Gateway Standards & Performance Indicators for Biology This site has all of the performance indicators and standards for biology broken down.
Activities, Experiments and Labs:
Stimpsoft! http://www.stimpsoft.com/ A wonderful site with all kinds of terrific downloads. One the site is a periodic table that will sort by gases, alkanes, etc. Also available is the solar system that will load across your screen. Another download is the son spots. Lots and lots of things but for Mac users only.
How stuff works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Excellent site on how just about everything works.
The Discovery Channel: http://www.discovery.com/ This site has links to TLC and a number of links for all of the sciences.
University of Tennessee at Martin: http://cesme.utm.edu/scilinks/sciencelinks.htm A wonderful site full of excellent resources for all disciplines.
NSTA Recommended Sites: http://www.nsta.org/onlineresources/site/ This site holds many, many on-line sites to help you with activities and planning.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: http://www.ed.gov/free/s-scienc.html This is a major site for all science disciplines. Hundreds and hundreds of sites. Excellent site!
Eisenhower Site: http://www.enc.org:80/index.htm Loads of ideas and suggestions on various activities by grade
Science Topics: http://www.sciencegems.com/ This is Frank Potter's site, and it has the life, earth and physical broken down. It is a very good site.
A sampler of activities: http://cesme.utm.edu/resources/science/sampler.pdf You will need to download a reader to see this site, but it's worth it. Very good ideas!
Experiments galore: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/ agesubject/physicalsciences.html This site is exactly what it says it is, though some difficulties can occur when trying to find a particular experiment.
Ideas from other teachers: http://chem.lapeer.org/ Labs, demos, and basic info for 9-12 science teachers. It has some very good links. Ideas are great and time proven.
Inventors and Inventions: http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/?once=true& Excellent site that has every type of invention and inventor! Site also gives break down by gender, race, etc. of the inventors. Good site!
Frog Dissection: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog/ Virtual frog dissection. Excellent
Cow Eye Dissection: http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html Virtual cow eye dissection. Very good but sometimes difficult to access.
Tropical Rainforest: http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/tropical/ The rainforest is thoroughly covered.
Various selections on plant life and some insects (flies): http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/living/living.html Selections are good, and it's just about everything you want to know about flies!
Careers in Biology: http://www.iup.edu/bi/jobs.htmlx Really good site to use as a spring board to covering topics most folk tend to avoid. Interesting subsections are the salaries.
Did you ever wonder why?: This site is exactly what it says, and they even tell you why.
Searching on my own: http://dir.altavista.com/Top/Science This is Alta Vista's search engine. It's easy to use and is very understanding for an artificial life form.