Hyper-Textbooks

1. A Basic Guide to ASL visual guide to American Sign Language
2. Chemistry: The Science in Context - Developed specifically for Chemistry: The Science in Context by a team of highly-qualified chemistry educators, this student resource offers a thorough review of chapter concepts. Engaging animated tutorials help students visualize dynamic processes; many of these also feature interactive practice exercises that help develop quantitative skills.

Web Site Evaluation

1. Evaluating Internet Sites - Welcome - This brief tutorial will overview the concepts and criteria of evaluating Internet sites. The tutorial should not take you much longer than 20 minutes
2. UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about Web Resources -The World Wide Web has a lot to offer, but not all sources are equally valuable or reliable. Here are some points to consider
3. Evaluating Web Sites -The most important factor when evaluating Web sites is your search, your needs. What are you using the Web for?

Search Engine Resources

1. AltaVista - Welcome This is one of the best all purpose search engines
2. Beaucoup! Search Engines, Indices and Directories Huge directory of search engines by subject area
3. FindLaw - LawCrawler Search engine for legal stuff. Supreme Court Federal, state local government
4. Google An excellent alternate to AltaVista has a similar search technique, but seems to find different stuff.
5. Image Search Engine This site is a location for a variety of images. It ranges from clipart for kids to the Library of Congress to Virtual Parks
6. Librarians' Index to the Internet Search topic site has some excellent links
7. Logo Search - if it has a logo professional teams, colleges, amature it is proably here.
8. MapQuest Probably the best to make a map or get directions
9. Voice of the Shuttle Home Page Probably one of the best humanities web site around. Maintained by the folks at UC Santa Barbara and has some real neat stuff, try it!

Newspaper/Magazines Media

1. ABCNEWS - ABC news service site has a good range of subjects
2. Business Week - Old standard, business oriented news
3. CNN Interactive - Standard CNN site has broad range of subjects
4. CNNfn - CNN's financial magazine, online stock quotes
5. Discovery Online - The source for Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel
6. Environmental Research Foundation - News and resources for environmental justice. Providing understandable scientific information about human health and the environment.
7. FindArticles - Welcome to the first online article-search service.
   Search for quality articles in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. This is a free service.
8. Flying Inkpot's World News Links The name says it all. This is source of international and national newspapers
9. The History Net - Where History Lives on the Web - A site for a variety of magazines and topics. Extensive and gives views from current researcher and historians
10. KOMO ABC 4 SEATTLE - Local ABC affiliate. Steve Pool weather guy and a great sense of local news
11. Library of Congress - Online resources of the nation's library. Lot's of information
12. Mercury Center - San Francisco Bay area newspaper
13. Newspaper Association of America - Site link for U.S. and Canadian newspapers
14. New York Times - One of the great newspapers. You may not agree, but what they say is well written.
15. NOVA Online - PBS site for information
16. Science News Online - Weekly newsmagazine for science. A bit light, but the article can give you a start into something deeper
17. Scientific American - Probably the best of the mainline science magazines. It is one of the oldest and has a broad range of interests.
18. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society - This is a nonprofit membership society of more than 80,000 scientists and engineers. Who sponsors a variety of programs supporting honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy and the public understanding of science.
19. Seattle Times - Local newspaper, does an OK job of reporting national events. Its specialty is local news.
20. TIME - Large national magazine. Part of the Time Warner media group.
21. USA Today - Electronic Publishing, great full color graphs that have some credibility issues, but for fast news it does the job.
22. Washington Post - Great newspaper. It will drive you crazy with some editorials, but their news reporting is recognized as some of the best.
23. Weather Channel - Put in your town where you want to go and get a weather report.

Government Resources

1. Federal Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan site of the total federal government. Budget, offices, what they do etc.
2. National Science Foundation - NSF these are the folks who do a lot of civilian research or at least pay for it. All sorts of things from genetics to education to care and feeding of turtles.
3. National Weather Service Home Page -U.S. Government warnings & forecasts - storm warnings, severe warnings and a great library of events from he past. This site is great for finding information about hurricanes, tornadoes and how they are studied.
4. Office of the Director of Central Intelligence - if you click ont he world book icon you will be taken to a resource of country information, listed by country. Everything you would want to know, and a bit you don't.
5. US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA page. good site to start looking for things environmental. Provides a bunch of links as well.
6. Washington State Department of Ecology Home Page

College/University Resources mostly classes or images

1. Agricultural Revolution - Agricultural Revolution Module (Anthro)
2. AP Environmental Science - College Board Site for AP Environmental Science
3. Ask a Scientist - A site of various scientific disciplines. This is an archive of questions.
4. BOTANY 301 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
5. EnviroLink Home Page - An online Environmental network for information and other ideas
6. Environmental and Societal Impacts Group - ESIG studies environmental change and responses to such change in order to gain insights into how decision makers, from individuals to governments to international coalitions, might better understand and cope with impacts associated with the complex relationship of the atmosphere, environment, and society.
7. Entomology at Iowa State University
8. Geology Labs On-Line - Virtual Labs that deal with earthquakes/ river flow and more to come
9. Holiday Lectures on Science: Introduction - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lecture series

Science Careers

1. Chemsoc skill center -Select a professional or industry area to explore the careers related to that field, and view the skills necessary to succeed.
2. Careers involving chemistry - In short, just about any industrial field has a need for chemists some- where. The world awaits --
3. Chemistry Careers - Each two- or four-page brief contains interviews with chemists working in different areas and includes information on educational requirements, employment outlook, salaries, and the skills needed to pursue a career goal in each area.
4. Physics Department - Careers in Physics - Some Fields of Physics
5. Case Studies physics - Profiles of physicist
6. School of Physics--Careers in Physics - The study of Physics is an exciting and challenging experience that many can take advantage of. But what opportunities does degree in Physics offer in the Career World? A strong background and knowledge of Physics can lead to employment opportunities in a wide variety of fields. The Career Wheel presents such opportunities.
7. The Industrial Physicist - A list of occupations that are available in industry.

Advanced Placement Environmental Science

• College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, UW - The School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences is concerned with wise management of fish and shellfish stocks, ecological relationships between aquatic organisms and their environments, culture of aquatic plants and animals, impacts of human population pressures on the aquatic environment; and development of seafood product
• Environmental Research Foundation - Home -Our main goal is to strengthen democracy by helping people find the information they need to fight for environmental justice in their own communities.
• Monterey Bay @ nationalgeographic.com -Embraced by some of northern California’s most beautiful shoreline, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is one of the largest protected marine areas in the world.
• Washington NatureMapping Home Page -The NatureMapping Program's vision is to create a national network that links natural resource agencies, academia and land planners with local communities primarily through schools
• Washington State Department of Ecology Home Page -Ecology is Washington's principal environmental management agency. Our mission is to protect, preserve and enhance Washington's environment, and promote the wise management of our air, land and water for the benefit of current and future generations.
• WINDandSEA -Presently WINDandSEA has over 1,000 selected links to science and policy sites organized by topic and alphabetically within topic. All of these sites have been reviewed and annotated by a technical information specialist of the NOAA Central Library staff

Case Studies

1. Case Studies - A site of case studies mainly from the U.S.
2. Case studies of the "Environment, Population & Security" project -EDC News applies to contemporary cases the results of a decade of efforts by a number of researchers to understand the links between environment, development and conflict.
3. Contents - Environment Case Studies -Solutions include ways to develop which avoid or reduce problems people have created, such as pollution and loss of habitat, and ways to help people improve economic conditions and their surroundings without unnecessary loss of plants and animals and other natural resources and without pollution.
4. Monitoring the Coastal Environment - Case Studies -Federal agencies develop a "report card" on the state of the Nation's environment, the project produced 17 essays on a variety of coastal topics, three CD-ROMs, and a short video featuring former members and associates of the Stratton Commission. The essays remain available here as PDF files. The CD-ROMs and video are no longer available.

Water Quality

1. Alexandria Digital Library - maps and geographic data. Tons of stuff from old census data to state fo the art synthetic aperature radar of the cradle of civilization
2. EarthExplorer -Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
3. GIS Data Sets -The U.S. Geological Survey and its partners began work on The National Atlas of the United States of America in 1997. The National Atlas is designed to promote greater geographic awareness through the development and delivery of products that provide easy to use, map-like views of our natural and socio-cultural landscapes.
4. Threatened species in an urban environment Chinook salmon - Urban lands make up about 2 percent of the land base in Washington state, and most of them are located in the Puget Sound region. This 2 percent also encompasses prime spawning, rearing and migratory habitats for threatened salmon and steelhead.
5. Monitoring is done to measure progress in Forest Plan implementation -This report covers Forest Plan Monitoring and Evaluation for the Okanogan National Forest for fiscal year 1998. Monitoring and evaluation processes are laid out in the amended Okanogan National Forest Land Management Plan (Forest Plan). Under this process, full reports were completed for each individual monitoring item by various resource specialists.
6. U.S. Geological Survey Search Engine - the place to search the USGS site.
7. USGS -- Water Resources of the United States - like the name says this is where you look for nation water information
8. USGS Ask-A-Geologist -Do you have a question about volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, rocks, maps, ground water, lakes, or rivers? This is the source for geology related questions.
9. USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) - In more than 50 major river basins and aquifers covering nearly all 50 states, USGS scientists collect and interpret data about water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life.
10. USGS NAWQA NUTRIENTS NATIONAL SYNTHESIS - maps of water quality for the nation
11. USGS Water Resources of WA -Welcome to the USGS Web page for the water resources of Washington State. This is your direct link to all kinds of water resource information. Here you'll find information on Washington's rivers and streams. You'll also find information about ground water, water quality, and many other topics.
12. Water Rights Responsibilities for Counties -The availability of water for future development has long been an issue involving state government under the state Water Code. Historically, the Department of Ecology and its predecessors have been exclusively responsible for ensuring compliance with water rights requirements, including since 1947 the requirement that permits be obtained for withdrawals of groundwater in excess of 5000 gallons per day.
13. Washington Dept of Natural Resources -To provide professional, forward-looking stewardship of our state lands, natural resources, and environment.
14. Water maps Irrigation ground-water use - water science for schools

Astronomy

• Astronomy Picture of the Day Great pictures!! Look in the archive if the current picture does not float your boat.
• Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet - Welcome to AstroWeb - a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.
• Encyclopedia Astronautica - Everything about space. Searchable and browse by topic.
• Is Space Finite?: April 1999 - Conventional wisdom says the universe is infinite. But
  it could be finite, merely giving the illusion of infinity
• An Overview of the Solar System - the says it all. Nice site, not real deep, but provides a departure point if you are studying the solar system.
• NASA Quest - Quest is a rich resource for educators, kids and space enthusiasts who are interested in meeting and learning about NASA people and the national space program.
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy - As television and movies have become better and better at shaping our views of the world, it is becoming more and more important that we understand what it means to be scientific
• STScI/HST Public Information - See hundreds of breathtaking images from Hubble's celestial portfolio.
• The Way to Go in Space: February 1999 - To go farther into space, humans will first have to figure out how to get there cheaply and more efficiently. Ideas are not in short supply

Archeoastronomy

1. Anthropology Internet Resources - Western Connecticut State University Anthro resource site
2. Archeoastronomy Links - peer reviewed articles. Looking at astronomy as the acients did.
3. Astronomy in Japan -Welcome to Steve Renshaw and Saori Ihara's Astronomy in Japan Home Page
4. A Walk Through Time -The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages
5. Brief Introduction to Archeoastronomy - . Archeoastronomy, in essence, is the "anthropology of astronomy", to distinguish it from the "history of astronomy"
6. Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu - Scenery, Ruins, & Inspiration - The various ruins along the way serve to heighten the hiker's sense of anticipation as he or she approaches what would surely find a place in any new list of archaeological wonders of the world - Machu Picchu.
7. The Inca - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts - Many pages focus on the mathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines.

Culture/values

1. Anthro.Net: Anthropology and Archaeology - Anthro.Net cuts through all of this by using advanced search technology to hunt down sites that contain useful content and information relating to anthropology.
2. Culture Concept - All anthropologists share a reliance upon the culture concept, which they take as a starting point for understanding human experience regardless of sub discipline, specialization, or theoretical orientation.
3. Definition of Culture - Culture: The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning
4. Kinship, Universals and Variations - Anthropologists are interested in the comparative study of kinship for the purposes of discovering universal patterns and the variable forms that they assume in specific societies.
5. Theory in Anthropology - Sociocultural Anthropology has been through dramatic changes in the last 30 years. As part of their work in the Indiana University Anthropology Department's "Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology" students have compiled web pages covering sub disciplines within the field, important organizations and associations, changes in anthropological perspectives over time, and prominent theorists
6. Values & Beliefs - Religions - Most religions have in common the characteristic of helping to define the place of human society in the larger universe. Many religions have as their central or fundamental story a myth of origins. Often these origin stories tell of the creation of the entire world, but sometimes they focus instead on the Ancestor who founded the community. Typically, they explain the common human lot -- the fate which all of us share -- and at the same time suggest the values which the community holds dear.

Middle Ages

1. Middle Ages -- Homes - What was it like to live in the Middle Ages?
2. National Gallery of Art - The Collection - The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present
3. NetSERF The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources - The internet connection for medieval resources.
   

Constellations

1. Astrocamp Constellations - Clicking on one of the months takes you to that sky view.
2. Astronomy Program - Supernova Explosions
3. Mythology of the Constellations - Most ancient cultures saw pictures in the stars of the night sky. The earliest known efforts to catalogue the stars date to cuneiform texts and artifacts dating back roughly 6000 years.
4. Star Myths and Constellation Lore - Some basic facts about the classical constellations
5. Stars and Constellations - The constellations are totally imaginary things that poets, farmers and astronomers have made up over the past 6,000 years (and probably even more!). The real purpose for the constellations is to help us tell which stars are which, nothing more.

Stellar Evolution

1. Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Evolution - Each new stage in stellar evolution is marked by a different energy generation mechanism.
2. Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Understanding the nature of black holes and neutron stars--how they form, what they're like, and how we know they are there--can lead to a better understanding of how our Universe works.
3. Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center -- The Sun - The Sun's energy is the principal driver of all of Earth's atmospheric events, from weather patterns in the lower layers, through auroras in the upper layers, to the space weather environment of energetic particles at the altitudes of orbiting satellites.
4. Stellar Evolution and Death -- Contents
5. Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page - Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole? A neutron star? If so, you might find this page interesting. Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on such exciting trips.

Atmospheric

Prediction

1. Yahoo Weather Forecast - Yahoo's weather site for anywhere in the world.
2. Clouds and Precipitation: online meteorology guide - The purpose of this module is to introduce a number of cloud classifications, different types of precipitation, and the mechanisms responsible for producing them

Severe Weather

1. National Weather Service Home Page -U.S. -the NOAA National Weather Service the ability to improve local and national forecast accuracy, as well as extend watch and warning lead times for potential severe weather such as winter storms, tornadoes, floods and hurricanes.
2. Hurricane and Storm Tracking - The StormTrack system receives weather data from the US National Weather Service via satellite. The system creates an entry for each tropical depression, storm, or hurricane when the National Weather Service begins issuing advisories.
3. Hurricanes: online meteorology guide - The purpose of this module is to introduce hurricanes and their associated features, to show where hurricanes develop, and to explain the atmospheric conditions necessary for hurricane development.
4. National Severe Storms Laboratory - The National Severe Storms Laboratory is one of NOAA's internationally known research laboratories, leading the way in investigations of all aspects of severe weather.

After the Storm

1. Environmental and Societal Impacts Group - ESIG studies environmental change and responses to such change in order to gain insights into how decision makers, from individuals to governments to international coalitions, might better understand and cope with impacts associated with the complex relationship of the atmosphere, environment, and society.
2. Office Meteorology Statistics - Each map provides information on significant weather events across the United States for the given year. This information includes the type and date of event, states impacted, number of deaths, and monetary damage.

Biology

• BSCS Main Page - BSCS has developed exemplary, inquiry-based science curricula for more than 40 years. We provide integrated materials at the elementary and middle-school levels, in addition to biology programs for high school and undergraduate college students
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad.
• Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway - This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
• ESG Biology Hypertextbook Home Page - A web site which contains the basic molecular biology that is the basis of MIT's core Biology course, "Introductory Biology"
• Entomology at Iowa State University - The Department of Entomology faculty work to provide an excellent education, develop innovative research programs and supply a creative, highly visible problem-solving extension program.
• EnviroLink Home Page - EnviroLink Network working to develop a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations and businesses working for social and environmental change.
• Lectures on Science - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday lectures on science.
• Virtual Bacterial ID lab - The purpose of the lab is to familiarize you with the science and techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequence.
• National Technology Transfer Center Home Page (NTTC) - NTTC offers a complete portfolio of products and services that enable American businesses to find technologies, facilities and world-class researchers within the federal labs and agencies with which they can partner.
• US Environmental Protection Agency - Protecting human health, safeguarding the natural environment
• Washington State Department of Ecology Home Page - Our mission is to protect, preserve and enhance Washington's environment, and promote the wise management of our air, land and water for the benefit of current and future generations

Chemistry

• Brooks_Cole Chemistry Resource Center Home Page - List of texts and support material for students and teachers.
• CHEMystery: An Interactive Guide to Chemistry - Everything a high school student needs to know about chemistry is at this site in a fun, imaginative, comprehensive presentation that catches the eye. Find a periodic table that looks and acts differently than any you've seen before.
• AP Chemistry - test information for the Advanced Placement exam for Chemistry. This is one of the most difficult exams offered.
• ChemGuide - this is a British site that offers some neat insightful information.
• Chemistry Problem Sets - This site includes problem sets developed by S.E. Van Bramer for chemistry and environmental science courses at Widener University
• Chemistry Resources - List of chemistry sites.
• Chemistry Tutorials - a series of online tutorials. not many pictures but these should be something for everyone.
• ChemTeam Main Menu - The ChemTeam provides study resources in all standard topics for students in high school and Advanced Placement chemistry
• Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway - Welcome to the Math and Science Gateway! This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12,
• Indiana University Molecular Structure Center - Molecular models that be moved and rotated.
• NOVA Online_Television Schedule - TV/Web Schedule In most areas NOVA is broadcast on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. check your local TV listings to confirm.
• Organic Acids - a simple explanation on why organic acids have acidic properties.
• National Technology Transfer Center Home Page (NTTC) - NTTC offers a complete portfolio of products and services that enable American businesses to find technologies, facilities and world-class researchers within the federal labs and agencies with which they can partner.

Hot Air Balloon Project

1. Balloon That Flew Round the World: November 1999 - To build a balloon capable of circumnavigating the globe, engineers ripped a page from aeronautical history
2. Fundamentals of Balloon Flight - Basic concepts of hot air balloon flight
3. History of Balloon Flight - Going back to first ones in late 1700's
4. Make Your Own Hot Air Balloon - These are the plans for the tissue paper balloon project
5. Model Hot Air Balloon Mathematics - This is the math behind how a hot air balloon works
6. NOVA Online | Ackroyd - John Ackroyd describes how the De Rozier system works and some flight strategy
7. NOVA Online | Check out the Theory - A little on-line interactive module on how a hot air balloon works
8. NOVA Online | Global Contenders '97/'98 - Click on any balloon to get the details on that team's circumnavigation attempt.
9. NOVA Online || Resources - A list of NOVA site resources on various balloon projects
10. NOVA Online | Virtual Balloon Flight - Come take a 4-minute flight in Barron Hilton's hot air balloon
11. Solo Spirit Media Information: Background Information - This is Steve Fosset's ride

My Favorite Molecule Project

1. Chemscape Chime Examples -When scientists display a "live" chemical object, they can use the Chime Pro plug-in directly to visualize molecular animations, raising the chemistry electronic publication standard to a new level.
2. Drugs Databases and Drug Interactions Databases - About.com search on drug interactions.
3. Drug Information - regulated drugs and information about them.
4. Drawing Organic Molecules - this one will walkyou through the process of creating and interprting structural formulas.
5. Merck & Company - one of the big ones. This site gives and overview of who and what they do.
6. Molecule Models - a super site. The models are rotatable. That is you can look at the structure by clicking onthe model and dragging it to a new orientation.
7. Roche U.S. Pharmaceuticals Our Products -As one of the world's leading research-intensive pharmaceutical companies, Roche has discovered, developed and introduced numerous important pharmaceutical products. Roche provides more than 35 medications in the United States in major therapeutic areas including AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, central nervous system disorders, dermatology, infectious diseases, oncology and transplantation.
8. IMB Jena Image Library The Amino Acid Repository - information on all ofthe amino acids
9. IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules - dissemination of information on three-dimensional biopolymer structures with an emphasis on visualization and analysis. It provides access to all structure entries deposited at the Protein Data Bank (PDB) or at the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB). In addition, basic information on the architecture of biopolymer structures is available. The IMB Jena Image Library intends to fulfill both scientific and educational needs.
10. Welcome To RxList - internet drug index. Reliable informaiton for both consumers and medical professionals.
    

    Ascorbic acid

    • Ascorbic Acid
    • Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Scurvy column
    • Scurvy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • The Natural History of Ascorbic Acid in the Evolution of the Mammals

    Birth Control Pill

    • Oral Contraceptive - The History of Birth Control Pills

    Cellulose

    • A Short History of Manufactured Fibers
    • cellulose

    Coal Tar Dyes

    • Bayer - Company history 1863 - 1881
    • Do You Believe In Purple
    • dye. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
    • Moving to Medicine
    • Today in Technology History - Mar 12

    Glucose

    • history of sugar
    • SKIL - History of Sugar
    • Sugar Food Facts, History, Information, Timelines

    Molecules vs. Malaria

    • MALARIA HISTORY

    Molecules of Witchcraft

    • The History of War's Medical Advancements - MedHunters
    • Atropine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Bufotenin - this is a major ingredient to bufotoxin
    • Digitalis Medicines
    • Drug Information from Drugs.com
    • Ephedrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Ephedrine
    • Ergoline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • History of methamphetamine
    • LSD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • The Use of Atropine in Warfare
    • Poison Hemlock from Montana State University Extension Service
    • RxMed Pharmaceutical Information - CAFERGOT
    • Scopolamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Strychnine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Strychnine Poisoning
    • Strychnine
    • If you’ve ever had heart trouble
    • What is digoxin -
    • Why was Plato doubted -

    Morphine, Nicotine, and Cqaffeine

    • A SHORT HISTORY OF OPIOIDS
    • Caffeine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Drugs and the Brain Nicotine
    • History of WWII Medicine
    • RCP Publications Nicotine Addiction in Britain
    • The History of Tobacco

     

    Oleic Acid

    • Fatty acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Olive Oil Definitions - The Olive Oil Source

    Pepper,nutmeg, cloves

    • Did you know Food History
    • Herbs Rule!!!!
    • Medicinal Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library History & Special Collections
    • Nutmeg
    • pepper
    • The History of the Chilli Pepper - The Great Chilli Farm
    • Westville Southern Gardens Nutmeg
    • What was nutmeg worth -

     

    Wonder Drugs

    • History of WWII Medicine
    • Problems and trends antibacterial drugs
    • THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 13, Ch. 153, Antibacterial Drugs

Periodic Table Model Project

1. Chemistry WebElements Periodic Table - web-based periodic table. Click on an elements and get additional information.
2. CHEMTUTOR PERIODIC CHART -The periodic chart came about from the idea that we could arrange the elements, originally by atomic weight, in a scheme that would show similarity among groups.
3. Cosmic Chemistry - chemists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, have devised a very nice periodic table site. The site is divided intot he notmal areas or regions of elements.
4. Periodic Tables - an extreme site full of links for the periodic table. They have not all been evluated but a random sampling has led me to believe that there is some good information here.

Water Quality

1. All Septic System Information Website - Septic Information Website
   Inspecting, Designing, & Maintaining Residential Septic Systems
2. EPA Surf Your Watershed Locate Your Watershed - Watersheds are those land areas that catch rain or snow and drain to specific marshes, streams, rivers, lakes, or to ground water. Choose from the options below to Locate Your Watershed.
3. Green River Watershed, King County, Washington - The Green River Watershed is the land area where rainwater drains to the Green-Duwamish River. The watershed includes Black River, Mill Creek, Soos Creek, Newaukum Creek, and other tributaries.
4. King County Government, Seattle, Washington - King county web site home page.
5. Septic Systems - The Hidden Lake Polluters - A conventional septic system consists of two main parts: the septic tank and the drain-field (which includes the surrounding soil). Raw sewage from the home flows into the septic tank, usually a water-tight tank made of concrete.
6. TopoZone Map - topozone is an online web service, this is an image of the topograohic map of the Kentlake area.

Geo-sciences

• Online Map Creation - You may create maps interactively at this site. Fill out the form, submit your entries and a page with the desired map will be returned to your browser.
• NOVA Online/Television Schedule - NOVA airs on most public television stations Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Please check local listings for confirmation since broadcast dates and times can vary. Below is the schedule for the next few months.
• WINDandSEA - This locator was built in response to the many reference questions that are posed to the library and is meant to make Internet searching more efficient for the NOAA community, the academic community, other government agencies concerned with oceanic and atmospheric issues, and the general public.

Plate Tectonics

1. Understanding plate motions - Scientists now have a fairly good understanding of how the plates move and how such movements relate to earthquake activity. Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates where the results of plate-tectonic forces are most evident.
2. A Science Odyssey- Plate Tectonics - Take a hard-boiled egg and crack its shell. Does the egg remind you of anything? The Earth, perhaps? The egg could be seen as a tiny model of the Earth. The thin shell represents the Earth's crust, divided into plates; within the shell is the firm but slippery mantle. Move the pieces of shell around.
3. Plate Tectonics Reconstruction Page - Here is our collection of plate reconstruction links and images and movies and whatever we find or create ourselves. I hope this becomes the wave of the future, where it will be easy for any geologist to come up with plate reconstructions based on well-documented and fully referenced computer databases of paleomagnetic and hotspot data
4. Plate Tectonics map - This is a clickable imagemap showing the layout of earth's tectonic plates, as scientists have them outlined today.
5. Obstacles to Evolving on the Land Plate Tectonics - The evolution of species on the land is linked to and driven by various climatological and geological changes that operated on the land surface of the earth.

Volcanoes

1. Volcanoes of the World - The data presented in this section have been compiled by Smithsonian volcanologists over the past three decades and represent an updated electronic version of Volcanoes of the World (Simkin and Siebert, 1994). The volcano and eruption data are freely available, although users are strongly cautioned to consider the many uncertainties discussed under Frequently Asked Questions and Data Criteria pages
2. CVO Menu - Servers and Useful Sites - USGS site on volcanoes list in alphabetical order.
3. Volcanic Hazards - But volcanoes can be very dangerous. Where can a person go to be safe from an erupting volcano? What types of volcanic hazards might they face? These questions are difficult to answer because there are many types of volcanic eruptions which produce different types of volcanic hazards.
4. Remote Sensing Techniques to Monitor Volcanoes - For the purpose of studying volcanoes, remote sensing is the detection by a satellite's sensors of electromagnetic energy that is absorbed, reflected, radiated, or scattered from the surface of a volcano or from its erupted material in an eruption cloud.
5. How Volcanoes Work - This website is an educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes.
6. Volcanoes - Introduction - As the world's population grows, more and more people are living in potentially dangerous volcanic areas. Volcanic eruptions continue--as they have throughout history--posing ever-greater threats to life and property.
7. Miscellaneous Volcanic Facts - Test how well you know your volcanoes and volcanic terminology ... Here are 59 "volcanic" questions (with answers) covering general information, Mount St. Helens and the Cascade Range Volcanoes, Alaskan and Hawaiian Volcanoes, and volcanic features and processes. ... Enjoy.
8. The Plus Side of Volcanoes - a list of links that expound ont he positive aspects of volcanoes.
9. Cascade Range Volcano Summary - USGS site on the Cascade range and the volcaones that formed it.
10. Webquest on Volcanoes!! - Volcanoes are one of the world's most amazing spectacles. Fiery and explosive eruptions can dramatically change the landscape of an area in a matter of minutes, not to mention the lives of all of the people who live near volcanoes. You are a geologist working near an active volcano. Imagine the feeling that you have knocking on someone's door and telling them that the volcano on which they live is about to erupt. They are surprised and terrified, and ask you to answer very important questions:

Soil

1. Quest for Soil - All life ultimately depends on the thin layer of soil covering the earth's surface. Soil originates from the weathering and erosion of rock and the decomposition of dead organisms. It is composed of abiotic, nonliving components, like minerals and biotic, living components, like bacteria and insects.
2. Soil Geology - Humans use soil for their daily needs but do not sufficiently take account of its slow formation and fast loss. Discover the amazing geology of soil formation and the basic rock and soil types.
3. Soil formation - Slide show of soil formation
4. What is Soil - another site on how soil if formed.
5. Identify soil quality - A full PDF document that describes the formation of soil.
6. 205 Study Questions - Univeristy of Idaho study guide for their soils course. It covers allthings soli related

Mathematics

• Home Page for Users of TI Calculators and Educational Solutions - great site that supports the TI family of calculators
• PreCalculus Weblet - This is an overview of the Precalculus course based on Precalculus: Making Connections and The Precalculus Weblet You will also find course syllabi from several of the professors who teach Precalculus at Shoreline Community College.
• Altitude Tracking -students construct simple altitude tracking devices that are used to measure the angle a rocket reaches above ground, as seen from a remote tracking site. The angle is drawn on a graph and the altitude is read from a scale.
• Aeronautics Activities and Lessons - A wide variety of aerospace activities and lesson plans have been generated by active teachers, educators, and NASA engineers and scientists under the sponsorship of the NASA Glenn LTP.

Graphs

1. Charts and Graphs About the Drug War
2. Daily and historical graphs for energy and Dow Jones indices
3. Games on Graphs
4. Graphs and Stories References
5. Introduction to Graphs
6. Making sense of graphs
7. Shell Centre

Physics

• GBS Physics Home Page -A Full Service Physics Education Web Site. One of best sites I have seen. Great tutorials for all levels of physics student.
• Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway - This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
• NOVA Online_Television Schedule - NOVA airs on most public television stations Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Please check local listings for confirmation since broadcast dates and times can vary.
• Honors Physics at GBS - This course will involve a high interaction with web-based materials. You will need to access these different items in order to complete the assigned tasks.
• EngineSim Beta Version 1.5b - With this software you can investigate how a turbine (or jet) engine produces thrust by changing the values of different engine parameters.
• PhysicsWeb Homepage - ezine for physics.

  Color

  1. Auroras_ Paintings in the Sky - This site will show you what auroras look like on Earth and from space, explain how they are created, and show you where they can be found. Teach yourself using the "Self-Guided Lesson" button.
  2. Exploratorium_ ExploraNet - Our site now contains over 12,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
  3. Joy of Visual Perception - The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book is not a book in the traditional sense. Most books are text supplemented by figures. This book is primarily figures and diagrams supplemented by text.

Energy

1. Howstuffworks Animation of the Day - Each weekday, we highlight an animated graphic from one of our hundreds of articles.

Special Effects Physics

1. Aerodynamic Decelerators, Parachutes - The parachute is an aerodynamic system belonging to the class of aerodynamic decelerators.
2. Aeronautical Engineering - Parachutes and Parafoils - Parachutes are used as emergency lifesaving devices, to transport and deploy supplies, equipment and people and to assist in slowing down an object for landing.
3. CVN-65 Enterprise - Pictures - Pictures of a fortress at sea.
4. Jumping from 30,000 Feet - The purpose is to provide information on skydiving from high altitudes. I am not an instructor and I am not claiming to be one. For those interested in learning to skydive or participating in a high altitude jump, you must obtain training from competent and rated instructors.
5. MatWeb - The Online Materials Information Resource - MatWeb's database of material properties includes thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, and polyolefins; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus a growing list of semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.
6. Parachutes - Some people jump out of perfectly good airplanes on purpose.

Nuclear Weapons

1. AtomicArchive.com Model of the Fat Man Bomb - The rapid spontaneous fission rate of plutonium 239 necessitated that a different type of bomb be designed.
2. MILNET Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ
3. MILNET Nuclear Weapons
4. NuclearFiles.org- The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Nuclear Files project is a website devoted to the history of the Nuclear Age.
5. Todd's Atomic Homepage - Weapons - website of link about nuclear weapons, treaties, societies response to them.

Writing

• Basic Guide to Essay Writing -An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway.
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - This popular book is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, editors, managers, clerical staff, teachers, and students.
• The Internet Public Library - the name tells it all.
• Write Source: Multimedia Reports -Our most recent handbooks discuss how to plan two types of multimedia reports: (1) the multimedia presentation and (2) the interactive report.
• Write Source: MLA Style - This page will help you correctly list your electronic sources in MLA style.
• Write Source Research Links - It can be a real chore to find the site or specific page that suits your needs. The links on this page, however, will lead you to sites that we have found very helpful and interesting.
• CM201 Clear Writing Ten Principles of Clear Statement - how to write clear sentences.
• Guide to Brainstorming - Brainstorming can be an effective way to generate lots of ideas and then determine which idea(s) best solves the problem. Brainstorming is most effective with larger groups of people and should be performed in a relaxed environment.
• LabWrite - North Carolina State University - website guidelines for writing labreports. college level, but is has excellent guidance.
• Marketing Communications - Sample Consumer Brochures Written by The Write Direction - sample technical projects on line.
• Online Writing Guide - college level but has some pointers that will cause the writing experience to grow to college level.
• OWL at Purdue University Improving Sentence Clarity - online writing lab again college level, but the students needs to grow to the next level of writing by doing the writing.
• Strategies for Writing a Conclusion - Conclusions are often the most difficult part of an essay to write, and many writers feel that they have nothing left to say after having written the paper. A writer needs to keep in mind that the conclusion is often what a reader remembers best. Your conclusion should be the best part of your paper.
• The Handbook of Technical Writing - This Web site is designed to help review key concepts.

Copyright

1. Clearing Rights for Multimedia Works - The ground-breaking aspects of undertaking to create a multimedia work are more than just technological; much as the technology is growing by leaps and bounds in response to the needs of creators and consumers, so also must the methods and techniques for transferring from owners to new creators the rights to utilize existing works.
2. Copyright Issues a Quiz - self grading quiz on copyright issues.
3. Copyright Presentations - a series of presentation that outline the problems that need to delt with in the area of copyright law.
4. Copyright Readings - Inherent in the concept of copyright is the notion that you own and have control over anything that you create.
5. Coursepacks and Fair Use - The appellate history of this case reflects the intense debate around the issue of fair use.
6. Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials - What is fair use?We would all appreciate a clear, crisp answer to that one, but far from clear and crisp, fair use is better described as a shadowy territory whose boundaries are disputed, more so now that it includes cyberspace than ever before.
7. Getting Permission - Assuming the work you wish to use is protected, your use is not a fair use or otherwise exempt from liability for infringement, and the work has not been licensed for your use online, you need permission.
8. Motion Picture Licensing Corporation - The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) is an independent copyright licensing service exclusively authorized by major Hollywood motion picture studios and independent producers to grant Umbrella LicensesSM to non-profit groups, businesses and government organizations for the public performances of home videocassettes and videodiscs.
9. Permission Multimedia and Other - The request should be sent, together with a self-addressed return envelope, to the permissions department of the publisher in question.
10. Securing Permissions and Releases - Classroom MM - In order to avoid infringing the rights of third parties in the creation of a new work the author must seek permission and pay whatever fees are required unless the proposed use of another author's materials falls within an exception in the Copyright Law.
11. The Resource for Education Technology Leaders - Back by popular demand, a new version of our practical quiz by educator and multimedia guru Hall Davidson.
12. WHEN WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN - calendar of how this part of copyright law works.

Electronic Portfolio

1. How to Build a Course Web Site - The purpose of this guide is to make it easy for you to build course websites using Dreamweaver and our templates.
2. Macromedia - Accessibility Resource Center Test Your Web Site - Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires all content and programs offered on federal Internet and Intranet Web sites to be accessible to all users, including users with disabilities.
3. Intro Selling Yourself Creating the Ultimate Teaching-Interview Portfolio - Whether you are a 20-year veteran or just starting out, a portfolio should be a key component of your teaching tools. Portfolios are a nearly universal requirement for the hiring process, but if you already have a secure job you should view a portfolio as your insurance against unforseen district shake-ups.
4. Portfolio Lesson Plans - There are three projects in this component that help students learn about themselves – a vocational self-assessment referred to as a Color Test, a Personal Career Journal, and a Head Hunter Exercise.
5. Using Technology to Frame the Past - Electronic Scrapbooking - Scrapbooks have been around since photography first became a medium available to average people. The modern hobby of scrapbooking, however, has come to mean combining photos, stories, and various memorabilia into a creative and attractive display.
6. Yale Style Manual-Table of Contents - one of the clearest and most concise web designer guides around. Excellent graphics and in my opinion excellent advise in all areas of web structure.
7. Dmitry's Design Lab - These articles written by Dmitry Kirsanov are for everyone interested in the important basics of design proper---design as art and science.
8. Site Design Basics - What you should know before you design a site
9. Electronic Journal of Sciencew Education - Enhancing Motivation and Teaching Efficacy Through Web Page Publishing
10. Design Tip Web Site Design Clues - Designing an effective site is actually less complicated than you might think: we'll give you four clues to start you on your way.
11. Macromedia - Dreamweaver - Their words but they are very true.The world's best way to create professional websites is now the easiest way to build powerful Internet applications.
12. Apple - ColorSync TrainingIntro - This course provides a framework to understand how color works in the world of publishing.
13. Macromedia - Resources Education Resource Center - Use technology to enhance teaching and learning with curriculum, professional development, articles.
14. The KIE Internet Education Project - The Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) Project pioneers educational uses of the Internet and World WideWeb for middle and high school science instruction.

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