Ask a Biologist, from Arizona State University
BiologyPop.com
Biology Coloring Pages
BioMan Biology - Biology Video Games and Virtual Labs by Topic
Biology Review Information from Round Rock School District
Diorama – Digital shorts from the Museum of Natural History
Hands on activities for teaching biology to middle and high school students from Serendip; more ideas can be found here
Science with the Amoeba Sisters! features high quality animated biology videos on a variety of topics with related resources
Cells
Videos:
Osmosis: A Solvent and Solute Love Story — The Amoeba Sisters (5/4/14)
Eukaryopolis: The City of Animal Cells — Crash Course (2/20/12)
Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat — Crash Course (2/13/12)
Classification of Living Things
Videos:
Introduction to Protists
Protists – from Great Pacific Media
Fungi: Death Becomes Then — Crash Course
How Scientists are Hacking Bacteria to Fight Disease – DNews
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs2xGeu6fHcWhy Are There Bacteria in My Yogurt? - SciShow
Animals
Videos
How Does a Jellyfish Sting? – Ted-Ed
How Do Fish Sleep? – DNews
Plants
How Does It Grow - "the most watched web series dedicated to food and agriculture"
Videos
How Bees Help Plants Have Sex — TED-Ed
How Plants Attract Body Guards - SciShow
Plant Invaders – Nature Video
Who Needs Dirt? - SciShow Kids
Look Who's Talking - SciShow Kids
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms - Amoeba Sisters
Plant Structures and Adaptations - Amoeba Sisters
Cell Division
Videos
Mitosis: Splitting Up is Complicated — Crash Course (4/16/12)
Genetics and DNA
Artificially Selecting Dogs - lesson from UC Berkley
Drag and Drop Genetics
Genetics Education Resources for Teachers from the National Human Genome Research Institute
Genetics Weblab Directory – various genetics and DNA online activities
Online genetics practice problems from UC Clermont
Talking Glossary of Genetics Terms from the National Human Genome Research Institute
Teach Genetics and Learn Genetics from the University of Utah
Thingdom – Create, breed and care for “Things”, from the London Museum of Science
From DNA to Protein is a clear, simple narrated animation of protein synthesis from PBS Learning Media. This resource can also be downloaded to your computer!
Interactive Timeline of DNA Discoveries from Annenberg Learner
Help DNA replicate with the DNA the Double Helix game from NobelPrize.org
Videos:
Heredity – Crash Course
DNA Structure and Replication – Crash Course
DNA Replication: The Cell’s Extreme Team Sport — The Amoeba Sisters
DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever (Transcription and Translation) – Crash Course
Mutations: The Potential Power of Small Change – The Amoeba Sisters
Bizarre Animal Hybrids – Good Mythical Morning
The Perfect Cow - video from PBS on selective breeding
Are You a Mutant? - VSauce3
Evolution and Natural Selection
Understanding Evolution, "your one stop source for information on evolution" website from UC Berkley
Videos:
Evolution vs. Natural Selection - Minute Physics
Evolution: It’s a Thing — Crash Course
How Evolution Works — Kurzgesagt
What is Evolution? - Stated Clearly
Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth — Crash Course
Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals — Crash Course
SciShow Talk Show: Selective Breeding and the Rat — SciShow
Speciation: Of Ligers & Men - Crash Course Biology #15
Attack of the Superbugs — SciShow
Ecology
Map of Life is an online resource for mapping, monitoring and analyzing biodiversity worldwide. One can search by species or by location
The Animal Diet game is a quick, 8 question activity for labeling consumers as herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. Great for review or an alternative assessment.
Videos:
Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain — TED-Ed (3/20/14)
From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World — TED-Ed (3/13/14)
Community Ecology II: Predators — Crash Course (12/4/12)
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain — Crash Course (12/18/12)
Animated explanations of ecology concepts from Explania
The Networked Beauty of Trees – TED-Ed (4/14/14)
Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future — TED-Ed (5/5/14)
The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle! — Crash Course (12/24/12)
The Cycle: Carbon and Oxygen and You — It’s Okay to be Smart (6/16/14)
Human Impact
Losing Ground is an interactive website about the loss of Louisana’s coast due to climate change, drilling and levees from ProPublica
Lesson Plans from the EPA’s “A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change”
EPA Flight (Facility Level Information on GreenHouse gases Tool) – see emissions on a national, state or county level based on individual facilities
Videos:
5 Human Impacts on the Environment — Crash Course (1/7/13)
The Smelly, Oozy, Sometimes Explode-y Science of Garbage — Crash Course (12/26/13)
The Science of Overpopulation — SciShow (3/11/12)
How to Save the Earth…from Us — SciShow (4/18/14)
Why Protect Large Wild Animals…Like Elephants? — Untamed Science (4/21/14)
Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye – Smithsonian
Where Does Our Coal Come From? - PBS
How Do We Clean Up Oil Spills? - Discovery
Miscellaneous Videos
Poison vs. Venom: What’s the Difference? (TED Ed)
21 Mind-Blowing Now Extinct Lifeforms — mental_floss (3/19/14)
BiologyPop.com
Biology Coloring Pages
BioMan Biology - Biology Video Games and Virtual Labs by Topic
Biology Review Information from Round Rock School District
Diorama – Digital shorts from the Museum of Natural History
Hands on activities for teaching biology to middle and high school students from Serendip; more ideas can be found here
Science with the Amoeba Sisters! features high quality animated biology videos on a variety of topics with related resources
Cells
Videos:
Osmosis: A Solvent and Solute Love Story — The Amoeba Sisters (5/4/14)
Eukaryopolis: The City of Animal Cells — Crash Course (2/20/12)
Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat — Crash Course (2/13/12)
Classification of Living Things
Videos:
Introduction to Protists
Protists – from Great Pacific Media
Fungi: Death Becomes Then — Crash Course
How Scientists are Hacking Bacteria to Fight Disease – DNews
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs2xGeu6fHcWhy Are There Bacteria in My Yogurt? - SciShow
Animals
Videos
How Does a Jellyfish Sting? – Ted-Ed
How Do Fish Sleep? – DNews
Plants
How Does It Grow - "the most watched web series dedicated to food and agriculture"
Videos
How Bees Help Plants Have Sex — TED-Ed
How Plants Attract Body Guards - SciShow
Plant Invaders – Nature Video
Who Needs Dirt? - SciShow Kids
Look Who's Talking - SciShow Kids
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms - Amoeba Sisters
Plant Structures and Adaptations - Amoeba Sisters
Cell Division
Videos
Mitosis: Splitting Up is Complicated — Crash Course (4/16/12)
Genetics and DNA
Artificially Selecting Dogs - lesson from UC Berkley
Drag and Drop Genetics
Genetics Education Resources for Teachers from the National Human Genome Research Institute
Genetics Weblab Directory – various genetics and DNA online activities
Online genetics practice problems from UC Clermont
Talking Glossary of Genetics Terms from the National Human Genome Research Institute
Teach Genetics and Learn Genetics from the University of Utah
Thingdom – Create, breed and care for “Things”, from the London Museum of Science
From DNA to Protein is a clear, simple narrated animation of protein synthesis from PBS Learning Media. This resource can also be downloaded to your computer!
Interactive Timeline of DNA Discoveries from Annenberg Learner
Help DNA replicate with the DNA the Double Helix game from NobelPrize.org
Videos:
Heredity – Crash Course
DNA Structure and Replication – Crash Course
DNA Replication: The Cell’s Extreme Team Sport — The Amoeba Sisters
DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever (Transcription and Translation) – Crash Course
Mutations: The Potential Power of Small Change – The Amoeba Sisters
Bizarre Animal Hybrids – Good Mythical Morning
The Perfect Cow - video from PBS on selective breeding
Are You a Mutant? - VSauce3
Evolution and Natural Selection
Understanding Evolution, "your one stop source for information on evolution" website from UC Berkley
Videos:
Evolution vs. Natural Selection - Minute Physics
Evolution: It’s a Thing — Crash Course
How Evolution Works — Kurzgesagt
What is Evolution? - Stated Clearly
Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth — Crash Course
Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals — Crash Course
SciShow Talk Show: Selective Breeding and the Rat — SciShow
Speciation: Of Ligers & Men - Crash Course Biology #15
Attack of the Superbugs — SciShow
Ecology
Map of Life is an online resource for mapping, monitoring and analyzing biodiversity worldwide. One can search by species or by location
The Animal Diet game is a quick, 8 question activity for labeling consumers as herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. Great for review or an alternative assessment.
Videos:
Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain — TED-Ed (3/20/14)
From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World — TED-Ed (3/13/14)
Community Ecology II: Predators — Crash Course (12/4/12)
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain — Crash Course (12/18/12)
Animated explanations of ecology concepts from Explania
The Networked Beauty of Trees – TED-Ed (4/14/14)
Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future — TED-Ed (5/5/14)
The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle! — Crash Course (12/24/12)
The Cycle: Carbon and Oxygen and You — It’s Okay to be Smart (6/16/14)
Human Impact
Losing Ground is an interactive website about the loss of Louisana’s coast due to climate change, drilling and levees from ProPublica
Lesson Plans from the EPA’s “A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change”
EPA Flight (Facility Level Information on GreenHouse gases Tool) – see emissions on a national, state or county level based on individual facilities
Videos:
5 Human Impacts on the Environment — Crash Course (1/7/13)
The Smelly, Oozy, Sometimes Explode-y Science of Garbage — Crash Course (12/26/13)
The Science of Overpopulation — SciShow (3/11/12)
How to Save the Earth…from Us — SciShow (4/18/14)
Why Protect Large Wild Animals…Like Elephants? — Untamed Science (4/21/14)
Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye – Smithsonian
Where Does Our Coal Come From? - PBS
How Do We Clean Up Oil Spills? - Discovery
Miscellaneous Videos
Poison vs. Venom: What’s the Difference? (TED Ed)
21 Mind-Blowing Now Extinct Lifeforms — mental_floss (3/19/14)