Recommendations from the Internet Scout Project

Online Resources courtesy of the Internet Scout Project

Cool Science
(http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html)-a resource from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute contains educational science activities sorted by subject matter and academic level.

U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/
Contains 30,000 photographs taken by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1868 to the present, many of these images never published. Subject areas include "Earthquakes", "Mines, Mills, Quarries", and "Mount St. Helens". Visitors can also perform basic keyword searches, and they might wish to try out words like "dolomite", "karst", or "Colorado". Also, the site has an excellent "Portrait Gallery” containing images of famed geological pioneers.

Nature Online Video Streaming Archive
http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/index.html
Nature is an international, interdisciplinary, weekly peer-reviewed journal of science that has an impressive website that conveys its information in written, audio or video formats. The video offerings here "feature interviews with scientists, behind the research, and analysis from Nature editors."