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Ask Jeeves for kids overall ratings
Type in any question and Jeeves will point you to a site that can give you the answers.
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Ask-an-expert: science line overall ratings
Ask a question or search the database for previously asked science questions. If you need information really fast, there is even a phone number to call.
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Fact monster overall ratings
This site is full of general information, articles on interesting topics, games, and links to other sites.
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Mad scientist network overall ratings
Search the archives for answers to those unanswerable questions. Visit the experiments page or go on a guided tour through the human body.
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The Exploratorium overall ratings
The website for San Francisco's Exploratorium has online exhibits that change every few months.
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Science experiments overall ratings
One of the best collections of easy, safe and fun science experiments.
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Smithsonian Museum: National Air and Space Museum overall ratings
Go to 'Exhibits' to visit the online exhibits about space exploration, flight, and exploring the Earth with satellites.
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Ology: don't just sit there - ologize! overall ratings
At the moment, this site has sections on astronomy, paleontology and genetics, but with your help, they are adding more every day. As well as learning all about whatever 'ology' you choose (with fun games, of course), you can collect virtual cards and keep track of them on your own homepage.
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Natural History Museum, London overall ratings
Go to Interactive for the live 'Antcast', a walk with the woodlice, the dinosaur database or the science casebook.
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Science Museum, London - Online Exhibits overall ratings
Here are some great, lively online exhibits about scientific inventions, instruments, history and people.
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NOVA overall ratings
This site supports NOVA, the hugely successful science series on TV. There are programme transcripts, and photos and information on subjects from El Nino and the Loch Ness Monster to Diamonds and Antarctica.
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A science odyssey overall ratings
Take a journey into the scientific discoveries of the 20th century, play the online game show 'That's my theory' and then go to the 'Try it' section where you can replicate some DNA or build an atom.
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Everyday Science overall ratings
'Everyday Science' is a daily radio program discussing everything from adrenaline to talking dolphins.
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Discovery School science overall ratings
Articles, glossaries, science fair and homework help, graphics and clip art, and animal cams.
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Discovery School's A-Z science overall ratings
If you're not sure what a lepton is, or need some quick information on okapi, this is the site for you. A very complete A-to-Z guide to science.
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Science Bob overall ratings
Explore the virtual displays in Science Bob's virtual van. The interactive human body is really fun.
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Kapili.com overall ratings
This site has tons of information. Just click on the topic of your choice.
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Reeko's mad scientist lab overall ratings
From dancing raisins to homemade hearing aids - you'll feel like a real mad scientist after performing all these insane experiments.
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Pfizer's FunZone overall ratings
Pfizer is a pharmaceutical company (they make medicines). Find out what the Pfizer scientists are up to, take a tour in the time machine, or download some experiments to do at home.
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How stuff works overall ratings
This page is a bit overwhelming at first - it contains so much information. But it is a real mine of information on... how things work.
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National Geographic's kids' site overall ratings
Just like a paper magazine with articles, puzzles and cartoons, this site changes every month. And some things, like the GeoBee Challenge, change every day.
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Kinetic City overall ratings
As an Actual in a Virtual world, it is your mission to rid 'Vearth' of the dreaded Deep Delete virus. Go to the Lab Car for activities on all different science subjects.
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BBC Voyager overall ratings
Want to learn something about something, but have no idea what? This site has loads of very short articles on topics from meat ice cream to urine batteries.
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Environmental Protection Agency's explorers' club overall ratings
Explore the air, water and land that make up the environment with virtual comic books, field trips, and criminal line-ups.
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Science Shack overall ratings
Science Shack has great question-and-answer pages, discussions on science topics in the news, experiments to do at home, and little movie clips to illustrate tough topics.
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Yes Mag overall ratings
Yes Mag is a science magazine for kids. It includes news stories, articles on many different science topics, and projects to do at home.
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Beakman & Jax overall ratings
Lots of fun (and some very strange) games. Click on Brains to get to the science games.
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Do science overall ratings
Bored at restaurants waiting for your food or for your friends to hurry up and finish? Amuse yourself with these great restaurant-table science experiments.
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The Why Files: the science behind the news overall ratings
Malaria, Aids, foot-and-mouth, BSE - all about the science behind the latest news. This has great science images and a new story every week.
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SCi4Kids: science down on the farm overall ratings
Who would have thought that agricultural science could be so interesting? This site explains the interesting science behind livestock, crops, pests, and anything else you can thing of related to farming.
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