Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Aquariums

1. Animal information database
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002381
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site for K-12 students and teachers features information about marine and terrestrial animals. The site aims to increase awareness of the interrelationships of humans and the marine environment, to build students' basic competencies in science and other disciplines, and to provide an educational resource for the entire community.
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2. North Carolina Aquariums
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011587
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the North Carolina Aquariums (NCA), presents visitor's information for an association of three aquaria. Located on Roanoke Island, at Pine Knoll Shores and Fort Fisher, the Aquariums were established in 1976 to promote an awareness, understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the diverse natural and cultural resources associated with North Carolina's ocean, estuaries, rivers, streams, and other aquatic environments.
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3. Waikiki Aquarium virtual tour
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018951
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site takes visitors on a virtual tour through Waikiki Aquarium exhibits. The site organizes the exhibits into five areas that highlight the marine life of Hawaii and the tropical West and South Pacific.
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4. Association of Science-Technology Centers
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011589
   This web site, maintained by the the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), aims to nurture informal science education. It provides information about ASTC educational programs, youth programs, and travelling exhibits.
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5. FINS, the Fish Information Service
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004252
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for aquarium hobbyists, offers an archive of free information about aquarium, including freshwater and marine, tropical and temperate aquariums. Information for Aquarists contains contains identification catalogs of over 200 marine and numerous fresh water species such as angels, clowns, and barbs.
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6. TryScience
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018200
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12, contains interactive, multimedia activities and experiments, and provides links to hands-on science centers and museums worldwide. The mission of TryScience.org is to have students experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide.
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7. National Aquarium in Baltimore
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011306
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB), provides visitors with information about current aquarium exhibits and educational programs, careers in marine biology, and ongoing research and conservation projects. The education pages provide a sampler of the curriculum booklets designed to support the NAIB's programs that include objectives and pre, during, and post visit activities that cover animals and the environment.
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8. The splendors of the sea, the wonders of the universe
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011261
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site takes visitors on a virtual field trip to the last two great frontiers: the splendors of the Sea, and the endless wonders of the Universe. From the homepage, visitors are invited to board either the the Sub Cousteau for an undersea journey or the Starship Sagan for an outerspace expedition.
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9. E-Quarium
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011382
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, offers visitors a virtual field trip to the aquarium's galleries and exhibits that recreate the bay's many habitats, from shallow tide pools to the vast open ocean as well as to a million gallon indoor ocean, a three story kelp forest, and jewel box exhibits that reveal the smaller sea creatures. The site also provides visitor's information, educational resources, and information about the aquarium's conservation and marine research programs.
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10. The cephalopod page
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004514
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is about the phylum Mollusca, class Cephalopoda, which includes squids and octopi, and contains links to taxonomy information, photographs, mailing lists, discussion groups, and other Internet sites. Taxonomic classifications are arranged in an outline format from suborder through species.
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11. Hands-on: the Florida Aquarium
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002005
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grades K to 12 by the St. Petersburg Times Newspapers, allows the user to meet some interesting Aquarium residents up close and personal and find experiments for future marine biologists of all ages.
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12. Florida aquarium
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011383
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, suitable for students of all ages, presents photographs and information about aquatic organisms of Florida. Many organisms are featured on the site with biological information about their classification, habitat, and lifestyle.
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13. Nothing beats the real thing: interview with Dr. Valerie Chase
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100153
    This article, the result of an interview with Dr. Valerie Chase, describes how teachers can make the most out of class field trips to informal places such as a local aquarium.
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14. SCIMAST science rich resources online database
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017593
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, (SEDL), is designed to help teachers find people, zoos and museums, and curricular materials libraries to enhance their science classes. The site contains a searchable directory for science resource organizations in Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and Arkansas.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
15. Informal mathematics and science education
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026068
    This April 1998 online issue of ENC Focus magazine examines informal learning settings such as national parks, zoos, museums, and aquariums. Articles explore the benefits of using informal settings to complement classroom instruction.
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16. Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015617
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and sponsored by the National Marine Educators Association as well as the national network of Sea Grant educators, is a collection of educational marine resources. It is designed to provide educators with current marine information, support researchers in outreach efforts, and improve communications among educators and between the education and research communities.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 015794
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), provides information about New York City area zoos and aquaria, WCS programs, and organisms found around the world. The mission of the society is to save wildlife and wild lands around the world as well as inspire care for nature by producing educational programs and helping to sustain biodiversity.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. Aquarium of the Pacific
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013429
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains visitor information about this aquarium which showcases the diversity of the marine inhabitants of the Pacific Rim. Also found at this site is a virtual tour of the aquarium containing floor-by-floor descriptions and pictures about the displays for the three highlighted ocean regions: Southern California/Baja, Northern Pacific, and Tropical Pacific.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)