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Biology

Websites to teach Biology

Date Added to MERLOT:: October 24, 2012
Created by:: Sal Garofalo
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Cells Alive! (Animation)

This website can be very useful in a variety of topics throughout the Living Environment curriculum. Cell Biology comes... More

This website can be very useful in a variety of topics throughout the Living Environment curriculum. Cell Biology comes up frequenctly in both learning the parts and functions of the cell as well as through cell division. The website offers many visuals that will help in teaching these topics. The animations are more helpful than regular pictures because students can see the different processes occur before their eyes.
Biological animations and tutorials (Animation)

This website is useful because it is predominately animations. The usefulness of animations is that the processes occur... More
Mutations and Genetic Information (Tutorial)

This website is extremely useful in teaching mutations. Mutation is often a difficult topic to understand in the Living... More
Brine Shrimp Hatching Lab (Assignment)

This website is very helpful because it provides an opportunity to teach Ecology through the Scientific Method and... More

This website is very helpful because it provides an opportunity to teach Ecology through the Scientific Method and environmental changes. This could be a good introduction to the ecology unit. It is also a lab which is important in the New York State Living Environment Curriculum. By utilizing a lab to teach these topics, students will be able to understand the material better because they will have hands on exposure to the material.