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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

General Science

Yahoo! Science News - The latest headlines related to science.

Science News Online - An overview of the latest news covering all topics of science. (Full-text of most articles is not available online.)

 

Astronomy

Discovering the Universe, 6th Edition

Astronomy Picture Of The Day

Demos and Animations for Teaching Astronomy

Moon Phase Calendar

ASP Catalog

 

Biology

Ken's Bioweb Resources - An exhaustive list of links illustrating and describing almost every aspect of General Biology and Anatomy & Physiology.

 

Chemistry

General Chemistry: An Integrated Approach, Third Edition, by Hill and Petrucci – General Chemistry text companion website with some excellent animations and video.  To access the animations and video, choose a chapter from the drop down menu, then select e-Media Activities in the left hand sidebar.

Essential Chemistry, 2/e by Raymond Chang – Excellent Flash Animations from the Chang text companion website; as an initial sampling, check out the Rutherford Experiment and Hybridization.

Orbital Images and Animations – Excellent images and animations of atomic orbitals, including images of “g” orbitals!  ( University of Sheffield site)

Periodic Table Online - Everything you ever wanted to know about any element!!

Class Notes and Practice Exams ( University of Akron site) – Site with a wide-variety of general chemistry topics

 

Environmental Science

Global Warming News - The latest headlines related to global warming.

EPA Global Warming Site - Environmental Protection Agency's Global Warming site. Well-organized and very informative.

EPA Clean Air Market Programs - Read about what the EPA is doing to reduce air pollution.

 

Physics

Fundamentals of Physics

Physics, 6th Edition

How Things Work: Physics of Everyday Life

Edmund Scientific