Online Resources

These links, selected by Technology Curator David Bibas, are great sources to learn more about structures, communications and transportation.

Southern California Earthquake Center
This website of the Earthquake Country Alliance provides very useful information from a variety of experts - earthquake scientists and engineers, preparedness experts, response and recovery officials, news media representatives, community leaders, and education specialists – which will help you better understand the science of earthquakes as well prepare for the next one.

Physics to go
Try this fun and interactive online guide to physics with games, webcasts, online exhibits and activities. A database for physics resources can be searched by resource type, content topic and grade level.

Rader’s Chem4Kids
Use this site to discover and learn about the world of matter – the stuff everything is made of.

Kids Zone
This is a portal for energy and science education with age-graded materials by subject matter.

It’s a Nano World
This website is an introduction to a traveling exhibition that introduces children and their families to the biological wonders of the nano world that’s too small to see with just your eyes.