| GENERAL SCIENCE/BIOLOGY LINKS |
| SciTech Daily Review |
http://www.scitechdaily.com/ |
| The New York Times Science Section |
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/
national/index-science.html |
| Science Week – A weekly e mail digest of the news of science |
http://www.scienceweek.com/ |
| SciCentral – a gateway to lots and lots of online resources, grouped
by area (biological, health, engineering, physical & chemical, etc) |
http://www.scicentral.com/
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| The Why Files: Science Behind the News |
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/ |
| Cells Alive. Some nice microscopic images of cells, bacteria, microorganisms |
http://www.cellsalive.com |
| WWW Virtual Library History of Science Technology & Medicine |
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm |
| The Online Medical Dictionary |
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/
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| Access Excellence (Genentech’s set of resources, activities, news for
the K-12 education community) |
http://www.accessexcellence.org/ |
| K-12 Science Education Resources |
http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebillb/edu.html |
| The Education Index-a large index to all sorts of education related
sites. |
http://www.educationindex.com/ |
| Bio-Rad’s Site-product information, protocols for materials, etc. |
http://www.bio-rad.com/index1.html |
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| MOLECULAR BIOLOGY/GENETICS LINKS |
| Electronic Desktop Project (included the Virtual Flylab, the Virtual
Earthquake, and Virtual Dating [radiometric dating of geologic deposits]) |
http://vflylab.calstatela.edu/Welcome.html |
| GenScope- a Mac-based interactive exploration of Mendelian genetics
using dragon crosses instead of fruit flys! |
http://www.conccord.org/genscope/ |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library
of Medicine/National Institutes of Health. Scads of very technical resources
here. |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ |
| Genetic Information and Patient Services, Inc. (GAPS). Links to specific
resources about genetic disorders. |
http://www.icomm.ca/geneinfo/ |
| An Introduction to Gene Therapy |
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/gcrc/gene/try.htm |
| Yahoo! Genetic Disease – a clickable list of diseases which will get
you to the foundation resource. |
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health
/Diseases_and_Conditions/Genetic_Disorders/ |
| Genetics Virtual Library – from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
US Dept. of Energy. Access to the genomic information available for tons
and tons of different organisms. |
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources
/Human_Genome/genetics.html |
| Introduction to DNA Extractions. From the Access Excellence site, with
protocols specific to DNA extraction for a number of organisms (onion,
wheat germ, yeast, thymus). |
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/
AEC/CC/DNA_extractions.html |
| Hello Dolly – includes a number of activities that are suitable for
high school biology classes. Suitable for the introduction of the subject
of bioethics. |
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/dolly/default.htm |
| Breakthroughs in Bioscience FASEB |
http://www.faseb.org/opar/cloning |
| CityLab is a biotechnology learning resource for teachers and students
at Boston University School of Medicine. |
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Departments/
HomeMain.asp?DepartmentID=285 |
| WWW Virtual Library for Biotechnology Education |
http://www.cato.com/biotech/bio-edu.html |
| National Centre for Biotechnology Education (from the University of
Reading). Good links. |
http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/ |
| A primer on molecular genetics from the US Department of Energy |
http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/DOE/intro.html |
| Gene Almanac- described as a source for timely information about genes
in education, much of it directed toward K-12. From Cold Spring Harbor. |
http://vector.cshl.org/ |
| The Natural History of Genes. Genetic Science Education: A Partnership
Between Scientists and Teachers. Stuff about Teacher workshops, good curriculum
materials, core genetics teaching activities, fun stuff to do at home. |
http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/ |
| The Human Genome Project. |
http://www.ornl.gov/TechRes |
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| TEACHING WITH INQUIRY RESOURCES |
| Case Studies in Science, from SUNY Buffalo. Lots and lots of interesting
ideas for teaching biology here. |
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html |
| South Eastern Michigan Math-Science Learning Coalition |
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/ |
| National Institute for Science Education. A project of the Wisconsin
Center for Education Research |
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/NISE/default.asp |
| Delaware Department of Education |
http://www.doe.state.de.us/ |
| Delaware Science Page |
http://www.k12.de.us/science |
