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A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus - Webcast - A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus - A Webcast of a presentation at the Library of Congress by Sten Odenwald, PhD., NASA. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Agriculture in the Classroom - Educational resources. [U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)]

America Counts - A program equipping teachers to teach challenging mathematics, supporting high-quality research on best practices of mathematics teaching and learning; and building a public understanding of today's mathematics [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

American Anthrax - Webcast - American Anthrax - Webcast of a book talk presented at the Library of Congress by Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Security Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Amphibian Malformations and Declines - Information on amphibian malformations and links to resources. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Wildlife Health Center]

Astrogeology Research Program - Primary homepage for the Astrogeology Research Program with links to solar system, space missions, technology, data & information, research programs for geology, remote sensing, and ice & polar, hot topics, photo gallery, and Astro Kids [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Astrogeology Research Program]

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Body and Mind: BAM! - Answers kids' questions on health issues [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]

Building America - Resources for Energy Efficient Homes - A private/public partnership that conducts research to find energy-efficient solutions for new and existing housing that can be implemented on a production basis [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)]

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CDC - Family Health - Autumn Health and Safety Tips - Information about Family Health issues during the Autumn season [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]

Celebrate Spring in the National Wildlife Refuge System - Wildlife viewing opportunities abound, along with recreational and educational activities for the whole family. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

Cheetah: Science Reference Guide - A research and finding aid from the Science Reference Service at the Library of Congress [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Ciencia@NASA - Spanish translations of stories from Science@NASA. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

Climate Kids - Global warming and climate change information, games, stories, and tools for kids [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

Computer-Enhanced Science Education: The Whole Frog Project - Introduces a computer based 3D visualization of a whole frog and demonstrates the power of whole body, 3D anatomical imaging as a curriculum tool for high school biology classes [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)]

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DOE Office of Nuclear Energy Student Zone - The interactive website provides various levels of nuclear educational materials for students and teachers. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy]

Department of Energy Science Education - Provides access to online energy and science education resources [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)]

DisasterAssistance.gov - Information about disaster and local resources, help tips for disaster preparedness [U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)]

Dive and discover: expeditions to the seafloor - Distance learning Website. [Multiple agencies involved]

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Earth Day Portal - Portal for U.S. Government Events and Information related to preserving the earth and reducing energy use [Multiple agencies involved]

Earthquake Hazards Program - Information on worldwide earthquake activity, earthquake science, and earthquake hazard reduction with links to new reports, products, and services, educational resources for teachers, glossary, and current U.S. earthquake activity map. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)]

Education Program - NASA offers a rich slate of enrichment and study opportunities for students and educators, ranging from grade school to post-doctorate levels [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

Education Resources: Math & Science - Provides links to math- and science-related programs and initiatives, lesson ideas and instructional materials, and research and information of interest to students, parents, and instructors [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

Education and Outreach - A collection of educational materials for teachers, parents, and students featuring valuable learning tools on the varied aspects of agriculture, health, nutrition, and science. [U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library]

Education information and activities for students everywhere! - For kids and adults alike. [U.S. Department of Education (ED), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)]

Endangered Species Program - Homework Help - Resources to learn more about endangered species [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

Environmental Education Center - Offers a collection of fact sheets, brochures, and web pages that can be used to explain environmental issues [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

Environmental Health Student Portal - Find environmental health resources for teachers and middle school students. Include helpful information for homework, classroom experiments, science fairs, etc. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

Especially for Teachers and Students - NLM historical collections of material related to health and disease for teachers and students [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

Explorers' Club for Kids - Includes games, pictures, and stories about the environment [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

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FCC Kids Zone - Communication learning center and activities for kids [Ad Hoc Organizations, Federal Communications Commission]

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Identifies effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 science teaching and learning [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Mathematics - Identifies effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics teaching and learning [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

Federal Resources for Educations Excellence in Science (FREE) - Makes it easy to find hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning web resources [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

Fermilab Science Education Office - Prairie ecology and particle physics resources for teachers and students [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)]

Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past with Constance Carter - A special Webcast about ways people saved during hard times in the past. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

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Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) - Provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial web sites [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

Girls & Science Education: How to Engage Girls in Science - A finding aid from The Library of Congress, Science Reference Section. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Global Invasive Species Database - Species profiles for invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity. Scope:all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants in all ecosystems. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Core Science Systems (CSS)]

girlshealth.gov - Focuses on health topics to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on Women's Health (OWH)]

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Have a Safe and Fun Halloween - Tips for a fun and safe Halloween [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]

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Inquiring Minds - Discusses particle physics in general and the work done at Fermilab in particular, with Fermilab Physicist chats and Virtual Ask-A-Scientist [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)]

Introductory Physics -- Science Tracer Bullet - Introductory Physics : Science Tracer Bullets - Research Finding Aids from the Library of Congress, Science Reference Services [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Is a Coconut a Fruit, Nut or Seed? - Everyday Mysteries, Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

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Kidd Safety - Explore and play kids safety games to prevent kid injuries [Ad Hoc Organizations, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]

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Learn About Chemicals Around Your Home - Kids join a tour to learn about chemicals that may be around their home, what the dangers are and how to read the labels. [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

Let's Go Outside, Fish and Wildlife Service - Fish and wildlife upcoming events and activities for kids, parents, and educators [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

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Malaria & War: The US Antimalarial Program in World War II . - Webcast - Malaria & War: The US Antimalarial Program in World War II . Webcast of a talk by Leo B. Slater, Ph.D., Historian, US Naval Research Laboratory. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Mapping Water Use from Space - Webcast - Webcast of a talk at the Library of Congress. Martha Anderson, PhD., talks about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms. It is used to measure evapotranspiration, the total amount of water used in the process of growing crops. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Mapping the Moon with WALL·E - Webcast - Mapping the Moon with WALL·E - Marci Delaney, PhD., NASA, at at talk at the Library of Congress, shows how NASA and WALL-E partner to help students across the country learn how scientists and engineers work together to accomplish robotic missions. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Mirror Molecules - The Mirror Molecules web presentation contains mirror images and molecule activities that are intended for schoolchildren, grades 5 and up, under the direct supervition of adults [Smithsonian Institution]

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NASA Fit Explorer - Inspiring the nation’s future explorers in a variety of exciting physical and hands-on activities to encourage students to train like an astronaut! [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

NASA's Desert Rats (Desert Research and Technology Studies) - Webcast - NASA's Desert Rats (Desert Research and Technology Studies) - Webcast of a presentation at the Library of Congress by Jacob Bleacher, PhD. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

NASAKids - Information and games related to space and science for kids. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

NIST in your community - Take this tour through your community and explore how NIST works to help make everyone's life a little better each day. [U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)]

NLM Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects - The Exhibition Program of NLM promotes public education about science, medicine, and history through its creation of interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, traveling exhibitions, web sites, symposia, films, lectures, and publications. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

Nano-High - Provides upcoming and archived lectures on nanoscience from world-renowned scientists for high school students and teachers including educational resources and links. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)]

National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science (NCISLA) - Along with providing instructional resources for K-12 teachers, the Center has an intensive research program to advance [U.S. Department of Education (ED)]

National Science Resource Center - Provides improved learning and teaching skills of science for all students in the United States and throughout the world [Smithsonian Institution]

North American Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer - Bird breeding survey maps and information for the US and Canada. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Patuxent Wildlife Research Center]

Nuclear Energy Resources for Schools - Information for students at or below high school level on how nuclear reactors work, what makes certain materials radioactive, the importance of nuclear energy in the 21st century, and many other nuclear energy topics. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)]

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Observing the Living Oceans from Space. Webcast - A Webcast of a presentation by Gene Feldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Office of Environmental Education - Link to environmental education efforts throughout the agency [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

Online Particle Physics Information - Links to a variety of general science education sites including information on the discovery of the universe, physics history and diversity, ask-a-scientist resources, a large selection of physics and astronomy lessons, activities, demos and experiments. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)]

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Parents Place - Resources for parents on the safe use of electronic media for children [Ad Hoc Organizations, Federal Communications Commission]

Particle Adventure - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Particle Data Group's interactive tour of particle physics. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)]

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QuarkNet - Brings high school physics teachers and their students into the research world of particle physics. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science (SC), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL); U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)]

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Ready.gov - Kids - Kids can play games and learn how to be prepared for disasters and disaster prevention. Curriculum, activities, and safety information is provided for parents and teachers. [U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)]

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School Gardens with Constance Carter - Webcast on the history of school gardens with pictures and artifacts from the Library of Congress [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Science Education -- Science Tracer Bullet - Science Education - Science Tracer Bullets - Research Finding Aids from the Library of Congress, Science Reference Services. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Science Reference Service - Web site for Science Reference at the Library of Congress [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Science education (NIH) - Science education resources and services [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), Office of Science Education]

Science@NASA - Stories about NASA research activities and results. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

ScienceLab - Education resources from the U.S. Department of Energy - Students' go-to source... for homework help, project ideas, competitions, internships, activities, and more. [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)]

Sizing up the Universe - Interactive challenge to guess relative sizes in outer space, and then do the math to check your guesses. [Smithsonian Institution]

Smithsonian Environmental Resource Center - Research on linkages of land and water ecosystems in the coastal zone and provides society with knowledge to meet critical environmental challenges in the 21st century. [Smithsonian Institution]

Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library - Browse collections of natural science resources through the Smithsonian Digital Library [Smithsonian Institution]

South Florida Ecosystem History Project - Project is designed to integrate studies from a number of researchers compiling data from terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems within south Florida. Links to publications, maps, posters, and data of studies [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)]

SpaceKids - Space science for kids [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]

Student Center - Provides background information on a wide variety of environmental issues for middle and high school students [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)]

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Taking America's measure - Fun activities for kids! [U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)]

The Cheetah: A Race for Survival. Webcast - A Webcast of a presentation by Dr. Laurie Marker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, headquartered in the Republic of Namibia. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

The Environmental Health Student Portal - Provides a safe and useful resource for students and teachers in grades 6 – 8 to learn how the environment can impact our health. The Web site explores topics such as water pollution, climate change, air pollution, and chemicals. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

The History of Household Technology with Constance Carter - Webcast presentation by Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section of the Library of Congress, on the history of household technolgoy, with pictures and artifacts from the Library of Congress. Journeys and Crossings Series of Webcasts. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

The Nature and Science of Autumn: Science Reference Guide - A research and finding aid from the Science Reference Service at the Library of Congress [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

The Universe Adventure - Introduces the user to Cosmology: the study of the structure, history, and fate of the Universe [U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)]

Tox Town - Introduces toxic chemicals and environmental health risks in everyday life and in everyday places [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

ToxMystery - An interactive game developed for K-6 children about potential chemical hazards around the home [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]

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United States Global Change Research Program Resources for Educators - Presents Climate Literacy Framework guide; Federal grants for climate change education; Wildlife and Wildlands Tool Kit. [Multiple agencies involved]

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Volcanoes –Near, Far and Really Far Away. Webcast - A Webcast of a presentation given by Ashley Davies, Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

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Walk through time - The Evolution of time measurement through the ages. [U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physics Laboratory, Time and Frequency Division]

We Can - Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition - A national movement designed to give parents, caregivers, and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute]