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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Vacuole Analogy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what vacuoles are and what their functions are in animal cells and plant cells, and offers analogies to help students understand their different roles.
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Website
Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Community College: Animal Cells and Tissues

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes on different tissues of the body such as: connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous. Helpful terms and definitions as well as review questions. Colorful graphics of important terms are also provided.
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Website
Other

Emory University: Cancer Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an in-depth look at the biology of cancer, including a detailed description of the disease process from the basics of cells to the diagnosis and treatment of various types of cancers. Includes videos, animations, and interactive...
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Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learn Genetics: Click and Clone

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice the steps of cloning in this interactive animation. Using what you know about somatic cell nuclear transfer, your mission is to create a genetically identical clone of Mimi, a brown female mouse. You'll answer a few questions at...
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Unit Plan
University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska: Transpiration Water Movement Through Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial examines how water moves through a plant. Follow the pathway that water takes through plants from the roots to evaporation from cells in the leaves. Learn what controls rates of transpiration, how environmental conditions...
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PPT
PBS

Nova: Cancer Warrior

For Students 9th - 10th
Animations of the different phases of cancer, make this a great resource for understanding the development of this disease.
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Website
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Video: How Diabetes Affects Your Blood Sugar

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the disease diabetes and how it affects blood sugar in affected people, in this Mayo Clinic animated video. [2:10]
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Website
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Video: How Cancer Spreads

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how cancer cells spread or metastasize throughout the body in this example animation video [1:28] of melanoma spreading.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit focuses on the unique structure and function of both invertebrate and vertebrate animals. Students review their understanding of animal diversity, and take a closer look at the various organ systems found in the animal kingdom.
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Dna Responds to Signals

For Students 9th - 10th
Genes are turned on and off in many ways. This article covers chemical signal transduction. Article includes animations, pictures, video, biographical information, and quiz questions that are accessed by clicking on buttons along the...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does a Chick Breathe Inside Its Shell?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Whether a chick can breathe inside its shell is an interesting question. Every animal needs oxygen to survive, so the chick must get air somehow. Try this science project to discover if the pores in a chicken egg shell allow water to...
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Unit Plan
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive, self-guided lesson on the function of the human immune system and how medical intervention prevents disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well as graphs and diagrams to help with understanding. There is...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Embryo to Duckling

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from NOVA: "The Shape of Things" follows the growth of a duck embryo, from a single fertilized egg cell to a complex, hatching duckling. [1:19]
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Activity
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Cellular Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
Web-based activity provides an opportunity for students to study cellular respiration in an up-close and personal way. By following atoms and molecules through an interactive animation, they will be able to see the changes that take...
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Handout
Other

I know.net: Mitosis

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete site from iKnow.net that compares the various phases of mitosis in plant and animal cells. Text is supplemented with pictures of each phase.
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PPT
Sumanas

Sumanas Inc: Microbial Life: Life Cycle of Hiv, a Retrovirus

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this tutorial to enhance your understanding of how the human immunodeficiency virus invades healthy cells of the immune system. [3:15]
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PPT
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Dna Transformation, Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated slide show illustrating Morton Mandel and Akiko Higa's calcium chloride method of DNA transformation.
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Microscope | Hobby Shop

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a virtual biology lab to perform investigations and learn lab procedures using compound and dissecting microscopes to look at a variety of animal and plant cells.
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Unit Plan
About Kids Health

About Kids Health: How the Body Works: Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about genetics and how it works in this interactive teaching aid that highlights the study of genes using colorful animated illustrations.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Needs of Living Things

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students watch video clips of animals and plants in their natural environment, to gather evidence that all living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. Then, to illustrate their understanding of...
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Handout
Hanover College

Hanover College: The Physical Factors Behind the Action

For Students 9th - 10th
A frames page that gives the background to understand the way cells communicate (nerve cells). Each topic in the left frame triggers a tutorial on the right. Most have graphics or animated gifs to teach the material. Good background to...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Vanished: Inside the Jet Stream: Giving Rise to the Jet Stream

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore what generates a jet stream, and discover why they flow from west to east. A link is offered in this site to a helpful animation describing the jet stream process.
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Graphic
McGraw Hill

The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Los Seres Vivos Unicelulares Y Pluricelulares

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this unit you will be introduced to the complexity of living things. It also reviews the kingdom of nature, differentiating between their main features from those who are microscopic unit-cellular to the multi-cellular visible to the...

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