Owl and Mouse

Help your child learn with games, software and educational activities from Owl & Mouse Educational Software. Early reading software—phonics software, alphabet games, and Dolch sight words in a fairy tale story. All of it FREE! Free online USA maps, world maps, map of Europe, map puzzles of the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and many more. You can build your own castle and coat of arms—free downloads.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/map-puzzles.htm

Discovery's Yuckiest site on the internet

Learn the science behind all kinds of yucky things.

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/index.html

Starfall

Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.

http://www.starfall.com/

Fact Monster

Here, you’ll find an almanac, homework center, atlas, dictionary and encyclopedia for younger students.

http://www.factmonster.com/

Earth Album

Earth Album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr

http://www.earthalbum.com/

The Size of Our World

Great pictoral on the comparison of sizes of planets.

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Discovery

The Discovery channel website.

http://dsc.discovery.com/

Live Science

A website dedicated to the Science studies.

http://www.livescience.com/

Kids Know It Network

KidsKnowIt Network's innovative math skills development programs are research based, and really work. Use the free math games and math activities to review, and keep your math wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic brain skills that are required to succeed with math.

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/

Net Knots

A website with interactive video instruction of how to tie the best knots.


http://www.netknots.com/index.html

MadSci Network

The MadSci Network made its debut in September of 1995 as part of Washington University's Young Scientist Program, a student-run organization dedicating to improving science literacy among K-12 students in St. Louis. Since that time, the site has evolved into an interactive science teaching and community outreach tool, staffed and maintained by volunteer scientists and engineers from around the world. The MadSci Network fields questions in 26 different subjects, covering topics in astronomy, the biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, and physics. In 1999 alone, more than 900 scientists volunteered their time to answer more than 25,000 questions from K-12 students and the general public.

http://www.madsci.org/

Enature

eNature.com is the web's premier destination for information about the wild animals and plants of the United States. Over past years, eNature has consistently been one of the Internet' most-visited sites for nature and wildlife information and has won numerous awards and accolades.

The site's core content of wildlife information about almost 6,000 individual species is the same data set used to create the printed Audubon Field Guides. All the data has been carefully reviewed and vetted by leading biologists, zoologists and other natural history specialists.

http://www.enature.com/home/

Animal Diversity Web

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Tree of Life

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.

http://tolweb.org/tree/