Yellowstone National Park in northern Wyoming, our country's first National Park, is known for its spectacular geothermal wonders: mud pots, steam vents, hot springs, and roaring geysers. Every year the park accommodates more than four million visitors, y
Thomas Moran was an early twentieth-century American artist whose Yellowstone watercolors where shown to Congress by national park proponents.
Yellowstone is famous for its 200 geysers, and Old Faithful is the most famous of all.
Eloquent prose, fabulous photographs, amazing 3-D tours and three marvelous Webquests (for students in grades four through six) make this my pick-of-the-day site.
Yellowstone's hot waters are the secret to the river otter's survival through the cold, icy winters.
Start your game session with Antler & Horn Match by clicking on the antlers or horns which belong to the pictured animal.
It's summertime and we're taking a virtual trip to the amusement park. But on this trip we're combing fun and thrills with science, as we take a look at the physics behind your favorite theme park rides.
This ThinkQuest 2000 entry was created by a team of middle-school students from Virginia Beach.
The color scheme here is a bit hard to read, but if you persevere, you'll be rewarded with six science experiments to perform on amusement park rides, and two experiments for your local playground.
This Java-based roller coaster simulation lets you design a ride to "achieve maximum thrills and chills without crashing or flying off the track (unless that's how you like your coaster to work!)" You can vary the height of the hills, the size of the loop
Internet Fairground is another ThinkQuest entry (a 2000 silver-medal winner) created by three geographically disperse high-school students.
Study the physics of falling, floating, and turning with animated lessons at my pick-of-the-day site from the Japan Virtual Science Center.
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