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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: Official Energy Statistics (from US Gov)
Date Posted: Jan 31, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Information
Description: The US dept. of energy posts information in tabular and graphical form about the total and state by state, year by year energy consumption in...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Study Stack
Date Posted: Jan 27, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: assessment tool
Description: This is a resource that can be used in any subject. However, since biology is a subject with so much terminology, it is particularly useful...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Synovial Joints
Date Posted: Jan 27, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware, text
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: This is a good site to use in anatomy and physiology when covering a unit on joints. It's complete with some small animations.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Blobs
Date Posted: Jan 27, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware, text
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: When we study blood types some student always asks about scabs. Here's a good site to direct students to. It starts off with some great...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The Physics Classroom
Date Posted: Jan 25, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Information (Textbook)
Description: From main page: "Physics Tutorial -- Learn basic physics concepts and review them in the Physics Tutorial. Check Your Understanding quizzes let you know you...
Reviews (3) Avg: ****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Science Groove (The Krebs Cycle)
Date Posted: Jan 23, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, songs
Description: This resouce provides songs for many different biology subjects and concepts.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Heart Anatomy Review
Date Posted: Jan 19, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Tutorial
Description: This website contains an interactive paragraph that requires students to fill in the blanks as a review of the anatomy of the heart.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: WebCT Library Chemical Demonstrations
Date Posted: Jan 18, 2007
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This website has video clips of master teacher Lee Marek performing cool but dangerous demonstrations. There is a wide range of demonstrations from those that...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Vectors, Components (applet)
Date Posted: Jan 17, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: This vector component applet allows you to create a vector and the applet will break it into components. The applet displays the angle, the components,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Cellular respiration animation
Date Posted: Jan 16, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Three part animation of cellular respiration: glycolysis, Kreb's cycle, electron transport chain
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
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
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Advanced placement Biology at the University of Georgia
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: AP Test Prep
Type: AP Biology test resource
Description: This is a collection of AP Biology essay questions with the scoring documents
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Resource for the History of Physics and Allied Fields
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: resource
Type: resource for research
Description: A great resource for research on the history of physics and on individual physicists.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a video of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse. In the past (before youtube) only a small clip of this video was available. Now...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
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....
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Projectile Motion Applet: Gravity-induced Parabolic Trajectories
Date Posted: Jan 11, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Applet plots parabolic trajectory for various projectiles. You can vary the mass of the projectile, the initial velocity, and the launch angle. In addition, you...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: 3D Magnetostatic Field Simulation
Date Posted: Jan 11, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This applet "demonstrates magnetic fields in various situations." It covers magnetic fields from many different sources, and displays field vectors, field lines, and the behavior...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
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...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Pizza Explorer
Date Posted: Jan 09, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Facilitates the presentation of student work, Interdisciplinary Study of Nutrition/Biology/Chemistry of Fermentation/Agriculture/Cultural Diversity/Geography
Description: This is a WONDERFUL site I discovered as a result of a NSAT "Feebie" posted in the monthly journal of NSTA REPORTS. It has had...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Forces in 1 Dimension
Date Posted: Jan 02, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: From the website: Forces in 1 Dimension: Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Virtual Pig Dissection
Date Posted: Dec 31, 2006
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: As the title implies, this is a virtual pig dissection broken down by external vs internal and organ systems.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
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