608/609 – Inventions/Inventors
Inventors & Entrepreneurs – WebQuest
Lemelson Center of Invention & Innovation (Smithsonian)
MIT’s Invention Dimension – Inventor-of-the-Week, Inventor’s Handbook, Games
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Making the Modern World – science & invention from 18th century to today
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions
The Tech Museum of Innovation – online exhibits
Technology at Home
Time Warp – archive of vintage technology through the decades
US Patent & Trademark Office +
USPTO Kids Site
610 – Medicine
611/612 – Human anatomy / physiology
Growing Up @ KidsHealth – info about your changing body/mind and issues older kids face
Human Anatomy Online
Medtropolis – Virtual Human Body
Tour of the Human Body
Visible Body – 3D Human Anatomy
Anatomy of the Human Heart
Brain Facts & Figures
Your Brain – interactive tour
Yucky Gross & Cool Body – zits, burps, farts, and other gross body sounds and yucky body parts
613 – Health and Diseases
USDA My Pyramid – new Food Pyramid w/ interactive features
US Dept of Health & Human Services
Healthy People 2010: Be a Healthy Person
US Natl Institutes of Health – information on various health topics
US Center for Disease Control
Access Excellence @ National Health Museum – for health & bioscience
Evaluating Internet Health Information – interactive Flash tutorial from Natl Library of Medicine
KidsHealth &
TeenHealth – interactive site sponsored by Nemours Foundation
Health Topics @ Univ Iowa Health Care – formerly Virtual Hospital
Mayo Clinic Medical/Health Info
MedicineNet – A to Z lists of diseases, symptoms, procedures, plus extensive medical terms dictionary
MedlinePlus Health Information – US Natl Library of Medicine & USNIH; includes interactive body maps
DailyMed: medication content, labeling of OTC drugs
Merck Manual of Medical Information – 2nd online edition
Netwellness – from Ohio State U/Case Western U
Rx List: The Internet Drub Index – drug information: scroll down to Taber’s Medical Encyclopedia to search for definition of any medical term or phrase
MICROBES & DISEASE
E-bug – games & resources about microbes
Infection, Protection, Detection – from Natl Museum of Health
MedMyst – follow clues to discover cause of diseases
Scrub Club – games about germs, bacteria, health. from Natl Science Foundation
Picture This – Don’t Smoke
Clorox Classroom – information on germs
Global Health Facts – interactive site about world disease/health
HealthMap – global disease alert map system
MedMyst – Medical Mysteries from Rice Univ; interactive learning adventure to discover cause of diseases
620 – Engineering
eHow.com – How to do just about everything!
How Stuff Works
This to That – advice on gluing different items together
Building Big: Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, Tunnels – a PBS site
The Bridge Site
Build a Bridge – NOVA Online
Exploring the History & Structure of Bridges
Famous Bridges Websites
Vote for 7 “New” Wonders of
the World!!
629 – Aerospace Engineering (Aeronautics, Flight)
History of Flight – American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
NASA Headquarters
NASA Office of Space Operations
NASA Human Spaceflight
NASA J-Track Satellite Tracker – tracks spacecraft, weather, search/rescue satellites
NASA NIX: NASA Image Exchange – multimedia from 8 different research centers, most copyright-free
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
Space.com – current space news
Spaceline: History of Cape Canaveral – exceptional photo gallery & many facts
UCS Satellite Database – Excel document listing facts about 800+ satellites in orbit
Tech Museum: The Satellite Site!
630 – Agriculture
636 – Pets
American Gerbil Society
640 – Home & family
Chocolate
My Pyramid – interactive food pyramid from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
650 – Business Management
Business Week’s Top 100 Global Brand Names – interactive table over past 5 years
Keyboarding & Typing Practice (Links_
670 – Manufacturing
How Products Are Made – from daily household items to electronic equipment and heavy machinery
Spinoff Database – products/services that incorporate NASA technology
Textiles Collection – 3000 digitized images of world textiles through history
680 – Manufacturing for Specific Uses – clocks/appliances/furniture/printing/clothing/recreation
690 – Buildings/Construction
The Skyscraper Page
The White House Virtual Tour
Updated May, 2010