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Nuffield Foundation. This website is for teachers of biology in schools and colleges.

Nuffield Foundation

It is a collection of experiments that demonstrate a wide range of biological concepts and processes. Experiments are placed within real-life contexts, and have links to carefully selected further reading. Virus Explorer. Biology Tests and Procedures. The Biology Corner. GO.HRW.COM. Learn.Genetics. Cloning. BBC Bitesize - GCSE Biology. Untamed Science - The Science of our World. ActionBioscience - promoting bioscience literacy. Learn Genetics. Froguts Virtual Dissections. Animal Sciences Activities and Games Free Downloads. Botany Activities and Games Free Downloads. Pandemic 2 and Other Free Internet Games. Pandemic 2 Game InfoYou are player number 12,465,851 Skip To Game Game Information Description: Customize your disease and wipe out the population!

Pandemic 2 and Other Free Internet Games

Added On: July 14th, 2008 361 Please rate this game 4.33 out of 5 Pandemic 2 Controls | Guide | fullscreen Click: Select/Navigate menus May we also recommend. CellCraft. Society for General Microbiology. Schools. Experiences in early-years and secondary education have a significant influence over students' decisions to continue studying biology at GCSE, A Level and university.

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We support teachers working to enthuse the biologists of tomorrow by providing a number of leading resources. TalkBiology is an online forum available for teachers, technicians and other educators to interact online, share ideas, resources, questions and thoughts about science education and classroom resources. Access to the forum requires registration but is available free of charge to educational professionals. Project Noah. STAR: Genetics - Home. StarGenetics is a Mendelian genetics cross simulator developed at MIT by biology faculty, researched-trained scientists and technologists at MIT's OEIT.

STAR: Genetics - Home

StarGenetics allows students to simulate mating experiments between organisms that are genetically different across a range of traits to analyze the nature of the traits in question. STAR: Biochem - Home. StarBiochem is a 3-D protein viewer that allows students to learn key concepts about the biology of proteins in an interactive manner.

STAR: Biochem - Home

Unlike traditional 3-D protein viewers which may require installation and significant technical expertise, StarBiochem is an intuitive 3-D protein viewer designed with students in mind. StarBiochem’s user interface was designed to visually represent protein structural information based on the four different levels of protein structure, which mirrors how students get introduced to this topic in class and in textbooks.

Using StarBiochem StarBiochem is accessible via the web. Press the START button to get started. Exercises Sample exercises for StarBiochem, covering a range of concepts and difficulty, can be found in Sample Exercise. High School Student & Teacher Outreach. The Department of Biology is actively involved in science outreach at the high school level.

High School Student & Teacher Outreach

The goal of these outreach programs is to make science fun and exciting by bringing new hands-on activities into the classrooms, and to make teaching and learning science a more enriching and rewarding experience for both students and teachers. Science teachers from the greater Boston area are invited to: BioBuilder. The Wild Classroom: Biology Videos and Podcasting via Ecogeeks. BioDigital Human: Anatomy and Health Conditions in Interactive 3D.

Www.shmoop.com/biology/ Biology Teaching Resources. Welcome to the Teachers' Center at Explore Biology. Here you will find resources to help you teach biology at the high school level. Some of my Regents lectures are supported by Powerpoint presentations. Overview of The Biology Project. Welcome to The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona.

Overview of The Biology Project

The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and tested on 1000s of students. It has been designed for biology students at the college and high school level, but is useful for medical students, physicians, science writers, and all types of interested people. Teachers can assign problems sets for reviews before exams, or may want to assign an activity before students cover that topic in their laboratory. Computers are an excellent means of encouraging cooperative learning (especially in the one-computer classroom!) , so teachers might even have their students work in small groups. The Biology Corner.

Biological Animations. Biodiversity Snapshots. Animals, such as mammals, birds and insects live all around us.

Biodiversity Snapshots

But have you ever really looked at what's in your local area? And can you identify what you see? Biodiversity Snapshots will help you to learn more about the animals around us every day by combining mobile technology and science. We provide you with a field guide, identification tool and way to record your observations all on a mobile device — your phone, netbook, or tablet. You make the observations and participate as a citizen scientist. Register your school. Home — The Plant List. The Arthropod Story. A Global Science Community. Free Science Animations Online at LearnersTV.com. Free biology Animations- Learnerstv.com. Human Anatomy: Learn All About the Human Body at InnerBody.com. S BioInteractive. 125 Great Science Videos: From Astronomy to Physics & Psychology.

Astronomy & Space Travel A Brief, Wondrous Tour of Earth (From Outer Space) - Video - Recorded from August to October, 2011 at the International Space Station, this HD footage offers a brilliant tour of our planet and stunning views of the aurora borealis.A Universe from Nothing - Video - In 53 minutes, theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss answers some big enchilada questions, including how the universe came from nothing.A Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes - Video - The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting the moon for over a year.

125 Great Science Videos: From Astronomy to Physics & Psychology

The footage gets compressed into 2 slick minutes.A Day on Earth (as Seen From Space) - Video - Astronaut Don Pettit trained his camera on planet Earth, took a photo once every 15 seconds, and then created a brilliant time-lapse film.Atlantis's Final Landing at Kennedy Space Center - Video - After more than 30 years, the space shuttle era comes to a close. Video runs 30 minutes. Physics.