Links and Resources

Education Sites

• Carroll County Public Schools
• Eldersburg Elementary School
• School Improvement in Maryland - How Do Schools Improve Student Performance?
• Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)

Community Sites

• Carroll County Public Library
• Carroll County Government
• Carroll County Department of Recreation and Parks

Parents Sites

• National PTA
• Maryland PTA
• Carroll County Council of PTA's
• Scholastic
• ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids
• KidSource Online
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Kids Sites

• Cybrarian
• Fun Brain
• LearningPlanet.com
• FirstGov for Kids
• Discovery Kids
• Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
• Crayola
• TeachersFirst's Brain Twisters
• Sliding Puzzles
• Etch A Sketch
• Zoopz.com - Games that make you think

Groovy Science Sites

• www.sandlotscience.com
  An incredible e-collection of illusions with tons of optical tricks, brain dazzlers, mind benders, apparitions, chimeras, mirages, plus a few mysterious and addictive games.
• www.michaelbach.de/ot/
  Collection of 61 optical illusions and visual phenomena, complete with scientific explanations. If the explanations are so technical that they sound like rubbish, just enjoy the phenomenon. They're really cool!
• www.coolopticalillusions.com
  Updated frequently with cool new optical illusions.
• http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/
  Comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions. This award-winning collection consists of interactive demonstrations, up-to-date and reliable scientific explanations, school projects, illusion artwork, interactive puzzles, 3D graphics, suggested reading lists, bibliographies, perception links, and much more.
• www.coolmagnetman.com
  Cool experiments with magnets
• www.exploratorium.edu
  Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. The site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics involving science, art and human perception.
• www.stevespanglerscience.com
  Hundreds of at-home science experiments, many with video demonstrations. Plus, a comprehensive resource for science supplies, kits, and toys. Great source for fun, educational gifts.
• school.discovery.com/
  A multidimensional site with innovative materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.
• www.teachersource.com
  Link to Educational Innovations, a company owned and operated by teachers to sell safe science products that are appropriate for the classroom and equally fun to do at home. Lots of interesting kits and experiments.
• www.stardate.org
  StarDate is the public education and outreach arm of the University of Texas, McDonald Observatory, and gives visitors detailed descriptions of what they'll see when they look up at the sky on any given night. Check the site to see if there was a full moon on the day you were born, when and where to see a good meteor shower, how to recognize the various constellations and lots more! Great beginner tips for learning about astronomy.
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
  Extraordinary progression of photos that begin with a view of the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth and continue through space, towards the earth in successive orders of magnitude to a tall oak tree in Tallahassee, Florida, then to a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. This is really amazing!