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The
Science Museum
Online Tour
and info for the Science Museum. Lots of interactive displays
Natural History Museum
LOADS of information about the museum and natural history in general.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
A museum of automata (mechanical sculpture) in Covent Garden, London. The web site has
lots of information for Design and Technology students and anyone who is interested in
making mechanical toys. Also file under Arts and fun!
Looking at Biodiversity
This page is a 'sister' to the "Focus on Biodiversity" page. This page is about
investigating the biodiversity in your local area and recording what you find in a Nature
Diary. It is an activity linked to the Action for Biology in Education Focus on
Biodiversity Millennium project for young people.
Discovery Channel
Daily updates on the 'State of the Planet' from the Discovery Channel. There are also
weekly maps to check out (anything from bird migration to El Nino to the calming effect of
TV on British hens!) A really good informative high-quality site.
Boston Museum of Science [USA]
Fascinating site - tour of museum, links to other Boston sites of interest and to
satellite viewing site - look at the earth from outer space! Well worth a visit or two.
Cells Alive
find out all you ever needed to know about cells, how they reproduce,
blood clotting and bacteria
Somerfield
Super Science Pages full of science activities to do at home
Biophysical Chronology
Interactive history of physics- you can flesh out your knowledge of myriad interrelated
scientific concepts. The chronology enables you to begin over six thousand years ago, with
the astronomical measurement of time by the Egyptians, moving then forward in time through
dozens of inventions and breakthroughs, finishing with the discovery of the top quark in
1995. The majority of the topics on the chronology are interactive, so you can go deeper
into most subjects.
Growing
crystals
A lesson plan for growing crystals
Smile chemistry site
A page of over 200 links to chemistry experiments prepared for use with children.
The heart: an on-line exploration
Take a trip round the circulatory system!
Bill Beaty's Homepages - Science
A long - very long!- list of science sites, including a list of one's run for home
educators.
Schools online project -
science
Run by Sheffield university, this site contains several on-going projects which you can
take part in. For instance, at the suggestion of Helen Sharman, cosmonaut, work out an
accurate way of measuring yourself morning and evening - to see how much you shrink during
the day!
Bradford Robotic Telescope
This telescope is linked to the internet, and you can ask it to look at certain
constellations/parts of the night sky for you.
ScienceNet
ScienceNet is the web equivalent of Science Line which is a free public science
information service. It is an educational charity staffed by expert science educators. It
is linked with all the major science centres in the UK.
Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's World homepage. Contains articles on various science/technology subjects, as
well as links to other sites
Virtual Frog disection
kit
The site is not as gruesome as it sounds, but is an excellent example of what can be
achieved by simple interaction with the 'researcher.' You can obtain different views of
different parts of the 'virtual frog'by simply checking boxes. Much better than cutting up a *real* frog!
Exploratorium
- A Teacher's Guide to Student-Built Experiments.
Based in the US, this site is equally relevant to the UK, and offers guidance and suggests
experiments that could be done as much at home as in the classroom. It appears to be
regularly updated, and should catch the home-educator's imagination with at least a couple
of suggestions. Worth a look.
Home-Education.org.uk
Scientific calculators
Very useful
interactive calculators for all sorts of maths and science, including
tangent and scientific calculators, pythagoreum theorem, common factors,
wind-chill factors and periodic tables.
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