Biology

Animated Applets/Biolets
            Animations (generally with explanatory text and often interactive) to illustrate basic ideas and principles in biology

EDinfomatics - Biology - Incredible listing of electronic resources of all types
            Bioscience education tutorials - Many short topic resources, including the following aimed at high school students
            Online bioscience activities - For teens and kids!  Many interactive activities and animations listed with descriptions
            Teaching Resources - Some aimed at pre-college
            Kids and Teens

Biology Corner – VERY useful site for lesson plans, webquests, clipart, and interactive labs

Bio-teacher websites – websites constructed by many K-12 teachers, includes links to lots of resources

Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students - Topics include: "Studying Our Senses" with jelly beans, "Dragon Genetics," and "Moldy Jell-O." Includes PDF downloads of labs.

Access Excellence – biology topics - Several annotated websites for resources.
            Fellows Collection – favorite high school biology classroom activities developed by Access Excellence Fellows.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - Biology
            A goldmine with lots of links and search engine!

Flinn Scientific biology – offers links to activities, teacher resources, and FAQs

Dr. Dave’s [Westenberg] Teacher Workshop Resources
            Developed for a workshop for secondary-school bioscience teachers

Stalking the Mysterious Microbe - Detective Sam Sleuth helps kids explore the mysteries and wonders of microbes, keep up with science news, try experiments and consider science careers. This site is aimed primarily at middle school students, their parents and teachers.

Using Live Insects - Full curriculum resources for incorporating insects into elementary classrooms. Includes care instructions, cross-curricular lesson plans, and links.

Visual Libraries of Bio topics

K-8/12 Science Education Websites (American Physical Society)

 

Home page Science Consortium

Home page LEAD Program