Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West There are a lot of kinds of grasshoppers, and they are both ecologically and economically important. And really interesting! Let your special student use this site for a special study project. And of course, it will supply more neat links to other bug sites!
	Butterflies of North America What a mini gem! Click on any state in the index map of the U.S, and go to a list of all the butterflies resident there, with facts, figures, all about how each species lives, and excellent photos. You can even go county by county. And even join in as a "spotter"!
	About Comets Here's a course unit "in a box". Its roots are in NASA and a missionto visit a few comets with a spacecraft. On site are some good materials on comets, good links to other resources, AND click on the "Amazing Space Activities" to get to an interactive "Laboratory", and go to "Teaching Tips" for help in a classroom and for Home Schools!
	North American Trees (Not the official name, but that's what its about) 450 species of trees, how to identify them, what their latin name means, their fall colors, their own and forest biology, ecology, etc. An "ask the scientist" interactive, an interactive (free) textbook on "Forest Biology, and a real course on forestry (H.S. level). Also, a lot of links to other related tree and forestry websites really worth exploring.
	Tornado Project Online How about doing a study project on tornados? You'll find it all, right here: tornado books, posters, videos; tornado myths, chasing, and safety; killer tornados, recent storms, all tornados on record up to 250 plus years ago; and it's still growing!  If you do this, also go to Stormtrack, a fine newsmagazine for storm chasers. And then, go to The Online Tornado FAQ.  There now, I've done almost all the work for you, go to it!
	U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology This will send you to a small corner of a huge website, actually full of other resources as well, where you'll open to a "matrix" listing about 2 dozen teaching "activities", and evaluating them for what they teach (content, subject, grade level). Choose one, click on it, get a great lesson plan, materials and directions. Its mostly science, but much more.
	(U.C. Berkeley's) ISTAT Digital Curriculum This is it, the latest example of the digital/virtual web experience classroom. Currently 9 topics/courses in earth, space, life, and physical sciences. Examples: earthquakes, Montana 60 mya, weather (both Earth and Mars) ... Yes, there's one on evolution, but I'm assuming you've read my book and can maturely take that topic in stride, too.
	Glass The website of Alan MacFarlane, scientist and author of "The Glass Bathyscaphe".  It offers a free pdf of the draft of a just-published book, extolling the history and virtues of glass, one of "the three great 'Radical Inventions'" which, he argues, enabled the rise of the modern world and modern science.  Includes 12 video clips from a TV special.
	MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery Simply fun, sometimes beautiful, sometimes humorous, always inspiring awe and wonder at the smaller creatures of creation, this collection of images are the work of one person at the U. of Hawaii. You might get lead into a research project, you might find the perfect illustration for it, and you might end up buying a microscope or two!
	Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective An exceptionally well designed and resource-filled site, on just this topic, BUT, I do warn you, it does (as you must expect) pitch evolution. If you are not up to that, don't go there. But if you have read Hey Mom, and followed the ongoing developments in this site, you should be able to handle it.  There is nothing in the Bible that denies neandertals, and some Scripture that may very well be alluding to such!  You decide, knowledgeably.
	National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Education & Public Information You'll find short courses on radio astronomy ("seeing" radio wavelengths rather than visible light) science, history,
	Chandra X-Ray Observatory Chandra is a NASA X-ray telescope in orbit, doing great things. Here you will find all sorts of materials, including games and posters and ready-to-go classroom activities all about X-ray telescopes and astronomy. For organizations there are many free extra resources, like videos and books and slides, so ... get organized!
	Science of Spectroscopy Have a brighter-than-normal Senior, or so, student on your hands?  Here's a site that will teach a lot of physics, especially about light and the rest of the EM spectrum, and atomics, and the technologies we've developed using them (from cooking to space and the frontiers of medicine and astronomy), with "virtual instruments" and experiments!
	Live From CERN Want to know about antimatter? Why? Well, its really important stuff, especially in the Big Bang cosmology and physics. So, here's the place to learn. And its neat enough, easy enough, and fun enough, even your younger student can get it. There are several tutorials and videos produced by CERN, Europe's premier physics research lab.
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