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Biology Classroom Resources
This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students' families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. See www.nsdl.org
Birdsleuth
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth
Developed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Birdsleuth curriculum is a series of inquiry-based units for elementary and middle school students who learn to identify birds and submit data to a national online database, all the while helping scientists to better understand birds.
Turtle Trax
http://www.turtles.org
This site highlights the wonder and beauty of the marine turtle, specifically, the Hawaiian green sea turtle.
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
The smell of a flower, the memory of a walk in the park, the pain of stepping on a nail…these experiences are made possible by the three pounds of tissue in our heads: the brain. This Web site is for students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system.
Pest World for Kids
http://www.pestworldforkids.org/learninggames.html
Challenges us to understand what attracts pests, both insect and animal, to our homes and yards. Includes learning games for kids of all ages, especially those in third through fifth grade.
Cool Science for Curious Kids
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology on screen, off screen and in between.
ActionBioscience.org
http://www.actionbioscience.org
An educational resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences that promotes bioscience literacy. Supported in part by a grant from NSF, this Web site has lots of topics to choose and learn: biodiversity, environment, genomics, biotechnology and more.
Sci4Kids
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/plants/plantsintro.htm
A U.S. Department of Agriculture web site full of fun, animated
science stories for young children.
Slug Site
http://www.slugsite.tierranet.com
Slug Site is a home page devoted to the study of Opisthobranch Molluscs. The site hopes to share photos of critters new to you and new to us.
Whales Online
http://www.whales-online.org
Whales Online is an information site dedicated to the conservation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in the Southern Hemisphere.
Cells Alive
http://www.cellsalive.com
Represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.
Marine Biology Web, an Educational Resource
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbweb.html
Maintained by marine biologist Jeff Levinton, the site is an educational resource for marine biology students and includes reference lists organized by subject.
BioTech
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/
Developed for researchers, teachers and students to provide information about a variety of
topics in biotechnology.
Strange Science
http://www.strangescience.net/index.htm
Describes the history of paleontology and biology by emphasizing the people who contributed to
these fields and some of their erroneous theories.
bioSURF
http://www.phschool.com/science/biosurf/
An online reference filled with resource materials that supplement a secondary biology program
called "Biology: The Web of Life."
Botany for Kids
http://www.nbii.gov/disciplines/botany/science.html
Developed by USGS Center for Biological Informatics for resource managers, scientists,
educators and the general public, to provide access to data and information and to answer all
types of questions about the nation's biological resources.
Turtle Trax
http://www.turtles.org/
Provides photographs, captured video frames, drawings, cartoons and information about marine turtles.
The Cyber Zoomobile
http://home.globalcrossing.net/~brendel/index.html
Features photo essays about the physical characteristics, life cycles and behavior of big cats,
including lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs, bobcats and servals.
BBC: Walking with Beasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/
This BBC Web site comes loaded with interactive multimedia features on evolution and the animal
kingdom. Users can view 3-D images as well as video and audio clips of prehistoric creatures,
play an interactive evolution game and much more.
T-Rex
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/trex/index.html
Discusses the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex and whether or not it was a scavenger or a predator.
After researching many physical aspects of this dinosaur, students explain their views on the
topic to demonstrate what they have learned. Includes objectives, materials, procedures,
discussion questions, evaluation ideas, suggested readings and vocabulary.
FastPlants, to Know a Plant, Grow a Plant
http://www.fastplants.org/home_flash.html
The home page of the Wisconsin Fast Plants program (WFP), a science education and outreach
program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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