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Teachers don’t forget! --- The Noon Day Project is
about to start. Have your students take part in a global
collaboration among students who will be comparing their observations
to determine the circumference of the earth.
Wanderings
The Institute of Geophysics, Clausthal University of Technology, has a collection of JAVA applets
simulating geophysical experiments.
Siltec has a nice collection of demonstrations for the
physical sciences.
Siltec, also, has a page on fibre optic sensors that may prove
to be of interest.
Scienceagogo offers us
the latest science news, research tidbits and science discussion.
Sunguidance
was an R&D project which
used sun sensing to guide a model rocket to fly towards the
sun or to fly nearly vertical on overcast days.
The
Clay Brothers' Video Rocketry site started as
a means of sharing their video rocketry experiments but has
now grown to include sport rocketry in general.
View the ancient cave art that was
discovered in The Chauvet Cave.
The library at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC) maintains a site listing the Nobel Laureates in Physics
from 1901 to present.
While Richard
Feynman was in graduate school, he amused himself
with the study of the behaviour of ants.
Richard Haynes sends us
the URL for ANTWEB,
a California Academy of Science web site that shows us the
vast world of ants.
What else is Feynman famous for?
What about Feynman Diagrams?
FeynDraw
is a Windows based program enabling you to easily draw scientific and mathematical
diagrams.
The
Kids Room
UNESCO --- Promoting
education and capacity building in science, technology and
the environment.
The Schoolscience
site connects the science that you learn in school to
the real world.
From
Atoms To The Standard Model is
an e-text from The Schoolscience
Site.
The
Exploratorium sells a book that shows, among other things, how you can build a square
wheeled cart that will run over a specially constructed road
bed.
The media, recently, carried a story
about a high school student who built a square wheeled vehicle
that is able to traverse a flat surface.
SciEd is an online science resource for teachers.
The
Physics Van asks --- “How reliable are answers you
find on the Web?”
NASA’s
Quest Challenges are Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage
students in authentic scientific and engineering processes.
Albert Einstein for Kids --- by Jason Haas.
The
Journal of Chemical Education contains many resources for the chemistry teacher or student. For example
see their Chemistry Comes
Alive!
Here is some additional information
on Glow Sticks and Chemiluminescence:
Suppliers
Being listed here does not constitute an endorsement by SAS or me of any information,
product or service.
Grau-Hall
Corp. --- A supplier of scientific equipment and supplies.
The
Surplus Shed is a supplier of reasonably priced optical components.
From
The Far Side
Strange Artifacts
--- The Piri
Reis Map.
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings; Evidence of Advanced Civilization in
the Ice Age --- by Dr. Charles Hapgood.
"Piri Reis and the Columbian Theory" in "Aramco
World Magazine" by Paul Lunde.
The
Piri Reis Map
--- By Prof. Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of
Wisconsin. 
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