Featured Web Links:

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - Get the real story of NASA's space exploration as the Odyssey spacecraft orbits Mars in a history-making expedition.

Do History - "A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived." Through the diary of midwife Martha Ballard, follow the life and times of people in the 18th century.

Burke Museum - Visit the Burke to explore their amazing online Washington natural history exhibits.

Smithsonian Institution - Use this page as a jumping off point to the vast number of museums, libraries, outreach services, publications and recordings of the Smithsonian.

Museum of Science & Industry Time Exhibit - Take a virtual tour of the MSI Chicago Time exhibit featuring over 500 items related to time.

Washington State Historical Society - Walk through the history of Washington state in the Great Hall of History.

Center for Columbia River History - A consortium of Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, and the Washington State Historical Society, the CCRH website offers community and oral histories from the Columbia River region.

Densho - The Densho website contains the Japanese American Legacy Project, which records the experiences of Japanese Americans sent to World War II internment camps.

Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, & Technology - At CREHST you can discover the history of the Columbia River Basin from prehistoric times to the present.

Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room - From Washington Place Names to the Genealogy Collection, this site is a virtual treasure trove of Northwest information.

Department of Energy Hanford Site - Learn about the history of Hanford through text, maps and streaming media.

Yakima Valley Museum - The history of the Yakima Valley, its first people, favorite sons, and its changing landscape.

Extremely Cool Educational Links:

The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ball Game - Explore the first team sport in human history and learn the meaning of "Winner Takes All." This is a fascinating interactive site that explores the ancient culture of Mesoamerica through the game they played.

OLogy - The American Museum of Natural History presents OLogy, a great site about scientific discovery. OLogy has experiments and activities, games and collector's cards buried throughout, and it's so much fun you'll forget that you're learning!

Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht - This beautiful award-winning Netherlands site features extensive information on paleontology, geology, entomology, botany, and dynamics—the impact of humans and climate on the enivronment. With virtual tours of the museum and underground galleries, interactive exhibits, and a special kids' museum, this site will keep you busy for quite some time.