Fusion Finds » biology http://jgarton.edublogs.org Educators Integrating Technology Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Science Link http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/science-link/ http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/science-link/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:23:02 +0000 Janetta Garton http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/science-link/ cancer.jpgChildren’s Hospital Boston Interactive Features webpage has a series of tutorials to present complex medical and biological concepts in an interactive format including: firing a virtual neuron, how cancer grows and spreads, how tissues form and diseases develop, etc.

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]]> http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/science-link/feed/ 0 Nature http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/nature/ http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/nature/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:41:02 +0000 Janetta Garton http://jgarton.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/nature/ The other day my 4th grader was pondering the difference between an alligator and a crocodile. The PBS Nature Interactives webpage site had a great interactive diagram that answered her question. The critter guide then explained how some Egyptians worshiped the crocodile. From the video database we watched a short clip from the Supersize Crocs episode of Nature, which airs on PBS on Sunday nights. This same clip is available as a video podcast. We decided to subscribe to the PBS Nature podcasts so she could watch new clips from upcoming NATURE episodes on the iPod.

This is a great resource with beautiful images and videos, interactive activities, teacher’s guides and lesson plans. The site mentions a new resource coming soon, Windows Into Nature, that sounds promising for high school students:

Find teacher-created lesson plans and a rich video bank tying downloadable NATURE video clips into high school curricula in Living Environment/Biology and Earth Science.


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