http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-012Introduction-to-BiologyFall2001/CourseHome/index.htm

Created by faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this website features an Introduction to Biology course designed for undergraduates from the fall semester of 2001. This is one of many free on-line publications of course materials provided by MIT as part of ifs OpenCourseWare project (last reported on in the NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences on March 19, 2003). This course "focuses on current research in cell biology, immunology, neurobiology, genomics, and molecular medicine." The website includes PDF files for Lecture Notes, Exams and Solutions, Practice Exams, and Problem Sets with Solutions. [NL]

http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

This site presents the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), "a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners." Titles of some of the materials available at HEAL include MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Illustrations, and NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach. To assist site users in locating health sciences files, the site provides a search engine with multiple search options like media type, keywords, contributor information, and more. Site users can also browse indices by subject or collection. Additionally, the site offers information about HEAL, including history, team members, and publications. [NL]

http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids/sfkc20040402-2.html

This Science Friday Kid's Connection™: Lewis and Clark website was developed as an educational component for NPR's Talk of the Nation -- Science Friday radio program. This site offers middle school teachers quality curriculum resources and ideas based on the topic of the radio program. The site focuses on plant and animal specimens that Lewis and Clark collected on their famous expedition, and provides numerous links to related educational websites. The site also contains an Academic Content Standards section for Grades 6-8 that supplies specific standards and benchmarks for the subject areas of Science, Geography, and more. Additionally, the website offers access to the original radio program which included guests like Richard McCourt, associate curator of botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. [NL]

http://www.fishbase.org/Fish_On_Line.htm

Hosted by the University of British Columbia, this website contains Fish On Line, a draft guide for teaching and learning about ichthyology. The "guide provides a structure and case study material for a computer-based course in ichthyology for upper undergraduates and graduate students in biology or environmental science. The key resource made accessible through this guide is FishBase, a large database on the biology of fish, available on CD-ROM (for Windows operating system) and on the Internet (www.fishbase.org/search.cfm)." The site provides brief introductory sections to the field of ichthyology and to FishBase, as well as chapters on Evolution, Morphology, Reproduction, and more. The site also offers supplementary exercises accompanying each chapter, and an extensive list of related links. [NL]

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/Intro.html

Created by the Biology Project at the University of Arizona, this website features an interactive Blood Types Tutorial. In addition to well-crafted problem sets, this site offers information about blood types, inheritance, and Rh factors. The problem sets for this tutorial were created by using edited versions of questions sent to the Biology Project from curious site users. The questions were answered by Rick Hallick, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Arizona, and site visitors can compare their answers with Dr. Hallick’s as they work through the problem sets. The Tutorial even provides site users with a Blood Type and Rh Factor Calculator for determining the possible blood type of a child based on the blood types of their parents. [NL]

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

This is a neat website from the University of California - Museum of Paleontology designed to help teachers explain evolution to their students. The homepage presents a sitemap artfully chalked out on a blackboard with two main categories: Learning Evolution and Teaching Evolution. The Learning Evolution category links to sections on Nature of Science, Misconceptions, History of Evolutionary Thought, and more. The Teaching Evolution category provides sections on Overcoming Roadblocks, Potential Pitfalls, Teaching Evolution, and Reading and Resources. The site even offers a section titled, Not Sure Where to Start? Start Here!, as well as a Glossary of relevant terms. [NL]

http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/tutorials/Time/Machine.html

This online tutorial from the University of Leicester greets site visitors with space-agey music, a black screen, and a mysterious introduction to the Virology Time Machine. Site visitors are encouraged to select a time from a pull-down menu offering virtual travel into many years throughout history including 4 billion years ago, 1885, 1949, and more. The destinations in time yield brief pages —- accompanied by time -- appropriate music and clear images that highlight important moments in virus history as well as other notable events from that year. From each time destination, users can link to a past year, future year, or back to the present. [NL]

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/lesson_plans/reptiles1.html

This PBS-Nature Online website presents a well-organized lesson plan about the Characteristic of Snakes and Turtles for grade levels 1-4. Recognizing the wide range of developmental stages between grades 1-4, the site notes that various parts of the lesson are more appropriate for certain ages and should be adapted based on the grade level and abilities of your students. The site contains an overview of the lesson including Learning Objectives as well as Standards and Benchmarks for the subject areas of Life Sciences, and Technology. The website provides a Procedures For Teachers section which details lesson activities spanning multiple class periods. This section also contains a list of supplementary sites for the lesson, materials needed such as computer resources, and extension activities. For students, the site provides three printable sheets for the lesson including a Reptile Information Sheet and a Reptile Word Search. [NL]