Check Out These Incredible and Fun Websites

Design Your Own Flag

You’re one in 7 billion. Create a flag that conveys your uniqueness. Using the digital art on this site, you can make your own flag. First let your mouse wander over the flags that others have created on this site. Read about the dreams reflected in their flag designs. Then design your own flag by combining elements of the flag from your home country, the flag from another country that has affected you and the flag of a country to which you’ve dreamed of going. Be sure to check out the meaning of colors and shapes in different countries before you create your flag.

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Explore the World of Science

San Francisco’s Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. The site features dozens of online learning activities and exhibits. Students can make a mold terrarium, pinhole projector, telescope or hair hygrometer. They can explore the brain, biodiversity, Antarctica, DNA, frogs, structures or illusions. They can learn about magnetism, electricity, motors, eyeballs, perception, Mars, chocolate, seasonings or the science of cooking, sports and music. And they can search more than 3,000 photos and movies and watch Webcasts of science demonstrations by teachers.

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Become a History Detective

On this interactive site from Annenberg Media, students become document detectives. They use their sleuthing skills to figure out when and where historical events took place by examining some primary sources and using an educated guess to pinpoint them on a map and timeline. Then they test their document expertise and analytical skills by answering questions about the events.

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Find Out About the Mathematics Behind Polls

In Cast Your Vote!, students follow a year in a fictitious election campaign for an inside look at the mathematics behind the polls and the news they hear everyday.

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Discover the Natural World

From the California Academy of Sciences, the Science in Action series presents 90-second snippets of its biweekly audio and video programs. Listen to a researcher reflect on how the scientific community has been affected by the Internet. Or take a look at the connection between science and art offered by a scientist and an artist.

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Celebrate Improbable Research

The Annals of Improbable Research, best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, offers a free online version of its journal. The Ig Nobel Prizes ceremony, an annual event held at Harvard University and parody of the Nobel Prizes, honors discoveries in science and technology that “first make people laugh and then make them think.” Past winners include Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, who invented a way to extract vanilla fragrance and flavoring from cow dung, and Howard Stapleton for his so-called electromechanical teenager repellent device that produces a sound audible only to those 30 or younger.

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Join the Geography Challenge

A Broader View runs the world’s largest online geography quiz that challenges visitors to locate 10 randomly selected countries on a map of the world. The quiz is different every time it’s accessed. To join the Geography Challenge in support of your country, simply select which country you will be representing and identify the countries on the map in 2 minutes. Since starting the contest in 2003, the site has registered more than 2 million visitors from 192 countries. See how well your country and state are doing compared to others in the competition.

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Interact with History

The extensive site for A Biography of America is an integral part of an Annenberg/CPB telecourse that also includes videos and print materials. Twenty-six programs covering major topics in U.S. history each include interactive features (maps, timelines, debates or annotated images), a list of key events, a map, video transcripts and Web links.

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