The InterNet Bio-Ed Project
http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/sci_ed/
The Internet Bio-Ed Project aims to make use of the Western Cape Schools Network (WCSN) to produce and distribute biologi
cal teaching aids and makeother resources available through Internet access. Resources include electronic mailing lists for biology pupils and teachers, a discussion forum for teachers, on-line articles and resources on various topics of biology, and biol
ogical resources for students and teachers, including worksheets, suggestions,and educational software.
Neuroscience for Kids
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~chudler/neurok.html
Eric Chudler has created this excellent web resource "for elementary and secondary school st
udents and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system." Included are activities and experiments to facilitate learning about the role of the brain and spinal cord in the human nervous system.
Biology Teaching Home Page
http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~johnson/
This site is the Biology Teaching Home Page in Hong Kong. Many of the links are still "under construction",
but the concept map portion of this site is very good. The concept map topics include cellular respiration, photosynthesis, transport in plants, moveable joints, and a variety of human systems (good for Anatomy and Physiology students). These concept ma
ps are easy to understand and may make the traditional "tough" topic of cellular respiration a bit easier for students to understand.
National Health Information Center
http://nhic-nt.health.org/htmlgen/Hitlist.cfm?Keyword=FEDERAL +CLEARINGHOUSE
The National Health Information
Center's page for Clearing Houses of Information on different types of diseases and health concerns will be valuable to anatomy and biology teachers as well as students who are researching these topics. The hyper-text links send you to another page with t
he web address of the clearinghouse and a way to send email. Teachers can also access a variety of datasets through this site.
National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
http://www.natcenscied.org/
This website tracks the efforts of an organization to defend the teaching of evolution in the science classroom and pro
mote public understanding of this theory as fact.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science
http://www.hhmi.org/lectures
VRML Biology Page
http://emile-21.com/VRML/
