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Staff

• Mrs. Amy Itwaru,  Science Content Specialist
• Ms. Cherrie Van Hook,Team Leader
• Mrs. Amy Larsen
• Mr. Robert O'Dell
• Mrs. Ruth Talentino
• Mrs. Nora Whitmore

Weather

• Tornados 
• Hurricanes 
• Winter Storms 

Science Fair 

• Exploratorium Museum 
• Science Rocks Science Fair Page 
• More Science Fair Project Ideas 

Technology

• Cool Site of the Day 
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century 
• How Stuff Works 
• Sprocket Works 
• Wacky Uses 
• Skyscraper Page 
• Bill Nye the Science Guy 
• Advanced Buildings: Technologies and Practices 
• Who Dunnit Sleuths? 
• Technology Timeline 
• Robotics 
• Science Careers 
• Think Quest 
• Twenty Questions 
• Profile of a Scientist 
• MAD Scientist Network 
• Exporatorium 
• Science Mysteries 
• Engineering Guide 
• Inventors Museum 
• Science Net Links 
• Careers in Aeronautics 
• Constructor 
• Chesskids Academy 
• Codes and Ciphers in WW II 
• Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab 
• BrainPop Washington Post 
• FBI Handbook of Forensic Sciences 
• Structures Around the World 
• About Inventors 

Geology

• Virtual Earthquake 
• Cave Formation 
• Earth Glaciers 
• Carderock Stone Company 
• EPA 
• Erosion 
• Gem Garden 
• Geology Link 
• Rocks, Minerals, and Gems on the Net 
• Near Real Time Earthquake List 
• Volcanoes Module 
• Tsunami Hazards and Disasters 
• Illinois State Geology Web Sites 
• Kathy Schrock's Geology Web Sites 
• Mammoth Cave National Park Home Page 
• Mineral Society 
• National Spelogical Society 
• Plate Motions and Plate Boundaries 
• 10 Largest Earthquakes 
• Volcano World 
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program 
• Tsunami Event Database 
• Rock "U" 
• Smithsonsian Gem and Mineral Collection 
• Stones for Building 
• U.S. Geological Survey Homepage 
• Virtual Cave 
• Volcano Models 
• Weathering vs Erosion 
• Weathering and Erosion 
• World Data Center for Glaciers 
• Glaciers 

Life Science

• Electronic Zoo 
• Virtual Fly Lab 
• Sensing the World 
• Earthworm 
• Whole Frog Kit/Dissection 
• Squid Tutorial 
• Perch Dissection 
• Frog Tutorial 
• Kids Gardening 
• MedicineNet 
• Life Science Safari 
• BioInteractive 
• National Agricultural Library Kid's Page 
• International Shark Attack File 
• Cells Alive 
• The Virtual Cell Biology 
• Virtual Cell 
• How Stuff Works Cell Parts 
• The Human Body Adventure 
• ZooNet 
• DNA 
• Dino Directory 
• Insectclopedia 
• Seeds of Life
• Gray's Anatomy 
• What is Photosynthesis? 
• Environmental Connections 
• Lab for Applied Biotelemetry and Biotechnology 
• Welcome to Brohm's Electric Zoo 
• Virtual Frog 
• Heart Exploration 
• Perch Dissection 
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
• Perch Tutorial 
• Cow's Eye Dissection 
• eNature 
• Noble Foundation Plant Gallery 
• Virtual Cell Web Page 
• Cellular Biology: Introduction 
• MCPS HS Biology Web Site 
• Parts Wanted: The Cell 
• Build the Virtual Frog 

Meterology

• Weather 
• Accu-Weather 
• Ozone Myths 
• Accuweather 
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore 
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore-NPS 
• Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce 
• City.Net Destinations 
• Climate Data 
• Cloud Tutorial 
• Corpus Christi 
• Corpus Quest 
• Datastreme Junction 
• Datastreme Project 
• El Nino Lesson 
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 
• Galveston 
• Global Warming 
• Local Temperatures 
• Weatherwise 
• USA Today Weather Index 
• Galveston Island Online 
• Science at NASA - Dawn of a New Ozone Hole 
• Climatology Lessons 
• Hurricane 
• Gorp Cape Hatteras Page 
• Lowe's Storm Center 
• Maps on US 
• Mobile Convention and Visitors Corporation 
• Fronts Tutorial 
• National Hurricane Center 
• National Weather Service 
• Live from the Storm! 
• NOAA 
• USA Today El Nino - La Nina 
• NWS Newport North Carolina Hurricane Site 
• Panama City Online 
• WeatherEye 
• NWS Cooperative Observer Stations in Maryland 
• Tropical Weather Sites 
• Storms of the Century 
• Port Arthur 
• EPA Global Warming 
• AWS Automated Weather Station 
• Temperature/Precipitation Data 
• Purdue University Hurricane Page 
• Washington Post 
• Weather Channel 
• Weathernet-4 
• Precipitation Tutorial 
• USA Today Weather 
• Virtual Tour of Galveston 
• Hydrometeorology 
• City Link 
• El Nino Tutorial 
• State Climatologists 
• Weekly temperatures 
• NOAA Severe Weather Safety Guide 
• National Wather Service Baltimore/Washington,DC 
• Weather Resources 

Chemistry and Physical Science

• Chemicool Periodical Table 
• The Colorful Periodic Table of Elements 
• Elements Listed by Atomic Number 
• Elements Listed by Name 
• History of Physics 
• A Walk Through Timef
• Web Elements 
• Elements Listed by Symbol 
• Chemystery 
• Glurch 
• Glurch meets OObleck 
• On Time - How Time Is Measured 
• Periodic Table 
• Common Compound Finder 
• The Periodic Table of Elements 
• Physics Education 
• Flight Testing Newtons's Laws 
• The American Physical Society: A Century of Physics 
• Wilkes University Water Quality Site 
• Physics Central 

Astronomy

• NASA Homepage 
• NASA Education Projects 
• International Space Team 
• DrUniverse 
• Spacelink 
• Nasa Microgravity 
• First 100 Human Space Flights 
• Mars Millenium Project 
• Athena Space Science 
• Space Center Houston 

Oceanography

• Naval Research Website 
• Jason Ocean Facts 
• SEA WIFS 
• Virtual Ocean 
• Extreme 2000: Voyage to the Deep! 
• Oceanography from Space 
• Oceans 
• Reef Life 

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