Homework - Science

• Becoming Human is an excellent free site funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of the role of human development.  The site includes interactive material to help kids understand human evolution.

• Human Anatomy Online, human body. Over 100 illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.

• Smart Tools for Busy Teachers: Lesson Plans, Resources & Links, Teacher-2-Teacher Conference Boards, Free Power Tools downloads, bulletin boards, how to projects for the classroom.

• An encyclopedia of plants where you can look a plant up by its common name or its botanical name.

• A site including a large database of plant names, a plant Photo Gallery, Plant Fact Sheets, Information about Culturally Significant Plants, Information about Noxious and Invasive Plants, Plant Characteristics Information, Threatened and Endangered Plant Information, Wetland Plant Information.

• Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, this free site offers a "Hall of Human Ancestors" featuring movies of fossil skulls in the Smithsonian's collection. The Resource Guide explains various subjects of human evolution and their is a Q&A section.

• Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

• Your travel guide to the Solar System from BBC. Includes exclusive video and audio clips and an interactive 3D tour of the solar system.

• Some spectacular images from the Hubble space telescope, plus some computer animations.

• SEDS is an independent, student-based organization which promotes the exploration and development of space. SEDS pursues this mission by educating people about the benefits of space, by supporting a network of interested students, by providing an opportunity for members to develop their leadership skills, and by inspiring people through involvement in space-related projects. SEDS believes in a space-faring civilization and that focusing the enthusiasm of young people is the key to our future in space.

• The Universe is a place that is vast beyond imagining, and what we will try to do is help you understand a little more about it. There are several sections to the site, but none of them takes a terribly long time to read, and all of them should be easily understood by kids of all ages.

• The site publishes a different image of the universe posted daily.

• Bacteria, bugs, and plants.

• Science Buddies is a non-profit organization empowering students from all walks of life to help themselves and each other develop a love of science and an understanding of the scientific method.

• Find out  about membranes, fluid flow, cracking dams, crackling noise. You choose your reading level from beginner to advanced etc.

• The Big Picture Book of Viruses is intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the Internet and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses.

• Scientific stock photographs of biological, medical and general sciences.  The science image library holds over 1,500 light microscopy images and electron microscopy images (colorized and black & white) taken by Dennis Kunkel Ph.D.

• University of Texas Medical Branch presents detailed descriptions and images describing protein secretion, protein sorting and the organelles involved in these processes.

• NYU Scientific Visualization Center contains images of carbon structures, biological molecules and drugs.

• Dr. Michael J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College is an excellent collection of lectures from a freshman-level biology course that contains many images gathered from the Internet.

• Dr. Eric Martz, UMass Amherst provides images and tools to explore molecular structure using the free molecular modelling programs, RasMol and Chime.

• This site offers full-text access to papers and books from the early days of classical genetics, along with a fun timeline.

• University of Oxford, UK introduces the techniques used to examine protein structure and discusses DNA, proteins and protein folding.

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute is an animated exploration of the senses that incorporates recent scientific findings.