Cool and Safe Science Links

 

Classic Graphing Website

Graphing Website

Information on creating a bibliography:
www.easybib.com

Eye link 1
http://www.bootslearningstore.com/ks2/eyesight.html

Eye link 2 (for fun)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/flash/nill.html

Virtual Eye Dissection (cut up an eye and learn the parts)
http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html

Cow's Eye Dissection (This is the one we followed in class)
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/step01.html

Use the sites below to familiarize yourself with the frog dissection process and to help you place the organs in the correct location on your frog book. go to demo http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html#ventral3d

http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/

http://froggy.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/dissect

Organ systems website homework
Access Organ systems website homework

English to Latin Dictionary - For your Species' names
http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/ or http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl

Peppered Moth Lab demonstrating natural selection.

Access information on Peppered Moth

Download this cool image of the Geologic Timescale of the Earth http://www.chronos.org/downloads/timetowerparis_highres.png

Information about Radiometric Dating.
http://www.newcastle-schools.org.uk/nsn/chemistry/Radioactivity/Halflife%20Page.htm

History of the Earth - Interactive Exploration http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html

Go here if you need to download "Windows Movie Maker" for your windows XP or Vista computer (check with your parents before downloading and installing any programs): http://www.cnet.com/4244-5_1-0.html?query=27windows+movie+maker%27&tag=srch&target=nw

Go here if you would like to download "Photo Story" a movie making program for PC's that only works with still images (check with your parents before downloading and installing any programs): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory

This fun game takes what we are learning a step further and breaks the cell cycle into more parts (gap 1, synthesis, gap 2, and mitosis). Give it a try! http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/2001/cellcycle.html

Go to this site to learn all there is to know about DNA and Heredity.
Access DNA and Heredity information

Access old tour of genetics

Check out "Cells Alive" web page for a bunch of information on cells including "The Cell Cycle" and "Mitosis" (notes: The cell cyle on this site is broken up into smaller portions and "replication" - the copying of DNA is called "synthesis". Also the mitosis animation breaks "prophase" into "prophase" and metaprophase" because so much happens in this phase).

http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model_js.htm

This site has some real micrographs (microscope pictures) of actual cells going through each stage of the cell cycle. (note: This page includes "interphase" with "mitosis", but most consider interphase to be separate from "mitosis")
http://www.unomaha.edu/hpa/2740mitosis.html

Here are two great links for learning about DNA. Check them out for added learning and practice! http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ http://www.dnai.org/index.htm

You can use this link to create professional looking graphs for any labs you do in my class. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/

If you are interested in learning more about Scanning Electron Microscopes or SEM's go to this page. http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/seminfo.html

This page has an animation showing different things on the head of a pin at different magnifications. Very fun! This page is part of a bigger site that covers cells in detail. http://www.cellsalive.com/howbig.htm

This is a great site if you are interested in pictures taken through microscopes. Awesome, creepy shots of insects and other organisms. Some are taken through a compound light microscope, others through a scanning or transmission electron microscope (see if you can figure out which one was used).
Access microscopy images