Norris School District, MS Science

This page is made to provide you with links to all kinds of exciting science subjects.

• Access Excellence has a great site on Biology and Education
• Great site for Anatomy from the University of Minnesota
• Teach your students about the phases of the moon and the rotation of the moon around the earth at this visual site. (Great for Elem.)
• Frank Potter's Science Gems
• K12 Science.org - This Web site from the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology acts as a user-friendly interface for educators.
• SeaWorld Offers Online Environmental Teacher Guides, Activities
• FrogGuts is a really good visual frog dissection page. (Outstanding!!) They now sell this project on CD... but they do have a few nice demos on their site.)
• National Science Teachers Association has an excellent site -- Scilinks.org (Must have Scilink code from science textbooks to obtain links.)
• Medline plus is an excellent government site for medical information
• The American Museum of Natural History: The online counterpart to New York's renowned museum.
• Amusement Park Physics: The physics behind coasters, carousels, bumper cars, and other amusement park rides is explained here.
• Cells Alive: Another site featuring stunning microscopic photographs, of everything from red blood cells to common soil bacteria
• Conceiving a Clone: This site offers a uniquely well-rounded, nonpartisan perspective on the subject of cloning.
• Dr. Kunkel's Microscopy: Awesome microscopic pictures. Science and technology through the eyes of a microscope.
• Evidence: The True Witness: Interested in forensic science? Evidence: The True Witness contains detailed information about the different fields.
• Glacier:  Antarctica is a fascinating place.  Here, you can check out the weather and tag along on an expedition.
• Hurricane Hunters: Fly into the eye of a hurricane with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve.
• Innovative Transportation Technologies: Provides information about unconventional (therefore innovative) transportation technologies.
• National Inventors Hall of Fame: The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.
• National Laboratories: Serious science work at the U.S. Department of Energy Labs.
• The Mad Scientist Network: A volunteer crew of more than 500 scientists worldwide answer science queries.  You can ask your own questions or also view thousands of other people's questions and answers.
• Mars News: A daily dose of updates on the red planet, from new NASA images to the status of would-be expeditions.
• Microsoft Research: The goal is to push forward the state-of-the-art in computer science, and they do this by seeking out difficult computer science problems and trying to solve them in an innovative and practical way. It also gives you a taste - a smorgasbord actually - of some of what is to come in software.
• NASA: You probably know, what is waiting for you at this page: All kinds of information about space and the things around us. This page even includes fun things like a virtual tour through the International Space Station ISS.
• National Geographic: Like the magazine itself, this page offers you the articles about all kinds of countries and countrysides, including all the beautiful pictures from the magazine.
• National Geographic News: This site offers you a new article each day. The topics are about the same kind that are written about in the magazine (countries, nature, enviroment etc.)
• Nine Planets: Provides a wealth of information and beautiful images covering the sun and the planets in our solar system.
• Nova Online: Nobody does science exploration on TV like PBS's Nova Series. It's stories, illustrations, and videos can take you on a virtual balloon flight, a visual tour of the space station Mir, or to the moon.  There's even a special area for teachers. 
• Sandlot Science: An interactive guide to optical illusions, from ambiguous illusions such as barber polls and spinning wheels to living creatures and games.
• Science Daily: Gives you a varied taste of the discoveries and technologies that will shape our world.
• The StarTrails Society:  A NASA-sponsored program designed to get amateur scientists involved in and contributing to scientific research  projects in astronomy, astrobiology, and other natural sciences.
• TerraServer: Microsoft's astonishing rich collection of aerial and satellite images of places on earth
• Volcano World: The Web's premier source of volcano information
• The Why Files: If it's in the news and involves science, chances are the Why Files will be ready with some in-depth, answers that five you the perspective that the headlines can't.
• Yahoo links to different Science subjects: This list is excellent if you are looking for a special subject, but it is also very good if you just want to surf around and have fun.
• Houghton Mifflin Science Discovery Works --
  http://www.eduplace.com/science/dw/index.html  (K-6)
• Solar System Live
• Views of the Solar System (http://solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm)
  Contains much information on all the planets and other heavenly bodies with exceptional photos and animation.
• The Visible Human Project
• Getsmarter.org offers a nice looking web site that