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Roller Coasters and other stuff

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I ran a bit short last week and it's time to make up for that so here we go. PBS Kids! has recently relaunched their kids site. From the press release: "To mark the special occasion, PBS Kids! will host a series of online Q&As with ARTHUR creator Marc Brown (Sept. 16 - 18), READING RAINBOW's LeVar Burton (Sept. 21 - 25), KRATTS' CREATURES hosts Chris and Martin Kratt (Sept. 28 - Oct. 2) and Mister Rogers himself, Fred Rogers (Oct. 5 - 9)."

After my look at Mr Toad's Wild Ride at World of Coasters, one of my favorite sections was the Physics of roller coasters. The photo gallery has some neat pictures too.

How Things Work lets you send in questions that you're dying to know the answer to. There is even an answer about roller coasters there.

Fizzics Fizzle makes learning about Physics fun. Part of the fun is the ThinkQuest Internet Contest. I expect we will be seeing more sites from the ThinkQuest project in the future.

If you'd like to see some steam engine animations, then this next site is for you. Check out the Watt Engine animation. There are even pictures of the author's home built steam engine.

The United States Department of Agriculture has just introduced a agricultural science for kids site. Read stories that explain how the work of agricultural research scientists may affect your daily life.

The people at Museum Mania promise a fun-filled treasure hunt. Visit the linked pages and fill in your answers and see if you can get all the answers right.

Want to learn about the other Leonardo? Then check out these sites from the Network Nuggets list.

• RBCM's Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
• The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (image of Leonardo from this site)
• Webmuseum: Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci

The Network Nuggets site has tons of other great sites, so be sure to browse around.

Webmath has something for everyone and is especially good if you have some knotty homework problems you want to solve.

I hope those are enough sites to keep you busy for a while. See you all next Tuesday. If you need some more kid-friendly sites, visit some of my past articles or drop in on Kids on Suite101. TTFN.

Roller Coaster image from Roller Coaster Art

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