1. 3-D eye-popping photos from the Smithsonian Multi-Media Dinosaur Museum (3-D glasses are needed at this site. Don't have 'em? No problem! This site includes instructions for making your own.)
2. Curse of T. Rex - a NOVA program
3. Cretaceous Dinosaurs || Jurassic Dinosaurs
4. Dinosaur Hall - at the Academy of Natural Sciences
5. DinoBase - a dinosaur Web Site at University of Bristol, UK
6. Dinosaurs - Build a Dinosaur - Walking with Prehistoric beasts. Put together the skeleton of the dinosaur and watch it walk away.
7. Dino Buzz - current topics concerning dinosaurs
8. Dinosaur Data Files -These dinosaur data files have been designed so that they can be printed and photocopied for educational use in the classroom, at home or in the Museum itself. Also there are some suggestions for activities you may like to try, and a spreadsheet file in Excel format containing much of the data in these data files for further classroom work.
9. Dinosaur Eggs Museum - an online egg hunt from National Geographic
10. Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction from USGS
11. Dinosaur Illustrations - An Index of Links to Great Dinosaur and other Prehistoric Art
12. Dinosaur Information Sheets - from ZoomDinosaurs.com
13. Dinosaur pages on a more elementary level can be found at ZoomDinosaur.com
14. Dinosauria
15. Dinosauria: Truth is Stranger than Fiction - Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, California.
16. Dinosaurium - links from the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum in Canada
17. Dinosaur Guide - from the Discovery Channel
18. Discovering Dinosaurs - explore our evolving conceptions of these extraordinary creatures
19. Haddonfield, N. J. - Site of Historic 1858 Dinosaur Find
20. Land O' Dinosaurs - Learn a bit about the dinosaur from BillyBear4Kids
21. Science & Nature - Dinosaurs (from BBC)
22. Top 10 Misconceptions about Dinosaurs
23. Walking with Dinosaurs from the BBC
24. What Killed the Dinosaurs? - from PBS

1. 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World: 1900 to 1994 from the National Earthquake Information Center.
2. Big Trouble in Earthquake Country - Designed for grades 9 -12, this interactive lesson should take about 4 hours. Real-time data collection is emphasized, and teachers should be prepared to provide maps of the area. A hypothetical earthquake will occur and local consequences must be anticipated.
3. Current World Seismicity - The National Earthquake Information Center presents the most current world earthquakes.
4. During and After an Earthquake - Take this quiz to see how smart you will act during and after an earthquake.
5. Earthforce is all about volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and avalanches
6. Earth's Active Volcanoes by Geographic Region
7. Earthquake Information Pages from the British Geological Survey
8. Earthquakes: Nature's Fury - from National Geographic
9. Finding Earthquake Epicenters - a java applet
10. Killer Wave: Tsunami - from National Geographic Kids
11. The Mighty Volcano is an Internet Field Trip put together by Scholastic.
12. Pillow Lava - Look below the two pictures of pillow lava. Make sure you visit the related video clips and the related virtual sites.
13. Recent Central U.S. Earthquakes - Center for Earthquake Research and Information,.a Tennessee Board of Regents Center of Excellence at the University of Memphis devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of earthquakes and the structure and evolution of the continental lithosphere.
14. Savage Earth from PBS
15. Savage Earth animations - Animations include hot zones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis
16. Seismic Waves - This real-time 3D application allows users to create seismic waves of any magnitude and pass them through a variety of terrains. The student can view the seismic activity in the terrain through both a textured and wire frame view.
17. Seismology - Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data: Internet connections where original seismic data or seismic research information is available
18. TCAP links at Internet4Classrooms
19. TechTopics: Earthquakes - interactive Flash movie about earthquakes divided into six topics on 3/9/09
20. Tsunamis
21. Tsunamis - How the Asian Tsunami happened
22. Tsunami: The Big Wave - from NASA's Observatorium
23. Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory - VTSO compiles a Southeastern US Earthquake Catalog which can be browsed or downloaded.
24. Volcano World - The Web's Premier Source of Volcano Info. This site is hosted by the University of North Dakota.
25. Volcanoes: Can We Predict Volcanic Eruptions? - A complete volcano unit from Annenberg/CPB
26. Volcanoes: Nature's Fury - from National Geographic
27. Volcano Hazards Program - from the USGS.
28. Volcanoes Page from the Michigan Technological University

1. The Age of the Earth
2. Amber: Window to the Past - Click on different pieces of amber to find out what is captured inside and what clues the fossilized remains provide about ancient ecosystems.
3. Evolution from PBS
4. Evolution: Theory and History - including journey into the world of phylogenic systematics.
5. Extinctions from PBS
6. Fantastic Fossil Finds - Burgess Shale, LaBrea tar pits, Solnhofen Quarry, and Subtropical Eocene Fossil Forests of the North
7. Fossil Database - from the Natural History Museum of London
8. Fossil News - from Science Daily
9. Geologic Time and the age of the earth.
10. Geology and Geologic Time - General history of the science, links to each of the eras and the life in them.
11. History of Flight - Pterosaurs, Bird Evolution, Insect Flight and Archaeopteryx
12. Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum - posted by The Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
13. Horse Evolution
14. Human Fossil Database - browse or search the database, or use their timeline
15. Invertebrates - Gastropoda & Cephalopoda
16. Life Has a History - an educational module sponsored by the National Science Foundation (select level 3 for 9-12)
17. Microscopic fossils - Foraminifera & Arcellaceans
18. Museum of Paleontology - posted by University of California, Berkley
19. Paleogeography Through Geologic Time
20. Paleontological Collection Catalogs and related resources
21. Paleontology Without Walls - Introduction to the UCMP Virtual Exhibits
22. The Pleistocene - 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago
23. Pleistocene Animals of the Midwestern U.S.
24. Timelines - Travel back to different time periods in the history of the earth. Vivid, fleshed-out reproductions of the extinct creatures appear in scenes depicting their environments as they might have been millions of years ago.
25. Trilobite: A guide to the order of Trilobites

1. Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems - a nine part explanation that's very complete.
2. Gem and Mineral collection from the Smithsonian. Almost four dozen of the most beautiful naturally occurring minerals or polished gemstones from the collection.
3. Gemstone Gallery offers good information about the mineral to accompany excellent pictures.
4. Gemstone Index - an alphabetical listing, you can also search by color or by birthstone
5. Mindat.org is the largest mineral database on the internet. Currently there are 11,185 different minerals, varieties and synonyms listed, and information on 159,326 mineral occurrences worldwide, from 29,868 different sites.
6. The Mineral Gallery - A service of Amethyst Galleries,Inc., "The First Internet Rock Shop"
7. TheImage.com offers their own Mineral Gallery with good information about the mineral to accompany the picture.
8. Mineralogy Database in HTML Format. This mineral database contains more than 5,000 pages of mineral data. There are 3,968 individual mineral species descriptions with links
9. Minerals - See a photograph and get a description of physical characteristics of the mineral.
10. The Physical Characteristics of Minerals - an explanation of the physical properties most useful for mineral identification
11. Rock and Mineral Database - from the Natural History Museum of London
12. Rocks - from the Earthlab Datasite at the Natural History Museum of London

1. All About Glaciers - a glacier site with something for everyone from glaciologists to grade school students
2. Gateway to the Glaciers of Mount Rainier
3. Glaciers and Glaciations - Ice Sheets, Glacial Lakes, Tuyas (from the USGS)
4. Glaciers and Ice Sheets
5. Glaciers and the Glacial Ages – the story of Charlotte , the Vermont Whale
6. Glaciers in the News - from the USGS
7. Glaciers: Rivers of Ice
8. Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms - Click on a feature to see an illustrated example of that feature
9. Multimedia History of Glacier Bay
10. Online Glacier Photograph Database - The National Snow and Ice Data Center
11. The Retreat of Glaciers in the Midwestern U.S. (18,000 to 8,000 Years Ago) - five maps trace the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age
12. Tour of Park Geology - Glaciers and Glacial Landforms (from the National Park Service)
13. World Glacier Inventory - interactive map [ This page opens in a new window. Close the window to return to the list of earth science resources.]
14. World View of Global Warming - Glaciers, Glacial Warming, and Receding Glaciers

1. A Simple Globe - from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park

1. Rise and Set Times for the Sun and Moon - To find today's Rise and Set Times for the Sun and Moon anywhere in the continental US, click on the map at the desired location.

1. Teacher developed earth and space science lessons and classroom activities posted by the University of California

1. Cleaner Oceans - A Secondary School Kit on the United Nations: International Maritime Organization (IMO)
2. Geological Oceanography - pictures posted for a college course
3. Global Sea floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry from NOAA
4. Killer Wave: Tsunami - from National Geographic Kids
5. El Niño sites -
   1. El Niño from NASA's Observatorium
   2. El Niño - Hot Air over Hot Water
   3. El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Niño
   4. Tropical Atmosphere Ocean - a place where your students can gather real time data
   5. NOAA El Niño
   6. Nova On-Line Adventure featuring El Niño.
6. Ocean Floor Topography - This image is just over 500 Kb but it is worth the download time.
7. Ocean Related Links presented by the Year of the Ocean web site
8. Ocean Waves - This is a real-time 3D wave simulator which demonstrates the connection between wind speed and ocean particle motion depth. The student can modify the properties of an ocean wave and see the effect from any perspective.
9. Oceans Alive - a series of pages from the Museum of Science
10. Savage Seas from PBS
11. Sea Surface Temperature Analysis from NOAA's National Oceanographic Center
12. Sea Surface Temperature - current data
13. Sea Surface Temperature Imagery - Ocean Remote Sensing from Johns Hopkins University
14. Unisys offers a detailed map of current sea surface temperature

1. Animations Plate Tectonics animation
2. Animations in the form of PowerPoint shows are available from the PLATES project at the University of Texas.
3. Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics - covers the following: The Earth's Interior, The Lithosphere & Plate Tectonics, Oceanic Lithosphere, Continental Lithosphere and Plate Tectonics.
4. History - Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea
5. Plate Tectonics - lessons from Volcano World
6. Plate tectonics animations - produced for the US Geological Survey video Secrets in Stone. They have been converted to animated gifs for web display
7. Mechanisms
8. Paleomap Earth History maps
9. Paleomap VR animations
10. Pangea to the Present - a study of the history of the Earth's tectonic plates.
11. Plate Tectonics presented by NASA's Observatorium
12. Plate Tectonics map and a description of the three types of boundaries.
13. Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
14. Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service. In this section you can calculate plate tectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My. This is a cool interactive site.
15. Savage Earth animations - Animations include hot zones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis
16. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. Requires Shockwave plug-in
17. Small Animation - single small graphic showing plate movement through time
18. TCAP links at Internet4Classrooms
19. This Dynamic Earth - The story of Plate Tectonics from the USGS

1. Build a Solar Cooker - plans for several cookers
2. The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker - A great solar oven you can build quickly from two cardboard boxes
3. How to build a solar hot dog cooker -
4. Solar Box Cooker - A great solar oven you can build quickly from two cardboard boxes
5. Solar Cooking Archive
6. Sun activities for Kids - make a hot dog cooker from an oatmeal box

1. Mysteries of the Universe; Physics and Astronomy
2. Origins; Earth and Life Sciences

1. Ask the Weather Dude has several quizzes for you to test your weather knowledge.
2. Atmospheric Pressure - the force exerted by the weight of air
3. Centre for Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Cambridge
4. Classroom Activities which introduce a variety of fundamental topics in meteorology
5. Climate and Weather Unit - In this lesson, students become familiar with weather terminology and different representations of data as they explore various on-line weather sites. They will be given an opportunity to practice using and interpreting data, while determining the effects of the time of day, time of year, as well as on temperature.
6. Climographs
   1. How to Read a Climograph - Every place on Earth has weather. However, different places on Earth have different types of "typical" weather. A quick way to get an idea of the climate of a particular place is to look at a "climate-graph," or "climograph."
   2. Climographs of Selected U.S. Cities - A climograph plots monthly average temperature and precipitation for some location. It provides a quick way of characterizing the climate of a particular place. To view a climograph for one of the U.S. cities listed, click on the city name or the corresponding dot on the map.
   3. Climate Information - a source of raw data that your students might use to make their own climograph
   4. Interactive Climate Map - Move your cursor over a rectangle to see a climograph. Click on the rectangle to view information about the climate at that location
   5. Koppen's Climate Classification - Click on a blue "x" to see the climograph for that location
   6. U.S. Climate at a Glance - from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina
   7. United States Climate Page - (Click on state of interest, then select a city to see a climograph)
   8. World Climate - What the weather is normally like for tens of thousands of places worldwide! WorldClimate.com contains over 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages)
7. Current Temperature Contour Plot
8. Current Weather Data - available from Texas A & M University's Weather Interface yields real-time weather data from a weather station or state.
9. Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10. The Earth-Atmosphere-Sun System and Surface Temperature - using a global energy balance model to calculate mean global surface temperature.
11. Earth Temperature Up or Down? - How could the globe be warming and not warming at the same time?
12. Franklin's Forecast, an online exploration of weather technologies.
13. Global Cloud Cover - near real-time data, data is also available for global water vapor
14. Hottest Temperature on Earth see also the Coldest Temperature on Earth
15. Hurricanes
    1. Hurricane Archive - Detailed tracking charts and info for all Atlantic tropical cyclones since 1886 at Weather Underground
    2. Hurricane Center - lets you keep track of current tropical storms or get information about past storms.
    3. Hurricanes: Nature's Fury - from National Geographic
    4. Hurricanes: A Fierce Force of Nature from NASA's Observatorium
16. Interactive Weather Information Network - By the National Weather Service. The others are just playing at weather, this site has a tremendous amount of weather information about any site selected. See current weather conditions for Memphis, including hourly readings for the past 24 hours.
17. Lightning: The Shocking Story - from National Geographic
18. Locating climate and weather data and information from the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
19. The National Weather Service National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) - Graphical Forecasts - This map shows forecast temperatures for the US, normally updated every hour. This is an experimental product of the National Digital Forecast Database, produced by the National Weather Service. Play around with this site for a while, you will find a wealth of real time data here.
20. Online Climate Data and Weather Observations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). You will find access to raw data which your students could use to complete a project. Links to satellite and radar are also provided from the page.
21. Online Meteorology Guide - a collection of web-based instructional modules
22. Rainbows - find out more on this page that any textbook you can think of!
23. Reading Weather Maps - features to look for on weather maps to make a forecasts
24. Storm Spotter's Guide is an illustrated guide to what types of features are often seen before and during severe weather events.
25. Temperature World - temperature news, resources, and links
26. Tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun - A QuickTime movie (imagine that you are the sun)
27. Tornado Project Online gathers, compiles, and makes tornado information available to tornado and severe weather enthusiasts, the meteorological community
28. Tornadoes, a close up view from USA Today's weather page.
29. Tornadoes: Nature's Fury - from National Geographic
30. USA Today Weather
31. U S Radar Loop of the last 2 hours covering the contiguous United States. This Doppler radar site indicates clouds, rain and snow with different colors, and refreshes 4 times per hour. Intellicast now offers a 12 hour java loop. More importantly, this loop allows you to step forward, or backward, one image at a time.
32. The Weather Channel
33. The Weather Dude provides many weather links and discussion of topics. You can even find weather songs (you will need Real Audio).
34. WeatherEye - Good resource for all grade levels. Lessons, activities, printouts and more.
35. Weather Online's hundreds of weather tools on the web.
36. WeatherNet, a source of weather information, providing access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Web's largest collection of weather links [site unavailable on 8/12/06]
37. What Forces Affect Out Weather? - A complete weather unit from Annenberg/CPB
38. What's Up With the Weather? - from PBS
39. Wind Chill Factor from NASA's Observatorium
40. WW2010 - the World Weather 2010 Project features online guides

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