Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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Biology Pages, an online biology textbook by John Kimball
On-Line Biology Book, from Estrella Mountain Community College
BioInteractive, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Life on Earth Home Page, links (and other things) from Prentice-Hall, publishers of biology textbooks
The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology, from the University of Arizona
Human Biology, a course by Robert Huskey, University of Virginia, with nice illustrations, list of links
Biology animations and other materials, from Steve Berg, Winona State University
A number of periodicals which publish relevant (and timely) material make available some or all of that material on the web and/or have additional material specifically developed for the web. These include:
Tree of Life, "a distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity", rooted at the University of Arizona
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology, including Microbe of the Week and Microbe Zoo
All the Virology on the WWW, includes The Big Picture Book of Viruses
American Museum of Natural History
Life Over Time, an exhibit from the Field Museum, Chicago
Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, with info and links on systematics and cladistics, on taxonomy and diversity, and on geologic time
General, Organic, and Biochemistry - lecture slides, animations, periodic table, from James Hardy, University of Akron, and West Publishing Company
Animations of molecular dynamics, from Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Darmstadt. Germany
Medical Biochemistry, from Medical Education Group, University of Kansas Medical Center
Primer on Molecular Genetics, from the Department of Energy, Human Genome Management Information System
Entrez Molecular biology search tool, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Cells Alive! Some wonderful pictures, from Quill Graphics.
Cell Biology, beautifully illustrated lectures on a number of cell biology topics from a graduate course at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Histology and Pathology, from Indiana University
Histology, University of Wisconsin
MendelWeb, Mendel, history of science, plus
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Odyssey of Life, from PBS Nova, includes Morphing Embryos
Zygote, from Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College
DevBio, on line companion to Gilbert's textbook
Developmental Biology, with movies, from Bill Wasserman, Loyola University
FishScope, fish development, with movies, from the University of Washington
Amphibian development, from the University of Wisconsin
Human embryo development, from University of Pennsylvania
The Interactive Fly, Drosophila genetics/development, from the Society for Developmental biology
Plants in Motion, from Roger Hangarter, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour, from Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
The Interactive Frog Dissection
The Visible Human Project, from the National Library of Medicine
The Heart: An OnLine Exploration, from the Franklin Institute
Global Anatomy On-line resources from Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin - currently includes several sections on neuroanatomy as well as a medical histology atlas
Digital Anatomist Program, Neuroanatomy, neuroscience, gross morphology with interactive labelling, from University of Washington
The Whole Brain Atlas, from Harvard Medical School
Neuroscience Tutorial Functional neuroanatomy, from Washington University School of Medicine
The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book, by Peter K. Kaiser, York University, Canada
Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory - "Earth's biggest environment search engine"
Global Warming, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
World Population Clock, US Census Bureau Population Dynamics Models, Java implementation of a variety of models, from the Section on Animal Ecology, Leiden University
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition, wonderful pictures, assembled by D.I. Loizos, Professor of History, American College of Greece
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS
Beyond Bio 101: The Transformation of Undergraduate Biology Education, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
BioQuest Curriculum Consortium, centered at Beloit College
CELS, Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences
Access Excellence, "a pace in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning", supported by Genentech
Assembled by Paul Grobstein, with help from lots of friends (see Peter Brodfuehrer's home page, with course links).
Please suggest additions.
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