About This Database

An Authoritative and Highly Visual Science Resource

The award-winning Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats. The accessible content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by national and state science education standards. Users can follow an extensive network of hyperlinks and suggested searches to related topics. Tabbed search results and Boolean search capabilities help users easily find their desired results. High-quality print, email, reduce and enlarge text, and save-to-folder capabilities; full database citations; a help page; and persistent record links are also available.

Highlights:

• Complete Coverage: the full spectrum of scientific disciplines
• Experiments and Activities*: more than 1,100 science experiments and activities, indexed by grade range, subject category, and time required
• "Today's Science Feature": in-depth articles from Today's Science highlighting recent scientific events and discoveries
  Images, Videos, and Animations: more than 7,000 printable diagrams, illustrations, and images; more than 500 videos and flash animations
• Comprehensive Source List: full and partial text from hundreds of authoritative print titles.

Features:

• Topics, terms, and principles
• Images, videos, and animations
• Experiments and activities*
• Biographies
• Definitions
• "Science in the News" articles
• Timeline
• National and State Science Education Standards*
• Full database citations
• Conversion calculator
• "Did You Mean...?" search feature
• Persistent record links.

*Science Online is available with or without experiments and national and state education standards.