Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
A digital ecosystem, fueled by serendipity.
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Life on Earth Home Page, links (and other things) from Prentice-Hall, publishers of the Bio 103 course textbook
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
Introductory Biology Courseware, a wealth of lecture notes/illustrations by Gary Anderson, Department of Biology, University of Southern Mississippi
World Lecture Hall, Biology and Botony, links from the University of Texas
BioTech, "to enrich the public's knowledge of biology and chemistry", from the University of Indiana
Biology animations, 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, from Cornell University
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 Genone Management Information System
Recombinant DNA review, from MIT Biology Hypertextbook, by Vernon Ingram
Introduction to Gene Therapy, an on-line course from the Clinical Research Center, Vanderbilt University
Entrez Molecular biology search tool, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Cells Alive! Some wonderful pictures, from Quill Graphics.
Virtual Cell, to explore, from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cell Biology, beautifully illustrated lectures on a number of cell biology topics from a graduate course at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Medical Histology Atlas, from the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Histology and Pathology, from Indiana University
Interactive Krebs Cycle, an enormous wealth of intermediary metabolism information
MendelWeb, Mendel, history of science, plus
Virtual FlyLab, interactive genetics from California State University, Los Angeles
Genetics databases teaching exercise, from Weizmann Institute, Genome and Bioinformatics
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Welcome to Developmental Biology, course notes with links from Leon Browder, University of Calgary
The Virtual Embryo, continuously developing (as it should be) resource provider, also from Leon Browder
Zygote, from Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College.
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
Developmental Biology, World Wide Web Virtual Library, 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"
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a nice course outline with links, by David Bogler, University of Texas
Population Dynamics Models, Java implementation of a variety of models, from the Section on Animal Ecology, Leiden University
Genetic Tools for a Sustainable Future, thoughts on the Green Revolution and beyond, by Bruno Sobral
Linking Biodiversity and Agriculture, from the World Resources Institute
The Origin of Animal Body Plans, an article by Erwin, Valentine, and Jabblonski, from the American Scientist
Origins of Humankind, "a comprehensive resource site ..."
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition, wonderful pictures, assembled by D.I. Loizos, Professor of History, American College of Greece
The Long Foreground: Human Prehistory, a general education course module from Washington State University
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
Bio 1 Virtual Lab, from Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.
GenScopeA modelling package, intended to link from molecules to populations, with links to related materials.
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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