Visit these quality, child-oriented Web sites recommended by the education experts at Bright Horizons. This Virtual Science Lab can help you enhance your child’s educational experience through multimedia online learning. With your guidance, you and your child can discover virtual worlds, explore quality interactive games, and try activities, videos, and hands-on science projects.

Below is a list of recommended Web sites for your young scientist.

Bill Nye
Make an erosion explosion, test how strong you are, and learn about planetary, physical, and life science with Bill Nye.

Boston Museum of Science
Visit the Boston Museum of Science right from your computer.

Chem 4 Kids
Atoms, reactions, matter? Everything you need to know about chemistry.

Discovery
From the Discovery Channel, this site is filled with lots of activities, homework help, and yucky things.

Earth Science Explorer
Take the earth explorer elevator to discover this virtual exhibit. Teacher entrance available as well.

Explore Science
Find awesome activities to do without becoming a member, as well as share course homepages with other teachers. This site is mostly geared toward school-age children.

Muohio.edu
Great Web site full of ideas for children, teachers, and families. Provides information, interactive games, and videos on topics such as space, animals, and time. An entire section is designated for teachers as well.

Ontario Science Center
Ontario Science Center’s wonderful site for school-age children includes a great search engine for other kids sites.

PBS
Learn how bridges, skyscrapers, dams, and domes are made. Visit the interactive labs for hands-on experiments.

Peep and friends
At Peep and friends, enjoy interactive games, activities for teachers and families, songs, and videos. Find resources for teachers and parents.

San Francisco Exploratorium
Explore the science of sports, view cells through a microscope, and follow the journeys of different scientists.

Switcheroozoo
This fun interactive game allows you to create your own creature by switching body parts of animals.

Turtles.org
Learn everything there is to know about turtles!

Yahooligans
See dinosaurs, visit outer space, watch movies on science topics, and take brain quizzes on this cool site.