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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: Science Mystery - Croak
Date Posted: Jun 14, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool, problem solving
Description: Students click through an online animated mystery. They choose who they want to interview, look at data and graphs, and try to solve the mystery....
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: LiveScience.com
Date Posted: Jun 14, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, current events
Description: LiveScience.com is a current events source for science news. They feature articles, video clips, galleries and quizzes on topics such as space, animals, health, environment,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Creature Comforts
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Fun
Description: This is a small clip from the video Creture Comforts about evolution.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Flock of Dodos DVd Extras: Pulled Punches
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Video Clip
Description: This clip goes well with the flock of Dodos movie that discusses the controversy between Darwinian evolutionists and intelegent design.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Evolution: The Mating Game
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Application of knowledge
Description: This game has students pick the proper mates for a number of species using the dating game style format (cheesy music and all).
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Hardy-Weinberg Practice Problems
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This page has some Hardy-Weinberg practice problems and some other helpful links for students to use when studying population genetics.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Nova Online
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This animation shows mitosis and meiosis side by side and highlights the similarities and differences between the two cell division processes
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Life Cycle of a Moss
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This resource provides an explanation of alternation of generations. There is a small amount of text, a narrated animation, a conclusion, and a quiz students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Biology Labs-Online
Date Posted: Jun 11, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: This lab is a population genetics simulation that allows students to manipulate a variety of parameters and monitor how allele frequencies change in two hypothetical...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Hands On Astrophysics
Date Posted: Jun 11, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: Hands-On Astrophysics is a flexible set of hands-on educational materials, activities, and investigations, based on the AAVSO's unique electronic database of variable star measurements. Students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Biolgy Labs-Online, Evolution Lab
Date Posted: Jun 10, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: The Evolution Lab is a simulation that models natural selection. It allows students to manipulate several varibles and run several generations of offsping of two...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: "Science from the Poles
Date Posted: Jun 07, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: flash
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: The Exploratorium (a wonderful museum in San Fransisco!) celebrates the start of the upcoming 2007-2008 International Polar Year with a special series of Webcasts highlighting...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The Science of Gardening
Date Posted: Jun 07, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: flash
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A fun and simple resource that offers captivating video, wonderful photography and videography,about gardening, common and not-so-common plants, composting, soil science, transgenic and bioengineered plants,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Ruben's Tube overview
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: instructions for building and working with lab equipment
Description: This is a translation of a Danish page describing a Ruben's Tube (or Flame tube). It shows examples, describes how to build one, describes some...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Tools for High Speed Flash Photography
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: instructions for lab equipment and techniques
Description: "There are several different ways of capturing high-speed images, including single- and multi-burst flash, high-speed motion picture cameras, rotating prism cameras, and streak cameras. The...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The Physics Homework Solution Warehouse
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: cheating
Description: "Over 1,000 solutions absolutly free... try the Free Tour and join the Basic membership plan at no cost. You are just a couple of clicks...
Reviews (2) Avg: **
Name: Giancoli Online Textbook Resource
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Practice problems and overview of chapters
Description: "Welcome to the Companion Website for Physics: Principles with Applications, 6th Edition. Built to complement the text as part of an integrated course package, this...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: AP Physics B sample questions
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: pdf files
Type: reveiw/practice
Description: These are the free-response questions from a few years of AP B tests (the non calculus tests). There are pdf files of the tests and...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: comPADRE
Date Posted: Jun 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: resource for new teaching ideas
Description: Digital Resources for Physics & Astronomy Education; database of physics and astronomy journal articles that cover technology and more; the database includes: Astronomy Center.org -...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: NASA
Date Posted: Jun 03, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: This page is a multimedia resource (including images, videos, podcasts, etc. done by NASA
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: NASA
Date Posted: Jun 03, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: This page is a multimedia resource (including images, videos, podcasts, etc. done by NASA
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: sun today
Date Posted: Jun 03, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: A compilation of some of the latest images of the sun in various wavelengths updated daily.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: SOHO solar observatory webpage
Date Posted: Jun 01, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation
Description: This is the homepage for satellite observations of the sun at a variety of UV and X-ray wavelengths. These dramatically show sunspots and other solar...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Beakman's Electric Motor
Date Posted: Jun 01, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: classroom activity instructions
Description: This is the first of many listings that come up if you do a Google search for Beakman's motor. This easy-to-build DC motor is a...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Physics Teaching Technology Resource
Date Posted: May 31, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: videos
Type: video
Description: This source has a list of quicktime videos that are prepared specifically for video analysis. In addition, they put the videos in context of the...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
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