Check out some links to really cool things on the internet that my students and I have found. It's safe for the whole family... you might need your safety goggles though!

What happens when alkali metals come in contact with water? Google video.

Look at amazing photos recently taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

If you like fossils, visit this interactive, educational website by the North American Research Group.

	Oregon Field Guide joins NARG on the first annual dinosaur hunt in Eastern Oregon.
	The Rice Museum in Hillsboro is Oregon's best mineral museum. Visit their new Northwest display.
	The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics.

The photos at the top of this page was taken of minerals in the Masterpiece Gallery at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (November 2005).
From left to right: Cavansite on Stilbite and Heulandite, Hemimorphite after Calcite, Dogtooth Calcite, Wulfenite and Memitite, and Calcite with Calcopyrite. Spectacular minerals like these are found all over the world.

What kinds of minerals do you think come from Oregon?