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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: Vernier Force Plate
Date Posted: Apr 13, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Probeware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: From Vernier Website: "About the size of a bathroom scale, the Vernier Force Plate measures forces of stepping, jumping and other human-scale actions. For example,...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Virtual Laboratory: Thermal Equilibrium
Date Posted: Apr 13, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This applet is designed to simulate the diffusion process which occurs when gases of different temperatures are mixed. The thermometers will start to change temperature...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: acoustics and vibrations animations
Date Posted: Apr 09, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Dr. Russell of Kettering University has put together a very professional page of animations for acoustics and vibrations. They start with introductory material (longitudinal and...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Nuclear power plants
Date Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Additional content
Description: This resource provides information on how a nuclear power plant works.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Electric field lines for various charge configurations
Date Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource illustrates electric fields for different charge configurations. You can switch between different configurations and observe electric field lines or electric field vectors.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Exploring electric fields
Date Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource helps to learn about electric fields through placing electric charges and visualizing the effect of the electric field they create.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Circuits applet
Date Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource provides an opportunity to learn about electric circuits through creating schematic diagrams. The students can also measure an electric current and voltage.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Breaking the sound barrier
Date Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This website provides photos, videos, links, and information on the breaking of the sound barrier by airplanes and the subsequent sonic boom that is produced.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: National atlas
Date Posted: Apr 04, 2007
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: Create maps of individual states with data layers that include water resources (including water quality, water bodies in area), roads and highways, population density, climate,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Kinetic Books: Virtuala Physics Labs: Navigating race tracks
Date Posted: Apr 02, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: From the web site: This lab starts with a brief review of acceleration in one dimension and then explores how an object moving at a...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: sodium chlorine reaction
Date Posted: Mar 28, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a short video clip showing the reaction between sodium and chlorine to create sodium chloride.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Gas exchange in humans
Date Posted: Mar 28, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Communication Tool, Images
Description: Information about the exchange of gases is presented. There are several graphs having to do with the saturation of oxygen in the blood.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Animation of Ideal gas laws
Date Posted: Mar 28, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A short animation for teaching gas laws. One can choose which of the measurable properties of a gas should be kept constant and then the...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: NSTA list serve site
Date Posted: Mar 28, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Communication Tool, list serve
Description: This is the list serve for NSTA (National science teachers association). After choosing the science sections you wish to join you will recieve e-mails (sometimes...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Podcsat.net
Date Posted: Mar 25, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Podcasts
Type: Student and teacher science interest
Description: This is a resource of podcast links with some for all the areas in science
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: My Solar System
Date Posted: Mar 19, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: From the site: "Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Thermite demonstration
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Demonstrations
Description: Several demonstrations that show reactions you may not want to do yourself. I used the thermite reaction which was explained and demonstrated very well.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: The 21st Century Pedagogy Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: For teachers on Technology
Description: As the title "The 21st Century Pedagogy Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade" says this is a resource on technology in the classroom for teachers
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Teraserver
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Allows easy access to aerial photographs and topo maps
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Basic polymer reactions
Date Posted: Mar 17, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Site summaried the two types of making polymers, addition and condensation. It gave a tutorial along with some animation of the process. I used this...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Sticky Water
Date Posted: Mar 14, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: text
Type: Communication Tool
Description: good explanations concerning the surface tension of water. Lots of interesting information about bubbles.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: USGS Stream Flow
Date Posted: Mar 06, 2007
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation
Description: Students can access stream flow data for their communities using specified time periods. They can reference historical data as well as view average stream flow...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: AP Physics C recent AP Exams (non-multiple choice)
Date Posted: Mar 05, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Software
Type: provides problems for study
Description: This website provides tons of recent AP questions (non multiple choice) for use by teachers and students. Teachers may use the questions to teach a...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Animated Bonding
Date Posted: Feb 25, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Shows ionic and covalent bonding, good examples of VSEPR showing angles, bonding pairs vs lone pairs, also good demonstration of polarity of molecules and how...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Chromatography Animation
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This site allows the student to complete a virtual chromatography experiment. Students place a dot of "ink" on chromatography paper and watch to see the...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
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