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Our intent here is to provide interesting and motivational content to encourage our students to visit the Silver Bay site on a regular basis. These fun places are generally intended for children and are previewed. They may however contain advertisements. It always recommended that adult supervision be a part of Internet browsing.
The Toms River School District is not responsible for contents on external sites or servers
"Quick Links"
Astronomy & Space,
Basic Science and Inventions,
Biology/Nature,
Dinosaurs, Flight,
Natural Disasters, Simple Machines,
Weather, Other
DEEP IMPACT (Recent Temple comet space
probe)
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
This site has terrific multimedia presentations!
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/index.cfm
NASA QUEST
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
The Space Place
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov
Design a Space Station
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/cosmicquest/spacestation/index2.html
Space.com
Space Videos
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/
Arty, the Part-Time
Astronaut
http://www.artyastro.com/main.htm
Astor-Venture (astronomy)
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/avhome.html
NASA Kids
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
Tiny Planets (early science concepts)
http://www.tinyplanets.com/
CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION TO
SATURN & TITAN
Saturn
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
Saturn
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
Saturn KIDS' PAGE
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/index.cfm
MARS MISSION
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
MARS
Mission animations & videos
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/challenges.html#edl
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/
MARS
Image Gallery
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/images.html
MARS
Kid Zone
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/funzone_flash.html
MARS
NASA'S M2K4
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html
MARS Cornell University (Athena project)
http://athena.cornell.edu/
Some pictures sent from the rovers are
stereo images.
This site demonstrates the same 3D effect. (You'll need 3D glasses)
http://dogfeathers.com/java/hyprcube.html
PLANETS AND SOLAR SYSTEM
NASA solar system
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/index.cfm
Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm
Solar System Exploration
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm
The Solar System Walk
http://www.njaa.org/sswalk/sswalk.html
Solar System Information (Solar Views)
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
The Planets for kids
http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/planets/
Virtual Space Tour (Spacekids.com)
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/virtualspacetour/
Space Movie Files
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/movies/movies.html
Audio files Jupiter / Saturn
http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/audiofiles-jupiter.htm
NEW...Basic Science interactives
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml
Greatest
Inventions
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/guide/index.shtml
The Great Idea
Finder
http://www.ideafinder.com/home.htm
How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
Science News
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Pieces of Science
http://www.fi.edu/pieces/
Who Wants to Win $1,000,000? (The Science Game)
http://education.jlab.org/million/index.html
Scientific American Frontiers (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/saf/index.html
Bill Nye the science guy
http://www.billnye.com/core.html?flashtarget=core.html&noflashtarget=noflash.html
Lawrence Hall of Science
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/kids/
Brainpop
http://www.brainpop.com/
Try Science
http://www.tryscience.org/
Interactive activities at Explore Science.Com (upper elementary +)
http://www.explorescience.com/activities/index.cfm
Science Museum
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/exhibitions.asp
National Science Museum in Milano
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/Default.htm
BIOLOGY /
NATURE
Ology Home (Biodiversity: Life In the City)
http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/lifeinthecity/pages/lifeinthecity.html
Froguts (virtual online frog dissection)
http://www.froguts.com/
What's in the Fantastic Forest?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forest/html/forest.html
A Walk in the Woods
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/index.html
Nature Scene
http://cfmedia.scetv.org/naturescene/f-destinations.html
The secret life
of trees
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees2/
DINOSAURS
Palaeo
Pursuit
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Dinos/English/palaeo/palaeo.html
Dino Directory
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory
Dinosauria
http://www.dinosauria.com/
Zoom Dinosaurs
at Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
Lots to do when you're "Walking With Dinosaurs"
http://dsc.discovery.com/stories/dinos/dinos.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/
National Geographic's "Dinorama"
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/
Check out the gallery of these dinosaur artists
http://www.dinoart.com/
Smithsonian's Dinosaur Exhibits
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dino/
Jurassic Park Institute
http://www.jpinstitute.com/index.jsp
NEW...Large Dinosaur Link Site
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinolinks.html
FLIGHT
Science Fun with Airplanes
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~flight/homepage.html
NEW...Explore the Wright Flyer, the story in pictures, old movies, and
flight simulations
http://media.tlc.discovery.com/convergence/wright/wright.html
Hang Glider Simulation
http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/hg.htm
Paper Airplanes
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.html
http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/airplanes.html
http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/
NATURAL DISASTERS
FEMA for Kids
http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm
Kids Click (Natural Disasters)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/midnatu.html
Yahooligans (Natural Disaster page)
http://search.yahooligans.yahoo.com/search/ligans?p=natural+disasters
National Geographic (Forces of Nature)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/film/
NATURAL DISASTER LINK PAGES
http://www.trumbull.k12.oh.us/teachers/resources/Themes/disasters.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml
http://mccants.anderson5.net/library/natural_disaster.htm
http://www.kidskonnect.com/NaturalDisasters/DisasterHome.htm
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/resource/natdis.html
SIMPLE
MACHINES
Ed Heads
http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/
(Find more information in Silver Bay Favorites)
Try Science "Extreme Adventure"
http://www.tryscience.org/tsadv/world/home.html
Hands-on Science Centers
http://www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/simpMach/sm1.html
WEATHER
HURRICANES
Tacking a hurricane
Miami Museum of Science (lines of latitude
and longitude)
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/instructions.html
Scholastic Weather Watch (Hurricanes)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/
How Stuff Works (Hurricanes)
http://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane1.htm
Printable Tracking Maps
NOAA
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/AT_Track_chart.pdf
AccuWeather
http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin/hurricane/tracking.asp
Hurricane Data
UNISYS WEATHER: Hurricane tracking data (including active, real-time
details)
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/index.html
General Weather
BBC's What is weather
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/index.shtml
SiJinks Weather Laboratory
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/weather/
EdHeads Weather Activities
http://edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
National Weather Service (Philadelphia / Mount Holly)
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/phi/
NOVA online videos
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/index.html
Roller Coaster Data Base
http://www.rcdb.com/
Types of Bridges
http://www.matsuo-bridge.co.jp/english/bridges/index.shtm
http://www.bardaglea.org.uk/bridges/bridge-types/bridge-types-beam.html
http://perth.uwlax.edu/globalengineer/draft/project/Types%20of.html
http://pghbridges.com/basics.htm
ASTRONOMY
& SPACE