| San Bernardino County Library Science News and Education Resources Pathfinder
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| Last revised April 4, 2004. |
| Center for Science Education (http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/) |
| Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley connection to SEGway (Science Education Gateway). Defaults to a public forum, with links to more focused approaches for educators and scientists. |
| Did You Ever Wonder...? (http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/) |
| Scientists answer scientific and technical questions on a variety of topics. Updated monthly. |
| Earth and Sky (http://www.earthsky.com/) |
| On-line version of the syndicated radio series. Each day, Deborah Byrd and Joel Block discuss popular science subjects that affect our everyday lives. |
| EurekAlert! (http://www.eurekalert.org/) |
| A comprehensive news server for obtaining the latest research news in the worlds of science, medicine, and technology. The site's fully searchable and offers archives back to its beginning - May, 1996. |
| Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia (http://www.fi.edu/) |
| Interactive and hands-on. Conduct online science experiments, e-mail science questions to be answered by experts. |
| How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/) |
| Treasure trove of answers to how all the technology we live with, or can't live without, works. |
| Invention Dimension (http://web.mit.edu/invent/) |
| Web site devoted to American inventors and information related to past and current inventors. Includes Hotlist sections: sites for kids, research and development labs, and the invention extension -- an eclectic collection of invention sites including the Wacky Patent of the Month. |
| NASA Quest (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/) |
| This wide-ranging site targets educators for grades K-12. |
| National Academy of Sciences (http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf) |
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| National Inventors Hall of Fame (http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp) |
| Hundreds of inventions and inventors, biographies, pictures, indexes of inventions and inventors, searchable. |
| National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/) |
| Independent federal agency with mission of promoting the progress of science and engineering. News, grants and funding information, publications and access to resources for writing grant proposals. |
| Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/) |
| News items, summaries of articles, and job listings from Nature, the prestigious British science weekly. Requires free registration. Science Update is its current awareness resource, updated daily. |
| naturalSCIENCE (http://naturalscience.com/ns/nshome.html) |
| Original articles, news reports, book reviews, commentary, and interviews. |
| New Scientist Planet (http://www.newscientist.com/) |
| A weekly magazine of popular science. Contains news, features, reviews and comment drawn from the magazine each week, plus the answers to question about puzzling scientific phenomena in everyday life. |
| Practical Uses of Math and Science (http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/) |
| Developed by Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. The examples are written primarily by scientists and engineers, and are available to teachers, students, and other interested parties. |
| PSIgate (http://www.psigate.ac.uk/) |
| Annotated directory of physical science Internet resources, including chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth sciences, materials, science policy, and science history. From the Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester, England. |
| Pulse of the Planet (http://www.pulseplanet.com/) |
| Affiliated with a National Public Radio series featuring interviews with scientists involved in innovative research. |
| SciCentral (http://www.sciquest.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/sci_index.d2w/report) |
| Gateway to thousands of online resources. |
| Sci-Math World: An Interactive Internet Workshop (http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/sci/) |
| Annotated Web links to relevant science and math subjects. Directories, portals, searchable sites, search engines, and interactive Web sites. |
| Science.gov: FirstGov for Science (http://www.science.gov/) |
| "Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results." |
| Science Museum: Antenna Science Network (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wellcome-wing/antenna/) |
| Frequently updated science news with a decidedly British sense of humor. |
| A Science Odyssey (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/) |
| PBS has created this site as a companion to its TV series, which covered scientific advances in the last hundred years in the fields of medicine health, physics astronomy, human behavior, technology, and earth life sciences. |
| Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com/) |
| Articles, news, summaries, and looks at the past on the site. Weekly Web-only features include explorations, interviews with experts, links to other sites, and question-raising explorations. |
| Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554766/HOME) |
| "Tool for the look up of acronyms and other short terms used in scientific works." |
| Scitech Daily Review (http://www.scitechdaily.com/) |
| Updated four days per week. Offers links to articles, new book notices and reviews, and essays and opinion pieces. |
| SciTechResources.gov (http://www.scitechresources.gov/) |
| Annotated directory of approximately 700 science and technology resources on U.S. government sites. |
| Smart Catalog (http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/catalog/home.html) |
| A resource for teachers that includes dozens of articles on teaching math and science. The site also has an index where educators will find further resources. |
| Timelinescience: One Thousand Years of Scientific Thought (http://www.timelinescience.org/index.php) |
| "Celebrate[s] 1000 years of scientific thought in the period 1000 to 2000...provides some general information about the ideas and events of the time." |
| Virtual Science Center (http://www.chabotspace.org/vsc/) |
| From the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, Calif., affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Includes a wide variety of K-12 educational resources. |
| The Why Files (Science Behind the News) (http://whyfiles.org/) |
| The National Science Foundation provides answers to complex queries about sports, weather, war, nature, crime, and dozens of other topics. The Why Files shows how science relates to almost everything. |