FAVORITE LINKS & BOOKS TO READ – Please understand that this section is always a work in progress.  Contact me if a specific website no longer works.  I update them once a year but things change….

Last Updated 6/15/07

 

General Science:

How Stuff Works – www.howstuffworks.com

Exploratorium – www.exploratorium.edu

Roller Coaster Physics – www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/coaster.html

Mad Sci Network – www.madsci.org

Why Files – www.whyfiles.org

Space – www.space.com

Laws – www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws

National Geomagnetism Program –

    http://geomag.usgs.gov/

 

Science Fair, & Contest Information

Science Fair – http://science.ucok.edu/cms/sf

Oklahoma Junior Academy of Science –

         www.oas.ucok.edu/OJAS/Regsch.htm

Oklahoma Engineering Fair –

        www.ospe.org/main.asp?org+2&rip=76

Science Fair Ideas: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

 

Astronomy Websites:

Resources for Astronomy on the WWW:  http://www.regulusastro.com/regulus/astrolinks/index.html

OKC Astronomy Club - www.okcastroclub.com

Ten Acres Odyssey Astronomy Club –

     http://hometown.aol.com/orion2C/tenacreobservatory.html

Astronomical Society of the Pacific –

    www.astrosociety.org

NASA – www.nasa.gov

Hubble Space Telescope – www.hubblesite.org

Lewis Center for Educational Research (Radio Astronomy) –

      www.lewiscenter.org/gavrt/

International Dark Skies Association – www.darksky.org

Astronomy Picture of the Day –

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Constellation Stories –

    http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Constellations/constnavi.html

    http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/

    http://www.eaaa.net/strstory.htm

    http://www.pooh-corner.org/Archive/constellations.html
    http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/

    http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/const_sources.html

    http://www.frostydrew.org/observatory/index.htm

    http://www.virtualclassroom.org/99/vc_04/cons_stars/cons/myth_cons.html

    http://www.astromax.org/con-page.htm 

    http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm

    http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/startales3.htm

    http://www2.potsdam.edu/islamma/Phys335Constellations.htm

    http://www.starryskies.com/The_sky/constellations/index.html

    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

    http://www.ufrsd.net/staffwww/stefanl/myths/stories.htm

    http://www.theoi.com/Cat_Astraioi2.html

    http://www.logoi.com/links/nativeamericans/shawnee_myths.html

 

 

 

 

 

    Sun and Solar Flares –

   http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

   http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/

Bad Astronomy website: http://www.badastronomy.com/intro.html

Sky & Telescope Magazine: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/

Sky and Telescope’s Week at a Glance: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance

For information about Iridium flares and how to determine Iridium Flares for your locale: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/satellites/3307166.html

(You must sign on yourself and/or go to the Heavens Above website:  http://www.heavens-above.com/)

 

 

 

Recommended Books for Astronomy to Read:

Find the Constellations - H.A. Rey

Any Atlas of the Stars or Night Sky/

First Audubon Guide to the Night Sky

Turn Left at Orion -Consolmagno & Davis

Star Lore

Patterns in the Sky

Night Watch -

Origins- De Grasse Tyson & Goldsmith

Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel

Longitude/Sobel (I like the illustrated edition and you will, too!)

Planets/Sobel

Infinite Worlds

Bad Astronomy
The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene

A Brief History of Time -

 

College Prep Biology- 

Websites:

Defenders of Wildlife -  http://exxposeexxon.defenders.org/site/PageServer?pagename=exxon_exxonmovie&JServSessionIdr006=2qr02rqos1.app25a

Evolution – http://www.okc.cc.ok.us/biologylabs/Documents/Evolution/Evolution.htm

Cell Cycle – http://www.biology.arizona.edu/Cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html

The Cell – http://www.biology.arizona.edu/CELL_BIO/cell_bio.html

Cell & Molecular Biology On-Line Projects – http://www.cellbio.com/research.html

Biology On-Line “The Skinny” Version - http://www.troy.k12.ny.us/thsbiology/skinny/skinny.html

Cell Biology Resources On-Line for Educators - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cellbiology.htm

Audubon Society - http://www.audubon.org/

Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/

 

Recommended Books to Read:

The Double Helix

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

The Sand County Almanac

A Silent Spring

Since Silent Spring
Microbe Hunters

The Life of a Cell

Guns, Germs, & Steel

Plague
The Blind Watchmaker

An Inconvenient Truth

A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise:
20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World
Edited by Bonnie Tsui

 

Don’t just take my work for it! Lists Compiled by others:  Check it out! 

http://www.mnstate.edu/weibust/readings.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Books-for-biology-students/lm/13PGIDU2P0T1

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3568(198807%2F08)38%3A7%3C490%3ARBTTGB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

http://www1.br.cc.va.us/murray/Serendipity/Resources/Links.htm

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/frontiers/books.html