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Biology - your textbook. You must have the username and password you got when you registered. See me if you need another copy of the directions for registering.
WolframAlpha - for life sciences. Try it.
Ways to Show you Know - options to the conventional proficiency exam.
Owlcam - new vocab: hork, gagshag

• Kimball's Biology Text - make use of the search box on the upper right
• Online Biology Book - (not your textbook) helpful when you need to look something up.
• Open Source Biology textbook from CK12
  

Safety Rules and Contract

• How Science Works. It's not your elementary school "scientific method."
• Graphing Tutorial - help with choosing and making graphs

• Vertebrates - characteristics and terms
• Lampreys - ew. That is all.
• Amniotic membrane - which species have one? What is it, anyway?

• Atomic Structure (Youtube) - Venus from the TV show WKRP teaches about the atom. (Can you find the misconception?)
• Organic Molecules - the basics
• Biochemistry - from The Biology Project
• Introduction to Organic Molecules
• Biochemistry textbook - Iinteractive. More advanced concepts, but also some basics.
• Energy in Foods Lab Introduction Criteria Sheet as Google Doc. Copy into your own G-doc and write your introduction according to the criteria.

• Cellphone microscopy
• Using a Stereo Microscope - video from Carolina Biological

Learning Targets - Cells
Tour the Cell - an interactive animation from National Science Foundation

Organelles and their Functions - biology junction website
Cell Size and Scale - compare the sized of very small things. What is too small to see at 400X?
Comparison of Plant and Animal Cells- with description of organelles
Cells: The Building Blocks of Life - Windows to the Universe; eukaryote and proakryote basics.
Learn the parts of an animal cell with this interactive image.
Biology4Kids site - Descriptions of individual organelles and a practice quiz
Cells and Organelles - introducing the relationships among organelles
Plant cells, animal cells, and prokaryotes - Cells Alive! also interactive. Click around and explore.
The Inner Life of a Cell - a totally awesome animation from Harvard. Click "Watch the Video" below the description. The animations are truly amazing.
Amazing Cells - structures in action, transport, communication.
Animated advanced topics in cells
Cell and Molecular Animations - a portal to many cell animations
Organelle diagrams - if you don't want to skectch your own.

• Learning Targets - Homeostasis
• Just Passing Through - interactive animation
• Cellular Transport - an overview
• Na+ K+ Pump animation - short and sweet.
• Animation of Passive and Active Transport
• Membranes and Transport - another set of animations, complete with interactive quizzes

• Importance of photosynthesis in your life - bet you didn't know this about photosynthesis!
• Light dependent reactions - animated, so you can see where everything goes
• Calvin Cycle/carbon fixation - from same place as the one above
• flash presentation of photosynthesis light dependent reactions from Virginia Tech
• Photosynthesis explanation and diagrams from University of Cincinnati
• Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis - think photosynthesis isn't important to you? One day it may power your world.
• Photosynthesis research at the Photosynthesis Center, Arizona State University. Good reasons to know about photosynthesis.
• Photosynthesis, leaves, and energy explained. Diagrams, links. Humor. Ignore the diet ads.
• Flower Delivery - resources about photosynthesis, classification, and growing plants.

• Three animations on cellular respiration - and many other great links, including microscopy

• Cell Reproduction Learning Targets
• Animation of mitosis - also link to animation of meiosis
• Mitosis narrative and great images
• Online Onion Root Tips - an interactive lab
• Mitosis
• Control of the Cell Cycle - interactive game
• Mitosis Movies - from University of North Carolina
• A Mitosis Mystery Solved: How Chromosomes Align Perfectly in a Dividing Cell - Labspaces abstract
• Fluorescence Microscopy Videos - so you can see cell division.
• Cell Differentiation - Bora Zivkovic's blog from Scientific American. Scroll down past italics.
• **Mitosis - FREE iPod/iPhone app. Let me know how you like it.

• Meiosis Tutorial - from The Biology Project, University of Arizona
• Meiosis Animations - along with many other things
• Meiosis Review - from phschool
• Karyotyping Activity - from The Biology Project, University of Arizona
• Meiosis Animations - along with many other things
• Meiosis Tutorial - including karyotyping
• Karyotyping Activity - Faster and easier than the cut-out version.
• Genes Get Shuffled when Chromosomes Exchange Pieces - excellent animation from DNA Learning Center
• Santa's Karyotype - entertainment :-)

• Gregor Mendel Explains "Dominance" - animation from DNA Learning Center
• Myths of Human Genetics: tongue rolling, earlobes, and other things you were previously taught
• Variations on Mendel's' Laws

• DNA Interactive - from DNA Learning Center
• Timeline of DNA from Pre-Mendel to present
• DNA History Webquest
• Another DNA Webquest version
• DNA Replication from Wiley, Interactice Concepts in Biochemistry
• DNA Replication video
• Another DNA replication video
• DNA Replication - from Harvard
• Transcription and Translation - from Teachers Domain
• DNA - RNA - Protein - Have you ever wondered why you look like your mother while your brother looks like your grandfather?
• Double Helix - a game from the Nobel Prize website
• The GTCA song from Biorad
• DNA Interactive tutorials
• Protein Synthesis - from Teachers Domain
• Protein Synthesis Interactive
• "Blame it on the DNA" song and dance and animations
• DNA, But Not as We Know It - Arsenic instead of phosphorous?
• Sequencing DNA - How scientists do this
• How to Grow a Heart

• Genes and Genetic Disorders, from the Human Genome Project
• Human Chromosome Viewer, from the Human Genome Project
• Sickle Cell Anemia, from the Human Genome Project
• How Sickle Cell Anemia protects against malaria - LabSpaces
• Mapping the Human "diseasome" - New York Times article and graphic

• iNaturalist - record what you see in nature and learn what others have discovered

• Pond Water Critters - not all are protists but all are cool ;)
• Ron's Pond Scum - excellent photos of protists, the ones you will see in lab. Find the image of a paramecium dividing.
• Kingdom Protista - classification issues with protists
• Origin of Life powerpoint (as pdf)
• Systematics of Eukaryota - (don't forget the prokaryotes)

• EPA Global Warming for Kids Site
• New York Board of Regents - What New York State HS students must know about Ecology in order to to graduate (And you thought your state test was hard)
• - especially the food chain/food web site

• What is a Species? Species definitions Assignment questions and Ensatina visual
• Virtual Age Dating Tutorial - print your certificate at the end for extra credit
• How Radiometric Dating Works Technical, evidence-based explanation about the age of the Earth.
• Radioactivity and Atomic Physics Explained
• Radiocarbon Dating - with animations and videos
• Radiocarbon Dating - from NOVA
• Age of the Earth - more information than we have time to discuss in class
• Geological Time Scale - remember this from Physical Science?
• Darwin and Wallace - how well do you know them?
• Did Darwin Deceive? - when DID he really get the letter from Wallace?
• The Darwin Exhibit - including a link to the evolution of music.
• Geological Time - a cool, animated explanation of evidence for the Earth's age
• University of California Museum of Paleontology - links to cladistics and phylogeny, evolutionary mechanisms
• Timeline of Human Evolution from The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
• Catching Evolution in the Act - from the NSF
• Becoming Human - explore your roots back 7 million years.
• Darwin's Annotations - read the annotations Charles Darwin made in books. Go right to the collection.
• How the Peppered Moth Lost its Spots - for real.
• Assessment - copy and paste to your own google doc.

• The Fossil Record - as used in geologic time

• Miller and Urey, updated
• Another article on Miller and Urey, from Science Now

• Phylogenics - evolutionary tree

• Stem Cell Animations from HHMI

• MIT lectures - you can download a whole course from MIT at this website. Includes video lectures and study materials.
• the New York Board of Regents Test Prep Site - a great study guide on all topics biological
• Ecology Home Page from NASA

• Modern Biology 2006 - our textbook. You will need your login information.
• Prentice Hall Student Text - let me know if the animations do not work for you.

A printable, color periodic table - needs Acrobat to open; very complete
The Comic Book Periodic Table
Elementistory 
Periodic Table 
PeriodicTable.com 
Periodic Table from Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Periodic Table of Elements Information 
The Periodic Table of Elements of the Internet 
WebElements

Flinn Scientific MSDS list - we get most of our chemicals from here. The MSDS download as acrobat PDF files.
The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University - Chemical and Safety Info - MSDS links and safety info for chemicals commonly used in HS laboratories
The Chemical Database at the University of Akron
MSDS Database - choose from several; just type in the name of the chemical
Merck Catalog Database: first look up the catalog number of the chemical, then type or paste the catalog number into the search engine to get the MSDS in PDF form
Online NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - this source does not have everythihng we work with, but it has many of them.
SIRI MSDS database
Chemexper.com
MSDS sources 
MSDS from Oxford University 
Ohio State University MSDS list