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Help Sites
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On-Line Learning Center (Companion
Website) for
Mader, Inquiry Into Life 10e The OLC provides animations,
virtual labs, online quizzing, PowerPoint lecture outlines, text
images for presentations, and other tools that will help make
teaching a little easier and learning a lot more fun.
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The Biology Project Student-oriented, highly interactive
learning materials on the worldwide web. These learning
materials are used to support the lecture, laboratory and
discussion sessions of the University of Arizona's entry-level
college biology course.
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The
Biology Place Activities allow students to visualize and
apply their understanding of biological concepts and pre- and
post-lab reviews. Animations and interactive questions connect
laboratory procedures to biological principles. Designed for
advanced students, these activities correspond to the AP* Lab
Manual and include sections on key concepts, experiment design,
analysis of results, as well as a lab quiz.
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High School Hub a free online interactive learning center
for high school students
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General Interest
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AP Biology "Great Books" List Compiled from messages to the
AP Biology Electronic Discussion Group, this is a collection of
"biological" books for pleasure reading, for background
knowledge, and for student assignments.
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The Why Files
The science behind the news you hear on TV and read about in
the newspaper.
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Nobel Prize Website
The
Medicine
prize and the
Chemistry
prize are often linked to studies in biology. Click on
Educational for great interactive tutorials and games dealing
with previous Nobel Prizes.
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American Museum of Natural History
Resources for Learning is a collection of activities,
articles, evidence and analysis and more, for educators,
families, students and anyone interested in teaching or learning
about science. There are
786 resources to choose
from right now!
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Ology the
American Museum of Natural History's Web site for kids ages
seven through twelve, is based on the premise that "everyone
wants to know something," and is designed as a place for kids to
explore, ask questions, get answers, meet OLogists, play games,
and see what other kids are interested in.
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A Science Odyssey: People and
Discoveries (PBS)
What's the story behind electroshock
therapy? Who's responsible for increasing the size of the
Universe? What laboratory mishap led to the saving of countless
lives? The answers to these questions, plus many more, await you
in People and Discoveries, a databank consisting of 120
entries about 20th century scientists and their stories.
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Windows to the Universe
Who made the first star map? When did people know
that the Earth was round? When were sunspots discovered?
The links to the right will lead you to biographies of
scientists who lived at different times through history.
Discover the people who made science history!
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SARS: An
Open Scar Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was a
serious global epidemic that suddenly emerged at the end of 2002
and which infected over 8,000 people and claimed over 700 lives.
Until today, no real cure has been discovered. The world is
still on alert and the search for a cure continues.
Teams of students and
teachers are challenged to build websites on educational
topics. These websites are published in the popular
ThinkQuest Library, a free educational resource
featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the
world as part of a
competition. For more information, see the
Library FAQ.
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Virtual Field Trips
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The Visible Human Project The Visible Human Project®
is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the
creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional
representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of
representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The
male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at
one-third of a millimeter intervals.
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The
Interactive frog dissection The Interactive frog
Dissection was designed for use in high school biology
classrooms.
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Education Event Online:
Wildlife Wired: Ask the Expert! This educational event will
feature a series of 13 weekly programs,
updated each week in the video library, about wildlife
called Wildfiles.TV. Find out what it's like to work with
wildlife, study their habitat, and how to become an expert in
the field. Each show is a approximately 1/2 hour long.
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Virtual Field Trip: Project E.R. (ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE) In
this learning adventure, join expeditions to three ecosystems
where Field Museum scientists are working to understand and
conserve biodiversity. While visiting sites in Ecuador, Kenya,
and the United States, learn about balancing the needs of people
with those of the broader ecosystems in which they live.
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Virtual Field Trip:Science in Action "Science in Action for
Conservation" looks at two Field Museum sites that demonstrate
how scientists and communities work together to conserve
biodiversity. After flying over the remote mountains of
Cordillera Azul in Peru, where scientists are working to
preserve an untouched biological treasure, students visit the
Calumet region on the shores of Lake Michigan, where scientists
collaborate with the local community to preserve the astonishing
biodiversity living in the shadows of smokestacks. With this
introduction, students will see how they can get involved and
take conservation action in their own neighborhoods with
UrbanWatch.
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Calumet
BioBlitz A Biodiversity Blitz, or BioBlitz, is a rapid
assessment of what lives in a particular area at a given point
in time. Biodiversity, the variety of living things, is often
discussed in terms of the rain forest or the ocean, not
somewhere familiar or local. However, Illinois’ second BioBlitz
was held in Chicago when scientists and the public came together
for a 24-hour blitz on August 23 and 24, 2002. Organized
teams converged on Calumet to conduct an extensive inventory
of the surprising biodiversity living within the industrial
landscape of landfills, refineries, and abandoned steel mills.
Beyond those doing the field work were many community
organizations that ensured meaningful participation for the
public.
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Urban Watch
Illinois adult volunteers, high school teachers and students
will be able to conduct biological inventories of their local
open green spaces. Scientists can then use the data to identify
long-term changes in urban natural areas. UrbanWatch will
provide teachers and students with an opportunity to learn more
about urban ecology and enable them to influence wildlife
habitats, while helping scientists gather data on urban wildlife
statewide.
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Koko TV Koko, that famous "talking" gorilla, communicates in
American Sign Language: she knows over 1000 signs, and
understands over 2000 words of spoken English, too. Koko was
raised and taught by Dr. Penny Patterson, founder of the Gorilla
Foundation/Koko.org
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Anatomy Revealed ® provides an anatomical foundation for the
practice of medicine. Anatomy Revealed uses computer-based
technology and a multidisciplinary approach to present human
gross anatomy and its clinical application.
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Evidence for Evolution In this Evolution WebQuest you will
investigate a variety of types of evidence for evolution. Your
team will be responsible for learning about fossil evidence,
structural evidence, and genetic evidence for evolution and
presenting this information to the class.
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Evolution and Time How old are you today? The Earth is about
4.6 billion years old. In this activity you will create a
"Geologic Birthday Card." To do this, you need to figure out
when you were born in geologic terms, then use these Web
resources to explore the Earth's history. You can find out about
the geology -- stratigraphy (rock layers) and tectonics (plate
movement), transformations and extinctions -- ancient life
(fossils), and localities (fossil sites).
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American Environmental Photographs This collection consists
of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural
environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United
States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the
twentieth century. From the American Memory Collection, a gateway to rich primary source
materials relating to the history and culture of the United
States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items
from more than 100 historical collections.
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Multimedia Tools
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Clip-Art for Multimedia Presentations Websites and
search engines to use in finding clip-art or photographs.
Copyright guidelines are also linked on this page.
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Process Guides It is important that we instruct students not
only to do the subject matter assignments, but also processes
that allow them to be more efficient. The following process
guides are designed for student use.
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St. Joseph Aspirin
See the flash commercial for St. Joseph's aspirin, "Pump Your Blood"
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Based on a template from The
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