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BIOLOGY
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Biology News: Science Daily – Find full-text biology news, articles, and photos from research institutes around the world.
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Biology Century – Presents a summary of knowledge of the Biological Sciences as we enter the 21st century and introduces users to the chemical basis of life, cell mechanisms, DNA, …
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Online Biology Book – Provides a large amount of information about the chemistry, structure, function, and diversity of life. Also includes an extensive glossary.
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Tree of Life –This site contains an evolutionary tree that distinguishes organisms by the primitiveness of their traits—of the known living organisms of the world. Begin an investigation of a particular group of organisms by selecting taxonomic categories at the higher end of the hierarchy and working down to the more specific categories. At each level, there is an introduction to the group, a discussion of the group and its characteristics, and references as well as illustrations for many taxonomic groups.
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Human Anatomy Online – An online interactive and educational views of the human body.
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SigBio’s Virtual Anatomy Textbook – An interactive online resource which illustrates how the lymphatic system, the nervous system and the digestive system of our work.
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Genetic Science Learning Center – Learn about basic genetics, genetic disorders, and genetics in society at this site. On-line and hands-on activities, labs, ideas for research projects and experiments, plus thematic units are available.
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Cells Alive – This site provides excellent pictures and videos of plant and animal cells and how they function. The site includes 3-D cell models and cell cams showing cellular activities.
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Cell Biology Topics – This advanced cell biology site provides illustrations and lecture slide presentations. Topics are organized by organelle system.
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Interactive Frog Dissection –The purpose of this lab activity is to help you learn the anatomy of a frog and give you a better understanding of the anatomy of vertebrate animals in general, including humans. Produced by the University of Virginia
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CHEMISTRY
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Chemistry Screencasts is a collection of mini-lectures on various chemistry topics with pictures and sound by Mark Ott of Jackson (MI) Community College. They can be downloaded to your hard drive and played in iTunes, or seen/heard directly online. You have a choice of General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II digital lecture materials.
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General Chemistry Online – It has a searchable database of over 800 common compound names, formulas, structures, and properties; flash-based kits for building chemical formulas, names, equations, and problem solutions; index of self-guided tutorials, quizzes, and drills on specific topics, dictotionary, etc.
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About.com: General Chemistry – In this site, you will learn the concepts of general and introductory chemistry, with the aid of worked example problems, lecture notes, lab exercises, and quizzes.
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General, Organic and Biochemistry – Provides various animations and lessons associated with General, Organic and Biochemistry courses.
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General Chemistry – Provides arious animations and lessons associated with General Chemistry like measurement, reaction solutions, molecular shapes and bonding, and more. It also has periodic table of elements.
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An Introduction to Chemistry – An online version of a text by Mark Bishop of Monterey Peninsula College (CA). It is intended primarily for students in beginning chemistry courses.
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Virtual Chembook – This nicely-done site by Charles Ophardt of Elmhurst College covers a wide swath of general, organic, and environmental chemistry. The text material is interesting and well written without attempting to be encyclopedic.
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General Chemistry Virtual Textbook – A collection of comprehensive, in-depth treatments of various topics, intended to supplement or replace conventional textbook treatments. It is aimed mainly at the first-year college level, but advanced high school students will find much of it useful. (Steve Lower, Simon Fraser University)
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Chemistry Web Resources – This site maintained by Ron Rinehart of Monterey Peninsula College contains a wealth of material oriented toward chemical education, all well organized in a visually-attractive way.
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ChemTeam – Provides study resources in all standard topics for students in high school and Advanced Placement chemistry.
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Chemcollective student page – It has links to practice problems, tutorials, reference tools, scenarios that relate chemistry to real life situations, and online simulations on various topics.
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Chemistry AP Exam Practice – This site was built by a Chemistry teacher to help his students prepare for the AP exam, and is worth looking at!
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Chemistry – Designed as a service to teachers and as a forum for collaboration of high school teachers that want to improve the quality of their classrooms. This service is of no cost and is supported by the PRISM project at Illinois State University. This website posts only high quality material on a variety of topics which can be quickly downloaded and implemented into your classroom.
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Chemistry Internet Resources for High School Students – Links to online Periodic Table of Elements, MSDS and safety sites, journals, zines, books, chemistry organizations, pages with chemistry pointers, and special interest topics.
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Periodic Table.com – Displays the periodic table of elements and their properties.
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PHYSICS
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PhysicsQuest – Consists of various inquiry-oriented activities. It is designed to use learners’ time well, to focus on using information rather than on looking for it, and to support learners’ thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It can be used as extension activities to tie a particular Physics topic to a common
experience such as electricity, roller coasters; as tutorials to reinforce concepts learned in the classroom, or as an exploration of topics that are not generally covered in class. |
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The Physics Classroom – Physics tutorial for high school students covering Newton’s Laws, energy, power, waves, light and more.
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Physics for Beginners – An introduction to physics for high school students.
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Physics.Org: Your guide to physics on the internet – The best physics resources, all in one place. Use our search technology to match your question, age and knowledge profile to the handpicked and refereed physics websites.
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The Net Advance of Physics – Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopædic Format. Computer support for The Net Advance of Physics is furnished by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Physics Zone by Science Joy Wagon – The Physics Zone is designed to be a resource for learning introductory level, algebra based, physics. Lessons and review are organized by topic. Use the Search feature to quickly find what you are looking for. |
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Regents Exam Prep Center – Physics – Discussion, demosntration, lab exercises and quizzes on various topics in Physics.
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The Virtual Library: Physics – Acoustics and Vibrations, Aeronomy, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Chemistry, Accelerator User Facilities, High Energy Physics, Free Electron Lasers, Optical Science and Engineering, Plasmas, etc. |
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Physics Applets (University of Oregon Dept. of Physics – It has a large collection of interactive java applets for use in Physics, Astronomy or Environmental Science courses.
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PhysLINK – Find Physics news, reference materials, societies, journals, new theories, jokes, cartoons, and more.
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Physics Formulary: Table of contents – This document is a LaTeX file of 108 pages which contains a lot of equations in physics. It is written at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level. It is intended to be a short reference for anyone who works with physics and often needs to look up equations. |
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Physics Demonstrations – Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics by Julien C. Sprott. In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. |
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EARTH SCIENCE
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Earth Science – An interactive online textbook introducing students to the Earth’s structure and motion, rocks and minerals, atmosphere and weather, and water resources.
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Euclid’s Elements – A set of Java applets that bring to life the theorems in the Elements.
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HowStuff Works – Explains how different natural phenomenon occur such as weather, global warming, natural disasters, etc.
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Earth Science – A Wikipedia discussion of all topics in Earth Science..
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Earth System Science Lessons – On-Line Earth System Science K12Classroom Lessons using Internet Resources
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Earth Science Lessons -Lessons and lesson plans on diferrent Earth Science topics.
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