DIS Quest

Science Links

RESEARCH TOOLS & SCIENCE NEWS:

Online Encyclopedia:
http://www.bigpedia.com/

Science News for Kids:
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

PLATE TECTONICS:

Pangea Map Game:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/Pangaea_game.html

Tectonics Quiz:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/quiz.html

Types of Faults (Windows to the Universe):
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/fault.html

Mountain Building:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10k.html

Plate Tectonics:
http://www.cet.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html

Map of Earth's Plates:
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eastern/plates.html

Volcano World:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Types of Mountains:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/mountains/types.htm

Aethensophere & Crust:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/earths_crust.html&edu=high

Evolving Earth: Plate Tectonics
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/evolving_earth.html

Earth Floor: Plate Tectonics
http://www.cet.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates2.html

Seafloor Spreading (Windows to the Universe)
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/earth/interior/seafloor_spreading.html

Crustal Deformation & Folding
http://www.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/geo101/crustaldeform.php

Fault types
http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/information/publications/teacher_features/faults.htm

The Tech: Crust, Mantle, Core
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/inside/mantle.html

What is Plate Tectonics?
http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/geo/basics/platetec.htm

From Pangaea to Present:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Pangea/Pangea1.html

Sea-Floor Spreading:
http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/platetectonics/4.php

Forces in the Earth: Compression, Tension & Shearing
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate5.htm

Who is Alfred Wegener?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html

Transform Boundary
http://www.cet.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates4.html

Wegner's Theory of Continental Drift:
http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/articles/conddrft1.htm

THE BRAIN AND LEARNING:

Brain Games (to download and print)
http://www.dana.org/brainweek/puzzles.cfm

Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

The Brain For Kids
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/brain_noSW.html

BrainsRule!
http://www.brainsrule.com/

EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY:

Hoagies Natural Science Links:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/natural_science.htm

Envirolink
http://www.envirolink.org/

To 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/top10_emergingenvironment_technologies.html

Time For Kids Global Warming:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,1113542,00.html

EPA Environment Club for Kids:
http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Creature Crazy: Who Lives Here?
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/crazy/index.html

Science & Ecology Links:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/life.html&edu=elem

Adaptation: Nowhere to Hide Game:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/evolution.html

Global Warming for Kids Site:
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/

EXPLORING SPACE:

Space News on Space.com:
http://www.space.com/news/

StarChild for Young Astronomers:
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Are We Alone? Searching for ET?
http://jvsc.jst.go.jp/universe/et_e/index_e.htm

Center for Mars Exploration
http://cmex.ihmc.us/CMEX/index.html

NASA Planetary Data System
http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/other_i_sites/other_i_sites.htm

Kidspace: Science & Math Links
http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/mas0000

Hoagies Astronomy Page:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/space.htm

Mars NASA:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Space Games:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/games/games.html&edu=elem&nl=5

Solar System Coloring Book:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/coloring_book/index_java.html&edu=elem&nl=5

Mars Classroom:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/resources.html

Planet Mars:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars

Nine Planets: Mars
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html

Mars: Exteme Planet:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/extreme/index.html

Sedimentary Mars: (Layers)
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast04dec_2.htm

Solarviews (layers):
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm

Mars Magnetic Field (article):
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9904/29/mars.tectonics/

Funstuff:
http://www.brainbashers.com/funstuff.asp

What's Ology
http://ology.amnh.org/index.html

Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/

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