthly. |
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Understanding Evolution |
| Teachers looking for an up-to-date synthesis of what evolutionary theory does and doesn't say should check out Understanding Evolution, a new primer from the University of California Museum of Paleontology. |
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Utah Science Home Page |
| This resource consists of links and specially designed lessons that correlate with the Utah State science curriculum. |
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Water Resources of Utah |
| The website serves best as an introduction to brine shrimp and is a wonderful starting point for further investigation. |
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Willo: The Dinosaur With a Heart |
| The information is fascinating and fifteen minutes on this easy to navigate site will be very rewarding for anyone with an interest in these creatures. |
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World Resources Institute |
| It would be hard to find another site so full of useful information on environmental issues and actions for students, teachers, parents, and the general public. |
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Yellowstone Net |
| This site is a mixture of many different kinds of information about Yellowstone Park. |
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Zoom Dinosaurs |
| 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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