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Good links found at this site: Source/credit: http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/bio.html Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology

=[|ANIMAL DIVERSITY]=

**__Description__****:** **The University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology publishes a Web overview of the entire animal kingdom** **.** Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**
 * Curricular Area: Science

=[|**BioAnim**]=

**__Description__****:** **BioAnim is an educational aid for teachers and students of biology or medicine. Learn there about the structure and function of the living cell, tissue and human body. It contains VRML virtual reality animations, drawings and images enhancing the understanding of biological structures and processes.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**eNature.com**]=

**__Description__****: This new nature portal offers online searchable field guides to over 4,800 plant and animal species. Derived from 35 different Audubon Society Field Guides, Regional Guides, and Nature Guides** Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Microscapes: Images from the Microscope**]= **__Description__****: The Molecular Expressions Website features acclaimed photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. We are going where no microscope has gone before by offering one of the Web's largest collections of color photographs taken through an optical microscope (commonly referred to as "photo-micro-graphs").
 * Curricular Area: Science

** Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Microbe World**]= **__Description__****: Join Sam Sleuth for an exploration of microbiology through colorful information and experiments. Students will learn what microbes are and how they can be harmful or helpful to humans.
 * Curricular Area: Science

** Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Ask A Biologist**]= **__Description__****: Anyone is welcome to use** **//Ask A Biologist//****. Keep in mind that it is intended primarily to serve grades K-12, and to be available as a resource for teachers.
 * Curricular Area: Science

Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Types of Leaves**]= **__Description__****: These two pages will provide an excellent Internet accompaniment to any classroom work that involves leaves. The lively text is partnered with clear, simple line drawings which explain structure, shapes and margins. Students may need some support with the technical words used.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Biomes**]= **__Description__****: This page attempts to introduce the global biome concept. Six major biomes are covered in considerable detail which includes temperature ranges, indigenous plants and animals and the major distinguishing features of each area. This pretty site would make excellent support for classroom teaching and project work in ecology.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Biology Web Site References**]= **__Description__****: A super list of web site references for biological topics commonly taught in high school and college.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology - DNA, genes, and heredity Concepts** =[|**DNA from the Beginning**]= **__Description__****: Discover the experiments and the people behind the concepts. Excellent website.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Biology Project The Cell**]= **__Description__****: Problem Sets & Tutorials related to Cellular Biology** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Biology Links**]= **__Description__****: Welcome to the Biology Site of Sites with links to: [ People of Biology | Animals | Botany | Genetics Biological Centers/Links ]** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Biology**
 * Taxonomy | Cell biology | Life Processes |

=[|**The Greenhouse**]=

**__Description__****: This site was made to help educate people about many aspects of biology - including a lot of the topics which are tested on in high school. This webpage tries to use the internet as an alternative medium for education, and we encourage you to get involed with the site, and post questions or answers to help the site grow.** ** Curricular Area: Biology Grade Level: K-12 Topic: Microbiology** =[|**Biology Links**]= **__Description__****: This page describes itself as an introduction to the microscopic organisms you can find in a freshwater pond, and it keeps that promise wonderfully. The attractive image on the homepage looks like fresh drops of virtual water. A click on the colorful spots within the drops enlarges the images to begin multipage explorations of tiny organisms living in the water: bacteria, ciliates, diatoms, sun animalcules and amoebas, rotifers, flagellated protozoa, and desmids. This attractive and information-packed Web site introduces the micro world superbly, and shows us, too, the gorgeous and stimulating realm of digital science tutorials. The graphics and interactivity of these pages are literally a tour of a world which before we could only have imagined.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Hidden Killers - Deadly Viruses**]= **__Description__****: An interesting look at "virus basics", how our immune system works, and how viruses are being used constructively and destructively today. An excellent site worth a visit.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Microbe Zoo**]= **__Description__****: Here you'll find images and descriptions of microscopic organisms and the habitats in which they live.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Mr. Biology's High School Bio Site**]=

**__Description__****: Welcome to the premier web site dealing with high school biology. Here you will find practice tests, simplified explanations of hard to understand concepts, teacher help, and links to exciting web sites dealing with the subject of Biology. This web site is constantly being updated. Don't forget to try out our "Interactive Biology Test of the Week."** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**The Cell**]=

**__Description__****: Welcome to The Cell web site. Enter this realm of microbiology carefully, for the motive behind every exciting page is to educate you about the world of cells!** Topic: Biology** =[|**Bird of the Week**]= **__Description__****: Each week, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology feature a new bird with sounds, great photos, and other great resources. Join the Classroom Feeder Watch or become a Citizen Science participant to help observe our fine, feathered friends.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**BugBios**]= **__Description__****:** This site hosts a number of useful and interesting insect resources. Attractive and easy to navigate, the site reflects both technical expertise and a love of entymology. **Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Animal Resources**]= **__Description__****: Find information on any type of animal.
 * Grade Level: 9-12

Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Wildlife Tracker**]= **__Description__****:** Wildlife Tracker is an animal and environmental search engine and directory. Other contents are pet names index by gender, pet rescue techniques, animal, insect, and nature cams, facts and figures about U.S. cities, animals, and the environment ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Desert Animals and Wildlife**]= **__Description__****: DesertUSA's purpose is to provide a tool for discovery -- a publication which entertains educates and explores with our readers, the beauty, life and culture of the North American deserts. To this end, DesertUSA contains images, stories, movie and audio clips, virtual reality tours and hard data about, virtually any desert-related topic: plants, animals, geology, cultural and natural history, recreation, parks, cities, travel and people.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology/Ecology** =[|**Amazon Interactive**]= **__Description__****: Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology/Ecology** =[|**Live from the Rain Forest**]= **__Description__****: Follow in Darwin’s footsteps, courtesy of Passport to Knowledge, to the heart of our planet's largest rainforest, guided by some of the world's leading biologists. Explore “the greatest expression of life” so far discovered in all the Universe, via a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activities— Live From The Rainforest .** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology/Ecology** =[|**Coral Reef**]= **__Description__****: Here you can find a wealth of information about coral reefs, the rain forests of the sea. Dive in and see nature's treasures in the ocean.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Virtual Garden Encyclopedia**]= **__Description__****: Find information on almost any type of plant.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Online Biology Book**]= **__Description__****: Excellent online source of biological information with graphic and text orgainized into chapters.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**The Biology Place**]= **__Description__****: Basic biology help is available here for high school or college students. Teaching and Learning resources that combine quality education publishing with the immediacy and interactivity of the web. Free one week trial membership. Full membership requires payment of a yearly access fee.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: K-12 Biology: Zoology** =[|**Internet Resource Guide for Zoology**]= **__Description__****: Comprehensive catalog of online resources on zoology, animals, and related topics, from the scientific publishing company Biosis. Includes listings on conferences, publications, organizations, universities, nomenclature, classification, and a variety of other general and research topics. Animal listings are sorted taxonomically to provide general and specific resources on a variety of animal groups.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**The Biology Project**]= **__Description__****: The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. 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.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 7-12 Topic: Biology/Genetics Format: Tutorial** =[|**Genetics Tutorial**]= **__Description__****: This series of units explain the concepts of genetics using hypertext, Quicktime movies, and sound. The Series covers the basic principles of genetics, suitable for an advanced high school class or introductory college biology.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 7-12 Topic: Biology/Genetics Format: Tutorial** =[|**Mendelian Genetics Chapter**]= **__Description__****: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Educational primer on Mendelian genetics from the Experimental Study Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Includes information, diagrams, and practice problems on genetic crosses, sex-linkage, pedigrees, meiosis, and linkage mapping.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 7-12 Topic: Biology Format: Tutorial**

=[|**DNA from the Beginning**]= **__Description__****: Progresses from basic concepts of inheritance through up-to-the minute methods of DNA analysis. Specifically aimed at teenaged users without scientific backgrounds, the site has terrific potential for use in junior high or freshman-level biology courses. Visitors to the site have the option to log on as a guest or become a registered user. Registered users may set preferences, track pages that they have read, and keep score on their quizzes.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 7-12 Topic: Biology Format: Tutorial - Study Aid** =[|**Cellular Biology**]=

**__Description__****: Entry contains info. on cellular biology. It includes cell structures and functions, prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes, reproduction, cell types, cell theory and a glossary of terms.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 7-12 Topic: Biology Format: Interactive Lab** =[|**The Whole Frog Project**]= **__Description__****: Computers can't teach everything in anatomy, but they can teach some things better, either by themselves or through synergy with conventional methods. Try out this award-winning virtual frog- as a case in point.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology/Botany**

=[|**Plant Parts**]=

**__Description__****: A series of pages will take students through the parts of a plant in a lively style complete with animated graphics and photographs. This could be ideal teaching material for key stage 4 students looking at plant structure and function. Each page also offers access to a glossary for vocabulary support.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**Enter Evolution: Theory and History**]= **__Description__****: The historical development of the evolutionary theory and th people who contributed to it from the 15th to the 20th century. the site is divided into two section: Evolutionary Topics and Evolutionary Scientist. Contains online version of Darwin's** **__Origin of Species__** **as well as related links.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**MIT Biology Hypertextbook**]=

**__Description__****: Online textbook is a great educational resource for people interested in biology.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**The Tree of Life**]= **__Description__****: The Tree of Life is a project designed to contain information about the phylogenetic relationships and characteristics of organisms, to illustrate the diversity and unity of living organisms, and to link biological information available on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator. We hope that this project will provide a map to biological information that can be used by researchers, teachers, and students, and that, as it grows, it will provide a forum for those who wish to share knowledge about the diversity of earth's organisms.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Missouri Botanical Gardens**]= **__Description__****: The home page of the Missouri Botanical Gardens offers many exciting resources in addition to a good map and photo tour of the collections. The Missouri Botanical Garden Learning Network area of the site offers some great activities for students and teachers who desire to learn more about plants and biology.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Mathematics in Biology**]= **__Description__****: The slippery gooiness of biology is a consequence of its incredible complexity, consisting as it does of complex systems based upon chemistry. And chemistry obeys the rules of physics, which exists because of, and is consequently best described by, mathematics. Mathematics is the ur-fluid of Reality (gad, how poetic), and our symbollic attempts to represent mathematics have given us windows through which our mushy grey-matter can peer, and with which this same mushy grey-matter becomes altered, and we call this alteration understanding (a frequently generous appellation). The purpose of these pages is to press our noses against some of the windows that look upon biological systems, and to do it in as interactive and stimulating a way as possible.** ** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology** =[|**Virtual Pig Dissection**]= **__Description__****: Online dissection of a pig.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**Virtual Cat Dissection**]=

**__Description__****: Online dissection of a cat using text, still images and video. VERY WELL done presentation.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**bioSURF**]=

**__Description__****: This is a great example of how the Web can augment a textbook. This resource from Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley is organized around their book, Biology: The Web of Life, and includes links and activities for each unit. "Learning Links" are categorized by chapter, and news, community, and career links are also offered for each unit. A "Teachers' Lounge" helps educators connect to background information, tutorials, software, and activities to help augment instruction. Units include "The Basis of Life," "Genetics," "Change and Diversity," "Monerans, Protists, and Fungi," "Plants," "Invertebrate Animals," "Vertebrate Animals," "Human Biology," and "Organisms and the Environment."**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology-Botany**

=[|**Coral Fact Sheet**]=

**__Description__****: The chunks of coral that get used as jewelry are actually skeletons of living animals! Get the facts by clicking here.** [|**Click Here**] **to go to the home page of** [|**Chicago's Shedd Aquirium**] **.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology-Botany** =[|**The Cave of Lascaux**]= **__Description__****: The famous cave in France with prehistoric drawings.**

** Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|**North American Lichen Project**]=

**__Description__****: There is a wealth of lichen information at this site. Here the authors describe the ecology of lichens, including several nice details, such as a summary (with bibliography) of lichen use by wildlife in North America and a review of lichen-invertebrate interactions. Of particular note are the many spectacular color photographs of dozens of species of lichens, from _Acarospora evolutum_ to _Xanthoria parietina_; all photographs are accompanied with text, providing natural history insights. Those interested in the ethnobotanical uses and history of lichens will want to browse the database on human use of lichens. A selection of hand-picked lichen links rounds out the site.** **Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**

=[|Iowa State Entomology Image Gallery]=

Curricular Area: Science Grade Level: 9-12 Topic: Biology**
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=[|**Africam**]=

**__Description__****: If you want to go on safari from your own home or are doing a project on environments, then this is the site for you. Cameras set up next to watering holes in South African safari parks broadcast live pictures onto the Net. Another camera is mounted on a jeep and travels around the park sending pictures from different locations. You may not always see animals but there's an archive page where you can see the pick of previous pictures.**