Thanks to this post at the Quebec Blog in Homeschool Nations I learned about a great site that will help you and your children get excited about science.

Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception is an amazing site!  The Exploratorium is an actual museum in San Francisco, California, but, thanks to technology and the foresight of the people involved in the museum, even though we in Newfoundland are far, far away from them on the other side of the continent we can sit in our homes and enjoy many of their learning experiences.   They claim to be one of the first science museum sites to have built a World Wide Website, starting in 1993.

Here are some quotes from their About Our Website page   - "Our focus is on investigating the science behind the ordinary subjects and experiences of people's lives. The topics themselves provide "hooks" that get people excited about science. "   "Included in our award-winning site are more than 18 thousand Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics."  "the site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments"  "we have created a variety of online exhibits using Shockwave, Flash, QuickTime VR, and other technologies. Many of these online exhibits are patterned after real exhibits on the museum floor, providing equally rich experiences."

This site is well worth visiting.  Every time you click onto the main page you are presented with different interesting things to check out.  This link will get you right to a page full of online activites and also provide links to online exhibitions, webcasts, hands on activities, and more.  This link provides you with links to something called science snacks - miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium.   This link provides links to tools for teaching.  Be prepared to spend a lot of time here, and only just scratch the surfaces of what is available.  You will want to come back to it again and again.

I'd love for you to drop back and share your thoughts about the site once you've taken the time to explore it.