Cool Science Sites!

Updated Sunday, February 21, 2010

SEM image of the X and Y Chromosomes

GENETICS TEST PRACTICE QUIZZES
Matching (ignore transfer RNA and messenger RNA)
Challenge Board Game (punnett square practice...etc..)
Battleship (General genetics)
Matching (codominance is incomplete dominance)
Pass the Gene (practice with dominant and recessive)

Conjoined Twins on Oprah here

TOUR OF THE BASICS website here!
-use this website to finish the "Tour of the Basics" sheet you started in class.

NYC High School Students' Discovery video clip

Zooming into DNA (see real pictures of what DNA actually looks like and other such cool things)

Your Genetics Questions click (here)

Cracking the Code
(The race to decode the human genome and other very cool things)

Freshwater plant cells (400X) in freshwater

Freshwater plant cells (400X) in saltwater

Cell vocabulary Quia Practice Quizzes
Rags to Ritches (ignore chromatin),
Matching,
Hangman,
Matching,
Misc games,
exchange with the environment,
Battleship (ignore rough ER and smooth ER)

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EGG SONG! (english) (korean)

Nova Marathon Challenge Video. Watch the full video here!

NPR-How a virus invades your body! Video clip

The Inner workings of the cell (awesome animations!) Video clip
(thank you HD!!!)

BUILD YOUR OWN MICROSCOPE!

Simple microscope

Bottle Microscope

VIRTUAL MICROSCOPES!

Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope (molecular expressions)

Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope Game (discovery school)

Virtual Transmission Electron Microscope (nobelprize.org)

POWERS OF 10! (molecular expressions)

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FIELD TRIP LINKS:

7th grade science wiki site here
Museum of Science exhibit picture here <--updated Tue 10/13
Wiki how to instructions here

Exploratorium (online interactive exhibit)
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STUDENT FINDS PINK GRASSHOPPER! (click here!)

More PINK! Finding the Pink Dolphins in the Amazon. (click here!) ~environmental indicators, how healthy is the Amazon.

Rare pink dolphin in the US. A different species to the ones found in the Amazon (Click here!)