Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Satellites

1. Cassini-Huygens: mission to Saturn and Titan
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011260
   This Internet site, maintained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), presents the Cassini-Huygens mission, an international venture designed to conduct a detailed study of Saturn. Cassini-Huygens is a collaborative effort between NASA and the European and Italian Space Agencies.
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2. National Severe Storms Laboratory
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014322
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12 by the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) as one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Environmental Research Laboratories, contains general information about the various areas of research at the NSSL along with education lessons and information. The mission of the NSSL is to enhance its capabilities to provide accurate and timely forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather events, such as tornadoes and hurricanes, in order to save lives, lessen property damage, and improve the national economy.
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3. The space place
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 012548
   This Internet site, maintained for students, contains projects and activities with information designed to help kids understand the techniques scientists use to explore and map objects in deep space and on Earth. From the homepage, visitors can choose from activities, and projects such as (Make Spacey Things), word games and puzzles with space facts (Do Spacey Things).
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4. The satellite site
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026974
   This Internet site, part of an online exhibit from The Tech Museum of Innovation, provides content information on what satellites do, how they work, and the different types of orbits they can have. Pictures and animations show satellites and their images of Earth.
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5. Polar orbiting environmental satellites (POES)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 4 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 023971
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by WTOC-TV news in Savannah, Georgia provides a collection of current and archived color images of the eastern portion of the United States taken by Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES). The POES program is a cooperative effort between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United Kingdom, and France.
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6. Fear of physics: fear not! physics explained finally
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020498
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers a non-technical place for individuals to visit to play with the laws of physics. The intent of the authors is to dispel the myth of the general public that physics is bad! Visitors can choose from a list of topics that explore phenomena of the natural world such as astronomy, sound and earthquakes.
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7. The blue marble: true-color global imagery at 1 km resolution
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 023968
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by NASA, is comprised of high-resolution, true-color images of the Earth. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers have stitched together months of observations of the land's surface, oceans, and clouds, as well as sea ice and city lights, into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of the planet.
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8. Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025830
   This website provides high-resolution satellite imagery of significant environmental events around the globe. The images were developed by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, and are available as photographs and movies in ten categories, including volcanoes, fires, and storms.
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9. Heavens-above
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 018884
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides information and star charts to astronomy and satellites enthusiasts make observations in the sky. In addition to data for satellites, the site has information about space stations, space shuttles, and the bright flares from Iridium satellites.
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10. A virtual journey into the universe
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 2 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016458
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by two high school students as part of the ThinkQuest competition, takes visitors on a virtual tour of the universe. The main menu of the site appears to be a cockpit in a spaceship.
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11. Astronomy picture of the day
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012949
    This Internet site presents a different picture or image related to astronomy every day with an explanation of the subject matter written by a professional astronomer. The pictures are diverse and feature planets, binary stars, and black holes as well as comets and nebulae.
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12. The Tech Museum of Innovation
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012423
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is the home page of the Tech Museum of Innovation. Located in San Jose, California, the Tech is an educational resource established to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives, and to inspire the young to become innovators in the technologies of the future.
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13. Popular science
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 014906
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Times Mirror Magazines, is the official Web site of Popular Science Magazine. Popular Science covers science and technology for the layperson, with plenty of consumer-oriented information as well as the latest advances in electronics and space science.
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14. Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer: education and public outreach
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002325
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 3 to 12 by the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA), provides lesson plans and activities that teachers have developed using the Internet. In a sample lesson, student weather reporters investigate seasons, temperatures and clouds on Mars and compare them to Earth.
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15. Science education
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002784
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site was developed for grades K to 12 by the Science Education Program for the University of California Berkeley Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA). The CEA, a research center that operates NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Satellite Project, has developed a program using the EUVE astronomy satellite mission as a tool for astronomy and space science education.
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16. University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010900
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 5 to 12, supplies weather information for the area of the Pacific ocean as well as other areas of the world. Meteorological data useful to flying features upper level wind information, low cloud covers, and areas of turbulence.
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17. Observe forest fires as seen from space
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100325
    This Earth science resource shows students how atmospheric scientists use infrared imaging to detect and locate forest fires. The introduction explains how visible-light images recorded by satellites are unable to distinguish smoke from clouds.
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18. Life on Earth
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029711
    This Internet site describes how NASA's aeronautics and environmental research has helped improve life on Earth. The site features sections on everyday life, the environment, living things, and new technologies, as well improving flight.
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19. Student's On-line Atmospheric Research, SOLAR
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 030018
    This Internet site, maintained by NASA, is the homepage of the Student's Online Atmospheric Research (SOLAR) program. The SOLAR program is the outreach component of SAGE III, one of NASA's Earth Observing System's satellite experiments.
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20. SEGway, science education gateway
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010515
    This Internet site, developed for grades 3 to 12 teachers, students, and home schoolers, contains learning adventures in Earth and space science from a NASA-sponsored partnership of museums, researchers, and educators. From the homepage, users select from topic icons to browse a cyber-learning toolkit or scan an alphabetical listing of 25 lesson modules.
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