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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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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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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