Science Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within science.

Microbiology

1. MadSci network
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 008646
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a collective cranium of scientists from around the world, fielding questions from many people in many places. Students and teachers are invited to submit questions by filling out an online form or by emailing them.
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2. 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.
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3. Microbes.info: the microbiology information portal
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 029016
   This web site is designed as a user-friendly search tool that helps students and educators find what they want to know about microbes. By grouping web links to microbiology web sites into a number of categories, this web site enables the user to effectively and efficiently find accurate information that is specific to their search topic.
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4. 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.)
   
   
5. 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.
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6. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016731
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is the home page for renowned microscopist Dennis Kunkel. It is intended to showcase his commercial work, provide information about his publications and provide resources for colleges, schools, or individuals who want to learn more about microscopy.
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7. 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.)
   
   
8. Microbe zoo
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013677
   This web site, maintained by the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, is designed to direct students' investigation of microorganisms that are located in various environments. Students may explore microbes in five units.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
9. 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.
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10. Science a GoGo
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 012426
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for the layperson, features daily updates from the world of science and technology, with sometimes light-hearted, sometimes irreverent takes on current science events. A sampling of titles includes: Can There Really Be More To Life Than Sex?, Big Bird Discovery Puts Egg On Ornithologists' Faces, and Too Much Exercise Can Lead to Bulimia.
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11. SciCentral: gateway to the best scientific research news sources
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011263
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is maintained by professional scientists whose mission is to identify and centralize access to the most valuable scientific resources online. SCICENTRAL constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science and engineering.
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12. Microbes in the news
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002170
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains news stories from the popular press related to microbial ecology and microbiology with added commentary from scientists. Stories are grouped into four categories: Heroic (beneficial), Dangerous (pathogens), Ancient, and Strange (microbes that grab attention because of their immense size, bizarre diet, or other unusual characteristics).
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. Cells alive!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004045
    This Web site provides animations, movies, and microscopic images of unicellular life and viruses. Some examples include E.
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14. Bugs in the news!
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 010627
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, suitable for students in grades 9 to postsecondary, contains a series of informational papers written for the non scientist on a variety of topics dealing with microbiology. The author has written informative articles on such diseases as E.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
15. Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 009994
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides teachers and students interested in microbiology and microbial ecology with resources that may aid their learning and teaching. The Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology was developed by the Comm Tech Lab in collaboration with the Center for Microbial Ecology and the College of Education at Michigan State University.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. 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.)
    
    
17. All the virology on the WWW
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028639
    This resource offers a collection of virology web sites. Divided into categories, the sites provide information about such topics as AIDS, antiviral drugs, plant viruses, and biological warfare.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. 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.)
    
    
19. The bad bug book
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 012546
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) presents an online handbook on foodborne pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) and natural toxins. Each chapter focuses on one organism or toxin and provides basic facts regarding these organisms and toxins, including their characteristics, habitat or source, associated foods, infective dose, characteristic disease symptoms, complications, recent and/or major outbreaks, and any susceptible populations.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)