Useful+Links

This is a page of useful websites. Please add to it with cool sites you find!

Extreme Science - World records in the Animal Kingdom. Gould League - Interactive Food Webs Wild Zoo Funded by DEECD, this site has conservation mash-ups, primate behaviour research and the Bushfires and Wildlife Challenge. Zoos Victoria - Excellent site for information about Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and the Werribee Open Range Zoo, including lots of educational resources. || Biology games and quizzes National Geographic - Fun Activities for kids including cartoons, recipes and crafts. || Digestive System animation uses Flash, so cannot be accessed on ipods or ipads. Heart animation [|Incredible Human Machine interactive] from National Geographic. Interactive Autopsy (Not for the squeamish! - details about what happens during an autopsy). Visible Body || Biology Questions and Answers has over 1800 Q and A for Biology revision. Click 4 Biology includes 14 units of work from cells to human physiology. Hands On Activities for Teaching Biology with student handouts and teacher preparation notes for a variety of computer activities and experiments. Mr Barlow's Blog and iPod Apps Andrew Douche's Blog and Podcasts is an excellent resource, especially if you learn best by listening. [|www.gtac.edu.au] check out the student support material, including podcasts and animations [] heaps of links from the VCE biology teachers network page ||
 * ===Animals=== || ARKive - Endorsed by David Attenborough, inlcudes images and videos of thousands of threatened species, lesson plans and downloadable slideshows. This is a good site for learning about specific animals
 * ===Cells=== || Cells Alive - Interactive website with animations of animal, plant and bacterial cells and cell organelles, mitosis, meiosis and relative sizes of microscopic components. ||
 * ===General Biology=== || Biology 4 Kids
 * ===Human Body=== || The Brain The Brain from Top to Bottom
 * ===Nutrition and Disease=== || WorldMapper is an interesting site that shows countries size depending on various factors - this one uses "Deaths due to nutritionmal deficiency" for example, so India and Africa are enlarged, compared to Australia and New Zealand, which have virtually disappeared. ||
 * ===Ecosystems=== || MESA - Marine Education Society of Australasia an amazing source of unit plans about a wide variety of marine topics - mangroves, sea turtles, seagrasses, sharks, deep-sea biology and over 2,500 pages of information and images. ||
 * ===VCE Biology=== || 10 Great Biology Activities from About:Biology (pity about the ads).