Hands on activities/games

Biology theater-role plays
Magnify0b.gif (341 bytes) Dissections
LAB LINKS
Vocab Pictionary  
Vocab BINGO
Review game ?'s
Biology animations/videos
  AP Biology help
White boards
WIKIS
  Images/clipart
Find a sound
Class Openers
60 second science
Biology songs

Resources 
for 
Teachers

Always
  
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Frontpage HELP
Free Online quiz makers
Free Online Xword Puzzle maker
Saving Youtube videos
Lesson Plans & ideas
Websites I like
Internet Games & Activities
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Movie worksheets and ?'s
Science Daily
Science News
Science Fair help
Sky Happenings
Stuff for teachers
(from Cheryl Massengale's 
Biology Junction)
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from Sue LeBeau
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Nancy Clark
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Science T-shirts & Stuff
  Webquests
Biology websites
Technology help

 

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FREE ONLINE
QUIZ MAKERS
Free online quiz maker
Make an interactive quiz to save to your webpage

See what it looks like
Think again     Cry Uncle     Matchmaker     Linear World

Bubbabrain
Free for teachers. You can play the games already made or make your own
Email them for a login password,
Hot Potato
Download a free program to make
interactive quizzes you can save to your webpage

See what it looks like

Eclipse Crosswords
Make an interactive crossword puzzle and save it to your webpage

See what it looks like

Flashcard template
Right click on the link above, Save as a Target, 
then fill in your own ?'s and answers
(Import it to your webpage and you have an online review game)

Jeopardy
Right click on the link above, Save as a Target, 
then fill in your own ?'s and answers
(Import it to your webpage and you have an online review game)

Already made internet review games:

Review game zone:
Use search feature to find pre-made review games and link to them

QUIA:
You can subscribe and make your own games or use the search feature and link to some pre-made games that are available for free

Who wants to be a millionaire template
whowantstpl.ppt
BINGO card creator QUIZLET- make flashcards and online quizzes or use ones others have already made Parade of games
 Game templates

 

Hands on Biology Activities/Games
This is a "work in progress" and will continually be updated as we have time.

We have received so many requests for copies/directions for our activities we are trying to put these online for other teachers to use. We have tried to include everything you need to take and use these with minimal prep.

If you have an activity you would like to share with others, contact us.

BIOLOGY THEATRE/ROLE PLAYS
BHS BIOLOGY THEATER (Directions and activity cards for acting out Photosynthesis, Calvin cycle, Replication, Transcription, and Translation)
BIOLOGY THEATRE
by Audra Brown Ward
presented at the 2008 NABT conference in Memphis
(Directions and activity cards for acting out Electron transport chain, Light reactions, RNA processing, Translation, and double fertilization)
Ecology
How many bears can live in this woods?

(limiting factors)
Good buddies activity
(Symbiotic relationships)
Cell Structure and function
Cell parts flip book
Cell parts flash cards
Cell parts relay race
Build a cell game
How big are cells? 
cool visual (use slider)
Cell parts game ?'s
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Light experiment

Act out photosynthesis

RESPIRATION
Act out Electron transport
GENETICS
Reebop genetics

TRANSPORT
Transport flashcards
Egg osmosis
Osmosis fish
Starch/glucose lab
Smelly Balloons

DNA, RNA & PROTEINS
Act out Replication, Transcription, translation, RNA processing
EVOLUTION ACTIVITIES

Natural selection

LIZARDS 
Quick tips
"Cheap Whiteboards"
MITOSIS
Mitosis table top cards


Yarn mitosis/meiosis

ZOOLOGY GAMES
Build a fish
Color your whatever? (Amphibians)
Zoology game ?'s
DENSITY DEMO 56 Biology demos

Links from Cheryl Massengale's BiologyJunction
More Activities

Templates and Stuff for Teachers

BIOLOGY REVIEW GAMES
INTERNET review games

BOARD GAMES
Vocab BINGO

Vocab Pictionary

Desktop Concept Maps

ZOOLOGY REVIEW GAMES
Internet zoology review games

Zoology game ?'s  
Vocab BINGO

Vocab Pictionary

 

BIOLOGY
LAB LINKS
LAB SITES
Biology labs
Lab DAD
Gram staining lab
RECIPES
LAB REPORTS
Lab Write
Graph construction by hand
Graph paper
LAB TECHNIQUES
Triple beam balance interactive
Determining mass & using ruler
Slide show to use with egg lab
Using a microscope
Using a graduated cylinder
Using a graduated cylinder
Using spectrophotometers
Paper chromatography
Using a bulb Pipette
Using displacement pipetters
Rules for making graphs
Misc lab techniques
Online stopwatch
Virtual microscope

 

AP CENTRAL
Lab Manual for teachers Supplement (free download)
Labwrite
Scientific method tutorial & Cricket lab 
choose not a student/continue link
VIRTUAL LABS
Biology place LabBench
University of California
Open Access AP BIO WEBLABS
Biocourse.com-BIOLABS
University of Utah Learn Genetics
Virtual Gel electrophoresis
Virtual PCR lab
Virtual DNA extraction DNA microarray
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Virtual Labs
McGraw-Hill Virtual labs
Stanford Virtual labs
Bio 114 Virtual lab
UC Davis virtual labs
Rutgers virtual labs
Dissection Links
Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection
Frog guts.com
MEDtropolis Virtual body
Riedell dissections
ADDITIONAL LAB ACTIVITIES
Ordeal by check
Gram staining lab
Fast Plant genetics
Peeps Research
Sarah McCarthy-
Science Corner Teacher Area
Lab 10 Goldfish alternative
M & M's- Gene frequency & survival
Hardy Weinberg according to Hoyle
Kim Foglia's Teacher Center
TERMITE LAB
Termite trails lab
Joe Culin Termite lab
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Simpson's Scientific method

Science Spot
SpongeBob Experiments
SpongeBob Control

GRAPHING
Make a stacked bar graph/Excel2007 (#11 Pillbugs)
RUBRICS
Lab Rubric
from Serena Magrogan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LABS 
AP Bio "Dirty Dozen"
Lab 1. Osmosis and Diffusion
Virtual Osmosis lab
Elodea-videos (hyper/hypo)
Red onion plasmolysis
Egg Osmosis activity
Lab 2. Enzyme Catalysis
Virtual Enzyme Lab
McGraw Hill- Enzyme controlled reactions
Lab 3. Mitosis and Meiosis
Sordaria Crossing over
Onion tip Mitosis
Sordaria images
 

from Cheryl Massengale's Biology Junction

Sordaria images
from Lesley Yarnell

Rutgers Virtual Labs
Mitosis
Meiosis

Lab 4. Plant pigments & Photosynthesis
BRAD WILLIAMSON'S Floating leaf disk assay
Floating disc student investigation
Virtual Photosynthesis lab
Lab 5. Cell Respiration
BRAD WILLIAMSON's Micropipet respiration
Lab 6. Molecular Biology
Electrophoresis simulation
Loading an Agarose gel
UC Davis virtual labs
Lab 7. Genetics of Organisms
BIO 114 Virtual Fruit fly lab
Science courseware Virtual Fruitfly lab
HHMI-Transgenic Fly lab
Virtual Genetics Lab
Fruit fly genetics at City High School
Vestigial wing data
Interactive Fruitfly
EXPLORATORIUM
Fruit flies microscope imaging
Mutant Fruit Flies
Virtual Fruit Fly lab 
Chi square analysis
Chi square distribution chart
Chi Square
Lab 8. Population Genetics and Evolution
Natural selection virtual lab
Lab 9. Transpiration
MARGARET BAHE’S
TRANSPIRATION LAB 
with whole plants
McGraw Hill-Virtual Transpiration lab
Rutgers Virtual labs-Transpiration
Lab 10. Physiology of Circulatory System
Daphnia heart rate video
Lab 11. Animal Behavior
Virtual Pillbug lab
Lab 12. Dissolved Oxygen & 
Aquatic Primary Productivity 
 
LAB DATA missed labs

 

 

 

Class Openers Science spot
Science Starters

Massengale
Class openers

 

 

TECHNOLOGY HELP Frontpage HELP Creating a graph with Excel
Internet4classrooms TechPaths Manual Arlys  Peterson's Tech help for Teachers
4teachers Eduscapes teachertap tutorials Lori Miller's
 Technology ideas

 

Saving Youtube videos
There are lots of cool Youtube videos
We can't view them at school with our filter, but you can download them using ZAMZAR and directions above
Directions for saving videos

YOUTube

Zamzar.com

 

WIKIS Wikispaces
If you tell them you are a teacher, you can get extra space for free AND they will take off the ads. You can also set who can see your Wiki and who can edit.
PBWIKI
Free wiki, without ads for educators

 

 

MOVIE worksheets Movie sheet Database Metromagazine study guides

 

Biology animations/videos Cell biology animations-John Kyrk Harvard Multimedia
Interactive animations University of California
OPEN ACCESS AP BIO
(Choose play media)
Biocourse.com
Inner life of a cell cool video
Inner life-with narration
How big are cells? Learn Genetics
Sifters guide to everything Science

Sifters-Biology

Biology Teachers Association of NJ-animations Stolof- Biological animations
SUMANAS-animations Educypedia Discovery Channel videos
Molecular movies.org Free science videos & lectures LabAction-video sharing
Tokoyo Medical University Genetics Power of 10  from Slide share TED talks
Bonnie Bassler- How Bacteria "Talk"
I Love Science Hippocampus NDSU Virtual cell animations
PBS Evolution videos Sundance Channel-Isabella Rosselini GREEN PORNO PROTEIN FOLDING ANIMATION
Rediscovering Biology-Animations  Cladograms IMMUNITY ANIMATION
Eye Anatomy interactive Human Physiology animations  Indiana University  Indianamations
edinformatics.com interactives Interactive animations Howard Hughes Medical Institute- Order free videos here
HHMI Online videos
TEACHER VIDEOS
It's NOT on the test - Tom Chapin video

SNL skit-
Jerry Seinfeld as a History teacher

Did you know?  

Think about it

BIO RAD VIDEOS
Scientists for better PCR
We are the world- Original
GTCA

Eppendorf video
EpMotion

Mr. Wanamaker's animations
Enzyme Activity
Mitosis
Meiosis
DNA Replication
Protein Synthesis
Chromatography and Gel Electrophoresis
LoneStar College
BioI videos
Anatomy&Physiology I videos
Anatomy&Physiology II videos
Jennifer Forsythe's Bio videos WIRED SCIENCE
Top 10 science music videos
Top 10 amazing Biology videos
Top 10 amazing animal videos
MIT edu My BioFlics Dolan Learning Center
Biology animations
3D animations

 

 

 

 

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Animation library Animation Playhouse Gifs.net Discovery school clipart
Barry's clipart kids domain clipart Free Graphics Free Graphics
Gifs Now AAA Clip Art Classroom clipart chemistry pics
Chemistry Art Gallery clipart.com gifs list gifs list
shared gifs Back Alley animal pictures animal pictures
Space pictures Icon Bazaar Web Clip Art Web Clip Art
TheLinks Clip Art WebPlaces WebPlaces
Clips, gifs, n bits Graphicmaps Jill's backgrounds Jill's backgrounds
Renny's Niche iband clipart Free graphics for teachers Free graphics for teachers
Polka dots Buttons & borders for classroom websites School related graphics School related graphics
Free Backgrounds Kids ARG! animated gifs Hot potatoes clipart
School icons   Feebleminds free gifs Web developer.com
More animated gifs gifmania Silly Art Clipart ETC

Biology clipart
Great Blue marble Animation Buddy Iowa State Extension
Webpage Clipart
Mini gifs

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altavista 
Choose MP3/ audio

Sounds 
search for files that end in .wav

More sounds
Find sounds Free sound effects Animal sounds
Animal sounds #2 Animal sounds #3 Animal sounds #4
Animal sounds library    

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SciFair.org Science Fair Help Homework Spot-Science Fair help
10 Steps to Science Fair Success Science Fairs Homepage Science Club
How to do a Science Project Science Fair Central Science buddies
Science Fair Resource Help    

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Stargazer (Horkheimer)

Sky Happenings

Terra Server
Find your house with satellite images 
Native American Astronomy Make a sky map for any place or date Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Ed Helper
Lesson Plans, WebQuests, File Downloads, Additional Educational Sites, Worksheet Generators, Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests, Educational News Updated Daily!

Lesson Plans  
& Ideas  
 
SMITHSONIAN for EDUCATORS
Amazing resources
Eduscapes
Web resources for teachers, parents, & students on lots of topics
teachersnet
Find lesson plans/post your own lesson plans
Science Spot
Lessons, links, ideas, more
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Lots of links to help teachers
Geocities Science sites Education.com
resources, lesson plans, help
Weekly lessons based on NASA news reports
   
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Info on just about anything you can think of
Type in your topic and you get a
list of web resources
Kathy Schrock's Guide for educators
Tons of resources, lesson plans, etc
PBS Teacher Source Exploratorium Museum
Info and links on a variety
Community Learning Network 
More than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites 
School Express: online math, spelling, print awards, download software, worksheets, games and other activities Lesson Plans 
Lesson plans and info on a variety of topics
Teacher Vision 
Info/lesson plans organized by subject area, worksheets, quiz library
www4teachers 
learning checklists, rubric maker, quiz maker, lessons, webquests
Great Stuff for Teachers Global School-

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Kimball's Biology
Online Biology book
Biology Project
On line animations
Science Review games
Science Talks:
Discovery Channel
Nobel Prize Archive
Science- AAAS
Explore Science
Cool interactive activities
Surf the Net with Kids 

SCIENCE 
WEBSITES
 
Brain pop mini movies 
Interactive science activities
Kapili topics
Frank Potter's Science Gems
My webpage links

Access Excellence 
Scientific American
Science Daily
Discover Magazine
Science News
Science Now
Why Files
How stuff works
NPR Health & Science
Exploratorium's 10 Cool Web Sites of the Month- 
NSTA News Digest
Scientific American Magazine
American Scientist
 

 

 

 
San Diego State Web quest page

Webquests

Webquests 1
Webquest resources   Webquests 2

 

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Internet Games and Activities Who wants to win a $1 million? (Science version)  Cool demos and hands on stuff Fact Monster Games
PBS Nature Puzzles EPA for kids Extreme Science Quia games & activities
Education Place game Yuckiest Site Science Vocabulary Hangman Fun Brain Games
       

 

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