Science Weblinks and Search

"We're not in the middle of the cornfield any more: we're in the middle of the electronic universe!"

(From UNI Publication, Northern Iowa Today, Winter 1994, P.14)

Visit the Iowa Corn Cam. This local site has been featured in the media and visited by thousands if not millions throughout the world. http://www.iowafarmer.com/corn_cam/

General Education Links

Grant Wood AEA Science Links http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/instruct/science.html

Jason Project Science Links http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/instruct/jason_11_links.html

Educational links from K to 12. Also has games. http://www.homeworkspot.com/

Internet Public Library offers references, online texts, and sites. ipl.org

Collection of research links for term papers. http://trfn.clpgh.org/education/k12/homework/

Discovery School has over 600 Links bjpinchbeck.com

Earth Science

Solar Picture http://www.ips.gov.au/asfc/current/solar.html

Recent Earthquakes and Active Volcanoes http://hsv.com/scitech/earthsci/quake.htm

Pictures of minerals http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/bestgall.htm

Your Weight on Other Planets and other celestial objects http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html

Current view of the moon http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=320&opt=-l&lat=355.75&ns=North&lon=354.826&ew=West&alt=34299&img=Moon.evif

Weather Links

National Weather Map from Intellicast Go to www.intellicast.com

Ag weather links http://www.meteor.wisc.edu/~hopkins/wx-links/ag-wxurl.htm

6 to 10 day forecast http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/

U.S. Weather Radar Image from Intellicast Go to www.intellicast.com

Des Moines Weather Radar from Intellicast Go to www.intellicast.com

Cedar Rapids Weather http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KCID.html

Weather Watch Graphics http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/wwa/

U.S. Precipitation totals for the previous 24 hours http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Precipitation/

United States State By State Snow Depth http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/season_update/snow_map/state_sg.html

Infrared view of earth http://www.goes.noaa.gov/FULLDISK/GEIR.JPG

Infrared view of earth, GOES East http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/images/ecir.html

Current Text Forecast, Cedar Rapids http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iwszone?Sites=:iaz052

Wapsi River information at Independence, IA. Start with this link. http://ia.water.usgs.gov/

 USGS Water Resources in Iowa. Start with this link http://ia.water.usgs.gov/

View the North-Linn Troy Mills Campus Water Well Log. The well number is W-20259. If you surf around this site you may find well information for your water supply by township. http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/geosam/

Weather at Davis Station Antarctica http://www.antdiv.gov.au/stations/davis/video.html

Russian weather for selected cities http://meteo.infospace.ru/cities/html/index.ssi

El Nina, La Nina Information http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/1997.html

An alternative view to Global Warming http://www.pewclimate.org/

Home Power Magazine Home Page http://www.homepower.com/

Official US time http://www.time.gov/

US Patent Database http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

Many Science Links from Iowa Academy of Science http://ists.pls.uni.edu/links/links.html

Amateur Radio Information http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html

Interesting Information

The physics of sports www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html

Simple explanations for science questions http://www.extremescience.com/

Science behind the news http://whyfiles.org/

Space Information

Take a Virtual Flight with NASA http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/index.html

Some Search Engines

Google.com

Dogpile.com

Altavista.com

Yahoo.com

This website gives a list of many search engines. http://infopeople.org/src/chart.html

This site lists popular search engines along with a nice description of each. http://spurr.pls.uni.edu/es/search_engines.html

Search and information http://www.uni.edu/darrow/frames/

Darrow's Search Tools http://www.uni.edu/darrow/reference/search.html

Math Sites

The Math Forum http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

Make your own flashcards http://www.aplusmath.com/

Reference Websites

http://www.thesaurus.com/

http://www.dictionary.com/

Online Dictionary http://www.yourdictionary.com/

www.iTools.com/research-it/ Contains a thesaurus, a word translator, quotations, maps, telephone books, convert currency, view stock quotes, track shipping, and search

Search for quotations that contain certain words or a topic. Dictionary can speak the word. www.bartleby.com/99

Links to reference works http://www.jiskha.com/

General Reference http://www.refdesk.com/

 Biology Sites

Monterey Bay Aquarium E-quarium http://www.mbayaq.org/

 

 Revised on 5-2-06