Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Scientists

1. 2003 flight forecast
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028171
   This Internet site offers an online contest which challenges K-12 students to predict the weather conditions at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 2003, for the 100-year anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight. The site contains a number of activities designed to help students prepare for submitting a weather forecast.
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2. DNA interactive (DNAi)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028549
   This web site, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, features a wealth of information about DNA. Students find an interactive timeline which allows them to travel through time to learn the history of DNA science.
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3. The black inventor online museum
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028919
   This Internet site explores the achievements of 50 African Americans. The site intends to promote awareness of contributions by African Americans and instill a greater sense of pride, understanding, and enthusiasm on behalf of students and teachers.
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4. National Library of Medicine profiles in science
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026975
   This Internet site profiles nine prominent biomedical scientists from the twentieth century, including Barbara McClintock, Joshua Lederberg, and Linus Pauling. For each scientist, an online exhibit offers information about his or her personal and professional life.
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5. Physics central: learn how your world works
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029741
   This internet site, updated periodically, is intended to keep people informed about physics research, people in physics, and to answer questions about physics. A Physics In Pictures section shows readers a picture related to current physics research .
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6. Re-living the Wright way
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 027040
   This web site details the invention of powered flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The resource is developed and maintained by NASA to commemorate the 100th anniversary of flight, and features a wealth of historic photographs and details.
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7. IEEE virtual museum: the history of electricity, electronics, and computers
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 2 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027641
   This Internet site is a virtual museum with exhibits that describe the historical development and uses of technologies based on electricity and magnetism. Exhibits explore five main themes: electricity, microwaves, women and technology; how sounds are recorded and played; and the life and inventions of Thomas Edison.
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8. Inventive kids
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 029173
   This web site contains interactive games and activities that explore the nature of invention. Users can click on My Inventive Room to see how modern inventions make life easier, play an invention matching game in Keep Your Eyes Open, or witness the invention of the telephone in Hello.
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9. Invention at play: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026129
   This Internet site is the online version of a traveling exhibit that explores the interrelationship between invention and play. Developed by the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the site offers information in three main sections: Inventor's Stories, Does Play Matter?, and Invention Playhouse.
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10. NASA Quest
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002984
    This World Wide Web site, supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Information Infrastructure Technology Applications (IITA) project and the High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) program, has been developed to provide support and services for K to 12 schools, teachers, and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning. The Quest web includes sub nodes describing NASA online interactive projects, grants, ideas for using the Internet in schools, and other educational resources.
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11. Nobel e-Museum
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 021183
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site features lectures, interviews, and articles by Nobel Laureates, along with educational activities related to their achievements. Additionally, there is background information about the Nobel Prize and, its founder Alfred Nobel.
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12. Scientists in action!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029548
    This Internet site introduces students to various careers in science. The articles begin by describing an aspect of nature, and then explaining how the roles of different scientists work together to solve problems, predict natural disasters, and explore the unknown.
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13. Evolution: a journey into where we're from and where we're going
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 020667
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed as part of the evolution project produced by PBS, offers knowledge on the subject of evolution. The site has been developed to accompany an educational initiative, a seven-part television series, and a companion book.
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14. Profile of a scientist
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018615
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains the materials needed for a nine week interdisciplinary activity in which students in grades 10 to 12 explore the roles of inventors and scientists in society. The goal of the activity is to dispel negative student perceptions about scientists and encourage them to see that it is a field that is accessible to them if they are interested.
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15. The Lemelson Center
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018919
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Lemelson Center, takes visitors on an exploration of the world of invention. The Center's mission is to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation, to encourage inventive creativity in young people, and to foster an appreciation for the central role invention and innovation play in the history of the United States.
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16. Science and health: resources from the New York Times and Learning Network
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020177
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 3 to 12 by the New York Times Learning Network, offers lesson plan units that use recent New York Times articles as springboards for engaging students. Written in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use.
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17. Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 4 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 017992
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by The Center of History of Physics which is a division of The American Institute of Physics, contains biographical information about Marie Curie. The site is divided into sections based upon significant life experiences, including her girlhood years in Poland, her struggles with gender barriers, and her contribution to the World War I effort with her insights into radiology.
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18. The Nobel channel
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013953
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Nobel Channel, is designed to provide information about the lives of Nobel laureates, their discoveries, and the influence of their work on history. The site is divided into four sections for content, one for searches, and one with links to related Websites.
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19. To fly is everything... a virtual museum covering the invention of the airplane
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 5 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 018416
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained at Mississippi State University, has background information, photographs, and video clips of early attempts at flight. Visitors to the site can find a digital library with links to articles in magazines, journals, and books about the invention of the airplane.
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20. Exploring Leonardo [da Vinci]
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 4 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 014042
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for grades 4 to 8 and developed by the Museum of Science, Boston, for the Science Learning Network, provides students with a historical role model for creative scientific thinking integrated with all aspects of life. A letter to the teacher recommends a flow of the lesson that begins with the solicitation of student ideas, investigation of the Web site by the students, and the generation of additional student questions.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)