IMAGERS:
The Adventures of Echo the Bat - This site offers an excellent interactive
activity for grade school students. By following the adventures of Echo
the Bat, they can learn about bat migration, echolocation, and even satellite
imaging and remote sensing technologies. This is a clever and compelling
site.
Cool Site: May 1999
The
Bridge - An excellent clearinghouse for marine science education resources,
this site includes links to lesson plans, on-line publications, and more.
Cool Site: May 1999
Bugscope
- Want to see a grasshopper's leg up close? Really close? This site represents
a unique experiment, in which students control an electron scanning microscope
via the Web. Teachers can submit proposals for their class to participate.
Cool Site: April 1999
The
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group - This group of biological
researchers was formed in 1975 to help preserve peregrine falcons in California.
They currently work with birds ranging from golden eagles to burrowing
owls. The site is informative, clear, and offers sections for students
and educators.
Cool Site: March 1999
The
MNCS Frog Project - Learn about the high school students who first
discovered the problem of deformed frogs. Students from the Minnesota
New Country School discovered and documented the occurrence of frogs with
deformed limbs, leading to the formation of their National Frog Survey.
Cool
Site: March 1999
Sea
Turtle Migration-Tracking Education Program - Learn about the wondrous
long-distance migrations of sea turtles. Check the satellite tracking
maps showing the positions of turtles in various parts of the world.
Cool Site: March 1999
If
Frogs Sicken and Die, What Will Happen to The Princes?-
This innovative site examines the mysterious recent declines in frog populations
on two fronts, while also examining human attitudes towards frogs in art
and literature through history as an indicator of human attitudes towards
the natural world.
Cool Site: December 1998
North,
South, East, West- Explore the ways in which Native Americans tribes
related to the environment, at this elegantly designed site from the Carnegie
Museum of Natural History
Cool Site: December 1998
OtterNet-
Explore the world of the otter! This site has interviews with otter biologists,
materials on otter conservation, otter movies, and more.
Cool Site: December 1998
Biospeleology- What lives in the dark of caves? Come to this site and explore the biology and ecology of the world's deepest caves.
The
Dawn of Animal Life- Explore the early formation of the planet Earth,
and the earliest appearances of animals.
Cool Site: November 1998
AfriCam-
Tune in to this webcam, and you'll be tranported to a watering hole in
a South African game reserve. Watch waterbuck, hyenas and elephants come
down to drink!
Cool Site: November 1998
Zoom
Dinosaurs - This site
offers thorough information about dinosaurs, presented in a simple frame-based
format. Learn about the Albertosaurus or the Sinosauropteryx!
Cool Site: October 1998
Dolphins: The Oracles
of the Sea - A comprehensive source for dolphin information, this
site was a ThinkQuest collaboration of three high school students, one
from Holland, one from Singapore, and one from the USA.
Cool Site: October 1998
The Fish Out of Time - The Coelacanth,
a 400 million-year-old species of fish long thought extinct, still exists.
Explore the biology of a possible human ancestor!
Cool Site: October 1998
Live Marine Specimens-
Want to see a picture of a Sea Robin? Though the interface is rough, this
site is an excellent database of information and pictures of live marine
animals.
Cool Site: September 1998
Strange Science:
the rocky road to modern paleontology:- Mistakes are part of science,
too. This site explores the many unusual and sometimes goofy wrong turns
taken in developing the modern science of paleontology.
Cool Site: September 1998
Belinda's
Beekeeping Spot- Everything you need to learn to keep bees. Also a
good resource for advanced beekeepers.
Cool Site: September 1998
Wired for Conservation - This site
has news and information about efforts to conserve endangered habitats
and species. Be forewarned: the interface is somewhat vague.
Cool Site: July 1998
WALRUS- A
succinct site, with a clean look, offering good information on this strange
marine mammal, including how to pronounce "walrus" in Cup'ik
Eskimo!
Cool Site: June 1998
NetFrog
- This site guides your own frog dissection, with detailed series of pictures
and QuickTime video clips documenting the procedure and outlining major
anatomical features. An earlier Cool Site, the Virtual Frog Dissection
Kit, offered an interactive dissection of an animated frog, rather than
the "real" frog seen here.
Cool Site: May 1998
Bat Conservation International-
Though visually unremarkable, this site is a veritable compendium of information
about bats, including descriptions and pictures of different bat species,
audio files of bats' echolocation calls, and reading lists about for students
and teachers.
Cool Site: May 1998
The Carl Hayden Bee Research
Center- Find out everything you need to know about bees from this
rich site. Learn how to raise bees in your backyard, or how Malaysian
villagers hunt for honey. Follow bees through their hive using the BeeCam,
or explore the fluctuations of bee populations with a simulated hive.
Cool Site: April 1998
The World
of Amber - Learn all about amber. This site contains information on
the physical properties, geologic occurrences, and other relevant information
about this interesting type of fossil.
Cool Site: October 1997
Explore
the Fantastic Forest -Not for the bandwidth challenged, this site
uses Shockwave, QuickTime VR, and other new technologies to take you through
a virtual forest walk-through. Put together by National Geographic.
Cool Site: December 1996
The Field Museum
-A museum of Natural History, this site has an interesting collection
of online exhibits and educational activities. There are exhibits on dinosaurs,
Javanese masks, and spiders.
Cool Site: June 1996
Dilophosaurus!
A Narrated Exhibition -A narrated tour of the discovery of dilophosaurus.
This tour is provided by the UC museum of Paleontology (a cool site last
year). Very interesting, but be warned that the image and sound files
are large.
Cool Site: May 1996
MSARP
Virtual Slide Show -This site describes itself as a "virtual
slide show based upon archaelogical research carried out in the Canadian
High Arctic." The subject matter is interesting and the images are
quite stunning.
Cool Site: March 1996
The Natural History Museum: London
-This site has informative details of London's Natural History Museums's
scientific research. There are even virtual reality fossils which you
can view with a VRML browser. There's a lot to explore at this site.
Cool Site: February 1996
The UC Museum of Paleontology
-A fascinating exploration into the past. The "Web Lift to any Taxon"
is especially interesting. Follow the path of evolution!
Cool Site: June 1995
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