Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Microbiology

1. MicrobeWorld
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016459
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the American Society for Microbiology, contains information and experiments about microorganisms and careers in microbiology. Visitors join the character, Sam Sleuth, as he leads them through their explorations of microbiology.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science case collection
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 019214
   This Internet site, maintained by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, offers a collection of case studies for use in undergraduate science classrooms. Designed to humanize science and to illustrate scientific methodology and values, the cases also develop students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
3. Access Excellence mystery spot
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 019799
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for high school biology students by Access Excellence, offers interactive, online scientific mysteries designed to encourage student problem-solving and inquiry. In addition to forensic science, topics include oxygen consumption during a space mission and a series of strange illnesses that affect the crew of a racing ship.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
4. Kojee's educator's ethnobotany website: a teacher's resource for investigating medical plant use by indigenous people of Americas
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 015468
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a teacher's resource for a unit in which the students investigate the use of medicinal plants by indigenous people of the Americas. It includes a unit lesson plan for seventh grade students and links to forty educational and ethnobotany sites.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
5. Infection detection protection
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 016491
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the American Museum of Natural History, presents an online family magazine to help students, families and teachers understand what causes infectious disease and what they can do to help prevent it.
   
   The site features three informative articles and four games. Meet the Microbes introduces protozoa, bacteria, and viruses.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
6. Life science, parts 1 and 2
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: $4.00 ENC#: 025940
   This biology tutorial is available on-line by subscription. Part 1 covers the topics of energy, reproduction, and genetics.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
7. Stalking the mysterious microbe
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028497
   This Internet site, maintained by the American Society of Microbiologists, provides interactive activities and information for students to explore microbes. Students join Sam Sleuth to solve various microbe mysteries, such as what microbes are, where microbes live, and how humans use microbes.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)