Site of The Week #2 Biology Animations

Site of the Week #2 Biology Animations

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm

My second site of the week is the Biology Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorial Links. This site is a must for any Biology teacher. It is broken down by units: Basic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cell Structure, Mitosis/Meiosis, Cell Transport, Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, Heredity, DNA Replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene Expression, Evolution, Viruses.

Animations are vital to science. It’s very difficult for a student to visualize DNA being replicated then transcribed and translated into a protein. This is just one example of how animations are useful in the classroom. There are other animations that enable a student to view a process that occurs on the microscopic level, but now can see it on the computer screen.

A teacher can use this to supplement a lecture, demo an experiment/process, or to even introduce a new topic. The teacher can also include this link on their own web-site so that the students could access this at any time.

STATE GOAL 12: Understand the fundamental concepts, principles and interconnections of the life, physical and earth/space sciences.

This website really is at the heart of State Goal Number 12.