This site contains many links to ongoing exhibits, helpful natural history information, and other fun and educational links, including a "Just for Kids" link. Great place for the natural history bunk!

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...

On this site, you will learn all about Paleontology, the study of ancient life. It defines paleontology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.

This history project features an old Norse game that is found in many Viking and Norse sites. It consists of a board and game pieces like chess and checkers. Students can make their own board and playing pieces and challenge each other...

Flip this interactive card to start learning about tornadoes, nature's most powerful storms. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about tornadoes.

Through this resource, students explore the history, causes, effects, and patterns of El Nino.

The single-lens eye is found on all vertebrate animals. Learn about the main parts of this eye and the purpose each serves.

You will find the most commonly asked shark questions in this comprehensive site. Topics include shark basics, shark biology, shark conservation, shark attacks, and shark research.

Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.

Students can follow these easy steps to develop a model (drawing) of their room and the things in it. Then they can broaden the drawing to include their entire floor, apartment, or house.

Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.

A how-to science project with instructions to make a complete dinosaur bone dig site burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.

This site focuses on underwater animals that create their own light using bioluminescence. It also provides the lyrics and audio of a catchy tune putting bioluminescence in the spotlight.

Step-by-step details for building a rock collection, beginning with collecting specimens, moving on to observing and sorting rocks, and finishing with displaying the collection. Includes a data table for keeping track of all your...

A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of the Albertosaurus dinosaur.

This Smithsonian website has a brief, but thorough, article on the Lemmings that also includes a picture and a quote from naturalist Edward Nelson.

Are spiders insects? Do you really swallow spiders while you're sleeping? Myths and questions related to spiders are addressed on this site. Links to additional information can also be found here.

Find out the background of the mythical cyclops from Greek mythology. It might surprise you! Flashcard format.

An interactive program educating learners about the domestication of animals.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about Drinker Nisti, an ornithopod from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous period. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this dinosaur.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about Alxasaurus Elesitaiensis, a big-clawed therizinosaur. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this herbivorous dinosaur.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about Protoceratops Andrewsi. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this herbivorous dinosaur.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about the island of Taiwan. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this small country that is sometimes called Formosa.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about the Big Bang. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this giant explosion that began the Universe billions of years ago.