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I haven't checked out these sites, but they're are listed at ds's school's website -

http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/science%20standards.htm

All sites are free -

The Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cool Science
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

NeoK12
http://www.neok12.com

University of Virginia Virtual Lab
http://www.virlab.virginia.edu/VL/home.htm/state/0

This is a free site DD loves. It's great for the younger set. She especially loves reading the science articles and the food chain game.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/science.htm

These are all great additions. Added, and thanks to all of you!

Have you tried Body Browser from google labs? It looks great on my pc from work on Google chrome. Not so hot on my Mac at home. http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com

Hi, I had started a thread because I didn't find this one by searching. I'm just going to cross post what was added to that thread if that's ok...

Science websites that you love for reference, entertainment, beauty?
Just reading a thread on birding that had a link to enature.com which I have never come across in my surfing for neat things for my DS5. I searched for one of those "ultimate" threads on this topic but didn't find any, so here goes. I'd love to get links to science sites people love, as I said, for reference, entertainment, beauty. Here are some of mine off the top of my head, I'll have to go digging for other favs.

Beak

http://enature.com
and links therein to all kinds of NASA information, images and video. Discovery going up for the last time today made me teary.
http://www.stellarium.org/ amazing planetarium software that you can download and run. you can zoom in/out, run time in forward and reverse, many more options that I haven't explored.
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/p/thematic-book-lists.html great science and nonfiction book recommendations, and fiction as well
http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/index.html electron microscopy images, limited explanations but beautiful
http://www.tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html this site is extensive but still a work in progress. many pages have large link lists to university and museum web resources

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ has some amazing videos and interactive graphics about genetics and molecular biology. a particularly great one is: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

http://www.zooniverse.org/home
A set of citizen science projects. Use real data and find new planets using Kelper telescope data, help map the moon, look for new galaxies. These and other activities based on neat data-heavy science.

Beak