National Centre for Biotechnology Education
Features, materials, advice, safety notes, classroom activities, biotechnology links etc.
Science and Plants for Schools
Developing new resources to promote classroom work in plant science and molecular biology
PHYTOS Plant Science education network
Linking biotechnology education sites around the world
Rapid cycling brassicas: classroom activities and projects for plants with a life cycle of 30-40 days in classroom conditions
Peter's Carnivorous Plant Page
Everything you always wanted to know about flesh eating plants...
Cell City Interactive Science Lecture
What is a cell? An introduction to cell biology
Virtual plant cell - an opportunity to investigate plant cell structures with the aid of electronmicrographs etc.
Medical Research Council, UK, project
LBNL Human Genome Center Home Page
Human Genome sequencing department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Electronic Desktop Project - Virtual Flylab
An online project to demonstrate research genetics. You design matings between male and female fruit flies carrying one or more mutations. You will receive the details of the offspring.... VirtualFlyLab applies correct genetic rules and provides the opportunity for students to experiment to try to determine those rules. Faster than the real thing!
Type in a word and press the Search button - description returned with links to relevant sites
Enter the word etc...
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, UK
Government department with responsibility for Agriculture etc. Information on public and animal health including BSE. Farming, Fishing and Environmental information.
Information about AIDS and HIV from Roche Pharmaceuticals
Virtual Biology experiments online
Singapore based server with links to biological online experiments. Server mirrors activities from other sites around the world
Dissect a virtual frog and other information from this online project at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
Online dissection experiment
Project to create a set of electronic images through the human body. The first 'visible human' was male and and executed criminal in the USA
Stanford Visible Female Homepage
Section images and data from Stanford project
Batty information - some sound files of bat echo location
Sea World's Animal Information Database
A wide range of information about whales, dolphins, fish, seals, endangered species, coral reefs etc.
Virtual autopsy and investigation of a teenage girl sacrificed to the gods by the Incas on a mountain in Peru some 500 years ago. Data has provided links to possible living relatives.
Biology tests for KS3 from Sutton Valence School
A level enzyme project from Sutton Valence School
Described as the 'yuckiest' site on the internet. Information about worms - how they help to decompose organic waste, inside worms, jokes about worms etc. etc.
Another contender for the yuckiest site - information about spit, belches, snores, farts and more. Certainly for the classroom user!
EuroTurtle - Europe's first sea turtle website for Conservation and Education
An excellent site prepared by Roger Poland at the Biology Dept., King's College, Taunton
Biology
Pregnancy Timeline from BBC News
www.froguts.com online dissection of a frog,
complete with squidgy noises!
www.qdixray.com.au/lightersideskeleton.htm build a
human skeleton
Flying Turtle Science and Technology Exploring, a
fun site about how things work in nature
www.naturegrid.org.uk based on nature trails in
Kent, this explores habitats and who eats what
The Visible Human
Molecular Biology: beginners guide to cells,
chromosomes and DNA
British Trees: includes infromation on habitats
www.factsoflife.org.uk: sections on life, cells,
fodd, puberty, sex, variation
www.microbes.info: Microbiology news and
information
Acid Rain: web site www.epa.gov/acidrain/site_students/index.html
Module 01-Humans as Organisms
10.1-What are human bodies built from?
10.2-What is the job of the digestive system and how does it do that job?
www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
10.3-What is the job of the breathing system and why is it important?
www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html
www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
10.4-How are substances transported round the body?
www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html
10.5-What causes disease and how do our bodies defend against it?
www.amnh.org/explore/infection/index.html
www.microbe.org/microbes/virus_or_bacterium.asp
www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs.html
10.6-How do dissolved substances get across boundaries in our bodies?
www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Module 02-Maintenance of Life
11.1-Are plants just the same as animal cells?
www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5229/n_1.htm
www.kapili.com/biology4kids/cell/index.html
11.2-How do plants obtain the food they need to live and grow?
www.sambal.co.uk/photosynthesis.html
11.3-How do the substances the plants need get inside plants and how are they transported once they get inside?
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar00/watermvt.html
11.4-How do plants respond to their surroundings?
bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/vcebiol/cat1/aos2/u3aos23.html (needs to be typed in.)
11.5-How do humans respond to their surroundings?
www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html (click on nervous system)
www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html
11.6-How do bodies maintain the conditions inside them that they need to work properly?
www.ri.ac.uk/Christmas/1998/detail_index.html
11.7-How do drugs affect our bodies?
www.mindbodysoul.gov.uk/index.html
Module 03-Environment
12.1-What determines where particular species live and how many of them there are?
www.kapili.com/biology4kids/eco/index.html (try ecosystems, biomes and populations)
www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
12.2-What happens to energy and biomass at each stage in a food chain?
www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/4e.html
12.3-What happens to the waste material produced by plants and animals?
www.kapili.com/biology4kids/eco/cycle.html (try cycles)
12.4-How do humans affect the environment?
??????
Module 04-Inheritance and Selection
13.1-Why are individuals of the same species different from each other?
www.iacr.bbsrc.ac.uk/notebook/courses/guide/cell.htm
vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/ (needs to be typed in)
www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=39
13.2-How can we breed plants and animals with the characteristics we prefer?
library.thinkquest.org/24355/home.html (needs to be typed)
13.3-Why have some species of plants and animals died out? How do new species of plants and animals develop?
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/firstcm.htm
13.4-Which human characteristics show a simple pattern of inheritance?
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13.5-How can women control their fertility?
????????
Module 05-Metals
14.1-Where do metals fit into a table of the elements?
www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_table/index.html
www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Chemistry/Materials/c00142c.html
library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm-mtls.html (needs to be typed in)
14.2-How are metals extracted from their ores?
www.copper.org/general/homepage.htm
www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/dibnah/dibnah99/blast/1blast.shtml (click on blast furnace)
www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Chemistry/Industrial/c00107b.html
14.3-How can metals be prevented from returning to their oxides?
www.worldsteel.org/issf/issf_about/index.html
www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0803425.html
14.4-How can metal compounds be made?
www.purchon.com/chemistry/acids.htm
Module 06-Earth Materials
15.1-Why is limestone such a useful material?
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15.2-How can so many useful products be made from crude oil?
www.members.aol.com/ChangChem3/CALbasicO1.html
www3.cems.umn.edu/orgs/aiche/archive/history/h_refine.html
www3.cems.umn.edu/orgs/aiche/archive/history/h_distill.html
www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/index.htm
15.3-How was the Earth’s atmosphere formed?
www.kapili.com/terrarum/sky/index.html (click on sky)
15.4-Why have all mountains on Earth not worn away by now?
www.thirteen.org/archive/savageearth/hellscrust/index.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/
Module 07-Patterns of Chemical Change
16.1-How can we speed up or slow down chemical reactions?
www.chem4kids.com/reactions/time.html
16.2-How can we use living things to do our chemistry for us?
www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/12/bread.html
16.3-Do chemical reactions always release energy?
www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpSteelWoolGeneratingHeat.htm
16.4-How do chemicals produce the fertiliser we need to grow food?
??????
16.5-How do we know how much of each reactant to use in a chemical reaction?
http://library.advanced.org/3310/
Module 08-Structures and Bonding
17.1-What happens when elements react?
www.miamisci.org/af/sln/phantom/
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl (try science trek)
17.2-How can we explain the different properties of different types of substances?
http://library.advanced.org/3310/
17.3-How can chemical elements be grouped into families?
www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/PeriodicTable.htm
17.4-How can similarities between elements in the same group be explained?
http://library.advanced.org/3310/
17.5-How do metal halogen compounds compare with the elements from which they are made? What use are these compounds?
17.6-What do all these chemical symbols, formulae and equations mean?
www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/
Module 09-Energy
18.1-How is thermal energy transferred and how can we reduce heat transfer?
www.omsi.edu/sln/air/science/heat/
www.howstuffworks.com/category-around-the-house.htm
18.2-Why are electrical appliances so useful and what does it cost to use them?
www.library.thinkquest.org/16600/intermediate/energy.shtml
18.3-How efficient are the appliances we use?
18.4-How should we generate the electricity we need?
www.dti.gov.uk/renewable/ed_pack/
Module 10-Electricity
19.1-What does the current through an electrical device depend on?
www.cornwallis.kent.sch.uk/intranet/subjects/science/elecmag/elec_index.html
19.2-How can electricity be used to make things move?
www.explorescience.com/activities/
www.howstuffworks.com/motor.htm
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/maglev990624.html
19.3-What is static electricity, how can it be used, and what is the connection between static electricity and electric circuits?
19.4-What is mains electricity and how can it be used safely?
www.cornwallis.kent.sch.uk/intranet/subjects/science/elecmag/elec_index.html
19.5-Why do we need to know the power of electrical appliances?
(Try ‘cornwallis’ sites as well)
19.6-How do generators and transformers work?
www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/generator/ac.html
Module 11-Forces
20.1-How can we describe the way things move?
www.stvincent.ac.uk/Resources/Physics/Speed/index.html
20.2-How do we make things speed up or slow down?
20.3-What happens to the movement energy when things speed up or slow down?
20.4-How do planets and artificial satellites stay in orbit?
www.brainpop.com/science/forces/gravity/index.weml
20.5-What do we know about the origins of the universe and the life histories of the stars?
www.library.thinkquest.org/28327
www.brainpop.com/science/space/bigbang/index.weml
www.starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/Starchild/universe_level2/universe.html
Module 12-Waves and Radiation
21.1-Why do scientists talk about light and sound as waves?
www.mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/motion/waves.htm
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl
www.members.aol.com/nicholashl/waves/waves.htm
21.2-Is there radiation we cannot see beyond the ends of the spectrum?
imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/waves.html (needs to be typed in)
www.darvill.clara.net/emag/index.htm
www.purchon.com/physics/electromagnetic.htm
21.3-What do we know about the radiation from radioactive sources?
www.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
21.6-What do the shock waves from earthquakes tell us about the Earth?
http://www.discovery.com/exp/earthjourneys/peelplanet.html