Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online exhibition about Exploring Planets, this describes and gives visuals of telescopes, probes and fly-by aircrafts, orbiters, and landers as current methods for earth and airborne...

The Museum of Pop Culture (formerly the Science Fiction Museum) is located in Seattle, Washington, and this site provides information on the exhibits connected with the museum and information on educational outlets at the museum.

A virtual exhibit featuring sports legends and great Olympians from more than a dozen sports. See artifacts from the Smithsonian's sports collection, and explore the exhibition spotlights on athletes who dominated their sports.

This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.

This site is full of easy to understand information about fungi. From science to folklore and funky facts there is something for everyone.

From the Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia this is the graphic designer section of the on-line exhibit and activity center, "Australian Designers at Work". This page examines the life and work of graphic designer Ray Parslow.

This printable guide is to be used in conjunction with the African Vision web site from the NMAfA. It offers six different activites to try on your own including connections between art and science as well as some games.

Explore the ways that immigrant women have transformed America socially, politically, and economically.

600 Million Years is a permanent exhibition at the Melbourne Museum that examines how Australia evolved through the geological ages, and the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life that lived in the Victoria area in the distant past. The...

A short electronic booklet with images and descriptions of medieval torture methods, taken from exhibition materials at this museum.

Displays and explains James Ensor's painting, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889. Also gives the history of the painting. Accompanied by its provenance, exhibitions it was in, a bibliography, a lesson plan for K-2, and audio recordings...

Enter a virtual movie theater and learn about art of the 1930s in the United States. Exhibitions include: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People.

The poles of the earth are often grouped together, however, they are very different. This article is a companion to the exhibit at the Smithsonian. You will learn about adaptations that organisms must make and ways that we affect the...

How do you bring justice to the millions of people killed in German concentration camps? The Nuremberg Trials attempted this challenge. Study how SS officers were put on trial and punished using the following primary sources. Included...

A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of the Albertosaurus dinosaur.

Find out where each African pot was made. Watch the country light up on the map and read a little bit about how it was created.

In ancient times only five planets were known: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Learn about Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory for the solar system that was to survive for fourteen centuries.

The role played by women in the history of southwest Newfoundland is profiled in this exhibit.Authentic photographs and stories of these hard working fisherwomen are included.

It was the goal of reporter L. Hubbard to complete an expedition into the interior of Labrador where no white man had previously gone. The exhibit profiles his ill-fated journey as well as the later successful one of his wife, Mina....

The tragic sinking of the Valencia off the coast of B.C. and the navigation improvements which followed are profiled. Archival photos and documents are included in the exhibit.

What did Northern America look like 16,000 years ago? Were the plants the same? What happened to the mastodons and the saber-toothed cats? Here's a short website that is easy-to-understand and supplies at least some of the answers.

Here is a brief article on the use of pictograph robes to record the "stories of battles, horse raids," and other events. Click on part of the pictograph robe photograph to read the story recorded on that portion.

Read a description of poison dart frogs and listen to them online.

The plate tectonics and other features of the Earth's lithosphere are explained and illustrated. Has links to definitions of the magnetosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.