Links To Other Sites

FWEE Home Page

Foundation for Water and Energy Education's home page. Information about hydroelectric power.

Ducks Unlimited

Waterfowl identification, photos, natural sounds, and educational games as well as a source of information on wetlands and waterfowl conservation.

Water Around the World

A link that discusses where water is found aroud the world with links to descriptions of oceans, rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

Oregon River Information

The University of Oregon has a wonderful Web page with river level data (with graphs!) and other river information for Oregon. This is a fascinating page and would be a good resource for Middle and High School level classrooms.

McKenzie Watershed Council

This page has information about the council, its role, watershed facts, ongoing projects, etc. It includes links to other agencies and has Student Water Quality Data collected by over 200 Lane County students. (You need a special plug-in to view the data.)

High Desert Museum

The home page of the note museum in Bend, Oregon. T he Museum supports 20,000 square feet of cultural and resource exhibits and 5,000 square feet of live animal exhibits. In addition, sculpture, landscape photography, natural history displays, and interpretive signage accent the Museum and the grounds.

Other Science Links

ESRI

The Environmental Systems Research Institute home page on the World Wide Web is a place on the Internet to view, explore and retrieve a variety of information on geographic information system (GIS) technology. Visitors will find resources including free software and data useful to those interested in GIS. In the interest of promoting the use of GIS technology to foster increased public access to geographic information, a no-cost, licensed version of ArcView Version 1.0 for Windows software is available in the free area for viewing, printing, or downloading for use in your workplace or classroom. Maps and images are also available.

MSN

The Mad Scientist Network uses the collective crania of scientists world wide to answer the science questions of students of all ages every day over the Web. Supported by the Young Scientist Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Over 75 scientists participate in generatingaccurate and grade appropriate responses which include network links.

Museum of Natural History

The University of Oregon Museum of Natural History offers tours to schools. Click on the link for information on scheduling a tour for your classroom.