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What Are the SPO Virtual Classrooms?
Science Prof Online offers FREE fully-developed science curricula. This page features the Virtual Biology Classroom, which focuses on general biology, our newest virtual classroom. Click here for our other biology classroom, the Virtual Biology Classroom - Health Careers (VBC-HC). Below are links to the VBC's lecture and homework materials.
Virtual Biology Classroom
from Science Prof Online
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Tami Port, MS
Chief Executive Nerd of Science Prof Online & College Biology Instructor
Page last updated
4/2016
- Virtual Biology Classroom (Health Careers)
- Crash Course Biology Videos
- Biology4Kids website , from Rader's
- The Biology Project, from University of Arizona
- Chem4Kids website, from Rader's
- Cells - song by They Might Be Giants
- Cell's Alive interactive cell biology website
- John Kyrk Cell Biology Animations
- Interactive Cell Diagrams from Wiley
- Cell Games from Sheppard Software
SPO VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
Virtual Biology Classroom Course Topics
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE
- Introduction to Biology Main Page
Activity: "Blackfish" Film Study Worksheet
- Chemistry Basics Main Page
- Biological Cells Main Page
The Virtual Classrooms are organized by lecture into several topics, each lecture topic typically includes free:
- PowerPoint lectures
- lecture study guide
- class note articles
- practice test and review questions
- homework assignments
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
- Thomas Huxley (1825-95)
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The VBC offers homework assignments based on Radiolab
podcasts.
RADIOLAB PODCASTS:
Curious stories about what drives scientists!
Artificial selection in Russian Silver Foxes, and the domestication of the human race!
Celebrates Chuck Darwin's birthday, his unrelenting curiosity and his great love for Emma.
The story of Henrietta Lack's and her immortal cells.
"Shrink"
Viruses have been downsizing!
What's eating you is smarter than you think!
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
Students are crazy about Radiolab! See what they have to say about the podcast:
- Virus Structure Main Page
- Virus Reproduction Main Page
- Meet the Viruses Main Page
- Meet the Bacteria Main Page
- Identification of Bacteria
* Gram Stain & Streak Plate Technique Lab Main Page
Reading:
* How To Do a Gram Stain Lab Notes article
* Gram-positive Bacterial Cell Wall, Class Notes article
* Gram-negative Bacterial Cell Wall, Class Notes article
* Streak Plate Technique for Isolating Bacteria, Lab Notes article
* MacConkey's Specialized Bacterial Growth Media, Lab Notes article
* Mannitol Salt Specialized Bacterial Growth Media, Lab Notes article
- Cell Division: Meiosis Main Page
* Activity: Meiosis Exercise
- Development, Tissues & Organ Systems
Lectures:
- Human Heredity Main Page
Activity: Genetics of Simple Inheritance Worksheet
- Genetics: Gene Expression Main Page
- Metabolism: Cellular Respiration & Fermentation
Lecture:
- Diet & Nutrition Biology Main Page
- DNA Replication Main Page
- Cell Division: Mitosis Main Page
Activity: Mitosis Exercise
- Protists
- Land Plants
Lectures:
- Animals
* Cornell Lab of Ornothology Nest Watch: Become a citizen scientist!
African cichlids are colorful fascinating freshwater aquarium fish. Meet the Cichlids we house in our 29-gallon tank and see a video of their behavior! We also offer a Printable African Cichlid Displacement Behavior Sheet
that can be used to score fish interactions and determine dominance hierarchy.
