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Microsoft Worldwide Telescope - Teach Astronomy
Worldwide Telescope is a free Microsoft application that lets you travel through outer space. You can pan in and zoom in close to moons, planets, solar systems and galaxies. Images are taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and ten earth-bound telescopes.
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(09/01/2008)
(in freeware)
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
The Great Plant Escape - Teach Kids Plant Science
The Great Plant Escape is an interactive website that teaches plant science using mystery cases that students must solve. It was created by the University of Illinois Extension for fourth and fifth grade students.
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(06/02/2008)
(in online)
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/
Phun - 2D Physics Simulations Sandbox
In Phun, you can create objects of different shapes and density, connect them with chain or springs, fixate them and then press the "play"-button and watch them interact.
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(03/19/2008)
(in freeware)
http://www.phun.at/
Nobelprize.org - Educational Games and Simulations
The nobelprize.org website hosts a large collection of high quality educational Flash games, on subjects related to the Nobel Prize. The productions are aimed at young people, who may know about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates, but often lack a deeper understanding about the Nobel Prize-awarded works.
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(02/01/2008)
(in online)
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/
Kidsknowit.com - Free Educational Websites, Movies and Music
Kidsknowit.com is the hub of a network of children's educational websites. It has a number of subsites on topics such as astronomy, animals, spelling, math, history and geology.
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(09/08/2007)
(in online)
http://www.kidsknowit.com
Solve Elec - Electrical circuits Analysis and Resolution
With Solve Elec you can draw and analyze electrical circuits functioning in direct current, get literal formulas and values for current intensities and voltages defined in the circuit and verify circuit related equations.
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(03/05/2007)
(in freeware)
http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html
Howstuffworks.com - Learn How Everything Works
On the website howstuffworks.com, you will learn how computers, cars and cell phones actually work. Or learn something new about the human body, such as why you have two lungs but only one heart.
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(02/16/2007)
(in reference)
http://www.howstuffworks.com
Stellarium - A Free Planetaruim
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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(08/25/2006)
(in freeware)
http://www.stellarium.org/
e-Tutor - Online Graph Calculator
This simple and neat online graphing software draws graphs from mathematical equations. You can draw several graphs at once and see how they interact, and you can zoom in and out and move the origin.
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(08/20/2006)
(in online)
http://www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing
IrYdium - Virtual Online Chemistry Lab
The amazing Virtual Laboratory IrYdium allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real chemistry laboratory. It allows students to design and perform diverse experiments. Requires Java.
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(08/10/2006)
(in online)
http://www.chemcollective.org/vlab/vlab.php