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The Good Stuff:

www.scilinks.org

Labs

Historical Ideas Projects

Teacher Sources

Animations

Lesson Plans

Computer Simulations

Interactives

Assessments

The Good Stuff:

www.cellsalive.com

Projects

Interactives Visual Support

Assessment

Videos

The Good Stuff:

www.teachersdomain.org

Videos (Downloadable and Streaming)

Activities

Lesson Plans

Other Good Sources: Organizations

and Institutions

www.NSTA.org/ - National Science Teachers Assoc www.NABT.org/ - National Association of Biology

Teachers www.Chemistry.org/- American Chemical Society www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education/National Institute

for Environment Health Science www.pbs.org/teachers/sciencetech/- PBS http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ www.nsdl.org National Science Digital Library www.nsf.gov National Science Foundation http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html -

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

Tech to Try: Presentation Tools

There are a variety of tools out thereincluding PowerPoint. Play around withthese tools. They are much more

powerful than you think. If you needideas, ask your students.

Presentation Tools - Hyperlinks

Method One: Insert Hyperlink

Method Two: Go to AutoShapes andInsert an Action Button. It will allow youto insert a Hyperlink

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Presentation Tools - Cacheing

Caching allows you to store and use online

content even when you dont have aninternet connection.

Simply visit the websites and content you

wish to use and then turn your webbrowser to work offline this is foundunder the file tab.

Presentation Tools Virtual Labs

Uses:

Abuses:

Sources:

www.glencoe.com

HHMI

http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php

Presentation Tools Virtual LabsPresentation Tools Good Sites to

Know

www.zamzar.com File ConversionWebsite

www.camstudio.org Screen

Recording Software

www.mediaconverter.org Convertsyoutube videos into Windows MediaFiles

Presentation Tools VirtualDissections

Tech to Try GPS Units

Example Biology or Life Science:

Mapping Bird Territories: Have studentsobserve the movement of a bird fromsinging post to singing post and mark the

coordinates of each spot. Compare thisto the movement of other individuals orspecies.

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Tech to Try: Digital Photography

Example: A Specimen Survey

Place students into groups each with adigital camera and have them do aspecimen survey of a particular location.Each team could have a different type oforganism to look for: trees, plant line,insects, other invertebrates, fungi, etc.You could also have them do plots usinga matrices.

Tech to Try: Blogging

www.blogger.com

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and otherPowerful Web Tools for Classrooms byWill Richardson

http://science-teachers.blogspot.com

A Blog is a web log that allows topics to be

posted and commented upon.

Tech to Try: Wikis

www.pbwiki.com

www.wikicities.com

Wikis are online forums that anyone canedit.

Tech to Try: RSS Feeds

RSS Real Simple Syndication

An RSS feeds news and updates into acentral area for you to peruse at yourleisure. They can be on a very specifictopic. A website will have an RSS orXML button that allows you to sign up forthat feed.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

Tech to Try: RSS Feeds

RSS Real Simple Syndication

The first step is to set up an aggregatoror a collection site for you RSS Feeds

www.bloglines.com is a free RSS FeedReader

Tech to Try: Course ManagementSoftware

www.moodle.com

Moodle allows you to run your class fromthe web. It is a great application forposting assignments, upcoming dates,

links to important websites, postingdocuments, etc.

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Getting Started

Start slow! Pick one to try and then try

another. Try it yourself first.

With more sensitive issues, make sure you go

through the right channels.

Assess student work

Assess the effectiveness of the technology.

Take a Risk!