Helpful Science Websites
- Practice Questions -- from Cal St. Dominquez. Hills -- Interactive chemistry question quizzes covering just about every topic in high school chemistry, and more! Excellent practice for tests.
- Adrian Dingle's Chemistry pages -- General HS chemistry stuff, including reference sheets and AP test help.Views of the PlanetsGeneral
- Hippocampus -- Homework and study help for science, math, and social studies.
- Bad Science (explanations of common misconceptions)
- "Why Files" -- "Science behind the news"
- Nat'l Science Ed Standards
- Science News Online -- Online version of the popular magazine.
- How Stuff Works
- Molecular Logic Database -- Atoms, Molecules, and Genetics
- The Virtual: Cell | Embryo
- NSF Biology Research -- Overviews of current research by the National Science Foundation
- Genscope Project
- Kimball's Biology Pages
- Human Anatomy On-Line
- The Genome Database -- Genome information.
- BrainPop -- Movies on health and science
- BugBios -- "Shameless promotion of insect appreciation"
- Insecta --"A website devoted to insects with photographs and information"
- Irondale Periodic Table
- Webelements.com - properties, background information, etc.
- Periodic Videos - A video lesson about every single element on the periodic table.
- Ptable.com - element properties, orbitals, isotopes
- The Periodic Table of Videos - videos about each of the elements
- Animated periodic table -- an animated periodic table with all kinds of information.
- Chemicalelements.com
- Chemicool
- Wikipedia Isotope Table - shows isotopes of all elements, stability, mass
- Cruising Chemistry -- An internet supplement to high school chemistry by Duke University
- Introduction to Chemistry by Mark Bishop - an online textbook
- General Chemistry Online -- Helpful chem site from Frostburg St. Univ. in Maryland
- Organic Chemistry Help -- Online help with organic chemistry from Frostburg St. Univ. in Maryland
- Chemguide -- Helpful information to supplement your textbook. Written in the UK.
- Virtual Chembook -- Online chemistry textbook by Elmhurst College
- Chemical Principles Wiki Book -- online version of a 1979 edition college intro. to chemistry text.
- CHEMystery -- a virtual chemistry textbook
- Balancing Equations Tutorial -- tutorial on how to balance equations!
- Spark Notes -- online chemistry study guides and quizzes by topic. More test practice!
- Balancing Oxidation-Reduction Reaction Equations
- PhET Simulations -- Interactive Simulations for Many Different Chemistry Topics. (note: these require a current version of Java. Free Java Download)
- The Orbitron -- See the shapes of orbitals!!!
- Electron Orbital Viewer -- See the shapes of orbitals!!!
- Virtual Chemistry Lab (JAVA)
- Chemistry (Flash) videos on many topics - essential chemistry flash videos (Chang)
- Intermolecular Forces Animation/Tutorial
- Sciencegeek.net -- General HS chemistry stuff, including notes, labs, programs for TI-83 plus calculators.
- Chemmybear -- General HS chemistry stuff. Includes a few helpful sheets for AP test takers.
- Sheffield ChemPuter -- various chemical calculators and chemistry information
- NSF Chemistry Research -- Overviews of current research by the National Science Foundation
- Virtrual Dating!!! -- Sorry, not a dating service...it's an online exercise on radioactive dating methods.
- Chemical Scorecard -- Environmental quality information
- ChemFinder -- Searchable chemical database -- enter the formula and get the chemical info!!!
- Equation Balancer
- Views of the Solar System
- Current Sky Chart (go to page and click on "Astronomy") (Weather Underground)
- Aurora Page (northern lights) (Michigan Tech)
- Inconstant Moon -- More moon information than you ever wanted.
- NASA -- NASA's web site with links to information about current and past projects
- Hubble Telescope -- pictures from the space telescope
- Science@NASA-- Space and science news, with archives
- Virtual Solar System -- by National Geographic
- NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day -- new picture each day, with an explanation by an astronomer
- USGS Ask-A-Geologist-- Email questions to a panel of USGS geologists
- Virtrual Dating!!! -- Sorry, not a dating service...it's an online exercise on radioactive dating methods.
- US Geological Survey
- Minnesota Geological Survey
- Plate tectonics animations (UC Berkeley)
- Plate Tectonics- USGS
- U of Minn. Climate Dept.
- Dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
- Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
- Water in the Earth System -- Links to many sites regarding weather (including maps), climate, water
- The Weather Channel-- forecasts and weather maps
- Insolation Maps -- maps of solar radiation received by the earth
- Daylight Hours Interactive Graph -- created by University of Nebraska
- AccuWeather -- forecasts and weather maps
- National Weather Service -- Twin Cities
- NOAA Climate Services (www.climate.gov) -- includes resources on global climate change
- Earth Science Picture of the Day from NASA and USRA
- Shorelandmanagement
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Water quality of Minnesota Streams (requires Adobe Acrobat)
- Lakefinder (MN DNR)
- Chemical Scorecard -- Environmental quality information
- The Sixty Symbols - Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy
- General Relativity
- Physics Education Technology -- over 35 physics experiment simulations
- Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity -- Biography
- Virtual Physics Lab -- Has many Java based physics simulations
- APS offers several publications and informational websites that are available free to all users, with no registration or subscription required:
- Physics (highlighting significant papers from APS journals): http://physics.aps.org/
- Focus (selected papers from APS journals explained for students and other researchers): http://focus.aps.org/
- Physics Central (educational/informational site about physics, for students and the public): http://www.physicscentral.com/
- American Physical Society homepage: http://www.aps.org/