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Art and Science of Bubbles
http://www.sdahq.org/new1198/kids/bubbles/Welcome.html

Make your own bubbles. Become a bubble magician. Create bubble art and bubble sculpture, or try some of the other activities at this “bubblicious” site.

Audubon Online—The National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/educate/

The National Audubon Society wants you to get involved. At WatchList 4 Kids you can find out what you can do to help save endangered birds.

ENature.com
http://www.enature.com/main/home.asp

Listen to the sounds of more than 550 North American birds. Learn birding basics. Find out what’s in your own backyard and order a free local nature guide. Learn about butterfly gardens. And, by the way, you might also want to check out the more than 5,000 species in these online field guides.

The Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

What’s an ollie? Why do cyclists draft? How do you throw a curve ball? Could you stop a puck? In the Sport! Science section, the Exploratorium takes a special peak at the science of baseball, skateboarding, hockey, and cycling. Not into sports? Would you like to learn a new card trick? Perhaps you’d rather witness a web cast of a solar eclipse? All of these things, and more, await you at the Exploratorium Museum’s website.

The Field Trips Site
http://www.field-guides.com/

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to visit a desert or a rain forest? Have you ever wondered what a volcano or a hurricane looks like close-up? If you have, here’s your chance to satisfy your curiosity and you don’t even have to leave the comfort of your classroom or your home to take this virtual field trips.

The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Learn about the nine planets with this multimedia tour of the solar system. The tour includes sound and movies, as well as text and images.


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