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Favorites
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Mrs.
Billingsley's Favorites
General Biology Education Sites
- Access Excellence
Biotechnology educational programs.
- ActionBioScience.org
Promotes bioscience literacy by providing articles on issues related
to environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new
frontiers, and bioscience education; includes lessons for classroom
use.
- Animal Behaviour
Society (education section)
Links to laboratory exercises, teaching and learning resources, images,
etc.
- The Animal
Diversity Web
A taxonomically-arranged site of animal diversity from the University
of Michigan.
- Beyond Bio101
The transformation of undergraduate biology education from the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.
- BioEd
Biological sciences education resources.
- BioInteractive
Virtual labs, animations, virtual museum, web video, and "click and
learn" mini lessons from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute.
- Biolab
Home page for Biolab: the discussion group for college biology laboratory
teaching.
- Bioliteracy.net
Generates, tests, and distributes the tools required to determine whether
students are learning what teachers think they are teaching
- Biology
Hypertextbook
An online general biology textbook.
- The Biology Lab Clearinghouse
A repository of free hands-on laboratory instruction. New material is
welcomed.
- Biology Online.org
A database of information, including tutorials, dictionary, links to
biology sites, a biology forum.
- The Biology Place
Resources for general biology instructors.
- The Biology Project
From the University of Arizona. This site has tutorials and activities
in may areas of Biology including Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics,
Molecular Biology, and Toxicology.
- BioMedia Associates: Learning
Programs for Biology
The Web site of this commercial venture contains dramatic photographs
and animations, and offers a collection of downloadable teaching resources,
and an online catalog of BioMedia's instructional videos and CD-ROMs.
- BioMedNet
The World Wide Web Club for the Biological and Medical Community.
- Biosci
Access to Biosci usenet groups, archives, and more!
- BiosciEdNet (BEN)
The BEN portal provides access to resources from BEN partner organizations;
"resources cover 46 biological sciences topics and include 25 different
types of resources ranging from journal articles to simulations."
- BioTech
An interactive educational resource and biotechnology reference tool.
- Cells Alive!
Information and images about cells from all walks of life.
- Cell and Molecular Biology Online
General resources for the biology community with an emphasis on information
for cell and molecular biologists.
- Darwin 2000
Interactive Web Site for Student Research into the Evolution of Genes
and Proteins. From Rick Hershberger's Workshop at ABLE 21.
- The Dictionary
of Cell Biology
An electronic version of Academic Press' 2nd edition of The Dictionary
of Cell Biology.
- Genetic Science Learning
Center
A large site with information, tutorials, and some great activities
from the University of Utah.
- Laboratory
Exercises in Evolution (University of Virginia)
Many links to lab exercises in evolution, plus information about the
evolution lab course developed at UofV.
- MicrobeLibrary
Contains images (still, animations, videos) of microbes, curriculum
materials for the classroom and lab, educational reviews of books, websites,
software and videos, an education newsletter and an annual journal.
- Mr. Biology's High School
Bio Website
A large site with much useful information.
- NISE/CL1 Website
Collaborative learning and learning assessment resources from the National
Institute for Science Education.
- Medline
Online searching of the Medline journal article database.
- On-line Mendelian Inheritance
in Man
Access to this extensive database of human inheritance.
- Tom Volk's
Fungi Site
A very extensive site with much information about fungi.
- The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a collection of World Wide Web pages which combined
present information about the world's organisms.
- Virtual
Cell
An on-line tour of a plant cell. Zoom in, search for organelles, and
view EM images.
- Virtual Courses
Virtual courses available through the Internet.
- The
Visible Human Project
The National Library of Medicine's page on this project. Links are provided
to several sites which allow you to navitage through the visible humans.
- Webcutter
An on-line tool for restriction mapping nucleotide sequences. You can
provide the sequence or Web Cutter will find one for you.
Comprehensive Links Pages
- BioChemNet
A directory of biology and chemistry education resources.
- Biology Information
Services
A registry of biological Web sites and gopher servers.
- Biology Virtual
Library
Connections to Web sites covering all aspects of biology.
- Bioscience
This site has a journal, a virtual library, and lots of other goodies
helpful to both teachers and researchers.
- CSU BioWeb
Extensive topical list of Internet biological sciences resources.
- InfoMINE
A very extensive site for accessing a tremendous number of web sites
and electronic journals in many academic areas.
- MicrobeLibrary
Visual resources, curriculum resources, articles, reviews of educational
materials, all searchable through a single portal.
- Microbes.info
"Information portal designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology
informational resources to all; a starting point for finding information
concerning Microbiology."
- Scott's
Botanical Links
A huge site, listed as botanical links, but with a whole lot more.
Biological Animations
Many of the sites in this list require that specific plug-ins be installed
before the animations can be viewed. Most sites have a link from which
you can obtain the necessary plug-in.
Biology Lab Manuals
Suppliers of Biological Materials
- Anderson Unicom Group
An on-line product search and order placement service for the life sciences.
- ATCC
An on-line index of organisms available from the AmericanType Culture
Collection.
- Berkshire Biologicals
Suppliers of living biological materials.
- BioSupplyNet
An online directory for biomedical products and services.
- Carolina Biological
Carolina's site now has on-line ordering and browsing of their catalogs.
- E. coli
Index of E. coli strains available from the E. coli Genetic Stock
Center at Yale.
- Educational Innovations
Supplier of educational science supplies for kindergarten through college.
- Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
a non profit supplier of live marine animals to colleges and universities
also a regional marine enviornmental education center for north Florida.
- Science Stuff
Online store selling science supplies to teachers and parents.
- SciQuest
Your source for scientific vendors, includes search and quote capabilities.
- WARD'S Natural Science
A leading provider for all materials needed to teach biology for middle
school through university level.
- Yeast
Resources for yeast researchers.
Scientific Organizations
- AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
- ACUBE
Association of College and University Biology Educators
- AIBS
American Institute of Biological Sciences
- ASM
American Society for Microbiology
- ASC
American Society for Cell Biology
- ASP
American Society of Parasitologists
- CELS
Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences
- CUR
The Council on Undergraduate Research
- ESA
Ecological Society of America (educational
resources)
- HAPS
The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
- HHMI
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (also see the HHMI Holiday
Lectures on Science Program)
- NABT
National Association of Biology Teachers
Online Journals
- American Scientist
American Scientist, a journal from the Sigma Xi Research organization.
- Cell Biology Education
Education journal of the American Society for Cell Biology.
- HMS Beagle
Official scientific webzine for BioMedNet, carrying daily news stories
from top journals around the world.
- JAMA
Journal of the American Medical Association.
- inScight
On-line information service devoted specifically to late-breaking science
news.
- Microbiology
Education
Online journal of the American Society for Microbiology
- New Scientist
On-line version of this weekly news magazine.
- Science
Science magazine online with additional features beyond the printed
version.
- Science News
Science News: the weekly newsmagazine of science.
- Scientific American
Access to some of the current edition and most of the previous editions.
- The Scientist
The newspaper for the life sciences professional.
Biology Course Web Pages
If you would like to have your course page listed, please e-mail me
www-able@zoo.utoronto.ca
with the URL.
- Bucknell University: BI317
Teaching of the Biological Sciences
- Carlow College: Foundations
of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Genetics,
Teaching
Elementary Life Science
- Cornell University: BioG
101-104
- Davidson College: Molecular
Biology
- Florida State University: General
Biology Lab for Non-Majors
- Ohio University: Bios
170 and 171 Introductory Biology Labs
- Old Dominion University: Animal
Behavior, Biology
Seminar, Evolution,
Principles
of Ecology, Vertebrate
Zoology
- University of Colorado, Boulder: Biofundamentals
(uses interactive on-line notes, in-class discussion, and web-based
labs to teach the basics of molecular biology)
- University of Delaware: Introductory
Biology
- University of Minnesota: General
Biology Program
- University of Toronto: BIO150:
Organisms in their Environment, BIO250:
Introduction to Molecular Cell Biology, JLM349:
Eukaryotic Molecular Biology
- University of Virginia: Human
Biology
- University of Winconsin-La Crosse: Zoolab
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