Science

GENERAL

World Treasures of the Library of Congress  Sections include "Creation Accounts and Depictions, First Human Beings, Societal Beginnings, The State of Nature and Society, and Rule of Law".

METAPHYSICS

Introduction to metaphysics

SCIENCE PROJECTS

Science Fair Project Resource Guide

Science Fairs Homepage

Science Fair Idea Exchange

Science Project Central

CHEMISTRY

Periodic Table of the Elements
Find information about the elements that make up our physical world. Very basic and simple.

Periodic Table of Videos Every element in the periodic table has a short video about it, where scientists talk about what the element is, and share anecdotes about its discovery and uses.

The Periodic Table of Comic Books  Click an element in the periodic table to "see a list of comic book pages involving that element."

Web Elements Professor Winter, Professor of Chemistry at Sheffield, England presents essential information, an index, background, compounds, electronic properties, crystallography, nuclear properties, and information about each element in the world around us.

EARTH SCIENCES

Air Quality Maps of the United States  Shows information on ozone and particulate matter.

Volcano Websites:

http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/reports/usgs/index.cfm Weekly updates on volcanic activity around the world.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/hotspots.html Volcanoes made by hotspots in Hawaii and around the world.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/world_map.html Map of world’s hotspots and plate boundaries.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/Where/WhereHaz.html Assessments of volcano hazard zones for: California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, & Alaska.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/sproducts.html#fs Information on different volcanoes around the world with pictures.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/volcano_cams.html Pictures of volcanoes around the world.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/ Hawaiian Volcano Observatory website.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/ Cascade Volcano Observatory website.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/ Alaska Volcano Observatory website.

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html Earth’s active volcanoes with links to pages about specific volcanoes.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html Active volcanoes around the world- can search by region, name, or description.

Plate Boundary Websites:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/understanding.html Information on the different types of plate boundaries with pictures

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/Vigil.html One picture with all of the types of plate boundaries.

Earthquake Websites:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/activity/world.html Earthquake information by using map or region.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/current/world.html Current earthquakes around the world.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ Current earthquakes around the world .

SOLAR SYSTEM

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/  Windows to the Universe.  Space weather, myths, stories and art, history and people, Earth's climate, polar regions, space missions, images and multimedia, and news.

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm  Views of the solar system.  Includes coverage of each planet, the sun, meteors and comets. 

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/planets/saturn_index.html   Solar system:  Saturn

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Overview  Solar system:  Neptune

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/  Solar system exploration of all the planets, the sun, moon, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/mars1.htm  Welcome to the planets:  Mars

LIFE SCIENCES 

Encyclopedia of Life This is an ongoing project to collect all the information about all the species of the world. It offers content at a variety of levels, for students and researchers of all ages.

BOTANY

The PLANTS Database Encyclopedic in scope includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.