The Internet and Science Classrooms

Search engine differences

GoTo.com

Alta Vista

Excite

AOL Netfind

Yahoo

Dogpile

Extra Internet Help ......Alta Vista Translations

What's on the Net for my Science Classroom?

Online Animations

Savage Earth Earthquake

How does a PET Scanner work?

Global Classrooms

E-Pals- design your own activities, or use theirs, for students to send email to other schools, states or countries.

Biological Timing Online Science Experiment

Using the internet, you can participate in a real science experiment conducted here at the Center for Biological Timing. View live images and actual experiment results, analyze real-time data, form hypotheses, suggest variables for new experiments, and share conclusions with other scientists from all over the world. Display your scientific artwork.

Ask an Expert/Impersonations

The Bubble Sphere

Ask Dr. Science- just for fun!

Ask an Expert

Online Science Mysteries

..two...minutes.....

An elaborate online murder mystery centering around the eclipse on August 11.

Access Excellence Mysteries

River of Venom

The Blackout Syndrome

Arctica

An online science mystery that may also be downloaded to your computer for offline use.

The Mystery Spot

Teacher developed mysteries online

 

Online Virtual Labs

Virtual Microscopy

Interactive Java-powered virtual microscopes that explore specimen focus, illumination intensity, magnification, and translation---operating essentially in a manner that is identical to real-life microscopes.

Online Quizes

Bird Song Matcher

How well do you know bird songs. This interactive site uses Real Player/Audio to test your birdsong knowledge.

Take the Learning Challenge- for teachers

Proton Don- quiz on the Periodic Table

Zero Bio Quizzes- amazing Java based quizzes on all biology topics

Online Collaborative Projects

Population Genetics- an online collaborative project for classrooms. Utilizes CLEO databases and bulletin board. Free for teachers to author their own projects.

One WebPage Interaction

Your Weight on Other Worlds

Mendel's Pea Experiment

Balancing Equations

Java Genetics

Zero Bio Games

Interactive Sites

ER-Sim Game

Annenberg

National Geographic-

96 , 97, 98 , 1999,2000,2001

The Whole Truth- amazing site on the truth about smoking and the tobacco comapnies.

 

Software Downloads

Voice Oscilloscope

Download a voice oscilloscope for your classroom activities, maybe physics or physical science. Students can observe the frequency and amplitude of their own voices, and print their voiceprint. The program is very flexible and easy to use. For Macintosh only.

Draw a Structure

An online tool for drawing chemical structures. Download this applet and insert in your webpage and site.

Expeditions/Telefield Trips

Dive and Discover-great educational website on marine biology

Virtual Antarctica

Just like you were there! Pictures, journals, glossary, content.

Virtual Galapagos

Amazon Adventure-Dr. Hanna's expedition to the Amazon

Virtual Solar System - requires special download software.

Online Databases

ChemFinder Search

Link to an online database to look up chemical structures and characteristics.

The Amazing Picture Machine

Search the Animal Information Database

CNN Media Search

Create Your Own

Beseen

Create your own Bulletin Board Chat Room or Quizlet about your science topic. Students can sign in and post their opinions.

Quia.com

The ultimate in quizzes, games, search a word, etc. Easy for you to make a class homepage for your students to have access to all the quizzes and games you design for student study aides.

The QuizCenter

Free to educators! Create quizes for your students online and have students take the quizes online with either immediate feedback, or results sent to your e-mail box. Easily link these quizes to your web site.

WebTrip Maker-create your own online hunt

FunBrain.com-another place to make quizzes

Classification Sites

Trees of the Pacific Northwest

Crocodile Dichotomous Key (you will need to get this page translated by using the Alta Vista Translater)

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life is a project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.

Vertebrates of the United States

Insect Key

Fruit Key

Lesson Plan for Shoe Key

Live CAMS

Try Science-Live Cams

Live image at the South Pole

Discovery Online Live Cams

Live Gorilla CAM

Live Bear CAM from Alaska- windows only

Africam-experience a live safari

Daily Web Checks

 

Earthweek

Project Cool Sightings

The Daily WAV

Discovery Online Picture of the Day

Animated GIF of the Day

 

Interactive Internet Lessons
Too Many Moos
Our Fragile Frogs
Interactive Internet Lesson Plans from last year
Constructivist Cycle

 

Extra for Teachers on the Web 

Jack's Net Structures