Biology Resources
There are many sites and specialized searches available. The list below contains a few useful sources for the laboratory instructor.
If you're looking for... |
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| Copyrighted books in print Info. about digital copywrite |
Amazon Barnes and Noble
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http://www.amazon.com http://www.barnesandnoble.com http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/Vol3_issue2/diotalevi.htm |
| Shareware and Freeware (Need to download software?) |
Download Tucows |
http://www.download.com http://tucows.com/
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| Multi-subject starting points for lesson ideas/sources Search sites for beginning information on topics such as DNA, Heart, etc. |
Kathy Schrock How stuff works Education World |
http://www.discoveryschool.com/schrockguide http://www.howthingswork.com http://www.education-world.com/
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| School and university sites | Library of congress on-line catalog
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http://www.searchedu.com |
| Need to ask a scientist a question? | Need to search library of congress | Look under Science http://www.score.k12.ca.us/ |
| Join a discussion Group about Ed Tech (Mailing Lists)
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AskERIC Ed List Archive | http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+listservs
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| Summaries of Educational/Teaching Issues | ERIC Digests | http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/
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| [On-Line Journals] National Research Council (NRC) publications Tree Physiology Volume 22, Issue 4, March 2002 Plant journals |
NRC
tree physiology
The Physiology
Society/ Journal of Physiology On-Line
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http://www.nature.com/nature/ |
| Digital images | Plant images biology images |
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/ |
| Scientific Organizations National Association of Biology Teachers College and University Biology Educators Association of Biology Educators |
NABT
ACUBE ABLE |
http://www.nabt.org/
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| UCCB Teacher Learning Center | TLC | http://tlc.uccb.ns.ca |
| Search Engines Microsoft |
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| Communication with UCCB Experts | UCCB | For E-Mails: http://www.uccb.ns.ca
In the left margin toolbar, click on Academic Schools,
then School of Science and Technology, then Faculty. For Web Pages: http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca See the names that are underlined. These are hyperlinks to webpages. There may be course/lab notes on these webpages.
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| Designing labs/lectures | http://www.bus.indiana.edu/isweb/iuteach/course_design.htm | |
| UCCB library | http://uccb.ns.ca Library link [Help with UCCB Library site scroll to the Header and click on the link] | |
| APA Format Scholarly Writing |
General
Form for Electronic references Citations - APA Style How to write scholarly |
http://www.apastyle.org/elecgeneral.html http://www.mun.ca/library/research_help/qeii/apa.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1150/writing.html |
| Join a Listserv discussion
group/mailing list *ethnobotany |
CIEER |
listserv@cieer.org
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| How to create a web site like this | FrontPage 98 | http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/ |
| Soil/Plant/Environment on-line journals |
ALS Soil Science Society of America Journal Journal of Environmental Quality Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education |
http://soil.scijournals.org/ http://jeq.scijournals.org/ http://www.jnrlse.org/ |
| PERIODIC CHART | http://www.webelements.com/index.html http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm |
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| Botanical Gardens | UK-ethnobotany | http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/index.html |
| Virus Protection | http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca/antivirus/ | You can get scanned for viruses free from the web at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca/antivirus/ |
| Science Dictionary | http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/ | |
| 3D Animated Molecules |
http://www.iconbazaar.com/molecules/ | |
| Biodiversity : in response to 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity |
An Internet learning laboratory for modeling (and thinking about) biodiversity and conservation. |
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/ |
| Images of plants, animals, people, and landscapes | http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/ | |
| Anatomical systems | Human and cat anatomy Prosthetics |
http://www.bio.psu.edu/faculty/strauss/anatomy/biology29.htm http://www.oandp.org/jpo/ |
| Internet resource for surgical education | http://www.vesalius.com/welcome.html | |
| On-line Nature Field Guides | http://www.enature.com/guides/select_group.asp | |
| Template for permission for harvested internet resources | http://landmarks4schools.org/permission1.php | |
| Plagarism stoppers | http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html | |
| On-line internet software tutorials (Front Page 98, Inspiration, Power Point) | http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm | |
| Down software for MSN Messenger | chat synchronously on-line using messenger | http://messenger.msn.ca/ |
| Academic technologies for learning from the TLC centre | "If you are planning on using technology to enhance
your teaching, then this is the guide for you!" |
http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/ |
| Canadian Education Journal | http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb/eduweb.html | |
Evaluating Websites |
Dalhousie University Web Evaluation Page | http://www.library.dal.ca/how/criteval.htm http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm |
| Electronic resources | histology slides | http://www.webct.com/biology |
| electronic grading | http://www.scriptum.ca/
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| The New York Botanical
Garden,
infor sheets eg Rocky shore |
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/libr/ http://museum.gov.ns.ca/infos/rocky/index.htm
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| Frogs | deformed frogs report deformaties NA monitoring frog facts frog calls
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http://www.pca.state.mn.us/hot/frogphotos.html http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/narcam http://www.im.nbs.gov/amphibs.html http://frog.simplenet.com/froggy http://www.oit.itd.umich.edu:80/bio108/Chordata/Lissamphibia/frog_calls.html
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| anatomy | http://www.bio.psu.edu/faculty/strauss/anatomy/musc/muscular.htm | |
| MSDS | http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/safety.html http://www.jtbaker.com http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html |
Contact name: Denise Forgeron
Senior Biology Laboratory Instructor
e-mail: Denise_Forgeron@uccb.ns.ca
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Date this page was last up-dated 09/21/2004