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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: GCast
Date Posted: Feb 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: RSS feed for podcast
Description: This allows you to post podcasts and to get an RSS feed so your students and others and subscribe to them. It is free and...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Lingro
Date Posted: Feb 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Web2.0 tool
Description: This is a website that allows you to post another website address that you want to read and as you read this website lingro allows...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: MITOPENCOURSEWARE
Date Posted: Feb 12, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Physics
Media: varies with topic selected
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, Communication Tool, Practice with key concepts
Description: This is a WONDERFUL site prepared by MIT faculty that offers resources (for AP Teachers and students!) that can be used to inspire, engage, and...
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Interactive Body: Organs Game
Date Posted: Feb 12, 2008
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Review
Description: This is a group of "games" that students can play. They are asked to drag and drop body organs into the appropriate place and provides...
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Kinematics Practice Problems
Date Posted: Feb 03, 2008
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Practice Problems
Description: This website offers kinematics practice problems. Students click on a link to show the answer. There is another link that connects students to some problem...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: ActivPhysics Online
Date Posted: Feb 03, 2008
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description: Website with many animated lessons corresponing to mechanics, Waves/Acoustics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Bloomfield's Online "How Things Work" website
Date Posted: Jan 29, 2008
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: course outline, course information, video lectures, some text sections, questions and answers
Description: "How Things Work" is an online course taught based on Lou Bloomfield's books. The online resources include questions about the physics behind everyday objects and...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Dean Baird and his Book of Phyz
Date Posted: Jan 29, 2008
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: practice worksheets!
Description: Dean Baird has put online much of what he has written for his Physics classes over his teaching history. His worksheets are in pdf format,...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Intuitor: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Date Posted: Jan 29, 2008
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: pulls movie facts from movies and critiques the physics therein
Description: "The motion picture industry has failed to police itself against the evils of bad physics. This page and its companion book. is provided as a...
Reviews (2) Avg: *****
Name: Muscle Contraction
Date Posted: Jan 20, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: Describes and provides a visualization of how muscles contract and also shows the structural components of muscles
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: PCR Song
Date Posted: Jan 20, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Communication Tool, Fun!
Description: This is actually an ad for BioRad products, but students will have fun with it as the BioRad team makes up a song about PCR...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Virtual ChemLab 2.4
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: The virtual lab comes as an aditional resource in the Prentice Hall package.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: YouTube- Covalent Bonds
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: It's a great visual of what happens in a covalent bond. There are also two other videos for ionic bonds.
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Nova- Origins
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Subjects: Chemistry, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a GREAT resource for the introduction of the concept of element. The Nova episode is divided into smaller segments of about 5 minutes....
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: learnerstv.com
Date Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Resource tool.
Description: This site gives a list of well done animations in convenient location. Everything from Rutherford's gold foil experiment to an interactive periodic table.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: youtube - Reaction of Group I elements and water.
Date Posted: Jan 14, 2008
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a nice clip that not only demonstrates the reaction of sodium with water but also has the professor who has a strong, easy...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Presentation Express
Date Posted: Jan 14, 2008
Subjects: Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This software is used in conjunction with the Prentice Hall textbook, but even by itself it is a powerful tool for presenting material in the...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: idesktop.tv
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: videos
Description: This is a source of videos that you can search for terms such as 'physics' and come up with some interesting videos to be used...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Quizlet
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: flashcard/study of terms
Description: This is a web 2.0 site that allows for multiple people to create and use a set of flashcards. It is mor than just flashcards...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Google Doc and spreadsheets
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Data collection/analysis tool, shared spreadsheets and word documents
Description: The spreadsheet works like an excel document but it allows multiple people to modify it at the same time.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: Cracking The Code of Life
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: That short clips of chapters from the show that can be used to supplement class discussion.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: DNA Profiling Interactive
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Biotechnology Australia, a multi-departmental Government agency, was established in 1999. We are responsible for managing the National Biotechnology Strategy and for coordinating non-regulatory biotechnology issues...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Click and Clone a Mouse
Date Posted: Jan 13, 2008
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: Students click and drag instruments in the process of cloning a mouse.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Mouse Party
Date Posted: Dec 31, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: A fun interactive website that teaches students about the problems created by addiction and substance abuse.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: NOVA-Epigenome
Date Posted: Dec 31, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: Based on some exciting new research, this website has snippets from the video and good information concerning epigenetics.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
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