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MSN Encarta

Astronomy for Kids
The solar system, planets, sun, stars, asteroids, and galaxies are all available in this site.

The Aurora Page
What is the “aurora?” What causes it to happen? Information, links, and images about the Northern Lights.

Basics of Space Flight Learners’ Workbook
This module is the first in a sequence of training modules that pertain to space flight operations activities.

The Constellations and Their Stars
Need information on stars, constellations, the Milky Way? The first thing you need to know is that constellations are not real!

Robotics: Sensing-Thinking-Acting
The Tech Museum of Innovation offers this website for upper elementary/middle school children, providing articles on history, ethics and innovation in the field of robotics. Videos, interactive games and interviews with people in the field make this site especially effective.

The Tech Museum of Innovation
The Tech Museum of Innovation is an educational resource established to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives, and to inspire the young to become innovators in the technologies of the future. Find out about computers, satellites, DNA, robotics, lasers, and more.

Two Toads
This is a free, filtered e-mail service for children that also contains games, jokes, and chat.

Web Monkey For Kids
Learn everything you need to know to create your own web site from beginning to end.

Wacky Web Tales.
Wild and crazy stories for kids. You can write a silly story just by filling in the blanks with nouns and verbs.

Gus Town
Gus is no ordinary dog. Visit Gus the dog in his cybertown and create postcards for your friends. A whole host of activities for kids.

Crayon Kid's Site
This site has some rather neat stuff for kids of all ages.

Interactive Frog Dissection
An online frog dissection tutorial brought to you by the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.

Discovery Channel Online
An invaluable resource for kids and parents.

Great Canadian Scientists
The project profiles about 20 scientists in depth. A reference section contains a list of short biographies for about 150 other great Canadian scientists. The website employs hypertext links which allow users to jump around following threads of related subjects. An online interactive quiz keeps track of scores, and an Ask a Scientist feature enables people to ask questions and get answers from real Canadian scientists via email.

The MAD Scientist Network
The MAD Scientist Network has close to 400 volunteer scientists who answer questions.

KIDS
A great list of links to child oriented sites; definitely worth a visit!