Science Resources

APS Science Vendor Discounts 

Biology

• Alternatives to Dissection - from Animalearn.org
• American Society of Human Genetics
• BioEd Online - Baylor College of Medicine
• BioInteractive - from HHMI; virtual labs, interactives, etc.
• Crust 101 - biological crusts in ecosystems
• Digital Morphology - from NSF
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Cell Image and Video Library - from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• Life: A Journey Through Time
• Microbial Life
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Reef videos
• Synthetic biology
• Virtual fruit fly lab

Earth and Space

• Shakemovie - CA earthquakes at 3.5 or above
• Earth Science by Design - curriculum layout and other resources

Chemistry

• Balloon molecules

General

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - resources for global climate change
• Challenger Learning Center
• CSI (Climate Status Investigations) - curriculum modules on global climate change from the Keystone Center
• EnviroMapper (EPA) - maniupulate up to 11 envionmental variables
• Forensics - solve crimes and access a virtual forensics lab
• Jefferson Lab - practice SOL tests
• Marian Koshland Science Museum
• MiddleWeb - for middle grades teachers
• MWEE - Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience
• National Center for Atmospheric Reseach - information on climate change
• National Earthquake Information Center - data for GIS/GPS
• National Snow and Ice Data Center - then and now photos of glaciers around the world
• Nikon's Small World - science and art through the use of a light microscope
• Patents gone bad - patents that never quite made it
• Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
• Science books online
  
• 3D clip art - medical and scientific phenomena
• United Nations Environment Programme - global and regional data through interactive maps
• Washington D.C. chapter of senior scientists and engineers

Physics

• ComPADRE - a collection of electronic resources for physics and astronomy education
• On-screen physics - animations for physics concepts
• Physics of fluids
• Physics on the Internet (NASA Glen)
• The Physics Front - online physics teacher community with many resources
• Physics to Go - more than 550 online resources for informal physics learning

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