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Science

 

Animals, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry , Environment ,
General , Math , Physics

   
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Central Wisconsin Environmental Station -- http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/cwes/
CWES is located on beautiful Sunset Lake and is a year-round environmental education center and residential facility 17 miles east of Stevens Point, WI.

Midwest Renewable Energy Association -- http://www.the-mrea.org/
A nonprofit network for sharing ideas, resources, and information with individuals, businesses, and communities to promote a sustainable future through renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Planetarium and observatory -- UWSP -- http://www.uwsp.edu/physastr/plan_obs/
The planetarium presents public programs through the academic year and during most summers. Planetarium programs for special groups can be arranged during these times as well.

   
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  Animals
   
 

American Veterinary Medicine Association--Care for Pets -- http://www.avma.org/care4pets/default.htm
Choosing a pet, keeping it healthy and safe, choosing a veterinarian, grieving a lost pet.

Animals -- http://www.lii.org/search/file/animals
A selective but large list of links about animals from the respected Librarian's Index to the Internet, originated by the Berkeley, CA Public Library.

Nature Net -- http://www.naturenet.com/index.html
Links to 16 South Central Wisconsin area nature centers such as Aldo Leopold Foundation., International Crane Foundation. and Mackenzie Nature Center, along with environmental education resources for teachers, parents and kids.

Yahooligans...Animals -- http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Nature/Living_Things/Animals/
Selective menu of sites relating to animals of all kinds.

   
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  Astronomy & Space Science
   
 

NASA -- http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/welcome.html
One of many pages sponsored by NASA, this has links to individual NASA Centers, such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to recent news concerning space exploration and to a search engine for other NASA information.

Nine Planets -- http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Award winning multi-media tour of our solar system.

   
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  Biology
   
 

Biozone -- http://www.biozone.co.nz/links.htmll
Easy access to many topics in the plant, animal and microbiology worlds.

Virtual Library--BioSciences -- http://vlib.org/Biosciences.html
A meta index to resources in such areas as animal health, agriculture, evolution, genetics and neurobiology.

   
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  Chemistry
   
 

Periodic Table-WebElements -- http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/
A complete table of the elements. Linking to an element reveals its atomic number and weight, key data and history.

   
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  Environment
   
 

Earthtrends -- http://earthtrends.wri.org/
A portal to worldwide environmental information from the World Resources Institute.

Envirofacts Warehouse -- http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
Access to informational databases of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

Environmental Literacy Council -- http://www.enviroliteracy.org/
Clearly organized, balanced collection of resources in the areas of air & climate, land, water, ecosystems, energy, food, environment & society. Aimed at secondary school teachers and students, each section contains to links to reports, data pages, debates and related sites.

Environmental Sciences & Ecology Associations -- http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/aon.out.pl?id=sci16.00.00
Links to some of the largest organizations, compiled by the Internet Public Library.

Internet Consumer Recycling Guide -- http://www.obviously.com/recycle/

   
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  General
   
 

How Stuff Works -- http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Fun to browse. Find out how engines, water towers, computers, your immune system and many other things work. A similar site is eHow <http://www.ehow.com/>

Invention Dimension -- http://web.mit.edu/invent/
From Lemelson-MIT Awards Program, sites of help to inventors and entrepreneurs and of interest to the curious rest of us.

Mad Scientist Library -- http://www.madsci.org/libs/
Well organized metasite leading to information in most branches of science.

Math and Science Gateway -- http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
Sponsored by Cornell University this has links to many fields of science and math. The sites are aimed at people of high school age and older.

SciCentral -- http://www.scicentral.com/
Another meta site that leads to gateways to biological sciences, engineering, physical sciences, health sciences, and earth and space sciences. A special category of note is women and minorities in science.

Wisconsin Stewardship Network -- http://www.wsn.org/
A guide to environmental organizations and activities throughout Wisconsin. Includes contact information for groups and government agencies, documents and press releases related environmental issues, and links to other sites throughout the country.

Why Files (Science Behind the News) -- http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/
The University of Wisconsin Graduate School provides up to date scientific information about issues in the news. An archive of past stories is available.

   
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  Math
   
 

Math2.org -- http://www.math2.org/index.html
Tables and formulas in general math, algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, statistics and more.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive -- http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/index.html
Historical articles on 60 subjects and more than 1400 biographies of mathematicians.

Math Forum -- http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
An on-line math education community. Try the "Math Resources by Subject."

   
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  Physics
   
  Internet Pilot to Physics -- http://www.physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/
Comprehensive index to on-line physics resources.

Physical Reference Data -- http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/
From the National Institute of Standards and Technology, links to physical constants, conversion factors, spectroscopic data and more.

Physics 2000 -- http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/index.pl
Totally cool interactive introduction to physics.

Physlink -- http://www.physlink.com/
A metasite with news and links to reference information in physics.

ScienceLab -- http://www.osti.gov/sciencelab/
Information in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. From the U.S. Dept. of Energy.

   
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Science Projects
   
 

Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition
Southeastern Michigan Science Lessons -- http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/

Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition
Southeastern Michigan  Math Science Experiments -- http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/subject.html

   
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Last revised June 04, 2004


 

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