Access Excellence
http://www.gene.com:80/ae/
This is an archive of favorite classroom activities submitted
by high school biology and life sciences teachers participating in the Access
Excellence programs. Lots of practical, hands-on biology labs and activities.
Lesson plans and labs for biology and life science classes. Excellent classroom
resource for biology teachers.
Benjamin
Franklin High School's Links to Biology Info
http://biologyweb.org/biology1.htm
This web page at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, La. contains
a very extensive list of links to biology sites on the World Wide Web. The list
is sub-divided into different biology topics for easy use. A great resource
for anyone interested in any biology topic.
CSUBIOWEB
http://arnica.csustan.edu/
California State University has really outdone themselves with this web page.
An excellent resource for studying biological science. This page has some excellent
graphics of plants. Extensive links to biology Web sites are included.
ESG Biology
Hypertextbook Home Page
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/701intro.html
The ESG Biology Hypertextbook Home Page is a fantastic biology resource!! It
is a wonderful on-line textbook full of awesome images. A great resource for
anyone learning about biology. Lots of good activities and graphics that other
biology textbooks do not have.
The University
of Wisconsin Microscopy Resource
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~uwmr/uwmr.html
The Microscopy Resource is a national resource that provides instrumentation
and skilled personnel to enable outside users to study a wide range of microscopy
techniques. Lots of interesting graphics here. An excellent resource for biology
teachers to show their students some very interesting microscopes.
The Biology Place
http://www.biology.com/
The Biology Place is an excellent resource for any biology class. Lots of great
information on current topics in all areas of biology. Lots of on-line student
activities in the biological sciences. Highest recommendation for all biology
teachers.
Neuroscience for Kids
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~chudler/neurok.html
Eric Chudler has created this excellent web resource for "elementary and
secondary school students and teachers who would like to learn more about the
nervous system." Included are activities and experiments to facilitate
learning about the role of the brain and spinal cord in the human nervous system.
Biology Teaching
Home Page
http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~johnson/
This site is the Biology Teaching Home Page in Hong Kong. Topics and concept
maps include cellular respiration, photosynthesis, transport in plants, moveable
joints, and a variety of human systems (good for Anatomy and Physiology students).
These concept maps are easy to understand and may make the traditional "tough"
topic of cellular respiration a bit easier for students to understand.
Health
Information Resources
http://www.health.gov/nhic/Pubs/clearinghouses.htm
The National Health Information Center's page for clearinghouses of information
on different types of diseases and health concerns will be valuable to anatomy
and biology teachers, as well as students who are researching these topics.
The hyper-text links send you to another page with the web address of the clearinghouse
and a way to send email. Teachers can also access a variety of datasets through
this site.
National Center for Science
Education (NCSE)
http://www.natcenscied.org/
This Web site tracks the efforts of an organization to defend the teaching of
evolution in the science classroom and promote public understanding of this
theory as fact.
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/lectures
The Howard
Hughes Medical Institute posts informative articles and a lecture series including
live Webcasts on the science of medicine and human biology
BioRAP - Biological Research
for Animals and People
http://www.biorap.org/
This site is a wonderful resource for inquiring science
and health teachers and students. The site includes units on Aging and Genetics,
Product Safety, Cancer, Sun & Skin, AIDS and Risk Assessment. Each unit
provides teacher and student resources.
Human Anatomy
On-line
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
This site provides a guided exploration
on the systems of the human body. It is filled with great animations, images
and descriptions for each system. It even provides a search option for further
exploration or clarification. A great tool for teachers and students eager to
learn more about the human body.
Medicines: The Inside
Story
http://www.medicines-inside.com/
A wonderful in-depth look at the past, present
and future of medicines. The site is broken into four parts. A traveling museum
exhibition, a planetarium presentation, a nationwide education program for high
school students and teachers, and an academic symposium.
Seeing, Hearing, and
Smelling the World
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/
This site explores the complexity of human senses.
The site includes a variety of informative articles on each sense, allowing
educators and students to try and make some sense out of our senses
Developmental
Biology Cinema
http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/dbcinema/index.html
The Society for Developmental
Biology has put together several Quicktime movies illustrating several processes
related to developmental biology such as fly morhphogenesis and Quail-chick
development. A great supplement to a developmental biology lesson or unit.
VRML Biology Page
http://emile-21.com/VRML/
View biological processes and structures through
VRML (virtual reality modeling language). Examples of visuals you will find
include membrane potentials in excitable cells and endocytosis with clathrin
receptor molecules. A great resource for the visual learner!
Human Anatomy
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ANATOMY/Radiology/ Home.Page.MENU.HTML
This web site is a storehouse of radiological human anatomy images.
Great graphics that would enhance any biology class.
LUMEN Histology Home Page
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Histo/frames/histo_frames.html
This site has a wonderful histology slide collection! Lots of great graphics
of just about all anatomical structures in the human body. A great resource
for teachers and students to view anatomy images.
The Digital Anatomist Program
http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
An excellent anatomy site! Great graphics of a cadaver's brain and thoracic
section. A neat anatomical atlas on the web.
The Visible Embryo
http://www.visembryo.com/
The Visible Embryo is an on-line tutorial that is fantastic resource for learning
about embryology! Great graphics!
The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The ultimate cadaver site!! The folks at this lab took a dead man, chopped him
up in every possible cross-section that you can imagine, photographed all the
pieces and put them up at this web site for your viewing pleasure. This site
is a favorite of my students!
The Whole
Brain Atlas
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
The Whole Brain Atlas is an excellent anatomy resource to learn about the brain.
Great information on brain structure, brain functions, and cerebral diseases.
Graphics are phenomenal! Highest recommendation.
Vesalius
http://www.vesalius.com/
This Web site is an online graphical resource for medical and surgical communities.
An excellent resource to use in an anatomy class.
B-EYE:
The world through the eyes of a bee
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html
This Web site simulates looking at objects/designs from a bee's perspective.
Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.htm
This
site provides a guided exploration on the systems of the human body. It is filled
with great animations, images and descriptions for each system. It even provides
a search option for further exploration or clarification. A great tool for teachers
and students eager to learn more about the human body.
The
Heart: An Online Exploration Carnivorous
Plant Database Center for Aquatic Plants The
Internet Directory for Botany Tele-Garden Glossary of Botanical
Terms
Wisconsin Fast Plants What is Photosynthesis?
The Last Straw: Plants and Water Stress WWW Cell
Biology Course http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~mwd/cell.html Dictionary of Cell Biology Molecular
Expressions: Image from the Microscope Virtual Cell DLC-ME: The Microbe Zoo Microbiology
Resources for Students The Nanoworld
Home Page Institute for Molecular
Virology Electromagnetic Images of Viruses 3-D Interactive Cell Talksaver Introduction to Cell Biology
Classic Papers in Genetics Down's Syndrome WWW Page DOE
Human Genome Program Primer Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory's Human Genome Center The Natural History
of Genes OMIM Home Page
- Online Medelian Inheritance In Man The Internet Pathology
Laboratory Rutgers Student Scientists The Human Genome Project Rare Genetic
Diseases in Children Genetics Education
Network DNA From the Beginning
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Everything you wanted to
know about the human heart! This site covers the history, structure, function
and sounds of the human heart. Jammed packed with great information and visuals.
Dissection Room online anatomy tutorials
http://www.newmediamedicine.com/cambridgeanatomy/
A great resource for any human biology class. This
site offers information an all topics dealing with the study of medicine. The
site is intended for US medical students and pre-medical students.
BOTANY
http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi
Interested in flesh eating plants? If so, check out this site. You can access
a database of over 3000 carnivorous plants to learn about their characteristics
and habitats. Also, learn about what happens to folks who transport these plants
illegally.
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/
The Center for Aquatic Plants is an excellent botany resource. You will find
great plant graphics here, but don't expect any sound bites! Lots of great botanic
information.
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/idb-alpha/botany.html
The Internet Directory for Botany contains a very comprehensive list of botany
web sites.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
The Tele-Garden is a unique interactive web site. You can control a robotic
arm to plant, water, and measure plants. You actually control the arm in real
time! An excellent resource for students to observe the growth of plants.
http://www.gardenweb.com/glossary/
http://www.fastplants.org/resources/labs/Goldman.html
This site gives
an overview on Wisconsin Fast Plants and how to use fast plants in your classroom
to observe growth of a real living plant. Includes teacher resources, background
resources, growing instructions, student resources and related programs.
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html
http://cycas.cornell.edu/ebp/projects/laststraw/ise/home.html
This site
allows students to experiment with how plants deal with water stress thorough
link explorations and simulationsCELL BIOLOGY
This site is essentially an on-line textbook on cell biology.
An excellent supplement to a classroom biology textbook.
http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
This is an on-line dictionary for biology that works like
a key-word search engine. A good resource for biology teachers and students.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html
Molecular Expressions contains an incredible photo gallery of all kinds of
"science stuff" taken from various microscopes. This unique graphics
gallery can be used by all science teachers to liven up a class.
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/cell/
This web site contains a virtual interactive cell. Biology teachers and students
will enjoy cutting and zooming in on the different layers and organelles of
the cell. Lots of information and Quicktime movies.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/CTLprojects/dlc-me/zoo/
If you are interested in learning about microbes that are in the food you
eat, outer space, the ground, oceans, or atmosphere, then you must check out
this awesome site. A great resource for all students to learn some neat things
in a fun, interactive environment. (You will have to use the "Go" pull-down
menu to return to SERVIT Enterprise's list of web sites.)
http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/edu2.htm
The Microbiology Resources for Students web site is an excellent resource
for students interested in learning about careers in microbiology. Information
on this site includes what a microbiologist does, their salaries and education,
and grants and fellowships.
http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html
The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is an interdisciplinary research
and service facility dedicated to the understanding of the structure and composition
of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular, and macromolecular scales.
Comprehensive image bank full of great electron microscope shots of lots of
neat biological stuff. Great images!!
http://virology.wisc.edu/IMV/
This site has many electron micrographs of viruses. You will see fantastic
images and movies of viruses! Lots of them are in color. The virus images at
this site make for great decorations on any biology class's bulletin board.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/emimages.html
Linda Stannard of the University of Capetown offers electromagnetic images
of both animal and plant viruses on her web site. She also provides annotations
that tell information such as the size of the virus and the structure. The pictures
are excellent and now students will know what the common cold virus looks like!
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/outrea/greenhouse/nursery/biology/home.html
This site has a great three-dimensional representation of a cell! Students
get to see an inside view of common organelles like mitochondria and the Golgi
apparatus.
http://www.talksaver.com/indexes/cellbio.htm
This site presents essential ideas of genetic and molecular biology. Good
section on contemporary issues.GENETICS
http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/
Here is a web site where you can actually download those classic
genetics papers of Mendel, Sutton, Morgan, and others. A great resource for
teachers and students to learn and read about the history of genetics.
http://nas.com/downsyn/
The Down's Syndrome WWW Page is an excellent resource to learn about Down's
Syndrome. This web site contains information about this genetic disorder, treatments
available, information on support groups, and many recently published articles
dealing with a variety topics relating to Down's Syndrome. A great resource
for a student doing a genetic disorder report on Down's Syndrome.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer/index.shtml
The Human Genome Primer is an excellent genetics resource to learn about
DNA, protein synthesis, genes, and genetic mapping. Lots of excellent graphics
to accompany the text. A valuable resource to facilitate learning about genetics
with high school students.
http://www-bio.llnl.gov/bbrp/genome/genome.html
This web site contains an overview of the work being done at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory's Human Genome Center. Maps of chromosome 19,
FISH images, DNA sequencing, instrumentation for the Human Genome Project, and
other genetic biotechnology information can be found here.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/
The Natural History of Genes provides teachers with a hands-on genetics science
curriculum. This web site explains experimentation kits that bring disease genetics,
conservation genetics, human diversity, forensics, and DNA into the real world
for students. A fantastic web site for studying genetics! Great images!
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/Omim/
This web site contains a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Included
are textual information, pictures, and reference information. This site contains
links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles. Excellent search engine.
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
This web site is an excellent lesson on genetic disorders. Case studies of
inherited metabolic disorders, chromosomal abnormalities, infections, and neoplasia
that may occur in the pediatric age group. Great graphics!
http://morgan.rutgers.edu/
The Rutgers Student Scientists home page based at the Waksman Institute at
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is designed for high-school and
college students interested in doing active scientific research at their own
school or college, as well as teachers who want to expand their educational
resources. The highlights of this wonderful web page include a fantastic on-line
genetics tutorial and an on-line molecular biology quiz.
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/HGP/
The Human Genome Project is an international research program designed to
"construct detailed genetic and physical maps of the human genome, to determine
the complete nucleotide sequence of human DNA, to localize the estimated 50,000-100,000
genes within the human genome, and to perform similar analyses on the genomes
of several other organisms used extensively in research laboratories as model
systems." An excellent resource for teachers to show actual current biotechnology
research.
http://med.nyu.edu/rgdc/homenew.htm
This is a homepage that contains links to a wealth of information about rare
genetic diseases that are usually mentioned in general biology texts. There
are links to pages which describe symptoms, treatment, and support groups. Students
can also chat with affected families and health professionals. An excellent
source for up-to-date information on rare genetic disorders.
http://www.phys.ksu.edu:80/gene/
The Gene homepage says the network is "dedicated to rescuing teachers and
other students from terminal boredom by helping them do real science with modern
research organisms." There are links to experiments and an excellent photo gallery.
Students can also chat with scientists and teachers.
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/
A multimedia primer on the basics of genetics and heredity.
The Biology Project:
Human Biology Hello Dolly: A WebQuest
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/human_bio.html
http://www.pusd.info/projects/dolly/roslininst.htm
Ewe
2
http://www.powayschools.com/projects/ewe2/
This site allows students to explore partial and whole
cloning issues through a Case Study approach. Students will discover through
the case study, where they stand on cloning and how to think on their own about
cloning.
The University
of Michigan's Museum of
Zoology Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
This is an excellent resource for learning classification of animals! Includes
all taxonomic nomenclature, descriptions of classifications, geographic range,
natural history, conservation/ biodiversity, economic benefits, references,
photographs, and image sources. There is also a page where one can listen to
frog calls and angry cries of the big brown bat. Included are U of M Bio 108
lecture notes and handouts. Good test questions for AP biology. Excellent resource
for taxonomy!
BIOSIS
http://www.biosis.org/
The BIOSIS Home Page is an excellent taxonomy and nomenclature resource.
"Users will find access to primary services for biologists, such as organism
name and nomenclature related services being developed in conjunction with production
of the Zoological Record."
The Cephalopod
Page
http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/index.html
The Cephalopod Page is a fantastic web site full of information of squid,
octopi, and other mollusks. An excellent taxonomy resource that can be used
to study classification. Great "kalamari" graphics!!
The Cyber
Zoomobile
http://www.primenet.com/~brendel/index.html
The Cyber Zoomobile is an awesome site for all students to learn about animals.
Good educational commentary is combined with hundreds of hyper-links, transforming
ordinary text into visual images of animal behavior. "Learn about distribution,
individual characteristics, life cycles, reproduction and sex, endangered species
status and many other interesting aspects of life on our planet. Information
"buttons" provide worldwide links to search engines; zoos and wildlife
parks; animal related educational materials; scientific research; veterinary
medicine; recreation and eco-tourism; mammals; fish; invertebrates; primates;
dinosaurs; wildlife rescue and rehabilitation; classification and Federal and
State Agencies."
Insect World
http://www.insect-world.com/insects/
Anything and everything you wanted to know about insects.
Life, the Universe
and Everything
http://www.interaktv.com/LUnE/
What a web page! A very extensive web page on biology that just about has
it all. A fantastic resource for teachers and students alike who are interested
in classification, zoology, botany, paleontology, and lots of other science
stuff. Highly recommended.
The
Tree of Life Home Page
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
The Tree of Life contains information about the phylogenetic relationships
of organisms, links to biological information available on the Internet in the
form of a phylogenetic navigator, and illustrations regarding the diversity
and unity of living organisms. This site is a great resource for studying classification,
taxonomy, and phylogeny.
TreeView
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html
TreeView is a simple graphics program for displaying phylogenies on Apple
Macintosh and Windows PCs. This software, which is free to download, offers
teachers a unique way to teach classification and taxonomy by having students
create their own taxonomic trees on a computer. Highly recommended!!
Virus Databases On-line
http://life.anu.edu.au/viruses/
The irus databases on-line is a comprehensive database of viruses. Included
in this database is a complete history and comprehensive information about the
taxonomic classification of viruses. A great resource for biology teachers teaching
about viruses.
Wild-Flowers
http://www.wild-flowers.com/
Wild-Flowers is a storehouse of information that has lots of graphics and
links to many interesting botany related sites. A great site if one is interested
in learning flower taxonomy and classification.
Flowering Plant Gateway
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/gateopen.htm
NMNH
Virtual Tour of the Dinosaurs
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/museum/VirtualTour/Tour/First/Dinosaurs/
Bugs in
the News!
http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/bugs.html
Bugs in the News! has very interesting biology articles that
relate to insects. Quite an interesting variety of current entomology news clippings
and information.
Yucky Bug
World
http://yuck.kids.discovery.com/roaches/
Yucky Bug World contains wonderful information about cockroaches. Included
are anatomy, physiology, environmental responses, habitat, and niche information
about the cockroach. This web site has a great humorous slant to it that makes
learning fun! Great graphics! An excellent resource to use in the classroom
to learn about entomology.
Net-Frog
- Interactive Frog Dissection
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog/
This is the ultimate site for your students to view a frog dissection. My students
enjoy watching the quicktime movies. This site will definitely make your students
ooh and ahh.
The Electronic
Zoo
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm>The Electronic Zoo
Animal-related computer resources including veterinary medicine, agriculture,
biology, environment and ecology, medicine, animal-related WWW, gopher sites,
FTP archives, TelNet sites, and electronic publications. An excellent resource
for K-12 biology and animal sciences. Lots of neat stuff here!
Wadsworth's Wonderful Worms
http://rigel.umdnj.edu/
This is a doozy of a site if you are interested in the biology of worms.
It is a research laboratory studying developmental neurobiology and the extracellular
matrix. They use the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, as a model animal for
genetic and molecular biology studies. Great graphics! An excellent zoology
resource.
Animal Information
Database
http://www.seaworld.org/infobook.html
The Animal Information Database is an excellent resource to learn some neat
facts about animals and careers in zoological parks and marine science. Sea
World-Busch Gardens Information on educational programs including teacher's
curriculum guides and Shamu TV.
Entomology for beginners
http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/begin.htm
Entomology for beginners is a great site to introduce insect anatomy and
metamorphosis to a young person. Good for the elementary and middle school child.
The Albatross Project
http://www.wfu.edu/albatross/
This project uses sensitive satellites in space, miniature transmitters on
birds, and rapid email communications to investigate the travels of albatross
on the open ocean.
Bat Thematic
Unit
http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/
Clasroom FeederWatch
http://birdsource.cornell.edu/cfw/
Cornell Laboratory of
Ornithology
http://birds.cornell.edu/
Field Trip Earth
http://www.fieldtripearth.org
Wild-Eyed Alaska
http://www.hhmi.org/alaska/
Frogs at the
Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/
Bugscope
http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/