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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: GEODe
Date Posted: Nov 09, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool, review/self-test
Description: Parallels textbook but adds new figures, animations, and review questions for each topic
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: U.S. Geological Survey
Date Posted: Nov 09, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation
Description: The minerals section has information summarized both by state and by mineral resource. Students can discover what minerals are found in their own state and...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: PBS Nova
Date Posted: Nov 07, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: The title of the program was back to the beginning. I picked sections which focused on the creation of the elements. It was an awesome...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Weather Forecasting
Date Posted: Nov 04, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: This website provides computer model output for 3-7 day precipitation forecasting.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Graphical Analysis
Date Posted: Nov 02, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: This is a graphing program that is easy to use, powerful and geared towards the science classroom.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Biology Interactive
Date Posted: Nov 01, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: interactive websites w/ animation
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Collection of biology animations for cellular processes like photosynthesis, cellular respiration, transcription and translation, etc. The collection includes simple animations, online quizzes, and explanations for...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Introduction to Biomes
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This resource is a collection of information on the major biomes of the world.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Mr Guch Explains
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Worksheets and Explanation/Tutorial
Description: This website is a really good site for teachers and students alike. The site has clear explanations of difficult concepts for students. The site also...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Optic Bench
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Applet
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This allows the teacher or the student to set up an opical bench with different lenses and mirrors as well as an object or a...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Taxonomy Webquest
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Students struggle with biological taxonomy ended with students creating their own taxonomy, from species to kingdom, of an organism of their own interest. They went...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Relative Motion (Frame of Reference)
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: This simulation, allows you to look at the relative motion of a variety of objects on a river. Go to NTNUJAVA simulations - kinematics -...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: ExploreLearning/Gizmos
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: Interactive math and science explorations.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: SciLinks
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Internet Resource
Description: This is a Web service developed and maintained by NTSA that contains topical links for teachers and students.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: The Carbon Cycle
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: provides NASA satellite images of vegetation, phytoplankton and photosynthesis as it relates to studying global climate; good text for background on the carbon cycle and...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: CalTech's Physics Applets for E&M
Date Posted: Oct 26, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Java
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: Applets on Electromagnetic Fields, Induction, Magnetism, LRC Circuits, Space Time, and the fields of Moving Charges. A canny student who reads the information at the...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Student WorkBench
Date Posted: Oct 25, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Software that allows students to analyze DNA or protein sequences. Creates phylograms.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Feather/Hammer Drop on Moon
Date Posted: Oct 22, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: NASA video of astronaut dropping a hammer and a feather on the surface of the Moon.
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: MDL CHIME
Date Posted: Oct 20, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: MDL Chime as an internet browser add-on that allows you to view and manipulate the three-dimensional structure of biomolecules. [Although it is a browser add-on,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: A Private Universe
Date Posted: Oct 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: video on demand
Description: This video brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? Interviews are held...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Inspiration
Date Posted: Oct 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Communication Tool, Study skill
Description: Though Inspiration software has existed for a long time, I have just begun to use it for my chemistry classes. The program allows students to...
Reviews (3) Avg: ****
Name: Inner Life of a Cell
Date Posted: Oct 18, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A three minute animation clip from a longer eight minute movie generated for Harvard's Molecular and Cellular Biology program. It illustrates the mechanisms that allow...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Nuclear Chemistry
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2006
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: The site gives a description of the material supplemented with relevent images and flash animations, which help to demonstate the concepts. The site also has...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Water on the Web
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2006
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation
Description: They have posted data collected with Remote Underwater Sampling Stations (RUSS units) that allows for teachers and students to have real data from a lake...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Environmental Literacy Council Webpage: Statistics Section
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2006
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Resource-labs, reviews, information
Type: Statistics
Description: Provides student with background information on Chi squared stats values, with examples
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Vector Addition Simulation
Date Posted: Oct 17, 2006
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Use this simulation to show students (or let them learn) how to add vectors graphically. Drag vectors onto a graph, change their length and angle,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
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