American Museum of Natural History
DNA Detective
Match up the DNA code. Pupils read the website from the American Museum of Natural History about how DNA can determine whether a skin is from a particular type of reptile. Using the same technique, learners match up products with the...
American Museum of Natural History
What's the Big Deal About Paleontology?
Paleontologists could be considered detectives of the past. A quick online lesson describes the science of paleontology and the importance of fossils. Young scientists read about how paleontologists analyze the features of fossils to...
American Museum of Natural History
What's This? Sensing
There is a scallop that relies on sight so much that it actually has more than 100 eyes! There are many species that rely heavily on one sense or another. An online interactive resource has youth read about several of these animals. The...
American Museum of Natural History
What is Earth?
Humans have only inhabited Earth for a short part of its existence. An online resource explains how scientists use clues from rocks and fossils to piece together information about Earth prior to humans. The online instruction includes...
American Museum of Natural History
Beyond Planet Earth
Scholars take a journey through space with 16 eye-catching images. Along the way, learners read captions starting with the moon, then move onto asteroids, Mars, and Jupiter.
NASA
Sci Jinks: A Brief History of Lightning Detection
When was the very first lightning bolt detection device used? Find out and discover the evolution of the process.
Other
Woodland Trust: Nature Detectives
Become a nature detective when you join the wildlife club. There are an abundance of activities to do, fun things to create, games and puzzles to play, and much more all designed to help you become a nature expert.
NASA
Nasa: Imagine the Universe: "Nasa Detects One of Closest"
Site provides the article, "NASA Detects One Of Closest And Brightest Gamma Ray Bursts." Provides links to learn more about gamma rays and black holes as well as other resources.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Ccel: The Man Who Was Thursday
This site is provided for by the Christian Classics ethereal Library. Masterful detective fiction from G.K. Chesteron. Offered here in html, .rtf, .pdf, and plain text.
Other
Carbon Detectives: Find Out About Climate Change
Learn about climate change with video clips and interactive animations.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Stay Healthy
This large site from the American Cancer Society offers comprehensive information on many kinds of cancer. From the left navigation bar, click to Prevention, Early Detection, Nutrition and Prevention, or Environmental Risks.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Overview: Breast Cancer
This excellent site covers all the issues related to breast cancer. Topics include the causes of breast cancer, risk factors, prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, treatment, questions for your doctor, after treatment, and so on.
American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: Film Noir
Crime and gangster movies, detective mysteries and more -- all are of the film noir genre. Get to know the history behind this style of films.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute: Cancer Topics
This site provides information on virtually every type of cancer. Information can be found on prevention, causes, detection, treatments, research, and support groups.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Virochip Microarray Explained
Through this series of lecture videos, the creator of the Virochip technology explains how the chip detects viruses using synthetic DNA and how this technology can be useful in the medical field.
Other
Sherlockian.net : Everything the Web Offers on S. Holmes
This is an incredibly extensive site that provides any information you could possibly want about Sherlock Holmes, the detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Edgar Allan Poe
This biography features Edgar Allan Poe who introduced the genre of horror and mystery to literature in the nineteenth century with stories such as "The Raven."
Other
Jc Online: Brincanda De Detetive
Short, illustrated children's detective stories collected by the well-known "Jornal do Comercio," a Brazilian periodical. Read the stories online and see if you can help Inspector Arruda solve the mysteries.
NOAA
Noaa: National Severe Storms Laboratory: Tornadoes
Find out how tornadoes occur, how they are predicted, the smallest size, the largest size, and how they are detected.
Other
Lancaster University: Particle Physics Package: Higgs: Detector
Details on ATLAS, one of the Large Hadron Collider experiments, and on the detection of Higgs decay.
Other
Lancaster University: Particle Physics Package: Higgs
A look at where the Higgs boson exists within the Standard Model of particle physics. Explains forces in the Model (electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force) and offers thoughts on how the Higgs particle might be...
Other
Disease Detectives: Microbe Gallery
Learn in-depth details about microbes that cause disease: what is it, how to avoid it, the symptoms, and how it causes infections.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Epidemiologist
Being an epidemiologist is like being a detective, at least a medical detective. Read about the many different ways the epidemiologist looks into medical conditions to see what causes them. Science Buddies' career profile lays out the...
Other
Cern: The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment
The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS), an LHC experiment, detects muons, electrons and photons, provides momentum measurements, and, like ATLAS, is responsible for detecting the Higgs boson. This CERN website offers news about CMS,...
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