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...

This student-friendly tour of the UC Berkeley Art Museum features fun online activities and a tutorial on how to read a museum label.

The National Gallery of Art has created this impressive gateway to make its vast collections accessible to children. Colorful, fun, and interactive. With links to an "Art Zone," where kids can make art online, to downloadable guides for...

An investigation where students design and build a bridge, using only straws and tape, that must support a weight.

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.

An excellent article about how Orville and Wilbur Wright's interest in flight developed and led to the first airplane flight.

Learn about the development of early clocks from the 14th through to the 19th centuries.

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...

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.

Online exhibit of artifacts from Britain's Dark Ages, 410-1160, provided by the Dumfries and Galloway Museum Services. Each image is accompanied by a description and directions to the site of the artifact.

A NewsHour interview with Kirk Varnedoe, curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art, on the life, work, and influence of Jackson Pollock. The interview revolves around Pollock's breakthrough drip paintings and is interspersed with...

Part of a year-long high school biology class online project, this page discusses the two major roles of lysosomes.

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

An activity where students simulate the process of extracting coal from the ground using chocolate chip cookies. They then calculate the costs involved to determine whether coal mining is profitable.

Become an engineer, and design a submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine. Try making it sink, float, and hover in the water.

An experiment where students remove DNA from strawberries using everyday materials.

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.

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.

Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Mansa Musa.