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SCIENCE

Online Databases
Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks) (use the school login and password) This collection includes the full text of over 326 multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, and science books in eBook format.

Science Resource Center  (use the school login and password) Use this database to find thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.

Encyclopedia of Health

The Amazing Human Body (e-books)

Today's Science (use the school login and password) This database contains current science articles, biographies, photographs, and graphics, as well as information for teachers.

Oxford Reference Online (use the school login and password) This database contains about 100 dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works. Use this database for basic definitions/descriptions in such subjects as religion, medicine, history, political science, business, modern language, to name a few. This site also lists books within each subject and provides a “How to cite this entry” for each listing.

Web Sites

Biology

Biomes
 
Cells Alive This multimedia site explains cell-level biology. Includes graphics and text on plant cells, animal cells, mitochondria, and various diseases.

DNA

Gray's Anatomy The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.

Lab Report Writing

Taxonomy

Chemistry

Lab Report Writing

Periodic Table

Earth and Science


Explorations Through Time


Physics


The Laws List (Physics) Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics.

The Physics Classroom

Physical Science

NASA’s Solar System Exploration

Matsuo Bridge - Bridge Types

PBS Bridge Lab

The Physics Classroom

General Information

The Why Files: The Science Behind the News

Cement & Concrete