MATERIALS
Materials World All types of materials and careers you could take.
Materials Science and Engineering
Resource Center
How does Materials Science affects our lives? This site also contains basic
information about different materials and an interactive 'ask the experts' question
forum.
Materials Science and Technology
Teachers' Workshop
This site consists of eight modules introducing teachers and students metals,
ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, composites, concrete and energy.
Microworlds: Exploring the Structure
of Materials
An interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Berkeley
Lab's Advanced Light Source, including information for teachers on how to use
Microworlds in the classroom.
Imperial College Schools Science
OnLine
A brief compendium of some educational sites of particular interest to scientists,
including links to museums and online schools resources.
Institute of Materials
Includes an eight-chapter materials resource guide for Key Stages 1-3, Key Stage
4 and A Level, and also contains an index of links to other materials sites.
Imperial College Materials Department
The home page of the Materials department at Imperial College, London.
Steel
UK Steel
The UK Steel Association's website
Corus Group
Corus is the largest steel company in Europe and is also a significant player
in the aluminium industry. They also have an education
website.
National Association of Steel Stockholders
Part of the UK Steel Industry Networking Project and a reference site for all
things steel in the UK. NASS represents the interests of steel stockholders
in the UK.
MATTER
British Steel and MATTER have collaborated on the development of this new series
of interactive educational software resources aimed at helping students understand
the key
The Steel and Metals Industry National
Training Organisation
Choose Education-Industry links on the menu to find curriculum resources, work
experience information and lots more.
Other metals
The Copper Page
A service of the worldwide copper and brass industries, including links to other
copper-related sites, lists of publications and special application areas.
The Aluminium Federation
The website of the trade association representing the UK aluminium industry.
Contains good information sheets and information about resources for schools.
Ceramics
American Ceramic Society
Provides technical, scientific and educational information to ceramicists and
the general public. The site incorporates the Ceramic Information Center and
the Museum of Ceramics.
Ceramics and Industrial Minerals
A list of resources dedicated to the professional interested in ceramics and
industrial minerals. It also includes searchable lists of links to other sites
and resources.
General Electric Plastics division information on properties, design and manufacture of plastic parts.
Plastics.com A good place
to look for information about polymers
have a look at Polypedia (click on resources when you get there).
Teaching Plastics This is a portal to a variety of sources of information about plastics.
Fantastic plastic The name says it all , find out about moulding and forming etc.
Plastic recycling
A site dedicated to plastic recycling.
National Plastics Center and Museum
The Web site for the National Plastics Center and Museum in the USA, including
links to other plastics sites and museums. This site features an "experiment
of the month" to try at home or in school.
Plastics Resource
Site developed by the American Plastics Council, providing information for
various groups such as consumers, teachers and students. It includes lists of
resources and "backgrounders" about plastics, polymers, recycling
etc at arange of educational levels.
Composites
Center for Composite Materials
The online home of the Composites Engineering and Education Center housed
in the Composites Manufacturing Science Lab at the University of Delaware,USA.
The page contains information about "what are ceramics?", the composite
materials handbook and links to other sites.
About Composites and Polymers
Choose About Composites in the navigation bar for a wealth of links to sites
dealing with many types of different composite materials.
Woodbin This site has a database of 128 types of wood and the reference section has standard dimentions for furniture .
Woodzone Woodwork tools, wood properties
tips tricks and jigs.
What's really in paper besides wood?
A colourful illustrated factsheet for students or the classroom wall which can
be downloaded and printed.
Smart/new materials
Scientific American Explorations Smart Materials May 1996
smart materials intelliMat! - a guide to intelligent materials
Howstuffworks How Self-healing Spacecraft Will Work