The Dirt on Soil is a Discovery School site that provides a neat explanation of the importance of soil and how fragile it is. The Flash animated Soil Safari is pretty cool. The URL is http://school.discovery.com/
schooladventures/soil/index.html

Mount Washington Observatory: The Big Wind has a neat little animation and other easy to read information about the Beaufort Scale. The URL is http://www.mountwashington.org/discovery/
arcade/wind/index.html

Ever wondered why all the fuss about wind energy? Wind with Miller is a an animated introduction to how wind turbines work. The URL is http://www.windpower.org/en/kids/index.htm

Welcome to EcoKids! has games, activities, printable pages and information for kids and teachers about wildlife, science & nature, energy and environmental issues. This Canadian site is very appealing at http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm

Science Blog: Open Science Directory is a very extensive list of links to thinks educationally science. The blog itself is a great resource. The URL is http://www.scienceblog.com/community/phpodp/odp.php?
browse=/Science/Educational_Resources/

The Standards Site: Science at key stages 1 and 2 is from the Bitish Department for Education and Skills. It has a series of teaching units that can be viewed online or downloaded. The URL is http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/science/?view=get

The weather: How to measure the weather is a page that is part of a UK based project. It contains some nice simple ideas on apparatus to measure weather. The URL is http://www.4seasons.org.uk/projects/weather/measure.htm

Meteorology-Online is a very well put together Thinkquest site all about things meteorological. It has a range of sections and is written by students for students. The URL is http://library.thinkquest.org/C0112425/

Australian Insects Common Names is a great site if you want to identify not only Australian insects but other minibeasts as well. Maintained by the CSIRO, the URL is http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/index.htm

Weather Wiz Kids is maintained by meteorologist Crystal Wicker. It has all the usual weather bits plus a few more. The Weather Experiments are interesting. The URL is http://www.weatherwizkids.com/index.htm

For some great commentaries on the science behind lots of everday items then you need to check in regularly atBill Hammack's Engineering & Life Public Radio Program. If you wish you can even subscribe and get Bill's commentaries each week via email. The URL is http://www.engineerguy.com/index.htm.

If you didn't know that there are four not three states of matter then you might like to check out this Commentary: Plasmas from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio Program. Bill tells in laymans terms of some of the very important roles that plasmas play in our everday life. You can even listen to a commentary on plasmas using RealAudio. The URL is http://www.engineerguy.com/comm/4471.htm.

Welcome to Kids Gardening! is an American based site that has lots of interesting resources and articles about things gardening. Well worth a look at http://www.kidsgardening.com/teachers.asp

The Find-a-spider Guide is an Australian online guide to some of the most common Aussie spiders. It has great pics to help identify them as well as lots of other interesting facts. The URL is http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/index.htm

If you are into comfort food then chocky is the go. To find out some more relevant info about chocolate for school use go to Cadbury School Projects The URL ishttp://www.cadbury.com.au/sites/cadbury/index.php?pageId=33 but no they don't provide free samples online yet :)

I have added a basic tutorial for Inspiration version 6 to the tutorials of the Simply Science site http://users.pipeline.com.au/jpearce/default.htm , (I know that Inspiration is now up to version 7 however we only have version 6 at school).

For an absolutely delightful example of a school based site on flight you need to Meet the Wright Brothers. The URL is http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm