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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: Blood Typing Tutorial
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: This is a website that allows the user to go through a tutorial to learn about how blood types are determined.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Chemistry Experiment Simulations, Tutorials and Conceptual Computer Animations for Introduction to College Chemistry (aka General Chemistry)
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This site has a group of animations and simulations that can be used in the chemistry classroom
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Flash Animations
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This website has a group of animations that are appropriate for high school chemistry classes. Most of the animations involve atomic structure. These animations go...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Bob Becker's Demo's
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: List of demonstrations and photos
Type: demonstration instructions
Description: This is a site that has a large list of demonstrations that can be used in the chemistry classroom. This is not something that is...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Chemicool Periodic Table
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Information
Description: This is an interactive periodic table similar to WebElements. These periodic tables give the student a great deal of physical information about the elements that...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Molecule of the Month
Date Posted: Feb 23, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is an interesting website that allows the user to look at the shape and structure of many different molecules. When you chose a molecule...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Brainiac Alkali Metals
Date Posted: Feb 20, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: video
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: It is a three minute video that demonstrates the periodic properties of the alkali metals. It is short but very sweet. In three mintutes it...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: ACD/ChemSketch 10.0 Freeware
Date Posted: Feb 20, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: A freeware version of a commercial sofware that contains tools for tautomer prediction, 2D structure clean, and 3D optimization and viewing. It also includes IUPAC...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Tutorials and Conceptual Computer Animations for Introduction to College Chemistry
Date Posted: Feb 20, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A collection of Flash/Shockwave-based zip files that illustrate various chemistry concepts such as the gas laws, electrochemistry, acid/base titration, etc. The animations can also be...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Virtual Chemistry
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Browsers must support Java 1.1 or higher in order to execute the applets employed in these pages. JavaScript support is also required. These pages and applets have been tested and found to run correctly under Netscape Navigator 4.73 and Internet Explorer
Type: Visualization or Animation, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab
Description: This site has appelets that can be maneuvered by students to do experiments or to explore data.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Lecture Tutorial
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Netscape 4.x and Internet Explorer 4.x or higher. Javascript must be enabled
Type: Interactive Quizes and Study Tools
Description: This is a study tool site presented as interactive quizes, organized by concepts. The student must answer the questions which can be word problems to...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Internet Explorer 6 or Mozilla 1.5.
Type: Visualization or Animation, great study tool
Description: This has proven to be a very fun and motivating source for studying for students. The game is easy to navigate and students can go...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Refraction of light (total reflection)
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This web resource can be used as a virtual lab on refraction and total internal reflection of light. It provides the students with the opportunity...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Refraction of light
Date Posted: Feb 19, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: This web page provides a good opportunity to explore the refraction of light. The students can switch from white light to monochromatic light. Also, they...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Bonding
Date Posted: Feb 14, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Facilitates the presentation of student work, practice problems
Description: Shows why chemistry is important
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: The Heart: An On-Line Exploration
Date Posted: Feb 13, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: may require REALplayer
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work, a great site for students to use as a study tool/review for assessment
Description: "Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: www.pyramid.gov
Date Posted: Feb 10, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Government website with an enormous amount of information on foods, nutrients with a great powerpoint on the history of the food pyramid
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Tutorial for chemistry
Date Posted: Feb 05, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: links
Type: Collection of links to chemistry resources
Description: This resource is a set of organized links for chemistry websites for the teacher that is looking for sites to use with their students. It...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: DataSTREME
Date Posted: Feb 05, 2007
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: This is a great resource for gathering temp or pressure data for the US on a daily basis. Creates isobar and isotherm maps for students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Jayhawks Histoweb
Date Posted: Feb 03, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Online slide collection
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This website is useful for students in anatomy and physiology as they study histology. I use the slides for powerpoints and point out cell and...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Phet Simulations
Date Posted: Feb 01, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a very useful source for animations and simulations that can be used for physics, chemistry and earth sciences.
Reviews (4) Avg: ****
Name: Vernier's Free Sample Labs (using their probes)
Date Posted: Jan 31, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Curriculum ideas
Description: Vernier publishes many sample labs using the LoggerPro program and associated probes. The labs are in pdf format and are organized by subject.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
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