Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Best of the Internet (according to some geeks)

13 comments:

Unknown said...

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ - site from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Has some good online demonstrations and activities.

http://www.sciencespot.net/Pages/classroom.html - site that breaks down resources for classroom activities. Also has links to other sites.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/ - general site for students and teachers

http://epod.usra.edu/index.php3 - Great site for images

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html - Great site for images

http://www.teachersdomain.org/ - video, illustrations and other resources

Unknown said...

Discovery Channel Videos
http://dsc.discovery.com/video/

Global Study of Wildlife Migration
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

GLOBE Program – exploring the environments on the Earth
http://www.globe.gov/r

Whale Research
http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html

Sea Turtle Survival League
http://www.cccturtle.org/

Unknown said...

Biology Links

1.) http://www.brainpop.com/science/

This is a cool site with different activities/interactive assignments in all different areas of science.

2.) http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120060/ravenanimation.html

Great biology animations, though some might be a little complex for high school students.

3.) http://www.cells.de/cellseng/index.jsp

Site has several cool videos that go into details about cells/DNA/genetics

4.) http://www.biologyinmotion.com/

This site is really cool...it has online labs, lectures, and activities for students to use.

4.) http://www.cellsalive.com/

Another cool site with lots of animations/videos/activities for students and teachers.

5.) http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html

Animation library with animations for many genetic and cell topics.

Ms. Stroili said...

NOVA (the PBS show) has an awesome website with many different resources for teacher:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/

This Website is good for biology teachers. It is very organized, has some quiz questions, and gives pretty detailed explanations.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/CELL_BIO/cell_bio.html

This website is good for those of us who will be teaching ecology in CT. Very specific- but tons of info and good ideas.

http://www.onethingct.com/my_city_town/onethings.aspx

This website has good ideas for hands-on activities

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/


Check this site out. It has a little bit of everything! Lesson plans, resources, benchmarks,you name it.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=84

Ms. Mitchell said...

1. Biology I Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorial links

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm

2. McGraw Hill Animations/Videos of Biology Concepts
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120060/ravenanimation.html

3. National Geographic for Educators
Has lesson, activities, photos, audio, video, current events, etc.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/

4. The Jason Project: A nonprofit subsidiary of the National Geographic Society, JASON connects young students with great explorers and great events to inspire and motivate them to learn science. Its core curriculum units are designed for 5th – 8th grade classrooms but are flexible enough to be adapted for higher or lower grades.
http://www.jason.org/public/home.aspx

5. Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine. Slide library, videos, lessons, presentations specifically for science teachers. "BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects."
http://www.bioedonline.org/

AudraLeach said...

http://www.blueearth.org/index.cfm
•Photography related to global issues. Great to use to supplement lessons. The big picture!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/
•WATER!

http://www.pbs.org/
•Provides games, articles, videos etc to explore science topics.

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/
•Amazing videos

http://www.gma.org/lobsters/
•Everything you ever wanted to know about lobster ecology plus more.
•Provides links to many other marine and lobster sites.

rebecca said...

Great for teaching eukaryotic cells (animal cell specifically)
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AnimalCells.html

Interactive models for cell membrane: transport (active & passive)
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/membrane_transport/membrane_transport.htm

interactive cell
http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/3dcell.htm

covers a variety of biology related topics
http://www.biology-online.org/2/10_natural_selection.htm

has sample lesson plans, worksheets, graphic organizers
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/science/biology/cell/

Anonymous said...

1.) http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
Tree of Life Web Project: Awesome site that goes through the evolutionary tree in detail. Interesting to just cruise around, or to find out about specific branches.

2.) http://www.arkive.org/
Arkive: Images of life on Earth: Good site if looking for high quality videos or pictures of a large number of different species. Also has some interactive Power Points for all grades.

3.) http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
Science Animations: A great page of links for videos and animations in a bunch of scientific disciplines. Some great, some not so great.

4.) http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=4750
Animal Adaptations: This site has ideas for research activities into animal adaptations with questions and links to follow for info.

5.) http://www.howard.k12.md.us/science/resources/BiologyResources/index.html
Secondary Biology: Resource sit for the biology teacher that covers many topics that all secondary science students will need to know.

Unknown said...

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/

This site is from the University of California at San Diego. It has a great animation of the greenhouse effect- it could potentially be a good tool for illustrating an often misunderstood concept.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter11/animations.html#


This site is the student site from the seventh edition of Biology. It has some great animations of biological concepts, such as mitosis and cytokinesis.

http://www.freezeray.com/biology.htm

If you can navigate through the junk, this website has some nice visual animations of articulations for human anatomy and physiology.

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/biological%20anamations.html

This site is from St. Olaf College. It has a whole series of biological animations on concepts ranging from water/buffers to cell division.

http://www.hivinfosource.org/hivis/hivbasics/animations/

This site is from the NYU Medical Center. It has an animation that explains the HIV life cycle and cell entry.

Greg said...

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/physical/giambattista/

This is a collection of physics applets that allow you to change variables to observe the effects in subjects such as motion, buoyancy, E&M, waves, and thermodynamics.


http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/physical/giambattista/

These are a collection of animations that illustrate the vectors of motion (such as velocities, force, etc) in a lot of “real life” scenarios, such as flying an airplane, merry-go-rounds, and planets. Even gets into astronomy topics such as precession, which can be difficult for students to visualize.


http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm

This company offers “Gizmos” which are applets that illustrate math and science concepts that are targeted towards age-groups from 3rd to 12th grade. You can browse them and use 5 minute trials, but once you get connected to a school system, this may be something worth investing in (especially if they will pay for it!).


http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm

This is a consolidated list of useful resources from other sites organized into categories of General Collections, Anatomy & Physiology I, Anatomy & Physiology II, Biology, Animals, Plants, Ecology, Microbiology, Astronomy, Geology, and Physics. I haven’t looked through all of the resources here, but I found a couple useful ones that I have used in the past in the ranks, so it would be worth exploring your content area here.

Unknown said...

1. http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070960526/student_view0/animations___virtual_labs.html
2. http://www.learner.org (great resource for teachers, some good videos in all subject areas)
3. http://cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm (I find this to be a very good interactive site where students can play around)
4. http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm (this is a gizmo, cool site but not free, but kids will love working on it, you can use it during your 30 day trial period and decide on it.)
5. http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm (Great animation and interactive site )

Unknown said...

forgot about this page...

http://www.edinformatics.com/il/
it is full of java and flash applications... some of which are great

Zuleyka said...

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/forensics/
finger-lesn.html
great site for forensic lessons

http://www.dayah.com/periodic/
great interactive periodic table

http://hi.fi.tripod.com/timeline/
great time line of chemistry contributions

http://www.privatehand.com/flash
/elements.html
great song and animation about the
elements

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/
chemistry/essentialchemistry/
flash/flash.mhtml
great chemistry animations