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
  Kahoots
60 second science
Biology songs
Other useful links

Resources 
for 
Teachers

Always
  
  Check back for new links!

Frontpage HELP
BLACKBOARD LEARN HELP
Smart Board stuff
Sending documents to email
   CPS Clicker directions
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
 me

Use of our material:

All original materials link are created by Kelly Riedell for students in Biology/Zoology classes at Brookings High School  and are licensed under a Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

We have worked very hard on activities, Powerpoints/games/worksheets, etc to make this a resource for our students. If you are using our materials, please give us credit for our efforts by listing us as a source with links to our site. DO NOT USE these materials for commercial purposes. PLEASE DO NOT POST ANSWER KEYS FOR OUR MATERIALS TO OTHER WEBSITES!
Any questions, comments, or corrections can be directed to Kelly Riedell at

USEFUL LINKS

Study Skills Dictionary.com Google Calendar
On-Line Diagram/concept map Creators
Gliffy
Concept maps

Concept map generator
Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations Son of Citation Machine
Help with formatting MLA or APA citations
Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations Create-a-Graph
On-line Graph Creator
Creating a graph with Excel
Adobe .pdf reader
Allows you to view .pdf files
Cute .pdf: create .pdf files without purchasing adobe acrobat. Powerpoint viewer
Free download 
Lori Miller's
 Technology ideas
Arlys  Peterson's Tech help for Teachers Frontpage HELP              Blackboard Learn HELP Internet4classrooms
4teachers TechPaths Manual Eduscapes teachertap tutorials
Today in Science History WAYBACK MACHINE
Ever have a weblink you liked that "disappeared". Now you can find it again!
Graphic organizers
Tagxedo
make word clouds in cool shapes
PosteRazor-
Make anything into a poster
 

 

FREE ONLINE
QUIZ/GAME MAKERS


SUPER TEACHER TOOLS
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 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)

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
GAME O MATIC
Make your own interactive quizzes
Own Documentation file for directions
Flash card maker
Funnelbrain
Flashcard machine
Kahoot.it
wisc- Game Builder    

 

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, countercurrent flow)
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)
Muscle contraction Act it out
By Mark Little
Ecology
How many bears can live in this woods?

(limiting factors)
Good buddies activity
(Symbiotic relationships)


Environmental Projects
Directions
Project Topics
Rubric
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

Desktop concept maps
See Cell Parts, Molecules

Cell Organelle Facebook
Everything is connected ?'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

Osmosis with Potatoes

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 Biology Junction
More Activities

Templates and Stuff for Teachers

BIOLOGY REVIEW GAMES
Monomer/polymer game
From: Mary Garrison Neimeyer

INTERNET review games

BOARD GAMES
Vocab BINGO

Vocab Pictionary

Desktop Concept Maps

SMARTBOARD Stuff

ZOOLOGY REVIEW GAMES
Internet zoology review games

Zoology game ?'s  
Vocab BINGO

Vocab Pictionary
MOLECULES
Food Lab slide show
DATA SHEET
Labels
Lab directions
   

 

 

BIOLOGY LAB LINKS LAB SITES LAB TECHNIQUES
Biology labs McGraw Hill virtual labs Triple beam balance interactive
Lab DAD nmsu virtual labs Determining mass & using ruler
Gram staining lab Johnson-virtual labs Slide show to use with egg lab
RECIPES SUMANAS Paper chromatography
  HHMI interactive labs Using a graduated cylinder
  HHMI Lizard Evolution lab Using a graduated cylinder
HHMI Lizard Evolution lab Animal Planet- Darwin Survival game Using spectrophotometers
Animal Planet- Darwin Survival game Learning science  
  Concord Consortium- NGSS activities/Virtual labs Using a bulb Pipette
  Biology corner virtual labs Using displacement pipetters
LAB REPORTS   Misc lab techniques
Lab Write   Online stopwatch
Graph construction by hand    
Graph paper
Rules for making graphs    
    Virtual microscope
Using a microscope

How to use a microscope
Microscope simulation
Rutgers Virtual microscope

 

 

 

McGraw-Hill Biology: Virtual Laboratory Links

Dependent and Independent Variables
Cellular Pursuit
Enzyme-controlled Reactions
Cell Reproduction
Punnett Squares
Sex-linked Traits
Tracking Grizzlies
Knocking Out Genes
Gene Splicing
Natural Selection
Dino Dig
Classifying Arthropods
Classifying Using Biotechnology
Plant Transpiration
Earthworm Dissection
Blood Pressure
Muscle Simulations
Population Biology
Model Ecosystems
Assessing Water Quality
Ecosystems, Organisms, and Trophic Levels
Virtual Pathology
Virtual Frog Dissection
Mealworm Behavior
Communities and Biomes
Energy in a Cell
DNA and Genes
Mammals
The Digestive and Endocrine System
The Doppler Effect
Kinetic Theory
The Periodic Table
Universal Gravitation

 

Animal cell Neuromuscular junction
Cell membrane Muscle cell contraction
Protein synthesis Identifying eukarotic organelles
Mitosis cell cycle
Carbs Metabolic pathways
Lipids Blood groups
Eukaryotic cell  
Proteins  
   

 

 

 

 

AP CENTRAL
Lab Manual for teachers Supplement  
(free download)
Labwrite
Carolina Biological Lab Exams
Labs 1 & 2
Labs 3 & 4
Labs 5 & 6
Labs 7 & 8
Labs 9 & 10
Labs 11 & 12
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
Lonestar College labs
Rutgers virtual labs
John Darkow Simulations
Dissection Links
Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection
Frog guts.com
MEDtropolis Virtual body
Riedell dissections
ADDITIONAL LAB ACTIVITIES
Ordeal by check
MOLECULES Food lab
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
Mitochondrial observation lab 1
Mitochonridal observation/cell structure lab
TERMITE LAB
Termite trails lab
Joe Culin Termite lab

Wikieducator Termite trails
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Simpson's Scientific method
Introduction to Scientific Method
Visualizing Scientific Method

Designing an Experiment
How to with Example
Scientific Design
Accuracy and Precision
Error Analysis in Biology

Science Spot
SpongeBob Experiments
SpongeBob Control

GRAPHING
How to Graph
Visualizing Scientific Data
Interpreting Graphs
All About Graphs
Create-a-Graph: On-line Graph Creator

Make a stacked bar graph/Excel 2007 (#11 Pillbugs)

RUBRICS
Lab Rubric
from Serena Magrogan
DARWIN DAY (Feb 12) ACTIVITIES 

Scientist cutouts 
3D models of Darwin, Einstein, Sagan

Evolution videos

Natural Selection activity

Natural selection virtual lab

Scientific Equipment & Making Measurements
Microscope
Triple Beam Balance
Graduated Cylinder
MicroPipettes
Vernier
Gel Electrophoresis
Characteristics of living things
CASE STUDIES
National Center for Case Studies -Buffalo
Emory University


LABS 
Lee Ferguson- LAB REPORT FORMAT
AP Bio "Dirty Dozen"

Prelabs

Lab 1. Osmosis and Diffusion
Water potential - potato core lab
Virtual Osmosis lab
Elodea-videos (hyper/hypo)
Red onion plasmolysis

Egg Osmosis activity

Osmosis/Diffusion  Inquiry modification from Jennifer Newitt
Lab 2. Enzyme Catalysis
Floating disc alternative lab 2
Virtual Enzyme Lab
McGraw Hill- Enzyme controlled reactions

Toothpickase from Kim Foglia
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
Video of Sinking disc lab
Floating disc student investigation
Virtual Photosynthesis lab

Robin Groch-Leaf Disc assay
Lab 5. Cell Respiration
BRAD WILLIAMSON's Micropipet respiration

 

Lab 6. Molecular Biology
Electrophoresis simulation
Loading an Agarose gel
UC Davis virtual labs

DNA electrophoresis virtual lab
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
Drosophilab
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

Texas Association of Biology teachers- whole plant lab
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

Virtual Pillbug Lab
Lab 12. Dissolved Oxygen & 
Aquatic Primary Productivity 
Biology Student Lab Manual- Google Books
LAB DATA missed labs
GLENCOE Virtual labs
Punnett square Genetics
Energy transfer in ecosystems
How does light affect plant growth?
Modeling Natural selection
pH and hydrangea color
Protein synthesis

 

 

Class Openers

Biology openers

Kahoot
Science spot
Science Starters

Massengale
Class openers

 

 

 

NGSS
ck12         serendip bioactivities       UCBerkeley              ecosystem simulation       carbon cycle simulation         transcribe DNA      translate mRNA     Blood types
     
serendip  succession               environmental simulations           cystic fibrosis Punnett
 

 

 

 

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
Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations Create-a-Graph
On-line Graph Creator
Adobe .pdf reader
Allows you to view .pdf files.
Cute .pdf: create .pdf files without purchasing adobe acrobat. Powerpoint viewer
Free download 
 

 

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
Bozeman science videos
Khan Academy
Kristina Gremski channel
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

What teachers make

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
Biology in Motion MAKING POWERPOINTS
By Jesse Dee
You Suck at Powerpoint
Steal this presentation
100 best YouTube videos for Science Teachers
TED Talks
Salman Kahn
   

 

 

 

 

Some are blocked at school, but try it at home Clipart  

Heather's animations
Find a  picture of anything  Background City
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-
Teach-nology-Lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, resources

Lesson Planet helps teachers quickly search teacher-reviewed online lesson plans and worksheets.

 

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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
 
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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