            Below is a list of websites that may be useful to KCC College Now Science faculty and students. The websites are arranged in categories according to the major headings of the Science 1 Syllabus, plus a general category:

I.    Our Place in the Universe
II.   Our Mastery of the Universe
III.   Our Exploration of Ourselves
IV. General

Sites will change from time-to-time as faculty interests change, some sites disappear, and new sites become available.

I. Our Place in the Universe

http://www.astronomy.com/

Astronomy magazine’s website with news, features, telescopes, star charts,

educational resources, photos and more.

http://www.explorations.org/

Scientific American’s web site for explorations.

www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics

Web site focusing on amusement park physics, with interactive activities.

http://ussdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/venuspage.htm/

Web site for the planet Venus.

www.nytimes.com/skywatch

New York Times active skywatch column.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution

Web site for teaching students evolution using dynamic multi-media.

http://www.orbimage.com/

A web site containing satellite images for free viewing.

http://www.spot.com/

A web site containing satellite images for free viewing.

http://www.spaceimaging.com/

A web site containing satellite images for free viewing.

www.zeta.lerc.nasa.gov/expr/candle.htm

NASA’s “Candle Flames in Microgravity” (Fire in space).

www.fourmilab.to/yoursky

Web site to generate a sky map for any location, any time. Plus stars,

constellations, planets, moon phases.

www.skypub.com/sights/sights.shtml

Sky & Telescope magazine’s overview of what’s happening in the sky this week.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Web site of National Geographic magazine.

www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0101

National Geographic underwater tour of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and

shared stories of surviving in space.

www.nationalgeographic.com/eye

Audio/video/animations of satellite views from space.

www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse

A conservation web site by National Geographic.

www.amnh.org/rose/

Rose Center for Earth and Space. Great resource for space science from the

American Museum of Natural History

http://www.ditto.com/

Web search tool that searches for photos and other images online.

www.casa.Colorado.edu/-ajsh/schw.shtml

Web site where you can see what it is like to fall into a black hole.

www.entomology.si.edu:591/entomology/data.html

National Museum of Natural History’s 25 databases on entomology.

www.cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/la_home.html

A collection of digitized lunar images.

www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work

A web site devoted to volcanoes.

http://www.becominghuman.org/

A human evolution website.

II. Our Mastery of the Universe

http://www.strafe.com/2001/

Web site for space-vehicle models.

http://www.dna.com/

A web site devoted to DNA news.

http://biodi.sdsc.edu/ei_informatics.html

A web site on Environmental Informatics.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar

NASA’s space calendar listing rocket launches, astronomical events and more.

http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobitics_page/coolrobots.html

NASA sponsored web site with links to useful robotics sites on the web.

www.acnatsci.org/

Web site of Philadelphia’s Academy of National Sciences resources and projects

for teachers and students.

www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mwm/www/sci.html

Hands-On Science Centers around the world.

http://www.ergito.com/

A biology web site with 100 free experiments.

http://www.genomesize.com/

Animal Genome Size Database

http://www.jas.eng.buffalo.edu/

Web site on computer chip physics.

III. Our Explorations of Ourselves

www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/BrainAnatomy/BrainAnatomy.html

Web site for anatomical images inside the human brain.

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/

Web site for exploring the Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska.

http://www.cf.org/

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation web site.

www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx

Web site for the CDC on parasites.

http://www.medicinenet.com/Art.asp?li=MNI&ag=Y&ArticleKey=6844

Vertebroplasty treatment for osteoporosis.

http://www.medicinenet.com/Art.asp?li=MNI&ag=Y&ArticleKey=753

Web site for Fosamax, a treatment for strengthening bone.

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/8741/

Web site for osteoporosis in men.

http://www.compulink.co.uk/~mandrake/ayurveda.htm

Alternative medicine web site.

http://www.amhrt.org./Heart_and_Stroke_A_A_Guide/mininv.html

American Heart Association Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery web site

http://www.amhrt.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/hasy.html

American Heart Association Heart Attack Symptoms and Warning Signs.

www.aafp.org/afp/970915ap/santilli.htm

American Academy of Family Physicians web site on abdominal aortic aneurism.

http://pingu.salk.edu/~forsburg/bio.html

Women in Biology web site.

http://www.biolinks.com/

Web search tool that hunts for information from scientific journals, associations

and databases.

www.austmus.gov.au/fishes

An Australian ichthyology web site with photos, facts and an identification key.

www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e00/contents.htm

Botany Online web site with text, images, movies, cell micrographs, animations

and interactive molecular models.

http://www.cellnucleus.org/

A web site devoted to the cell nucleus.

General

http://www.pnas.org/

Proceedings of The National Academy of Science.

http://www.copernic2000.com/

Web site for downloading a multi-engine web search tool.

http://www.scienceonline.org/

Content highlights of Science for the current week.

http://www.sciencecareers.org/

Science web site for science careers.

http://www.sciencenow.org/

Daily news items from Science on science and science policy.

http://www.sciencemag.org/

Web site for the journal Science.

http://www.nextwave.org/

Web site for the journal Science.

http://www.grantsnet.org/

Web site for a Research Funding Database from the journal Science.

http://www.sciencexpress.org/

Web site for the journal Science.

http://www.sciam.com/

Web site for Scientific American magazine, with news and research.