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 SCIENCE CENTERS, AQUARIUMS, MUSEUMS AND ZOOS

Science Centers and Museums
American Museum of Natural History
The renowned New York museum is where they keep the dinosarus. The biodiversity material shows how we're all dependent upon one another.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Contains many online exhibits and a great deal of information from their research archieves.
Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide
This site provides links to many science centers and museums.
Miami Museum of Science
This site has a wealth of worthwhile student activities to learn about PH. Excite, explain, explore, expand, extend, exchange and examine are the button categories. Each category links to different activities for the classroom. There are dozens of additonal science activities at this web site.
Michigan Science Museums
This site has a list of Michigan Science Museums that have web sites.
Museum of Science
This site offers many interactive online exhibits. It also links you to many sites in the science realm.
National Air and Space Museum
Look! Up in the sky! This one's got everything that flies except Superman.
Ontario Science Centre: Home Page
This site links to the Ontario Science Centre home page. The site contains many different exhibits and other features related to science.
San Franciso Exploratorium
The San Franciso Exploratorium has a home page with links to a Solar Eclipse Webcast, Science Wire, Hubble Space Telescope, Live Webcasts, Iron Science Teacher, The Learning Studio, and Observatory and a Sport Science link.
Science for the Millennium
An online expo emphasizing outer space, advanced computing, and virtual environments with multimedia flair.
The Exploratorium
This is an online science museum with interactive exhibits.  Some of the exhibits include Global Climate Change and an Observatory on solar eclipse, auroras, sunspots, and building solar systems.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
The online edition of the famed Philly museum lets you follow classroom journeys into the field.
AQUARIUMS
Aquarium of the Pacific
Visitors to this site can see live video of sea jellies, fish, diving birds, and other exhibits found at the aquarium. This website also has informtion on other animals as well as career information.
Monterey Bay Aquarium On-line
If it swims, you'll find it in the e-quarium.
National Aquarium in Baltimore
This site has excellent interactive games that promote environmental awareness. The games are designed around the following topics: seahorses, sea jellies, the rainforest, oceans, and deadly venoms. This site is appropriate for upper elementary students.
Waikiki Aquarium
Visitors to this site can take a virtual tour of all the exhibits. Several exhibits allow the visitor to click on images to receive explanations. There is a live seal camera to view the animals.
Zoos
Animal Information Database (Sea World Busch Gardens)
Animal Bytes includes scientific classification, facts, and biological information.  It features information booklets and specific lesson plansthat integrate science and math.
Electronic Zoo
An awesom tool to help you find lists of animal-related information on the internet.
Hannover Zoo (Germany)
A great place to learn information about animals from all over the world.
National Zoological Park Home Page
This site provides a wealth of information on the animals who are available at the zoo.  Provides online information, video, and slideshows.
The San Diego Zoo
This website is appropriate for all students. It offers several virtual tours, many videos, and lots of information on the animals.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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