EDCUR 327.3

EDCUR 327.3

Methods for Teaching Life Sciences in the Secondary School

Hot Links

To link to the Saskatchewan biology curriculum guide - full text!

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/biology/index.html

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Biology Web Sites

These should be hot links to different web sites around the world. These were provided courtesy of Glen Aikenhead's students who located them, and let Glen know about them, and courtesy of Glen who put them all on one list. Please let me know which you find most useful and why. The information about how these sites are useful will help us all when we start posting lesson plans to the web.

The editorial comments after each are not mine, since I have not yet had a chance to check them out.

Activities Exchange - by far the best site there is for Biology. It's huge!

http://www.gene.com/ae/AE/AEC/AEF/index.html

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Apple Education - another great site, with info, lessons, units for all subject areas.

http://hed1.info.apple.com/education/curric/ccenter.html

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Conservation Genetics -

http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/units/conservation/genetic.html

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Genetics as a Tool in Forensics -

http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/review/mystery.html

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Electrophoresis Box Methods - step by step instructions on how to m ake an electrophoresis box - used to separate bases in a DNA molecule - Yes, you can make one!

http://raven.umnh.utah.edu/new/teachkits/wheelers/gel.elecro.html

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Genome Education Center -

http://www.kumc.edu/GEC/

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Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology - more than anyone needs to know about microbes!

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/CTLprojects/dlc-me/

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University of Virginia On-Line Frog Dissection - just what it says. You actually dissect a frog over the internet. Super-cool!

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog

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Another On-Line Frog Dissection - more diagrammatic than Virginia.

http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

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The Biology Project - Excellent, colourful, teacher-level info on all bio topics.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

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Cells Alive - Very high tech! Movies and activities.

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~chudler/neurok.html

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Neuroscience for Kids - everything brain and nerve related. Brain recipes as well.

http://www.selu.com/~bio/wildlife/links/index.html

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Zoology Internet Resource Guide -

http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo.html

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MedWeb - Huge guide to anything in the medical field

http://www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.cardiology.html

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Marine Biological Laboratory

http://www.mbl.edu/

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Ocean Link - any animal that lives in the ocean. (Ask a marine Scientist!)

http://oceanlink.island.net/index.html

End Glen's students' list.

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This just in from a teacher in Kamloops B.C., Iram Khan He has created a non-commercial, non-profit website for Canadian teachers - with hundreds of lesson plans and resources and thousands of valuable website links. These lessons are not specifically biology, but do have a Canadian focus. Besides, the reality of teaching is that you will be teaching many subjects, not just biology. Mr. Khan requests that you share the address with other teachers.

http://persweb.direct.ca/ikhan/

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This just in from Richard deMerchant, a graduate student in Curriculum Studies. The American Association for the Advancement of Science had their 150^th anniversary last year. To note this, the association solicited a number of editorials (essays) from different individuals representing different viewpoints on science. If you connect to the site, you can access the full text of any of the articles you are interested in.

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/150essay.shl