Science

JCPL ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

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Government Websites

• Animal Congregations (Group Names) - Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of.....?
• Earthquake Information from the USGS - Earthquake news and highlights.
• Endangered Species - Species listed as threatened or endangered.
• IDEM - Indiana Department of Environmental Management provides quality environmental oversight and technical assistance for Indiana.
• Indiana Endangered Species - List of Endangered, Threatened, & Rare Species by County.
• Indiana Weather - National Weather Service
• Indianapolis Climate Averages & Records - Daily, monthly, yearly averages and records of Indiana climate.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory International, Space and Response - National security through timely global detection, understanding, and response.
• NASA Global Climate Change - Vital signs of the Planet Earth.
• NASA Images - Image of the Day Gallery along with archived images.
• NIST Chemistry WebBook - NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69
• Sun and Moon data for one day - Obtain the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon
• Toxic Release Inventory - Federal Register of Toxic Release Inventory.
• US Naval Office Time Page - U. S. Naval Observatory is charged with maintaining the DoD reference for Precise Time and Time Interval.
• USDA Plants Database - Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
• USGS Mapping Information - Maintains uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.

Organizational Websites

• Math Forum - Online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication
• EurekAlert! - Provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media.
• Science Education Foundation of Indiana - A not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage and assist young people to become scientists and engineers and to practice their professions in Indiana.
• Wildlife Rehabilitation information Directory - Find a Rehabber.

General Websites

• Calendar Zone - Calendars for all topics.
• Discovery Channel Online - Discovery is dedicated to satisfying curiosity and making a difference in people's lives.
• Distance Calculator - Latitude, longitude
• Google Maps - Maps, directions, and amenities.
• Greenwich Time: GMT - Greenwich is the place from where all time zones are measured.
• History of Mathematics - Mathematics history, biographies and topics.
• How Stuff Works - Source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.
• Indiana Geological Survey - To provide geologic information and counsel that contribute to the wise stewardship of the energy, mineral, and water resources of the state.
• Indianapolis Zoo - Will empower people and communities, both locally and globally, to advance animal conservation.
• MapQuest! Welcome! - Maps, directions, and amenities.
• Maps (Yahoo) - Maps, directions, and amenities.
• Maps and References CGRER NetSurfing - An introductory guide to some of the map and reference resources available via the World Wide Web.
• National Time -- Time in Indiana? - What time is it in Indiana?
• Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else.
• Periodic Table: Webelements - (http:///) What do you want to know about the chemical elements?
• Radio Codes & Signals - This file contains many of the radio codes & signals you hear used on the air.
• SciCentral - Best science links.
• ScienceDaily Magazine - Covers discoveries in all fields of the physical, biological, earth and applied sciences.
• Science Fair Home Page - This page is designed to aid students in the most difficult aspect of their science fair experience; getting an idea.
• ScienceWorld (Wolfram) - Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry and physics.
• SCIRUS Science Database - Searches science-specific webpages that pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
• TerraServer Homepage - Free access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States.
• TopoZone - Associated with Trails.com - has topo maps that cover the entire mapped area of the United States.
• Weights and Measures - Common equivalent weights and measures.
• What Time Is It? - To find the time in any city in the world
• World Records of the Animal Kingdom - You will find all kinds of world record animals, as well as some unimaginably creepy ones that dwell in the deepest depths of the ocean.