A collection of exhibits that can be found online allowing students to research the museums' artifacts and displays. Exhibits include earth science and dinosaurs topics.

Detailed instructions, with photographs for every step, for how to build a coral reef diorama.

This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.

Gray wolves were a frequent sight on the American plains, however, they are now an endangered species despite attempts to reintroduce them to their former habitats in the continental United States. Learn about their natural history in...

Are plates of armor, horns, exceptionally large heads, and bony plates examples of dinosaur display or defense? Visitors to this resource will learn what scientists have concluded about the purpose of these peculiar dinosaur features.

As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site discusses the primary types of meteorites including iron meteorites, stony-iron meteorites, and stony meteorites.

Part of an online exhibit on bats, this section focuses on bat senses: sight, olfaction (smell), echolocation, and hearing.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the importance of Nature in Chinese Art. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.

The Coelophysis is New Mexico's official state fossil. It lived in the late Triassic Period and has only been found in New Mexico. Popular questions about this dinosaur are answered here. In addition, there are numerous documents about...

Explore the culture, beliefs, and people of the Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast.

With this resource, learners can read about family relations, the importance of corn and water to the Hopi, their wedding traditions, and what continues to sustain this long-lived culture.

Flip this interactive card to start learning about chromosomes, tiny, spaghetti-like packages of information. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about chromosomes.

Flip this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about the common dolphin, such as its habitat, diet, and physical characteristics.

Turn over this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about how animals communicate.

Turn over this interactive card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and similar bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the continental shelf.

Learn a few facts about the Jurassic period from this interactive Ology card that also includes questions that can be answered. There is some information about Pangaea and dinosaurs.

Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand important characteristics of invertebrates.

Uncover facts about invasive species by turning over this interactive OLogy card.

An experiment to test what happens when ocean water hits a freshwater estuary. Each step is demonstrated with photographs and the difference between salinity and density is explained.

Do you have what it takes to go on a space mission to the Red Planet? Think you can handle it? Take this quiz to find out!

Learn about the natural history of the zebra in text and images, a relative of the horse that inhabits the Serengeti in East Africa and other parts of Africa.

Bite-size introduction to two scientists-Hubble and Lemaitre-who played key roles in formulating the theory of the origin of the universe known as the big bang. Includes an interactive timeline on which you can plot out the approximate...

Using an example of light bouncing back and forth between two mirrors in a rocket, time dilation is explained in this resource. Step-by-step calculations using Einstein's time dilation equation are shown.

Get started on the road to becoming an expert stargazer by following these recommendations for identifying stars, planets, and constellations. Includes an example of a journal that can be used as a record of your investigations.