WABR - Education Materials

General On-line Resources

Access Excellence - A great site for health and science teachers originally developed by Genetech.

Action Bioscience - Provides readings and curriculum ideas for topics such as biotechnology, the human genome, and a variety of other topics in biology.

The Biology Project: Provides activities, lesson plans, and tutorials. Especially strong on problem sets, and tutorials.

The DNA Files - Experts and public radio watchdogs explore cutting edge topics in biomedical research.

The Genetics Science Learning Center (GSLC) - The GSLC partnership between scientists and educators produces innovative and effective genetic science learning programs utilizing information from leading-edge research.

The-Science-Lab - Offers links to many science-related sites, including science education resources.

Office of Science Education at NIH - An outstanding resource for teachers and students with access to a wealth of free curriculum materials. Be sure to look at the valuable Curriculum Supplements, as well as the ‘Snapshots of Science and Medicine’ newsletter.

The NIH has also created a Women in Science Career page, with complimentary videos, posters, and career profiles. Other areas of the NIH site, such as NIH: For Students and NIH: For the Public may also be of interest.

On-Line Texts

Kimball’s Biology Pages
Modified from the author’ text Biology published in 1994 by Wm. C. Brown. Search alphabetically or by search engine. Lots of diagrams.

MIT Hypertextbook
A website which contains the basic molecular biology that is the basis of MIT's core Biology course, "Introductory Biology".

NCBI Bookshelf
The bookshelf is a growing number of biology reference books that can be searched directly. Several important biology reference texts, such as Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et. al, and Immunology by Janeway et. al, are available.

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