Science Snacks are miniature science exhibits that teachers can make using common, inexpensive, easily available materials. By using Snacks in their classrooms, teachers can join their students in discovering science for themselves. Snacks are divided into easy-to-follow sections that include instructions, advice, and helpful hints. Each Snack begins with a photograph of itself, a short introduction, ... Full description.

This website is provided by ThinkQuest, a global network of students, teachers, parents, and technologists dedicated to youth-centered learning on the internet. This site discusses information about the Sun. As man's friend, the Sun helps life on Earth and gives us energy. As man's foe, it can be harmful to our health. The site discusses the science of the Sun: its parts, fusion energy, solar winds, ... Full description.

This educator's guide and selection of lesson plans is intended to accompany the observance of Sun-Earth Day, in preparation for an upcoming total solar eclipse. In addition to the lesson plans (grouped by grade level), there are links to multimedia resources such as books, games, and viewers, as well as links to additional information from related sites. Full description.

This article, entitled Mountains of Fire, describes the relationship between the types of volcanic activity and plate movement and the connection between types of volcanoes and how they erupt. The article is supported by a video of an erupting volcano, a photograph of an eruption and an animation depicting pyroclastic flow and the formation of a composite volcano. It is also supported by three sidebars, ... Full description.

This page presents information about the four principle types of volcanoes found on Earth. Diagrams showing the internal structure of each type and photographs of well-known examples are provided. Full description.

This site is part of GeoNet Internet Geography, a resource for pre-collegiate British geography students and their instructors. This page focuses on various aspects of volcanoes, including the main features of a volcano, types of volcanoes, the Ring of Fire, locations of volcanoes, volcanic flows, and case studies about specific volcanoes. Full description.

In this episode of Space Pace Live, the kids interview a cartoon version of the GOES satellite Deputy Project scientists, Andre Dress. Andre works at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He talked with Kate and Kyro about the new GOES-O (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) weather satellite as it was being prepared for launch. NASA Space Place Web site for kids ... Full description.

In this episode of Space Place Live, we meet Linda Herrell, a space mission architect, and learn that not all architects design buildings. Viewers find out how a love of French and Spanish led her to a love of computers and space technology ?and what artsy hobby she picked to use her special design skills. Space Place Live introduces kids to the human, down-to-earth side of real scientists and engineers ... Full description.

In this episode of the Space Place Web site talk show, thermal engineer Donya Douglas of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talks about her job in designing ways to keep the three tiny Space Technology 5 spacecraft at the right operating temperature in space, without adding much to their mass or need for electrical power. Cartoon characters present their own 6-7 minute talk show live from the Space ... Full description.

This science-based world map depicts the local and regional consequences of global climate change. It identifies direct manifestations of a warming trend (fingerprints), and events that are consistent with the projections for global climate change and are likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming (harbingers). These signs are linked to a full description of conditions in ... Full description.