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"Welcome to the Black Inventor Online Museum ™, a look at the great and often unrecognized leaders in the field of invention and innovation. For more than 300 years, black inventors have served as pioneers in the field of science and have made enormous impacts on society. As African Americans sought freedom and equality, many among them, scientists, educators and even slaves, developed the tools and processes that helped to shape the modern agricultural, industrial and technological landscape. While some are famous, many remain unknown, but their contributions have assured that their stories are not only about black history, but about world history"

The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photograp "Below is a categorized list of images found in the Pics4Learning collection. The number in the parentheses indicates the number of sub-categories for that topic. * American Sign Language (2) * Animals (50) * Architecture (11) * Art (10) * Backgrounds (7) * Biomes (5) * Careers * Countries (61) * Culture * Dinosaurs * Education (4) * Flags * Food (10) * Fractals * Geography (19) * Hall Goes Snorkeling * History (17) * Holidays (9) * Illustrations (11) * Literature * Living (7) * Maps (2) * Mike Goes Diving * Missions (13) * Monuments and National Parks * Music * National Parks (15) * Native American * Natural Disasters (6) * Objects (4) * Oceans (7) * Olympics * Parts of Your Body * Photography of Brian R. Page (6) * Photography of Kenneth G. Ransom (7) * Photography of ManYee DeSandies (43) * Photography of Steve Canipe (15) * Plants (6) * Religion * Schools * Science (6) * Signs * Space (5) * Technology * Tools and Machinery (2) * Toys * Transportation (5) * United States (58) * United States Symbols (50) * Weather (8)"

"Providing the scientific basis for effective conservation, NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the trusted source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems"

great site with many interesting links

also has a Teacher Resources page full of lesson plans for hands-on activities, study pages, and reference materials

Solve the Outbreak is a free iPad app produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The app is a game that contains three epidemics for students to research. In each investigation students have to read the background, read clues, analyze data, and answer questions. The questions put students in the role of a medical professional tasked with helping to curtail the spread of the epidemic. Points are awarded to students for correct answers.

The Status of Women in the States provides data on women's progress in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States overall.

PLAY GAMES---interactive, Mahjong games,  Totally Cool way to learn Chemistry

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration Brief Description: NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.

Categories:  Student Use, Web-Based Learning, Interactive Learning, Assessment Brief Description:  has number of tutorials and quizzes divided into eight categories of anatomy and physiology. Each category is divided into subcategories where visitors will find quizzes for each topic. The tutorials and quizzes are best suited to use in advanced high school anatomy and physiology courses.

Categories:  Teacher Use, Student Use, Simulation, Web-Based Learning Brief Description:  In Man as Industrial Palace Henning Lederer brings this famous drawing to life. In the two minute video viewers will see how the human body's internal systems work together to process food and produce life

Categories: Student Use, Web-Based Learning, Simulations, Interactive Learning Brief Description: offers interactive 3D models of human anatomy. One can turn on and off different views according to which body systems you want to view. The models can be rotated 360 degrees and the labels have an audio play-back option.