http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/students.html

This FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition website offers students links to food-related aids for writing school reports. Students can access information about the 1906 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; foodborne pathogens; food safety careers; requesting records and information from the FDA; and more. The website's four main resource categories are Tips for Researching and Writing a School Report, Selected Topics For School Reports, Conducting Your Own Research, and Being A Good Consumer and Citizen. This site also links to the EPA Student Center and the Kids' Science Page at the National Agricultural Library. [NL]

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rhodes/index.html

This website from Professor Gale Rhodes of the Chemistry Department at the University of Southern Maine offers teachers and students a variety of useful tools and other resources related to structural biology. New biochemistry students will appreciate the site tutorials including Bioinformatics for Beginners, Tutorial for RasMol, and Tutorial for Deep View (Swiss-PdbViewer). Professors looking for tips on creating more dynamic classroom environments will want to peruse the User's Manual for Student-Led Discussion. Other site offerings include a Biochemistry Topics List; A Glossary of Terms from Crystallography, NMR, and Homology Modeling; and a section on Stereo Viewing. If for no other reason, you will want to stop by this website to read Professor Rhodes' Molecular Graphics Manifesto. [NL]

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312380/

This website, housed in the archives of the ThinkQuest Library, offers primary school students an introduction to American Farms. The website was created by a team of four eleven-year olds and was the ThinkQuest 2003 Grand Prize (Lower Division) Winner. The site utilizes nice photographs, and concise text sections to discuss major US crops such as corn, wheat, cotton, nuts and flowers. The site also offers information sections about dairy, livestock, and poultry farms. In addition, students will find profiles of important farm machines, a glossary, and links to farm-related puzzles, games, mazes, and coloring pages. [NL]

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20050308tuesday.html

This one-hour lesson plan authored by Priscilla Chan, of The New York Times Learning Network, and Bridget Anderson, of The Bank Street College of Education in New York City invites middle and high school students to "consider an unusually large wave of owl migration and its various impacts on the environment and food chain." The lesson is based on a brief March 8, 2005 article, describing a peculiar influx of great gray, hawk, and boreal owls into Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The website includes a lesson description; academic content standards; and concise sections that address objectives, needed materials, extension and interdisciplinary activities, and evaluation. [NL]

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/RefugeeHealthCare/

These online course materials were generated from a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) course on Refugee Health Care. The materials were put online as part of the JHSPH OpenCourseWare program which provides "free, searchable access to JHSPH's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world." The Refugee Health Care course "addresses the provision of basic health requirements for refugees and the coordination of care among agencies concerned with them." Site visitors will find a selection of downloadable lecture notes on such topics as Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak Investigation, Control of Communicable Diseases, Health and Human Rights Principles for Refugee Health, and more. The site also offers a downloadable Reading List, and case study materials. [NL]

http://www.vh.org/adult/patient/familymedicine/studentsurvival/index.html

Hosted by the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital, this online health resource will benefit college students who have recently left the nest, and have questions about treating a variety of minor health issues. The site was developed by the Student Health Service at the University of Iowa and provides brief advice about dealing with such acute ailments as sore throats, sprains, colds, influenza, burns, insect stings, and more. The site also addresses potentially persistent issues like depression, eating disorders, stress, and sleeping problems. Sexual health is covered as well. This site is relatively light on information but it does cover a wide range of issues, and will be most useful to young people who are just beginning to manage their own health. [NL]

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/AmphReptColln/herp_links/Field%20Guide/TOC.html

From the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois is designed for use by students, naturalists, biologists, land managers, law enforcement officials, and others. One goal of the Guide "is to help the reader learn about all 102 species of amphibians and reptiles that live within the boundaries of Illinois. Basic information is presented on their biology and life history, as well as a brief discussion of the species that are listed as threatened or endangered under the state's Endangered Species Protection Act." This complete online version of the Field Guide connects visitors to species accounts with good photographs; distribution maps; and brief entries on Description, Habitat, Status, and more. The Guide also contains downloadable keys to reptiles and amphibians of Illinois, and a Glossary of Terms. [NL]

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/%7Ebz050/HomePage.shark.html

This continually evolving website about sharks was developed by Ben S. Roesch, a zoology master's student at the University of Guelph who is studying biochemistry and comparative physiology of elasmobranchs, the subclass of fishes that include sharks, rays, and skates. The website offers a collection interesting shark information and articles such as an overview of shark taxonomy, an article on the biology and behaviour of the Oceanic Whitetip, an article on the biology of the Shortfin Mako, and a fascinating report written by a diver who was attacked by a great white shark. Other site features include an image of an enormous nurse shark, an article about the Goblin shark, and an article by Mr. Roesch titled A Critical Evaluation of the Supposed Contemporary Existence of Carcharodon megalodon. This site also links to shark features on other websites such as the Florida Museum of Natural History's site on megamouth sharks. [NL]