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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.
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Name: Heat Questions
Date Posted: Dec 12, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Assessment
Description: This resource provides a set of questions that can be used to assess students' knowledge of heat and heat transfer. The students can check the...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: United streaming-hurricane Katrina
Date Posted: Dec 12, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, videos
Description: Our school has a trial offer to use this website. It is a great resource for videos about Science related topics: Hurricane Katrina for one....
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Molecular Structure Calculations
Date Posted: Dec 12, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: A fairly comprehensive listing of high order molecular structure calculations with interpretations in terms of simple models, i.e Lewis structures
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The greenhouse effect
Date Posted: Dec 11, 2006
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This web resource provides an interactive explanation of what the greenhouse effect is and how it works.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: How Stuff works
Date Posted: Dec 10, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: internet
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: Video, reading and images of heart and circulatory system
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: United Streaming
Date Posted: Dec 07, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This website contains an immese database of videos that are produced by the Discovery Channel.
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: plasmid cloning animation
Date Posted: Dec 01, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: animation
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Useful for explaining bacterial tranformation. Makes a nice introduction to the BioRad pGlo Lab.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Harvard University/HHMI MicroMedia Project
Date Posted: Nov 29, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work, meet an expert
Description: A wonderful link to some real (cool) scientists talking about their work on a MCB/HHMI Video Project Review regarding cutting edge: Micro Arrays, DNA Sequencing,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Hubble Telescope Images
Date Posted: Nov 29, 2006
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: web browser
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: You can find the best Hubble Telescope Images on this website. Many of these images can be used in Physics classrooms and Earth Science classrooms.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Physics Education Technology (PhET): Projectile Motion
Date Posted: Nov 29, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: The Projectile Motion applet give the students a choice of nine objects (a golf ball, a Buick, a pumpkin, etc) to fire out of a...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: access excellence
Date Posted: Nov 28, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Web resource for Biology teachers
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: This is an excdellent site for teachers of Biology. They have a great resource center for teachers and students, activity exchange area and wonderful links...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Logger Pro
Date Posted: Nov 27, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Media: Software, Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: Logger Pro is a probeware software. In other words, Logger Pro is a way of using a computer, calculator, or pda to collect data. This...
Reviews (5) Avg: ****
Name: cellsalive.com
Date Posted: Nov 26, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: cellsalive.com is a wonderful resource - especially for teachers of Biology but has something for all science disciplies.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Heat Game
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: game/quiz
Description: The Heat Game is a set of questions that helps to review basic heat concepts. Students have to answer 20 multiple choice questions with an...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Temperature
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Text and interactive elements
Description: It is an article about temperature and temperature measurements.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Chemical Bonding
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Vision Learning is a website that contains learning modules about a variety of concepts in the fields of general science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, earth...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Ripple Tank simulation
Date Posted: Nov 16, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: The ripple tank allows all things done on a ripple tank to be done on the computer and also allow students to take pictures and...
Reviews (3) Avg: *****
Name: Virtual Blood Lab
Date Posted: Nov 16, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: Most schools don't want to do a blood lab, for many reasons! This website solves all of that. Explains the blood types with an activity/lab...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: The Brain from Top to Bottom
Date Posted: Nov 14, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Communication Tool
Description: This website provides a broad range of information for students of various levels about the brian and its connection to areas such as emmotions, movement,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Campbell Image and Presentation Library
Date Posted: Nov 14, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a series of CD ROMs that accompany the textbook Biology 6th edition. It has all the figures in the text and animations of...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Electron Level Diagram Interactive Tool
Date Posted: Nov 13, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Visualization tool that demonstrates electron level diagrams for the elements.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Hydrogenlike Orbitals
Date Posted: Nov 13, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Links to some images and animations for visualization of the atomic orbitals -- s, p, d, f, etc.
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Carbon Cycle movie
Date Posted: Nov 13, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: The carbon cycle movie illustrates carbon transport and presence of carbon in a variety of materials. The animation shows the interactions of these materials and...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Kinetic Books Virtual Physics Lab: Firing a cannon: Calculating projectile motion
Date Posted: Nov 13, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: From the Lab: Introduction Artillery has a proud history. Napoleon and Harry Truman labored in the artillery before going on to lead their countries. Being...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: chemical animations
Date Posted: Nov 12, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: animations for making solutions, forming precipitates, and gas laws, single replacement reactions. Good visualization of molecular level showing exchange of electrons and the effect on...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
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