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Name: Refraction
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource provides a simulator for investigating refraction of light as it travels from glass to air and a simulator for exploring how the object...
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Name: Image formation by a converging lens
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This web resource provides a visualization that helps the students to understand how the location of an object with respect to the focus of a...
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Name: Helicopter Crash Videos
Date Posted: Feb 14, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a site that contains several great videos of helicopter crashes due to a rear rotor failure. These videos provide an excellent starting point...
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Name: HyperPhysics
Date Posted: Jan 25, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Online Textbook (sort of )
Description: From the website, quoting the Merlot Award: Merlot Classic Award winner for 2005 "This site was honored because of its comprehensive coverage of most of...
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Name: Odyssey Instructor's Edition
Date Posted: Jan 18, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: This software provides molecular modeling. It allows you to look at how molecules will interact under numerous conditions. You are able to measure quantitatively how...
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Name: maxanim.com
Date Posted: Jan 16, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Really good variety of comprehensive animations for a wide range of biology topics. Easy to play, has both text and audio component
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Name: virtual knee replacement
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This is a great website to use when discussing the skeletal system. We use it in anatomy & physiology in the joints unit. Students listen...
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Name: SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation
Description: SOHO provides images and movies (archived and "current") of our Sun. I have used it to discuss solar flares, rotation of the Sun, electromagnetic waves....
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Name: EM Field
Date Posted: Jan 11, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From the PAS website: "This fully interactive software tool encourages rapid, qualitative exploration of electric and magnetic fields - a notoriously abstract topic - and...
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Name: Kinetic Books: Force and Newton's Laws - Helicopters in flight: Applying Newton's force laws
Date Posted: Jan 10, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: This lab allows students to apply Newton's Laws to a helicopter in flight. They see how a net force causes an object to accelerate, how...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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