“Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes” is a collection of classroom lessons to help biology teachers more effectively teach basic concepts. They were developed and tested during 9 years of summer institutes by biology teachers from across the nation (NSF) (http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb).

“Find Out Why” offers short scientific explanations of everyday phenomena having to do with such things as baseball, snow, and milk. The site also promotes an outreach program to increase computer literacy and offers an annotated listing of sites that apply science at the grade-school level (NSF) (http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/fow/start.htm).

“The Mars Millennium Project” is a national interdisciplinary initiative that challenges students, teachers, and community groups to imagine and create the first community for 100 earthlings on Mars in the year 2030 (multiple agencies) (http://www.mars2030.net).

“Mysteries of Catalhoyuk, Science Museum of Minnesota” is an educational website devoted to the famous archeological site in Turkey of one of the oldest cities in the world. It depicts not only end-products of discoveries and interpretations but goes through the entire history of a 25 year excavation process (NEH) (http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/catal/top.html).

“Profiles in Science” consists at present of digitized versions of over 70 journal articles, photographs, documents, and brief films each of 2 scientists, the bacteriologist Oswald T. Avery and the geneticist Joshua Lederberg (NIH) (http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov).

“Sharing a World of Resources”discusses how NASA and the Nationai Park Service are working together to improve public math and science literacy (NPS/NASA) (http://www.nps.gov/interp/nasa).