Review a comprehensive timeline featuring primary events from 1837-1901. Enhance study by investigating the Victorian painting and using the printable activities provided.

Create your own rock and mineral collection. Site shows you how to clean minerals, get organized, and it gives suggestions for display and storage.

Frequently asked rock and mineral questions are answered and illustrated.

Learn about minerals and have fun, too, playing Sedimentary, My Dear Watson, Knowledge Nuggets, Mining for Minerals (Interactive), and Minerals Matter. Downloadable features.

Do sharks blink? How many rows of teeth do sharks have? Discover the answers to these questions and many more as you peruse this website.

Small site provides information on different types of sharks: mako, thresher, hammerhead, horn, and others.

Get started on the road to becoming an expert stargazer by following these recommendations for identifying stars, planets, and constellations. Includes an example of a journal that can be used as a record of your investigations.

A fictional but historically accurate recreation of the May 1941 bombing attacks on Liverpool by the German Air Force. You can click on a 24-hour timeline and get information on what was happening during the attacks. There is also an...

Examine a timeline of Britain's involvement wih World War II beginning in September of 1939 and ending on VE Day, May 8, 1945. Deepen the study with use of the printable activities and digital display of artifacts.

Young scholars studying the Victorian Age can dig into the details depicted in a painting from the era. Enhance study with utlization of the additional activities and timeline provided.

Examine the typical Roman soldier from armor to burial during the early civilization. Additionally, enhance study with a timeline from the era and printable activities.

A comprehensive timeline of Ancient Greece from 776 BC-146 BC. To enhance learnin check out the artifacts and printable activities also provided.

Identify three images and x-rays of Egyptian mummies. Additionally, find links for activities, artifacts, and a timeline to enhance study of the early civilization.

This simulation allows the user to see the sun's arc in the sky anywhere in the world at any time. By changing the season settings the user can see how seasons affect the height of the sun's arc.

Learn about the role volcanoes have played in shaping the Earth by engaging in interactive activities such as building a volcano or learning about the lava, water vapor, and gases that erupt from volcanoes.

Learn more about the properties of minerals.

This fact sheet on the bobcat provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other interesting facts. Click the link to hear how a bobcat sounds.

This fact sheet on Anna's hummingbird provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other interesting facts. Click the link to hear how Anna's hummingbird sounds.

Take a look at aspects of drawing landscapes from horizontal lines to titles of some landscapes on display in the Birmingham Art Gallery.

Images and descriptions of events and items from World War II.

Jack Horner is a paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The character of the paleontologist in the movie Jurassic Park was based on him. His career and major contributions are described in this profile. Students...

Your students can become a citizen of Whyville, an on-line town. They can build a face, build a house, and build a business. There are tons of science experiments for them to try as well as art games at the Getty Museum. This is a great...

Learn about a sculpture by the British monumental figurative sculptor, Henry Moore, in this interactive investigation of a piece by Moore, which looks at every apsect of the piece from how it was made to who made it.

Try to identify the inventions form the Victorian era, and then learn more about each discovery.