Teachers' Review

browseBROWSE   

Here you will find over 170 (and growing) teacher-reviewed technology resources that have been posted anonymously by the 30 science teachers collaborating in this study. High school biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science teachers will find reviews and links to resources that they might find helpful to use with their own students. At this time, only our teacher-collaborators may post new reviews but we will soon open the site for visitors to post as well.

There are 328 resources in this category.
( #251-275 are displayed below. )   Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 »
Name: Sheep Brain Tutorial
Date Posted: Dec 31, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Virtual Lab
Description: This is a virtual dissection of a sheep's brain
Reviews (1) Avg: **
Name: Your Genes, Your Health A multimedia guide to genetic disorders.
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a multimedia site that allows you to click on different genetic disorders and learn what they are, how they are inherited and diagnosed,...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Actin-Myosin Movie
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This movie showing the activities of actin-myosin is useful when talking about ATP or in anatomy and physiology classes when discussing muscles. It is easily...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Science Daily
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Science News on the Web
Type: Communication Tool
Description: If you don't have the funds to buy Science News or other publications for your students, this is a good substitute. With many current science...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Periodic table data
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Communication Tool, Facilitates the presentation of student work, Data resource for self study
Description: This site provides information about each of the elements on the periodic table, the electron configuration of each and periodic trends. Students can view the...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Return of the Yellow lab
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Facilitates the presentation of student work, Project work
Description: A lab challenge to students to find who "killed Miss Scarlet" Students are given evidence and a sample of the murder weapon to test and...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Limiting reactants
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Reinforcement
Description: Supplimental pages to show students how to solve limiting reactant problems.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Two worlds of Chemistry
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A chart that compares the microscopic world of the atom to the macroscopic world of the atom through the mole.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Chemistry Coach
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool, Tutorials
Description: This site provides students and teachers with a listing of sites for each of the units in a high school chemistry class. The home page...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: The Virtual Cell
Date Posted: Dec 29, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: As the name implies, this is a virtual tour of the cell that allows students to go through the major organelles and structrues of the...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Attractive forces (IMF)
Date Posted: Dec 29, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: Several animations, some showing vapor pressure, what causes it and how it is measured. Graph of vapor pressures and how to read them. Some animations...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Redox simulations
Date Posted: Dec 29, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: I found this to be an excellent way to reinforce and expand the activity series that we did in lab. The program allowed the students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The Biology Project
Date Posted: Dec 26, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Topic Review Material
Description: "The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and tested...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: DNA Interactive
Date Posted: Dec 26, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, historical perspective
Description: This is an excellent site that allows students to learn in an interactive way about DNA from the history of its discovery to the wonders...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Drawing floor plans
Date Posted: Dec 24, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Article
Type: Additional content
Description: This article provides some additional information on drawing floor plans and can be successfully used for teaching the Home 1 unit from the Active Physics...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Cell Membranes
Date Posted: Dec 23, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This animation is a very detailed look at the structure and function of cell membranes. It contains a lot of text in addition to animations...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Swallowing animation
Date Posted: Dec 23, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This animation provides a great summary of the events involved in swallowing
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Physics Demonstration Videos (online)
Date Posted: Dec 20, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: RealVideo or MPG
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: "The online library of demonstrations for the Department of Physics, including Physics Demonstration Videos, a collection of videos of popular physics demonstrations." from their website....
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Vernier Magnetic Field Probe
Date Posted: Dec 20, 2006
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From the Vernier Website: "This sensor, which uses a Hall effect transducer, is sensitive enough to measure the Earth's magnetic field. It can also be...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Southern Blot
Date Posted: Dec 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This is a great animation explaining Southern Blot. Although it's in French, the animation is so good that English text is not necessary. Of course,...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Vernier Wireless Dynamics Sensor System
Date Posted: Dec 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From the Vernier website: "The Wireless Dynamics Sensor System combines a 3-axis accelerometer, altimeter, and force sensor into one unit that communicates wirelessly with your...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: WebElements
Date Posted: Dec 18, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Facilitates the presentation of student work, Informational
Description: From the website: "The periodic table of the chemical elements is an arrangement of the elements ordered by atomic number in columns (groups) and rows...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Gas Pressure Sensor
Date Posted: Dec 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Media: Software, Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From Vernier website: "The Gas Pressure Sensor has enough resolution and range to work for all subject areas. Chemistry teachers will find that it has...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Vernier Motion Sensor
Date Posted: Dec 18, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From the Vernier website: "The Motion Detector uses ultrasound to measure distance. Ultrasonic pulses are emitted by the Motion Detector, reflected from a target, and...
Reviews (3) Avg: ****
Name: Teacher's Domain
Date Posted: Dec 14, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: This is a website that contains animations, videos, photographs, and explanations of many science principles. NOVA videos, NASA videos and many others can be found...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 »
 
Researching the Wireless High School: Effects on Science Teaching and Implications for Professional Development, Copyright 2013 TERC.
Funded by NSF #0455795. Opinions expressed on this site are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation.

Note: NSF funding for this project has ended and this site has been converted to a static archive of the working site; dynamic functionality including logging in, search, and posting have been disabled.