Virtual museums focus on a specific curriculum theme and showcase electronic museum-type collections such as artifacts, paintings, photographs, numerous databases, and Web links to resources around the world. Museums of all types include vital teaching tools that help students make discoveries and form connections with the past, present, and…

Describes the Howard B. Owens Science Center at Prince George's County (Maryland) Schools, which concentrates advanced equipment and highly trained teachers to give visiting students and teachers hands-on experiences they cannot get in the classroom. The center boasts computer-controlled rocketry, laboratories, exhibits, and lectures introducing…

Numerous private and government-run science museums and centers work actively with schools to provide hands-on experience and bolster science curricula. According to a recent Association of Science and Technology Centers report, 88 percent of science museums say they plan their education programs jointly with school personnel, and 57 percent have…