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About Rainbows
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/rnbw.html
Have you ever wondered what causes a rainbow to appear after a rainstorm? Why are the colors always the same? And how far away is the rainbow from earth? So many people wonder about the rainbow phenomenon that a huge document about the subject has been compiled and made available for public viewing.
Dinosaur Hall
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/exhibittext/dinosaur.html
Although aimed at children, many parents and teachers will find this site interesting as well. The scientists at University of California at Berkeley created this resource as a fun way to learn more about the world of dinosaurs. Some topics to explore here include dinosaur diversity, myths, discoveries, and anatomy. This page features many photographs and includes a search engine to find out more about different geologic periods or type of dinosaur.
National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.wd
Take an Internet tour around the world by visiting the National Geographic site. View artfully designed summaries of current articles in National Geographic magazine. Play through interactive tours describing amazing places, events, people, and things in this great big world of ours. The beauty and wonder of the Earth are at your fingertips!
Scotty, the Tyrannosaurus Rex
Scotty was recently unearthed in Saskatchewan, Canada. For children, this site will help teach them more about the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex. Visitors are treated to a series of photographs taken at the excavation site and of the surrounding landscape. Along with information regarding Scotty, there are links to many other dinosaur resources on the web.
Sea World
http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld/homepage.html
Founded in conjunction with Florida teachers and Busch Gardens, the Sea World Web site provides young minds with a variety of information about aquatic animals including their behavior, how to build and maintain your own aquarium, and an informative question-and-answer area. One of the more interesting categories to explore allows children to ask Shamu, Sea World's famous killer whale, questions about his own aquatic life, as well as the life of many of his oceanic friends.
Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection
http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html
The Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection Web site contains images and descriptions of an extensive collection of the museum's gem and mineral holdings. This site contains some remarkable images of gems and minerals, including a purple quartz amethyst crystal, a 98.6-carat Bismark sapphire, and the Napoleon's Crown made for the empress Marie Louise.
Tornadoes
http://cc.usu.edu/~kforsyth/tornado.html
Cory Forsyth has assembled an impressive collection of information, pictures, and links about tornadoes. Do you know what to do when a tornado strikes? Or do you just want to find out where the really big ones hit this year? Twist on over to this site and find out!
U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Public Exhibits
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/paleo.exhibit/paleo.html
A survey of paleontology incorporating the study of biology, geology, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, and computer science, these exhibits take the user down a pathway through time and highlight some of the research paleontologists are conducting at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley.
UT Science Bytes
http://loki.ur.utk.edu/ut2kids/science.html
Science Bytes is designed for elementary and secondary school students and teachers. Each title describes the research being done by scientists at the University of Tennessee, written in a fun way that children can understand. There are plenty of pictures and some recorded sounds to accompany these educational stories. This is a creative way to turn kids into budding scientists by exposing them to the current research projects being done at a college.
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
The name pretty much says it all. Everything you ever wanted to know about volcanos, including up-to-date information about volcanic activity around the globe. The site includes "near real time" information drawn from remote sensing devices - so you can know in an instant what's blowing, where.
Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets
Celestial wonders are the topic of this Web page, courtesy of the California Institute of Technology and NASA. The site presents a pictorial tour of the solar system, including information and images of all the planets, including Earth. See if you can spot the halo craters on Mercury, the volcanoes on Venus, or the cloud streaks on Neptune. And how about that ring around Saturn? Just what is that thing anyway? You'll also find images of the space program's major explorers such as the Hubble telescope and the Galileo spacecraft.
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