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Brain Drops 
http://fi.edu/braindrops
Expand your knowledge of the science around you with a daily braindrop
Community Science Action Guide
http://sln.fi.edu/guide/index.html
Try the planning resources offered for educators here, with different suggestions for water conservation, life sciences, feeding people globally, and energy use.
Dive & Discover: Expeditions to the Sea Floor
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu
Through daily stories, photos, and videos, our Web site brings you on board research expeditions that use deep-sea tools and vehicles.

Exploratorium Snack Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snackintro.html
Let's all set out to build devices and mechanisms of some kind, that are all extremely brilliant! These will provide a wide variety of FUN learning experiences!

Fast Plants
http://www.fastplants.org
Join thousands of teachers worldwide who use Fast Plants to make science come alive in their classrooms! o investigate: observe, Measure, analyze, and describe… Harvest a Fast Plant seed, And make science come alive.
The Great Plant Escape 
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html
Help Detective LePlant and his partners Bud & Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life! In Search of Green Life - Soiled Again! - Is it Dust, Dirt, Dandruff or Seed? - Plantenstein is the Suspect! - Mysterious Parts That Surprise! - You've Learned the Mysteries of Green Life! From the University of Illinois.
The Heart: An Online Exploration
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
From the moment it begins beating until the moment it stops, the human heart works tirelessly.
Minerals gallery
http://www.minerals.net/gallery/gallery.htm
This section contains an organized collection of high-quality digital mineral and gemstone photographs.
NOVA's "scienceNow" 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow
Home to a host of interactive features - Mini Robots, Brain Activity, Name that Sound, How Do They Know That, Watch online, Science News and Get Involved.
Office of Naval Research's Science and Technology Focus Site
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean
This site is packed with exciting ocean facts and information. We've even included some cool naval discoveries. More than 70 percent of the planet is covered by water..
So what are you waiting for? Dive in! .
Simple Machines
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm
Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!

The WHY Files
 
http://whyfiles.org/index.php

Science behind the news

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Compiled by Mary Lou Baldwin
Technology Facilitator
checked 12/07