Online Lab Page

Online Dissection Activities

Frog Dissection - Uses real pictures of dissections of both preserved and pithed frogs. Be sure to go through the entire lab, do all the lessons, sections, layers, and especially the "Let's Practice" activities. Viewing the movies is optional...some of them are large and take a while to download.

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit - Uses computer-generated pictures of a frog (less icky). Learn about frog anatomy: control which organs are visible, control the angle from which you view the frog, and bring up brief descriptions of the organs seen in the image. With this kit, UNdissection is also possible.

Build the Virtual Frog - After you have taken apart either the real frog, the pictures of the real frog, or the computer generated one, now put one back together again and show me how well you know your stuff. Click on "NO HINTS", and show me when you are done.

The Heart: An Online Exploration - Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.

Cow Eye Dissection - The Cow's Eye Dissection is one of the most popular demonstrations at the Exploratorium. For many years it has helped people satisfy their curiosity about what is inside an eye. The material presented here is meant not to replace the act of dissecting a cow's eye, but rather to enhance the experience.

Sheep Brain Dissection - By dissecting the brain of the sheep - an animal in which brain structure and function are similar to our own - we can see where memory processes take place. Throughout our lives, our memories are constantly being formulated, accessed, and filtered by the brain.

The Sheep Brain Dissection Guide - On-line dissection of a sheep's brain presented in frame form with brief descriptions. Lots of detail and good-sized pictures.

The Cell Visualization Project Home Page
Computer reconstructions of a human white blood cell from serial transmission electron micrographs are presented as a brief guided tour and as still photos. Although more organelles will be added in the future, enough are included for this site to be useful to anyone introducing cell structure.

The Virtual Cell
This site lets you explore the structure of a virtual plant cell. You can zoom in on organelles, cut or turn them, look at real EM images and more.

Online Cat Dissection A collection of student-created pages where each team takes you through one system in the cat, with pictures. Very well done.

Online Earthworm Dissection An earthworm dissection. Simple, and the pictures aren't high quality.

Solve a Mystery or two!

Arctica - Home - Flashback: March 1834. Madness strikes the stranded Arctica polar expedition. Inside a cramped camp tent, men babble and walk aimlessly around dead bodies on the floor. One man huddles in a corner clutching his precious journals to his chest. Flash forward: It's winter. Inside the modern workboat Lady Jane, three people examine these same journals. After 163 years of silence, broken only by rumors of cannibalism and madness, they are determined to learn exactly what happened.

The Panama Puzzle - I need your help. It's June 25th, 1900, and I've just been posted to Cuba after the end of the Spanish-American war. We lost more men to disease than bullets. One disease in particular. In Panama, our boys have started digging a canal. We've got big trouble - hundreds of our men have died so far. They get a high fever and jaundice. Up to half die. It's my responsibility to find out what's causing it and put a stop to it!

River of Venom - They set up the lab deep in the Amazon rainforest. They wanted to make "killer" bees less deadly. What they didn't want was to start a rampage. A scientist at the brink of death. A researcher in agony with hundreds of stings. And you're stuck in the middle. Can you find the way out?

The Blackout Syndrome - A mother rushes to the hospital. Her child is bleeding uncontrollably from the eyes, hands and mouth. Where did this mysterious disease come from? What is it? And how can it be stopped? It's a mystery in three episodes.

Croak - New town. New job. Tough boss. And suddenly it's up to you to find out why extinction threatens the celebrated frogs in the town park. Read the interactive mystery - unravel the science-based clues - email us your answer - find out if you're right!

Angry Red Planet - When you volunteered to help oversee the simulated spaceflight to Mars, everyone warned you the job would be boring. Of course that was before the oxygen started getting low...

Yellow Jackie - You hired on as crew to help sail a yacht across half the Pacific. Now, two weeks later, in the aftermath of a gale 500 miles from land, you find something new added to your job description. Detective.

 

Virtual Field Trips!

• Microbial Zoo
  This virtual field trip through a microbial zoo contains images and descriptions of microscopic organisms and the habitats in which they live.
  

• The Exploratorium Home Page
  This is the home page of the San Francisco Exploratorium. Check it out for information on science education resources, great interactive exhibits, access to an ongoing bioethics discussion group, and more!
  

• Natural History Museum Picture Gallery
  More than a thousand images provide a virtual tour of the British Museum of Natural History.
  
• Virtual Galapagos
  This site chronicles an actual journey through the Galapagos. In addition to travel photos and travel journals, there are maps, historical information (including info on the contributions of Charles Darwin and Wallace) and a discussion of some of the issues facing the Galapagos today.
  
• TheVisible Human Project
  The Visible Human Project creates complete anatomically detailed, three dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The representations are created from CAT, MRI and cryosection images taken at one millimeter intervals from cadavers.
  
• Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
  clear, well-illustrated series of features about the human senses, the brain, and sensory defects.
  
• The Biology Project
  This is a site well worth visiting - many times! You will want to check it out for a quick review. And more than that - it is FUN and ENGAGING! Check out The Biology Project at the University of Arizona.
  
• CSU BioWEB
  California State University's server which consolidates existing WWW Biological Science teaching and research resources and creates and distributes original multimedia resources for the teaching of biology.
  
• Evolution: Theory and History
  A comprehensive site with information about scientists and naturalists involved in the development of the theory of evolution
  
• Gordon's Entomological Home Page
  This comprehensive site includes material of value to both teachers and students. Although insects are featured, spiders and other arthropods are included.
  
• The Froggy Page
  Even though I have not used it in my classes, I have used it as a launch site to discover information which I have shared with my students. I have also suggested they visit the site when they are researching amphibians. Besides, it's just FUN!
  (Suzanne Cassidy, '96 AE Fellow)
  
• Lichenland
  Lichen biology, practical uses, diagrams and photos. The material is presented at two levels: "for novitiates" and "for professionals".
  
• Internet Travels in the Life Sciences
  An excellent, well maintained collection of links related to studies in the life sciences.
  
• RasMol Home Page
  RasMol is free software (Windows and Mac) that shows molecules in color and in 3D. Site contains teaching/learning materials for DNA, antibody antigen interactions, lipid bilayers, protein structure and much more.
  
• Sea Urchin Education
  Laboratory modules using sea urchin eggs and a web site developed by teachers and Stanford University researchers provide more than 150 web pages to support the teaching of fertilization and development. Designed for high school students, these materials are also appropriate for introductory college classes.
  
• The Tree of Life
  The Tree of Life is a project to link biological information available on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator. With more than 1,000 pages currently in the Tree, housed on 10 computers, the project continues to grow.
  (Ann Wild, NSTA Reports!)

Check out what one Biology class has done!

A Year's Summary - Mrs. Mazen's Biology class at Cheltenham High School

Take a look at what they did on a month-by month basis, with pictures, student writings, and lots of dissections. (Someday I'd like to do this with our class!) One of their projects was to create a magazine-stlye report on the cell, complete with articles, commentaries, and ads.

"Celle" - A Journal of the Cell - Winter '98

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