SCIENCE and MATH

For general educational resources on the Web, individuals and organizations offer pointers: Alan Cairns, a high school teacher, recommends General Education Resources. Putnam Valley Schools has a good list of Links for Teachers, and a large amount of info and annotated links on Educational Standards, broken out by subject and state. Classroom Connect and the Cornell Gateway provide a good set of starting points. Of course there's Yahoo - Math and Science Education or the other general Web indexers.

Here are some science, math and technology education links I've found interesting (many of these have good lists of links themselves). Further down are companies and my not-to-be-missed Goodies Tray of links.

• National Science Teachers Association including Scope Sequence and Coordination Project
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science, including Project 2061 and Kinetic City Super Crew
• UMaryland Physics Education Research, including a good directory of other research sites (some much more extensive than others), papers, etc.
• American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Journal of Physics and Physical Sciences Resource Center.
• AIMS Education Foundation for math and science
• Science Education Associations and Journals including NARST, AETS, etc.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• UTennessee K12 Math links
• Education programs of the National Science Foundation
• AskERIC including Discovery Channel and Newton's Apple, and ERIC Science & Math
• Eisenhower Math & Science Education
• The Math Forum huge amount of good material
• Journal of Industrial Teacher Education
• Technology Student Association
• Journal of Technology Education
• International Technology Education Association
• NASA Online Educational Resources; try many subpages, like "Spacelink" for up-to-date details on space missions. NASA has a great deal of good material available on the Web, including many pictures.
• Cairns' UWashington "comprehensive" list of sites for Science Education Resources
• TIPTOP International Physics Education list of sites and PhysLINK
• TERC and the Hub
• Canada's Schoolnet has good math & science links and hands-on physics.
• Online encyclopedias: Brittanica and Encarta Concise.
• Vince's science links
• Bev's science ed links
• Mike's Catalyst chem links
• Laura's lesson plan links
• Vicki and Dick's ed links detailed on many subjects. John Hunt's annotated sci-ed links
• The Exploratorium, the hands-on science museum in San Francisco with a great web presence including Science Snacks.
• The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia: excellent links
• Physics demonstrations and science education links ("Misconceptions" is good...what do you know about the Cartesian diver?)
• UKansas Explorer K12 Math and Science curriculum (mostly K8)
• Columbia Education Center's good lesson plans and links. Smile physics lessons. Categorized science and math links from SAMI and Learner Online. SMARD teaching math. Wyoming Clearinghouse for Math and Science and The School Page with the registered trademark 'the best educational resource list'!
• UMaryland Science Ed annotated links (part of Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation...try Arizona's)
• For professional physics in the US on the Internet, a good place to start following links is the American Institute of Physics, an umbrella organization of scientific groups. Go down a few branches in the tree and look for words like "education" like the American Physical Society Forum on Education including online newsletters. Similarly for chemistry, there's the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Chemical Education. For math, there's the Mathematical Association of America (includes some popular articles) and American Mathematical Society.
• Web Labs CPO animated and well crossreferenced concepts

There are other companies with science education supplies online (We have no connection with these, nor any responsibility; we just found their pages) Many of the software companies have free demos online.

• Sky&Telescope Magazine amateur astronomy: where is that new comet today?
• Modern School Supplies Desktop Wind Tunnel!
• Vernier Software and sensors for calculators and computers
• Saxon Publishers science and math texts
• Addison-Wesley, a little larger than the above, with cpSURF conceptual physics. Houghton Mifflin has a large education site.
• LHS museum course material
• All Electronics and Herbach and Rademan surplus for the tinkerer on a budget, and Transtronics and Ramsey electronic kits (including radar guns and vandegraaffs)
• WARD'S Natural Science Establishment, Inc, NADA Scientific (Nakamura distributor) and Carolina Biological Supply Company
• MathSoft Math software for high school and up
• Key Curriculum Press Math texts and software, including Geometer's Sketchpad. Sunburst Communications has ed videos and software including Geometric superSupposer.
• PITSCO Technology Ed...many links
• Knowledge Revolution Interactive Physics software
• South Western Educational Publishing Math & Technology, and Kendall/Hunt Publishing. Try Yahoo's textbook publishers. Supplemental material from J. Weston Walch, Publisher
• Learning in Motion K12 sci/math software
• Fun Science optics projects, like a glass bead microscope
• Science is Fun Prof. Shakhashiri's Chemistry demo videos.
• Knowledge by Design Chemistry teaching software (including a Tetris-like Periodic Table)
• American Science and Surplus bobbing birds, microscopes from $6 to $500
• Kitty Hawk Software, Paper Airplane Web and Fascinating Folds making things from paper and virtual paper
• William K. Bradford and reseller MCC, Test Builder, reseller PLP, Testmaker, and LWCD, Test Master, software to generate math and science tests, among other topics. A lot of Educational Software company links.
• Advanced Learning Associates elementary/middle science kits and good links
• Cotton Expressions and Purely Akademic science T-shirts
• Mathman Don Cohen's curriculum, and Appetizers for Math and Reason, Alan Selby's books.
• Riverdeep/Logal Science and Math teaching software
• Caltech's Chemistry Animation, Mechanical Universe and Project Mathematics videos
• Chamber Works a particle physics simulation
• GrafEq, Omnigraph, Graphmatica and f(g) Scholar equation graphing software (or MathPad for free) and Coypu and Plot Maestro for data plotting.
• Kelvin Technology science ed catalog
• Science is Golden very enthusiastic basic chemistry ed, and Ray Alexander's 3D periodic table
• Lynx and Robix Computer controlled robots. For projects, the Robot Store has Nitinol Muscle Wires and Images has Air muscles. Info and links at Robot S&T Magazine or Hobby Robot.
• Weather Services and How the WeatherWorks equipment and info
• NASCO science ed catalog
• Educational Innovations science workshop supplies
• Ztek Physics films
• Cabri-Geometre software from TI Calculators
• World of Escher things with his pictures
• Stellarium Does your museum need a new astronomy exhibit? Stuff from Strattman or an antigravity waterfall for the lobby?
• Team Labs PSL teaching equipment
• Logo and Java Logo
• Build-It-Yourself "build your own action contraptions mostly from recycled junk"
• The Tornado Project video and info
• Good ol' Edmund Scientific
• Levitron the top that spins in mid-air (cf the frog)and its parent company Fascinations. The original contents of levitron.com. Euler's Disk spins too.
• The Amateur Seismologist and Geotool earthquake detector for your PC
• Point Six Labs sensors and PC software
• Chalk Dust and Enjoy Calculus math course videos
• Physics Academic Software
• Rockman earth science education material
• Applied Math Made Easy curriculum
• Roger's Connection magnetic building toy, Hoberman's Sphere, and Zometool. The Big List.
• Hope Education "Britain's Most Exciting Educational Supplier" is their slogan
• Interlocking Puzzles, Puzzle World (including Java online play) and Karakuri: gourmet woodworking, dear to our heart. Atelier Archemedia and Binary Arts puzzles.
• World-in-Motion video motion analysis software
• Science Kits from Rockville Creative Learning, and Science Kit
• Chemistry Place subscriber online teaching material
• M. Casco includes free online courses (chaos and mechanics) with Java
• Starry Night, and the best name, Swimming Elk astronomy software. The big list and an online Java night sky.
• PV Scientific Instruments Arcs and Sparks, historical electrical devices, Gemmary, Stanley London, Van Cort Instruments, Science Art and Crystal Radios kits and info.
• Oriental Trading and Kipp Brothers novelties, some useful for classrooms.
• Mousetrap Science and its competitor Dr. Fizzix.
• Brock Optical durable student microscopes

• Arbor Scientific hands-on physics
• Fisher Scientific Education
• Sargent-Welch Science Education and VWR Products catalog
• Delta Education
• Beckley Cardy including Frey and Brodhead-Garrett
• Flinn Scientific

And finally, the Goodies Tray: interesting tidbits you wouldn't have thought to look for and won't find on (most of) the other lists. They are chosen to be browse-worthy even if you don't teach or take the subject.

• Mail order catalog of sea and seashore plants and animals from the Woods Hole Marine Biological Labs
• Physical Science Activity Manual from UTenn; Science lessons from Nebraska; a high school teacher's Chemistry labs and comments (how many labs start from a passage of the Latin poet Ovid?); Project Labs mostly chemistry; for earth and space science lessons, Athena, CSE and Hawaii (including hands-on volcano physics)
• Temperature for middle school teachers (part of SkyMath, a project for science and math education thru weather) and the story of Celsius.
• Society for Amateur Scientists
• The Directorate of Time, the actual name of part of the US Government, unfortunately not including Dr. Who. What about Leap Seconds? All part of the job for the International Earth Rotation Service, also the actual name. CalendarZone
• Scanning Electron Microscope pictures and explanations at various levels. See Atoms and arrange them at IBM; for how scanning probe microscopes work and more pictures, Bell Labs. Nanotechnology and the Inner Ear . Amateur Microscopy.
• Dimensional analysis or this tutorial version or this high school Chem teacher version. Why care? Kenny Felder's essays on dimensional analysis and the relationship of math and science, and Erik Smith's book.
• Amazing Science at the Roxy (the theater in Carthage MO)
• Tsongas Industrial History Center Kids can learn a lot at an old mill (ok, we're biased; CPO built part of the school program material). Discovery Museum school partnership.
• How does the clutch work on a Drag Racer? Physics of Racing and Aerodynamics of Racing. Teaching Auto visual. Supersonic World Land Speed Record. Make your own hobby gas turbine.
• How do we know how old those Trees are?
• Mistaught concepts = Bad Science (Cardinal Wolsey on the Web!) Prof. Fraser also has some fancy web-based meteorology courses.
• So why does the toast fall butter side down (no mention of the relevance to buttered cat antigravity though); Classroom toast, part of a set of mostly biological projects at Access Excellence. Prof. Erlich's book prefers jelly side down.
• Scott Kim, who has an interesting take on math patterns, including a Math Dance ensemble. Tony Phillips has pages on mazes and tides.
• Useless home pages on mathematics: how many people have the first 100000 decimal digits of PI online for your easy reference? There's even a proof of the rationality of any number. Pi pages are now so mainstream that Yahoo indexes them, like songs for pi day.
• Illustrations of physics class demonstration equipment at UC Berkeley and UMaryland (more sites from PIRA).
• Photos of physics equipment that's even older than your school's. See how Galileo worked, and see actual videos of his experiments. An academic multimedia history at The Galileo Project. A history of the lens (did you know the Emperor Nero used an emerald monocle?) Chemical history with original texts, and Chem Engineering history. Math history and extensive biographies, even Java curve drawing (what does the Witch of Agnesi look like?). Prof. Joyce's Math History.
• National Public Radio's Science Friday for Kids, Earth and Sky, Engines of Our Ingenuity (Prof. Lienhard's essays on engineering and science creativity), AIP Science Report, and AAAS Science Update. The BBC World Service can be heard on the Web, including science programs. Australian science radio and Canada's Quirks and Quarks, and the TV shows Bill Nye, the Science Guy, NOVA, Jack Horkheimer's Star Gazer and Beakman and Jax.
• Engineering Case Studies Multimedia histories of real corporate projects; try Mattel's re-design of a Japanese toy to make it better!
• What's the easiest way to make a big telescope? Well, you crack open a lot of thermometers... Liquid Mirror Telescopes in the classroom.
• Michigan Gateways: The Television Program for Teachers of Mathematics and Science
• The Pitch Drop Experiment, a contender for longest running experiment.
• Fermi Problems stretch your mind to get an approximate answer. Mechanics thinking problems and Fermi physics problems. More Mechanics problems.
• Humorous student views (another), a college astronomy version and science jokes. A humorous view of science at The Annals of Improbable Research and a physicist's humor collection. A sample: Dark Suckers. Murphy's Laws (In education, the shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral...AASA)
• Skepticism and Pseudoscience teacher's overview; what if your students ask? Teaching Alien Autopsy. Dip your toe in the water with pro and con The Face on Mars, or Firewalking; a list of "Anomalous" topic links. The Web is a rich source for all this. Pseudoscience links, In Search Of and Don Simanek's Page (includes other stuff, too, like the original version of the barometer story, heaven hotter than hell, etc.).
• Far too much about Fractals including free software, and links like Chaos in the Classroom, a non-computer game. Or try the interactive color graphics at the The Geometry Center: plane geometry thru Very Serious math.
• The Daily Martian Weather Report Really! Or today's Space Weather on the Sun, with explanation. Lots of Aurora info, including pictures from above and below, but Poker Flat (yes, it's a real place) has more K12 aurora stuff. Natural VLF radio sounds.
• For a good example of infectious enthusiasm for a subject, check out the Froggy Page especially "Frogs on Ice"
• Archaeoastronomy links: Stonehenge an observatory?, and teaching archaeoastronony (part of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Teacher's Newsletter, some excellent lengthy articles on many topics), Maya Math and Astronomy, Native American Astronomy, How the Shaman Stole the Moon and Stone Circle Webring.
• Holography Links, 3D Imagery, Beginner's Holography or Optics for Kids (elementary) and Optics demos.
• A sixth grader's report on sundials. Did you know that the Editor's column in the journal of the North American Sundial Society is called "From the Tove's Nest"? or why? Sundial info and lotsa links.
• The Berkeley Museum of Paleontology has excellent online exhibits
• More Polyhedra than you knew existed, including nice pictures. Geometry Model links. Wheels within Wheels. (Part of Math Pix) Or explore the world of Origami or see Polyomino art. World Wide Webs "string figures from around the world". There's a surprising amount of math in juggling; see it with Java.
• Physicists on the Money and some links; Physicists cancelled; more prosaic pictures and from Texas and Brasil. ChemTeam Gallery
• The Particle Adventure, an extensive visual explanation of fundamental particles; the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a kind you wouldn't expect: it's underground! as is the (completely different) Hanford Gravitational Wave Observatory.
• Recreational Math humor, puzzles, problem competitions like Math Counts: "What's your sine?"; Middle school student math sites. Mathmania, MegaMath (director's cut), .
• Uhhh...something wrong here creative physics experiments
• Hypothetical Planets, part of a very good multimedia tour of The Nine Planets, the part that tells the most about how science really works. (Hosted by Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
• Essay on Math teaching reform, enlivened by great pictures. The Opposition.
• Tethers in Space
• Irresponsible childish experiments at the Weird Physics Page. Shameful! tsk tsk! Where Dave Barry gets his ideas. Also, Extreme Hobbies, Gooky stuff recipes and high school slime. Vern's Silly Putty page (check out the mailing list archive for flavor...Vern also has a Stereogram page one flight up ... remember Magic Eye?), and an amusing search for info on Lava Lamps. Throwing staples at a target. Peep Science.
• The Why Files, Science behind the News, EurekAlert science press releases, NBC science news, ABC science news and CNN Sci-Tech News.
• MIT Plasma Fusion Center home, and extensive fusion ed including general physics animations.
• The "only full service wildlife crime lab in the United States" (how do you tell what that ivory-like material is?) which also has forensic science links like Prof. Proctor, who does engineering consulting in accident reconstruction and safety.
• Free Stuff! Classroom posters from the Wright Center; Maps in education from the US Geological Survey. Johnny's math/science poster sources. Sponsored videos.
• Dr. Chordate Sings! Humorous science ed!
• Chem Team, "a tutorial for high school chemistry". Chemistry Club at Carey Academy. Chemistry in Context for preservice middle school teachers. Dr. Slime. Acids & Bases and Bonding for teachers. ChemComm at Glenbrook South High, Jim Aldridge's Chemistry Teacher Resources, Tim Allen's Fletcher High Chemistry and Steve Marsden's A.P. resources.
• The National Mole Day Foundation and a student Mole in Equilibrium.
• Rainbows and links, teaching rainbows and a rainbow artist. A large Meteorology tutorial, including atmospheric optical effects. WxWise, interesting weather explanations
• Autumn Hall a story
• Muscle physics, part of a set of pages on muscles at a fairly high jargon level, though they do define things (Q: what is "where the humerus and ulna articulate"?) and Lobster Lab a virtual claw lab.
• Many educational and research institutions have programs for local students and teachers; Haystack Observatory has a nice web section on theirs, for middle school students, with links for geophysics and astronomy. For dramatic demos, the Wonders of Physics show (check out the book link at the bottom), ScienceTheatre, Mr. Magnet, How Does That Work? (look for the nun with the sledgehammer), Swings and Roundabouts and more, Phun Physics (look for the liquid nitrogen page with links), Science House and the Physics Van
• SimCalc a reform K12 math project mixing physical and calculus ideas, with software. Nice descriptions of classroom pilots.
• Free software and plans for simulated research astronomy in the classroom; for a slightly older hands-on approach, try astrolabe education. Use an Abacus online.
• The Human Powered Hydrofoil and Trampofoil. StepJet (a little slower) In general, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association.
• So, you think insects are boring? Try the yucky Cockroach World. Do you know what Forensic Entomology is? What do bees see? What's cooking? Bumble Barf Honey! Cultural Entomology and the remarkable antlion site. What's that on your windshield? Real world biological pest control -- an inspiring story. Not insects, but if the cockroach site didn't get you, try the hobby of collecting Slimy Flocculates.
• Software you can download...some free, some try before you buy (limited time evaluation); all subjects, including science and/or education. Specifically Educational Software
• Computer Molecular Models for K12
• How to Lie and teach statistics, part of the online Journal of Statistics Education. Dr. Deming and the Red Bead Experiment.
• So what can you REALLY do with the WWW? Mr Edible Starchy Tuber Head! You can amusingly convert any other Web page with dialectizers or other transformers. An enormous number of Spam Haikus have been contributed to one guy's site: here's just the science ones. How many people on the Web spell congradulations that way? Jumpin' Jehosaphat the Counting Sheep and Blue Dog Can Count!. World Rock Paper Scissors Society
• Elaborate online versions of the student magazines Family Explorer, Science Made Simple, Helix, YES, and Delta, and the general New Scientist, Science News, Technology Review, Discover, Smithsonian and Scientific American
• Positron Emission Tomography tutorial for doctors...parts can be useful as an application of particle physics if you get by the jargon. Physics of MRI with a nice description of the procedure at the end.
• High school and College Popsicle Stick Bridge Engineering and Java. Student pages on the famous (in physics classes anyway) Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse; the 2.5 minute version (11MB!) of the QuickTime newsreel (or the 2MB abbreviated version) and a professional paper. Prof. Barrett's bridge resonance video and software. Bo Lou's online multimedia physics including Tacoma. Bridge Engineering Links
• IllusionWorks and Grand Illusions: slick sensory illusions and more. Sound Illusions (download sounds). More detailed vision material. Sandlot Science: illusions and links. Color Matters, applications of color. Illusion demos.
• Lots of examples of the natural occurrence of Fibonacci Numbers.
• Java Physics Experiments and orbits only for those with a Java-capable Web browser. A free sample of a commercial product. How often do all the air molecules in the room move to one corner? Balls that bounce and gravitate. Prof. Kluk's intro to dynamics, a Virtual Physics Lab, High School Physics, chemical physics, Walter Fendt's physics and more, Sergei's physics, Surendranath's physics, Prof. Fowler's historical physics including a whole course of lectures, Zona and Sherman's Interactive Physics. UColorado's Physics 2000. Student Soundry about sound. Davidson's Physlets. Remember the Quincunx? (that Normal Curve simulation with the balls trickling thru a grid of pins) Or that surprisingly sharp curve of light in your Coffeecup ? Expensive Chemistry Flashcards and more. Earth physics. A Fourier analyzer. There's a copy (or mirror) of many applets at Mississippi State, some on the Jones/Childers physics book CD. Explore Science uses Shockwave, not Java. Movie animations (somewhat large downloads).
• Invention Dimension, including links like Wacky Patent of the Month, by a patent lawyer; the Post-it Note Story and How to teach invention. Real World Patent Issues
• Kids! Extract DNA in your own kitchen!
• Advice on Science Fair projects
• Math puzzles, including Pythagorean proofs
• England's MathsNet including software demos, and Sumfun.
• Sure, everybody has a Periodic Table of the Elements, but this very nice one is an eighth grade science project! Cool links like the Comic Book Periodic Table which goes with the Laws of Cartoon Physics. Tom Lehrer's Elements Song. Unfamiliar forms (and links) of the periodic table (try E.G. Mazurs, Graphical Representations of the Periodic System During One Hundred Years, University of Alabama Press, 1974) An aide-mémoire
• Think that gears are a technology that was solved a long time ago? Take a look at the gear industry . Cool synthesized pictures. A student analysis of bicycle gearing (part of a series of class projects).
• As we sell a roller coaster, you might be interested in the bigger kind you ride: there are fan clubs with big lists, and physics. The Physics Pavilion, "a less than non-profit organization," includes 153 pages(!) teaching coaster physics and more
• How about a really fast Marble Launcher? or unusual projectiles and the inevitable humor ? Naturally, people have built trebuchets, catapults, punkin chunkin machines and more.
• Storm Chasers for exciting weather, and Tsunamis! for "killer waves," as one of the links puts it. Volcano education, Volcano World and volcanos international such as Stromboli, a good site and a good restaurant next to CPO!
• Ant Robots, Fly Robots and Fish Robots! Robot links.
• Thunderstorms are not only impressive to experience, they are scientifically interesting and not well understood, and totally new aspects like Sprites and Jets are still being found.
• The Physics Connexion, The Boom (try the organ page!), Brockport High Science (full disclosure...the CEO's niece goes here). Mr. Stanbrough's Batesville High Physics, Mr. B's Apopka High physics class, Mr. C's CO2 racing, Capital High's Physics and Math student projects, the same from Mr. Robinson's Physics Of, Tom Henderson's Glenbrook South animated physics class, Mr. Peirce's multimedia physics class, Pearce High physics, John Kolena's physics class, Ithaca High's Physics Zone with animations, Hackensack High's Robert Curtis' Physics Stuff, Bud's Science and Willingboro High School Fizzix
• Cool false-color maps and descriptions of geophysical sensing methods and geochemistry and ocean currents. Remote sensing tutorials. Geoscience and mapping lessons and info. Amusing maps and Bucky's Map. The US Census Bureau has an interactive map you can zoom to your street. Maps and Cholera. K12 GeoLinks with a Canadian flavour. A geophysics cruise showing real life science in the field
• Soap bubbles and links, including real science with cool pictures of the world's biggest soap films . Science museum projects including nice classroom explorations in fountains and balloons. As ever, Why is the sky blue?
• Science Urban Legends from the people at the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban: all those stories that might be true, like glass slowly flowing in old windowpanes. (there're also other newsgroups, like alt.folklore.science, misc.education.science, geometry.pre-college, k12.ed.math and k12.ed.science) Also, there are e-mail discussion lists about education.
• OK, I wasn't going to give any more links to NASA pages, since there are so many, but you must see Microgravity Man and associated pages, such as the Vomit Comet, and classroom projects in microgravity, rocketry and aeronautics. An online interactive college text on Aerodynamics, and the more elementary Plane Math.
• Concrete Fiction part of a nice set of modules for materials science and electronics, including labs and videos. Polymers for surfers.
• Illustrated introductory Geoscience Demos, including some very slick seismology software.
• A famous physics student you wouldn't think of. A physics and music career, but then there's Fiorella.
• Alvirne High School's AP Calculus and links. The Calculus Hater's Home Page. The Chinese International School's Math page and links. Ms. Levy's high school student statistics projects and Mr. J's real world math projects.
• Airships, Kites, Hovercraft and Ornithopters. Doug's fun transportation inventions.
• Web collaboration in high school science in Maryland and the Noon Project. Big school weather projects like Datastreme and Globe.
• Math in the movies and Science at the movies, part of ScienceWeb. Physics of Star Trek including technology links like Particles of Star Trek. Why can't you travel faster than light? (actually a very comprehensive intro to relativity by a grad student trek fan)
• So, what can you do with an MIT Education?
• The Fourth Grade class teaches the Mathematician about Voting Fairness. Math Sculpture, and "Carpentry".
• Solar Cooking and Mr. Solar.
• All sorts of climate info related to El Niño.
• Richard Feynman Online and Albert Einstein Online.
• High school science in cultural context: Reading the Skies.
• Middle school science teachers at Goose Holler, Science and Science Spot (Follow the WebRing links for more).
• Perpetual Motion machines, a history.
• Tom Swift Jr: An Appreciation. The Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest is now on the Web. Cynical tall tales of physics class.
• New York Earth Science Teacher at Sachem High.
• Search for extraterrestrial TV shows: Project Serendip and do some yourself on your PC!
• Restoring Inca canals and reconstructing ancient Chinese clocks.
• Middle and High School Science Olympiad including event descriptions and links, and detailed waterbottle rocket info. Inevitably, computer simulation of bottle rockets. Yale's HS Olympiad.
• Mechanical engineering Impromptu design competitions and nice home experiments. The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest and the Walk on Water Contest.
• Java Escher Sketch cool online drawing program for symmetric patterns (or try Kali)
• WebPhysics, a loose group of teaching Web pages by professors (links at the bottom of that page)
• Dave's Quorbit Page plus physics essays
• Concord Consortium Hands-on Physics. A review of science teaching techniques at Harvard's Project Galileo, including Prof. Mazur's Peer Education teaching method with ConcepTests.
• An online database of the Kevin Bacon Number with extensions to other actors! New uses for math!
• Best one-line review of a website:"Yadda yadda Cliff Pickover blah blah chaos yadda yadda fractals blah blah graphics yadda yadda yadda." by Jeff Erikson's math game links. Online Java games like tangrams and pentominoes.
• Electrostatic Links mostly professional, but many educational: lightning, demos etc. They sell books, too. Bill Beatty has lots of cool stuff.
• Before robots there were Automata: lifelike machines moving by clockwork. Now there's Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and Cardboard Engineering to make yourself. Delightful machines including the amazingly voluminous rolling ball web. Of course there's Puppetry.
• Pinhole cameras including old-style photo chems you make yourself, crystal radios, and great links.
• Kaleidoscope Heaven
• A nice web biography of Christiaan Huygens including that most unavailable of info, a recording of how to pronounce his name!
• Lopotenuse humorous math children's book online
• Really tune your violin...with sandpaper! See how it's made first.
• Paper Crumpling can be real physics
• Science lessons with a historical perspective.
• Bioacoustics: not just whales... Animal behavior software including sound graphing. Classroom Feeder Watch.
• Bending Spacetime in the Basement: Cavendish meets Archimedes. John Walker has a lot of other cool things at his site too.
• Latitude: 15th Century Navigation in context and the Columbus Navigation Homepage.
• How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain (really!) and How Things Work.
• Physics Teacher Ed at UVirginia (do scroll to the bottom of the pages)
• Archery Physics and history. Bullet physics.
• Science Toys to build yourself at home. Classroom science toys and contests and links. Bizarre Stuff You Can Make In Your Kitchen. Rick's cool experiments and toys.
• Physics Comics OK, graphic novel
• From Stargazers to Starships high-school physics via astronomy, by a space scientist
• Suppose you couldn't control your hand very well...even feeding yourself would be a problem. How do you think SteadySpoon works?
• Teaching critical thinking with a Hooey Stick. Buy one for your computer, or make the folk toy.