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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: Boston Children's Hospital Animations
Date Posted: Dec 31, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Media: Software, Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Remote Data Sets or Instrumentation, Virtual Lab, Communication Tool, Data collection/analysis tool
Description: see above
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Artificial Life
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Description of active research
Description: This is a 15 minute video clip that explores current research on the origin of life. It covers four scientists and their attempts to make...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Lets Make a Microbe
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This activity provides a model on how to make a synthetic life form in order to understand what a living thing requires. The model make...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: What is an Enzyme
Date Posted: Dec 30, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: This is a series of animations that describes enzyme structure and function. It covers some more advanced topics such as enzyme inhibitors, allosteric enzymes, and...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Leonardo DeCaprio-Ecosite
Date Posted: Dec 27, 2007
Subjects: Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: General information about various environmental problems.
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: Teacher Tube
Date Posted: Dec 27, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation, Communication Tool
Description: Online community for teachers to share lesson plans and videos that they have created for classroom use.
Reviews (2) Avg: **
Name: S. Harris Science Cartoons
Date Posted: Dec 26, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Science Humor
Description: Many science related cartoons. Great humor!
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: MIT OpenCourse Ware Physics 1
Date Posted: Dec 25, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Complete video lectures on a variety of physics topics, including kinematics, Newton's Laws, Energy, etc. Some fantastic demos!!
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: This American Life-Testosterone
Date Posted: Dec 25, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware, an audio player
Type: anecdotal stories
Description: This is an hour long program telling the detailed stories of early research on the affects of touch with monkeys as well as two people...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: University of Kansas Cell Structure
Date Posted: Dec 25, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: A well organized set of histology slides with great labels for cell types and cell parts.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Lew-Port's Enzyme Animation
Date Posted: Dec 25, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Simple animations that illustrate competative and non-competative inhibition and the enzyme-substrate complex.
Reviews (2) Avg: ****
Name: How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Date Posted: Dec 22, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource is an excellent tool to assist students in understanding the similarities and differences that exist between mitosis and meiosis. The resource makes use...
Reviews (4) Avg: ****
Name: LabBench Activity - Key Concepts II: Meiosis
Date Posted: Dec 22, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: The resource provides the opportunity for students to develop a greater understanding of the role and action of meiosis in providing genetic material for reproduction...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: The Biology Project - Mendelian Genetics
Date Posted: Dec 22, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: The resource offers students an opportunity to develop a rich understanding of Mendelian genetics through comprehensive tutorials and interactive problem sets. Strong visual modeling coupled...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Genetics Web Lab Directory
Date Posted: Dec 22, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab
Description: This resource offers opportunities for students learn about genetics in a fun and challenging way. The site contains about thirteen different animated activities for students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: Healthy Body Calculator
Date Posted: Dec 17, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Data collection/analysis tool
Description: This resource allows students to enter information about themselves and about their lifestyles in order to create a "healthy body profile". It allows the students...
Reviews (1) Avg: ***
Name: BioStudios - animations
Date Posted: Dec 16, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Website
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Great quality animations/videos.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: NATS- nutritional analysis
Date Posted: Dec 15, 2007
Subjects: Biology
Media: Webware
Type: Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Data collection/analysis tool, Facilitates the presentation of student work
Description: This resource allows students to enter in foods that they consume to see the nutritional breakdown of their diet.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Daryl Science
Date Posted: Dec 09, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Demo ideas
Description: Has all sorts of ideas for demos for all 4 sciences. Some good ideas and some bad ones.
Reviews (2) Avg: ***
Name: Images of Comet Holmes
Date Posted: Dec 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Many pages of photographs of Comet Holmes as it travels through our solar system. It now takes up the same "space" in the sky our...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: HD video of Earth rising over the moon from Japanese satellite
Date Posted: Dec 04, 2007
Subjects: Physics, Earth Science
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: Actual video (taken by a new Japanese satellite orbiting the moon) of Earth "rising" over the moon.
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: Cosmeo
Date Posted: Nov 25, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
Media: Software
Type: Visualization or Animation
Description: It is designed as a homework help site, but comes in handy for teachers too!! It includes video clips, articles, web links, images, games, and...
Reviews (2) Avg: *****
Name: Pendulum Applet
Date Posted: Nov 16, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: This applet is a virtual reality pendulum with graphs of KE and GPE. You can change the start position of the pendulum, the value of...
Reviews (1) Avg: *****
Name: PhET's Energy Skate Park
Date Posted: Nov 16, 2007
Subjects: Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping, Virtual Lab
Description: From their site: "Learn about conservation of energy with a skater dude! Build tracks, ramps and jumps for the skater and view the kinetic energy,...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
Name: LearnersTV.com: Free Biology Animations
Date Posted: Nov 04, 2007
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Media: Webware
Type: Visualization or Animation, Virtual Lab, informal assesment
Description: The resource provides a series of animations and tutorials on a variety of content areas within biology. A good selection of topics touches on many...
Reviews (1) Avg: ****
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