A Few Great Links from Vidyasoft Applications

Our goal: List free internet resources that is good for us, our family, our community, and the world

Section: 
News-Reading Children Stuff - Young Kids Nature - Museums-Travel
Finance   Young Adults - Education History - Great People 
Stocks Science  Poems - Stories-Music 
Productivity Tools Health     English - Language
  Food Recipes  Things Indian

Children Stuff

Young Kids

Sesame Street:
  Coloring, Story Book, Activities
 
  Animal Coloring Pages

The Little Animals Activity Center

Story: The Sellfish Giant

Science News for Kids

National Geographic for Kids
ScienceNet: Knowledge without hype,
  (Great for young students!)

   

Discover, Experiment, Play...
CIA World Fact Book
Play Spellbee with other kids around the world
Video demonstration of Gyroscope
Video Lecture: What is light, Why is sky blue,
   polarization, rainbow from MIT Prof. Walter Lewin
   (for Middle School students)


 

Young Adults - Education

Free MIT Open Course Ware - for faculty,
  students and self-learners around the world
Official Nobel prize site - Education materials:
    Physics, Chemistry, Medicine
See video of the Political Genius of
   Abraham Lincoln in history section
 
Excellent Free Video Physics, Chemistry, Biology
  lectures by Caltech Professor
  for College and High school - www.free-ed.net

Free SAT practice test from testpreview.com
   

Science

Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
  Latest | Archives
X-ray Telescope, is it similar to optical telescope?
  Chandra Spacecraft, an X-Ray telescope in space
Physics in Flash Cards and Math in Flash Cards
 
by Dr. R. Nave, Georgia State University, See:
  Gyroscope

Geology: Geological Time Scale Printable Chart 
   - Earth - Story of Plate Tectonics - Tectonics
                Volcanos: Ring of fire - Maps
Science Challenge Quiz:
 
Earth and Planetary Science
  Dinosarus: Facts and Fiction
Resources for Students and Teachers
   -
Physics Problems (links)
   - Physics Lab experiments

     (with wonderful illustrated diagrams),
     ex: Equipartition of energy
Intel Science Talent Search (STC)
  (Junior Nobel Prize)
  18 Year old Amber's STC Blog

Books
 -
Anatomy of the Human Body - Gray
 -Numerical Recipes - great books of algorithms
  cracking scientific problems
Video
  Which falls faster: Feather or the hammer?
    See the demonstration on the moon by
    Apollo 15 astronaut David R. Scott
 
Rover mission to Mars animation
    (Real Video | MPEG | QuickTime): Spectacular
    animation from launch to entry and unfurling of
    Spirit/Opportunity rover in Mars

  Pangaea to now:
    See the motion of continents in
    last 200 million years from Paleomap Project

  Understanding the concept of
    double-slit experiment in Quantum Mechanics

  Physics demo with Java applets
  Beyond the Human Genome - What is next?
    by Daniel Roshkar - lecture from Berkeley Lab
 
Philosophical/religious debate between
    Prof. Freeman Dyson (Institute of Advanced
    Study, Princeton) and Robert Wright
 
Science policy/Future of Science Facilities
    by Raymond Ohrbach, Ph.D.
    Director, US dept. of Energy Office of Science
 
(Advanced: For Physicists) - The Douglas
    Robb Memorial Lectures from Richard Feynman

 
Company Page | You are welcome to give your suggestions to support@vidyasoft.com