Sites of Interest

The following list of web sites is given to enhance the curriculum of Central A&M High School and to aid the students in their lifelong quest for knowledge.  This listing is assembled alphabetically by subject area.  As you explore and use these sites, remember to return and check out this listing as it is constantly being updated. 

Animals & Plants | Art Books | Career/College | Chemistry | Government | History & Social Sciences | Humanities |Languages | People | Science | Search Engines | Social Issues & Research Paper Topics | Space | Sports | Travel & Geography | Weather | World Wide Web Lists

 

    Animals and Plants

Australia National Botanic Gardens --- http://155.187.10.12/
Australian A to Z Animal Archive --- http://www.aaa.com.au/A_Z/Home.html
Cyber Zoomobile Animal Links ---http://www.primenet.com/~brendel/animal.html
Desert Animals --- http://www.desertusa.com/animal.html
EE-Lin Endangered Species ---http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/EndSpp/Endangered.html
Galapagaos Coalition --- http://www.law.emory.edu/PI/GALAPAGOS
National Audubon Society --- http://audubon.org/
NetVet Veterinary Resources Home Page --- http://netvet.wustl.edu/
NetVet Electronic Zoo --- http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
Searching Animal Diversity Web ---http://www.oit.itd.umich.edu/bio.biogate-p.cgi/bio/bio.index
Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database ---http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld
Seneca Zoo Park --- http://www.memo.com/zoo/exhibits
Univ.of Kentucky Dept.of Entomology-Youthfacts---http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth.htm

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Art

Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall (world-wide graffiti) --http://www.gatech.edu/desoto/graf/Index.Art_Crimes.html
Art History Resources on the Web ---http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Electric Gallery (art online) --- http://www.egallery.com/
Fractal Images and Fractal Software ---http://www.iconbazaar.com/fractals/index.html
Infinite Grid Selector (dynamic online art work) --- http://www.sito.org/
Leonardo da Vinci Museum --- http://cellini.leonardo.net/museum/main.html
WebLouvre --- http://watt.emf.net/louvre/



Books, Stories, Poems, and More

Awards for Children's Books --- http://ils.unc.edu/award/home1.html
Cyberkids magazine --- http://www.cyberkids.com/
Goosebumps!!! --- http://place.scholastic.com/Goosebumps/index.htm
Mr. Willian Shakespeare and the Internet ---http://issfw.palomar.edu/Library/SHAKE.HTM
Project Bartleby --- http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby
Shiki Internet Haiku Salon --- http://cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/
Story Resources on the Web --- http://www.cc.swarthmore.edu/~sjohnson/stories
Tales of Wonder --- http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/tales.html

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Career/College

Career Magazine Website --- http://www.careermag.com/db/cmag_index
CareerMosaic --- http://www.careermosaic.com/
Career Exploration Links ---http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/CareerLibrary/links/careerme.htm
Occupational Outlook Handbook --- http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
Peterson's Guide --- http://www.petersons.com/

Chemistry

http://domains.twave.net/users/yinon/default.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/nofr-index/index.html
http://www.xe.net/cgi-bin/curtable
http://www.tyler.net/ruskhslib/physci.htm   -- Under Chemistry Resources, click on BioChemNet: General Chemistry. The other links are good, solid resources also.
Science on the Internet --- 
http://pursuit.rehab.uiuc.edu/pursuit/sem/science.html

Cornell math and science gateway - just look under Chemistry --- http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
http://www.gwi.net/brhs/sci.html  --- Scroll down to the Chemistry links.
http://domains.twave.net/domain/yinon/default.html
http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm
http://mwanal.lanl.gov/julie/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/periodic.html
"chemical elements" as the search term using Inference.com --- http://www.infind.com/
The Internet Public Library ---  http://www.ipl.org/ --- has several sites they suggest. Go to reference and then do a search on "periodic table." The result is 4 web sites.
http://chemserv.bc/edu.web-elements/web-elements-home.html/
http://mwanal.lanl.gov/CST/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html



Government


CIA Home Page --- http://www.odci/gov/
EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) --- http://www.epa.gov/
Federal Web Locator --- http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html
House of Representatives --- http://www.house.gov/
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page ---http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
National Institutes of Health Home Page --- http://www.nih.gov/
Senate Information --- http://www.senate.gov/
Supreme Court Decisions --- http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supce.table.html
Thomas (Legislative Informatin on the Net) --- http://thomas.loc.gov/
United States Census Bureau --- http://www.census.gov/
White House --- http://www.whitehouse.gov/     

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History and Social Studies

A to Z Altapedia Online ---  http://www.altapedia.com/online/contents.htm
ABC News Country Profiles ---  http://www.abcnews.com/reference/countries
About Today's Date --- http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/daynum
Africa Information Center ---  http://www.hmnet.com/africa/1africa.html

American Memory from the Library of Congress --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem
Ancient World Web ---http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/julia/AW/subject.html
Anne Frank Online --- http://www.annefrank.com/
Ask Asia ---  http://www.askasia.org/

CIA World Factbook ---      http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html
Colonial Williamsburg --- http://www.history.org/
Consular Info Sheets ---  http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
Country Directory ---  http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Country Library ---  http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries
Countries ---  http://www.city.net/
Destinations ---  http://www.lonely/ planet.com/dest/dest.htm
Links to Embassies ---  http://www.escapeartist.com/embassy1/embassy1.htm
Electronic Embassy ---  http://www.embassy.org/
Flags ---  http://www.theodora.com/flags.html
Global Gastronomer ---http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/;hupfer/global/gastronomer.html
History Channel Hot List---http://historychannel.com/historychannel/histlist                           
History Net --- http://thehistorynet.com/
Library of Congress --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Mayaquest team --- http://www.mecc.mayaquest.com/
POTUS (Presidents of the United States) ---http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/POTUS
Population ---  http://www.undp.org/popin/wdtrends/pop/fpop.htm

Population Clock ---  http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw
Seven Wonders of the World --- http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Wonders/
Statistical profiles ---  http://www.unicef.org/pon96/statprof.htm
Today in History --- http://scopesvs.com/today
Travel ---  http://www.cdc.gov/travel/travel.htm

Valley of the Shadow (Civil War) ---http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2
US Department of State --- http://wwwodci.gov/cia/publicationsfactbook/index.html
World Bank ---  http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/country.htm


Humanities


BUBL--link to several Britich Journals--click on BUBL Journals link --- http://bubl.ac.uk/
Hemingway --- http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/pindex.html
Jane Austen ---  http://www.uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html
Literary Index --- http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
Literature Resources for High School and College Students--has an index of authors from 16th-20th centuries ---            http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/

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Languages

American Sign Language --- http://deafworldweb.org/dww/pub/english/a/asl.html
Web Spanish Lessons --- http://www.hardlink.com/~chambers/Spanish/
Math Ask Dr. Math --- http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math
MathMagic! --- http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/
Math Online Helpline --- http://www.kqed.org/Cell/math
Math Quotes --- http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot/html
This is Mega-Mathematics! --- http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math
Medicine Centers for Disease Control --- http://www.cdc.gov/
Health Hotlist --- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/health.html  
Merck Manual (click on Publications-Merck Manual) --- http://www.merck.com/  
NetWellness --- http://www.ovchin.uc.edu/
Miscellaneous Cool School Tools (Subject index) --- http://199.76.61.8/cooltools
Yahoo's Collection of Holidays ---http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Holidays
Kidlink --- http://www.kidlink.org/english/index.html
Kids on Campus --- http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Kids.on.Campus/WWWDemo/
Native Web --- http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb
World of Coasters --- http://www.rollercoaster.com/
Museums African-American Mosaic --- http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Field Museum --- http://rs6000.bvis.uic.edu/museum/Dna_To_Dinosaurs.html
Franklin Institute Science Museum --- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html
Holocaust Museum --- http://www.ushmm.org/
San Francisco Exploratorium --- http://www.exploratorium.edu/
Virtual Museum of Computing ---http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html
Music Music Resources on the Internet ---http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
Ultimate Band List --- http://www.ubl.com/
WWW Virtual Library: Music --- http://syy.oulu.fi/music.html
News and Current Events AP on the Globe Online --- http://www.boston.com/globe/ap/aphome.htm
CNN Online --- http://www.cnn.com/
CRAYON (Create Your Own Newspaper) --- http://crayon.net/
Electronic Newstand --- http://www.enews.com/monster
MSNBC --- http://www.msnbc.com/
Peter Milbury's online newspaper archives ---http://www.chs.chico.kas.ca.us/libr/webres/news-ss.html

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Miscellaneous

Virtual School Library LRC --- http://members.xoom.com/vsl/index.html

 

People


Cambridge Biographical Dictionary ---http://www.biography.com/find/find.html
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary ---http://www.tiac.net/users/parallax

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Science

For those interested in following Sen. John Glenn's space shuttle flight (scheduled for liftoff in late October), a website has been established at ---  http://shuttle.nasa.gov/future/sts95/glenn.html

American Institute of Physics ---http://www.aip.org/edugen2/education/aboutedu.htm
ASK-A-SCIENTIST archive --- http://kiwi.dep.anl.gov/askasci/askasci.html
AstroWeb --- http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html
Bill Nye: The Science Guy --- http://nyelabs.kcts.org/
Biomes --- http://www.pacific-academy.surrey.bc.ca/ms/biomes.html
Cascades Volcano Observatory Home Page (USGS) ---http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
Cell Biology Chapter --- http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/cb/cbdir.html
Cloud Gallery (great pictures) ---http://www.commerce.digital.com/palo-alto/CloudGallery/home.html
Disaster Links (Pathfinder to ... Disasters!) ---http://www.metro2.k12.mn.us/~WMcarver/disasters.html
Earthquake FAQs --- http://www.ui.nmh.ac.uk/earthquakefaq.html
Earthquake Resource Center --- http://www.comet.net/earthquake
EnviroLink --- http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html
Environmental Organization Web Directory --- http://www.webdirectory.com/
Eye of the Storm (Hurricanes and tropical storms) ---http://www.orlandosentinel.com/hurricane/
Greenpeace --- http://www.greenpeace.org/
Eye on the World: Our Violent Planet ---http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html
Hot news on Earthquakes from the USGS. in Calif. --- http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/
JASON Project (Ballard's Titanic Site) --- http://www.jasonproject.org/
The Mad Scientist Network --- http://medinfo.wustl.edu/~ysp/MSN
Museum Hotlist --- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/museums.html
NPR Science Friday Kids Connection --- http://www.npr.org/sfkids
NWF (National Wildlife Federation) Links ---http://www.nwf.org/nwf/lib/links.html
Ocean Planet Homepage --- http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
Outside --- http://outside.starwave.com/
Planet Earth (science and lots of other topics) ---http://www.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info.html
Rainforest Action Network --- http://www.wideopen.igc.apc.org/ran/index.html
Super-Sci Spots ---http://cabinrun.bciu.k12.pa.us/newhopesole/teachers/personal/klee/scispots.htm
Terraquest --- http://www.terraquest.com/
United States Geological Survey --- http://info.er.usgs.gov/
University of Calif. Museum of Paleontology (Dinosaurs) ---http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/
Virtual Frog Dissection Kit (Whole Frog Project) ---http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html
Volcanoes (Michigan Technological University) ---http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/
Volcano World Home Page --- http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
WebElements ---http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/web-elements-home.html
WWW Cell Biology Course --- http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/cell.html


 

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Search Engines (Keyword search)


Alta Vista --- http://altavista.digital.com/
Excite --- http://www.excite.com/
HotBot --- http://www.hotbot.co/m
Infoseek (Ultraseek) --- http://www.infoseek.com/
Lycos --- http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
MetaCrawler --- http://www.metacrawler.com/
Newstrawler --- http://www.newstrawler.com/
Search engines --- http://www.spectraweb.ch/gigermd/search.htm
Snap --- http://www.snap.com/
W3 Search Engines (collection of search engines) --- http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
WebCrawler --- http://webcrawler.com/
WWWW (World Wide Web Worm) --- http://guano.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/wwww.html
Yahoo --- http://www.yahoo.com/
All The Web --- http://www.alltheweb.com/

 

 


Social issues and research paper topics


Hot Paper Topics --- http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/Hot/hotindex.htm
Knowledge Source - Hot Topics --- http://www.sirs.com/tree.social.htm
Prevention Yellow Pages (Topics: Gangs, drugs, etc...) ---http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/prevention/40001ref.html
Research paper topics --- http://www.researchpaper.com/

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Space


NASA --- http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA projects online --- http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Galileo homepage) --- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Mt. Wilson Observatory --- http://www.mtwilson.edu/
Nine Planets ---http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Northern Lights Planetarium --- http://www.uit.no/npt/homepage-npt.en.html
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ---http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/NASMpage.html
Spacelink --- http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/



Sports


96 Olympics --- http://www.gatech.edu/olympics/intro.html
ESPNet --- http://espnet.sportszone.com/
SportsLine USA --- http://www.sportsline.com/

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Travel and Geography

Color Landform Atlas of the United States ---http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Country Selector --- http://www.wtgonline.com/info.html
Flags of all kinds --- http://155.187.10.12/flags/flags.html
Great Globe Gallery --- http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/globl.htm
Hotel Guide --- http://www.hotelguide.ch/
How Far is it? --- http://www.indo.com/distance
Internet Travel Network (airline reservations) ---http://www.itn.net/cgi/get?itn/index
Jerusalem Mosaic (Tour the sites of the city) ---http://www1.huji.ac.il/jeru/jerusalem.html
National Geographic Magazine --- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
The Perry-Castaneda Library MapCollection---http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Travelocity --- http://www.travelocity.com/
Virtual Tourist (maps) --- http://www.vtourist.com/webmap
Virtual Tourist II (information) --- http://www.vtourist.com/vt
State Department Current Travel Warnings - http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

 



Weather


National Center for Atmospheric Research ---http://www.ucar.edu/WeatherInfo.html
WAND Weather Dopler --- http://www.wandtv.com/
Weather Channel Online --- http://www.weather.com/
Weather Net --- http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet

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World Wide Web Lists


TradeWare Galaxy --- http://galaxy.einet.net/
World-Wide Web Virtual Library-Subject Catalogue ---            
        http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
Yahoo Collection --- http://www.yahoo.com/
Yanoff's Internet Services --- http://www.spectracom.com/islist

 

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