An assortment of sites with good animations and exercises:
 | DNA interactive (DNAi)
www.dnai.org Great source of information about all things DNA. Has
good animation as as well.
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| Lab Bench from Prentice Hall http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/index.html This site has 12 online lab activities for students. Under "Lab 6 Molecular Biology", there is a transformation activity. | ||||
| The Biology Project, sponsored by the University of Arizona has online learning activities and problem sets on a variety of biology topics. http://www.biology.arizona.edu/ | ||||
| The Molecular Literacy Project has a database of online activities related to biotechnology and nanotechnology www.molit.concord.org | ||||
| The "Molecule of the Month", by David S. Goodsell, presents short accounts on selected molecules from the Protein Data Bank http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/molecule_of_the_month/index.html | ||||
| Monsanto sponsors this site with some basic Biotechnology information http://www.biotechknowledge.monsanto.com/biotech/bbasics.nsf/index.html?OpenPage | ||||
| Information on Food Biotechnology http://pewagbiotech.org/ | ||||
| Click and Clone from the University of Utah is a tutorial on Cloning http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clickandclone/ | ||||
| Nobel Prize site http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/ear/index.html Has educational games that students may enjoy--see links to the left. |
Good websites for teachers to go get current science info:
| The Why Files www.whyfiles.org Easily read by 8th grade level, science behind the news slant |
| New Scientist www.newscientist.com Written for lay public, can sometimes be sensationalist, but has a personality; more internationally focused |
| Science News www.sciencenews.org is written at more of an undergraduate/graduate level; a weekly sampling of the major research findings from many journals. |
| SCiDevNet www.scidev.net This focuses on science issues as they pertain to the developing world; fairly comprehensive and well-written |