Web Page Sites for Students

The Timeline of LifeDinosaurs

Animal ClassificationPlantsFungi

BiomesVertebratesInvertebrates

The Early Humans Horizontal Vertical History The History of Writing

The History of MathematicsThe History of Cartography

These are sites that I have found for my students. A short review of each site is included. I welcome any suggestions from students or teachers who have found other sites. (e - mail: bdubinsky@flxent.com.) Have a good time!

http://volcano.und.edu/

What's new? Find out what the current eruptions are,

Volcano of the week: every week a new volcano is described.

Volcano starting points: your fun begins here. Explore the world of volcanoes.

http://www.geo.ntu.edu/volcanoes/

The Earths active volcanoes are listed by geographic regions. Each active volcano can be clicked on and various news articles on the eruptions are listed by dates. There is a lot of good information that could be graphed (even money damages - an interesting way to compare the effects of a volcano.)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/types.html

Learn about the four main types of volcanoes.

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http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/maps.htm

See how the world has changed through the eras.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/disted/ph123/pth.html

History of plate tectonics.

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dmg/pubs/cg/teacher/faults.htm

Learn about the different kinds of faults.

http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/www/public_info/follies.html

Facts on earthquakes.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~polet/recofd.html

Information on the largest daily earthquake.

ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/MGG/images/slide_set1/slide17.gif

Great map of the ring of fire.

http://www.hcrhs.hunterdon.k12.nj.us/science/ptech.html

Learn all about the different plate movements.

http://bushnet.qld.edu.au/schools/msb/enet/eres/rsys/platec/majplatesI.gif

Great map of the plates.

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/

This site allows you to build a solar system to scale

http://www.windows.ucar.edu

A good site for the solar system.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html

Learn what you would weigh on other solar systems.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Look at the astronomy picture of the day.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Easy reading for young students interested in the planets.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Look here for facts on the planets.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

This site shows well known parts of each planet and moon as seen by orbiting spacecraft.

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/education.html

The Sun: Easy reading and great information about the Sun.

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/

Mars Pathfinder, "one of the first NASA Discovery class missions," has been launched with the goal of landing "a single vehicle with a microrover (Sojourner) and several instruments on the surface of Mars in 1997." At the NASA Pathfinder website, interested Internauts will be able to follow the flight and landing (scheduled for July 1997). In addition, the site contains information about mission objectives, images of Mars (including images of possible Pathfinder landing sites), information about the Sojourner Rover that will actually explore the planet, and a downloadable cutout model of Pathfinder for construction.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/earthtoday/dynam.htm

Learn about the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and biosphere.

http://www.psi.edu/projects/planets/planets.html

Where did all the planets come from?

http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html

Where did the moon come from?

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http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/96/35.html

Everything (and more) that you ever wanted to know about quasars and some stunningly beautiful shots from the Hubble Space Telescope.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/disted/ph123/galaxies.html

Scroll down to the simple explanations of each galaxy. This site also goes through the process of stars making elements.

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http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/index.html

In honor of Koichi who asked "Why?" The answer to your question is here.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/disted/ph123/images/earthstruc.gif

A picture of the Earth showing the various depths of the Earth's layers.

http://www.wunderground.com

Need to know the weather anywhere in the country? Try this site.

http://www.hcrhs.hunterdon.k12.nj.us/science/four.html

The Earth's composition.

http://www.quia.com/custom/29gate.html

A matching game on the Earth's physical features.

http://www.quia.com/custom/407gate.html

A matching game on geography term.

http://www.quia.com/custom/512gate.html

A matching game on Earth's surface features.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/10263.html

Do you know your geography terms?

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml

The Water Cycle and more...

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html

Explore the periodic table!

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http://www.theimage.com/mineral/minerals1.html

Pictures and descriptions of minerals.

http://minerals.net/mineral/index.htm

Minerals and gems are classified and dxecribed.

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gs3ismrx.htm

Learn about the three main groups of rocks.

http://adamite.igs.indiana.edu/IndGeol/geology/rockcycle.htm

The Rock Cycle.

http://duke.usask.ca/~reeves/prog/geoe118/geoe118.011.html

A very flashy rock cycle page.

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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

WOW! This is just like the timeline - more information then there's time to learn. Lots of good information and pictures of the different periods of the Earths history. The pictures are slow to download so be patient. The links at the bottom go to other neat stuff. The Any Taxon link is great for phylum work. See where it takes you. The reading is not easy, but you can understand most of it.

http://oit.itd.umich.edu/bio108/Animalia.shmtl

Another great site for classification of Animalia - great explanations of each category.

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/geo_timeline.html

This site has a wonderful evolutionary timeline.

http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160/09_platetec.html

More about Earth's history.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/

Learn about fossils.

http://www.lifeintheuniverse.com/stroma.html

A short article on stromatolites which leads into a detailed outline on the Precambrian Period.

http:///www.nctimes.net/%7Etyra.rex/t.html

See where the trilobites lived.

http://user.aol.com/kbclark/cambrian/index.html

Great pictures of animals that lived in the Cambrian period.

http://www.mpm.edu/reef/intro.html

So, you want to see what the Silurian Period was like? Go here.

http://www.mdgekko.com/devonian/intro.html

Hear ye, hear ye. Tetrapods have landed. It's the Devonian Period.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/firstCM.htm

The history of horses.

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http://tyrrell.magtech.ab.ca/tour/dinorign.html

Learn a bit about the history of dinosaurs.

http://www.ZoomDinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/

The dinosaurs roamed the Earth in the Mesozoic Era.

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http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/hall_tour/spectrum/index.html

Look at classification through cladograms.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/Fossil_Halls/cladistics.html

Learn what a cladogram is.

http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm#top

The history of classification.

http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/kingdoms.htm#top

How are animals classified?What are the special features of each kingdom.

http://www.ceres.ca.gov/education/students/nat_sci.html

Good links and information on five kingdoms

http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/animal_3.htm#top

What is a phylum?

http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/animal_4.htm#top

What are the classes of vertebrates?

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html

Where did all life evolve from? Basic classification.

http://www.aloha.net/~smgon/ordersof trilobites.htm

Learn how to classify trilobites.

http://dinosaur.unbc.edu

Dinosaur classification.

http://mrtc.org/~twright/animals/english/e4to6.htm

Quiz yourself on your classification and zoology knowledge.

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http://linnaeus.botany.duke.edu/fungi/

Pictures of mushrooms found in North Carolina. They are classified by species.
 

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/fungisy.html

Neat fungi research.

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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html

The history and classification of plants.

http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/isb200/Carbfor.htm

Trees are everywhere! It's the Carboniferous Period.

http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/bot335/chorse.htm

Learn about the many horsetails that lived in the new swamps.

http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/bot335/clycopod.htm

Learn about ancient lycopods.

http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/bot335/econif.htm

The evolution of conifers.

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http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/justkids.htm

What is a biome anyway?

http://cissus.mobot.org/MBGnet/biome/map.htm

A simple biome map.

http://www.snowcrest.net/geography/slides/biomes/index.html

A more detailed biome map with descriptions.

http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest/map.html

Learn where coral reefs are found and some interesting things about them.

http://desertusa.com/life.html

Learn about the deserts of the American Southwest.

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http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs3h/castles.htm
http://www.chronique.com/Kids/crusader.htm

Two great sites on medieval history.

http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/index.html

Learn about the Roman empire.

http://www.touregypt.net/ehistory.htm

A detailed study of Egyptian history.

http://www.time.gov/exhibits.html

A great page for the history of time, clocks and calendars.

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http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.EDU/julia/AW/geography/

Ancient World: This site can be used to find information on virtually any early civilization. There is a ton of information here.

http://idris.com/scripts/Alphabet.html

Greek and other Alphabets: See what other alphabets look like and learn about their history.

http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/rule.html

History of Egyptian Writing: This text covers the time period Egypt was ruled by Alexander the Great through the Roman Empire.

http://info.pitt.edu:81/~novosel/hammurab.html

Hammurabi's Laws: This page had the text of Hammurabi. Its fun to see their laws.

http://olympics.tufts.edu/

Ancient Olympics: Learn the history of the Olympics. You can even read personal stories of the athletes.

http://www.sron.ruu.nl/~jheise/akkadian/m_index.html

Mesopotamia: Tells us about the geography, cities, kings and culture. Neat cuneiform texts to see.

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/classes/cs115/lect29n.html

The Rosetta Stone: Want to know how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered? Click here.

http://www.biography.com

Need a biography of a famous person? Here it is.

http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/ancient/hierol.htm

Look at some ancient hieroglyphics.

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http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Biographies of Women in Mathematics.

http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/history.html

A very comprehensive site covering the history of mathematics.

http://eyelid.ukonline.co.uk/ancient/numbers.htm

Play with mathematical problems using ancient number systems.

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http://portico.bl.uk/exhibitions/maps/ptolemy.html

A world map created around 150 AD by the Greek philosopher Ptolemy.

http://www.iag.net/~jsiebold/carto.html

Views of maps from 6,000 BC to 400 AD.

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http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/guided/Hominid/

A neat tour of the history of the hominids from Australopithecus to Modern Man. Done by the University of Glasgow.

http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/EarlyMan.html

Learn about early humans.

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