http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide//teachers/oceans/oceans_unit.html

From PBS-American Field Guide, this website offers seventh- through ninth-grade teachers a downloadable unit comprised of four activities exploring the ocean's intertidal zone. The unit encourages students to consider the lives of marine organisms in this dynamic oceanic zone. The brief activities include links to video segments about several different tide pools, and a beach habitat as well. The longest activity requires 45 minutes, while the rest can be done in 30 minutes or less. The concise activity descriptions include sections regarding Materials, Objectives, and Teaching Instructions. The site also includes corresponding National Content Standards. [NL]

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/index.htm

Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry is a nicely designed companion website to Dr. Rodney Boyer's Concepts in Biochemistry, second edition. Developed collaboratively by Science Technologies and others, this multimedia site is archived on the Wiley Publishers website. Site visitors will enjoy exploring the engaging and instructive collection of Interactive Animations. The collection includes Animations about DNA Replication, Signal Transduction, Photosynthesis, Cell Structure, Protein Synthesis, and more. The site also features a number of tutorials regarding Kinesin, Myoglobin & Hemoglobin, tRNA, and Protein-DNA Interactions, to name a few. In addition, the website offers reviews of such concepts as Logarithms, Thermodynamics, and Elementary Kinetics; quizzes that correspond to chapters in Boyer's book; and a collection of articles that consider the role of biochemistry in addressing issues like Lactose Intolerance, Alcohol Abuse, and using Methanol as Fuel. [NL]

http://www.d91.k12.id.us/www/skyline/teachers/robertsd/skulls.htm

This intriguing and impressive website of animal skull images and information was developed by DeLoy Roberts, a high school biology and zoology teacher in Idaho. The site is quite extensive with separate skull galleries for mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. Site visitors will find clear skull images of such animals as a badger, wolf, boa constrictor, golden eagle, salmon, great gray owl, and many more. The site also includes lists of Animal Skull Sizes (organized alphabetically by animal as well as by size) for mammal and bird skulls in the collection. For school groups that can make the trip, the actual skull collection is maintained by Mr. Roberts at his high school in Idaho Falls, Idaho. [NL]

http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/plans_listing.html

The Evergreen Native Plant Database was developed as an educational project providing school groups, home gardeners, and other residents of Canada with information about native Canadian wildflower, aquatic, grass, vine, shrub, and tree species. In addition to this abundance of native plant species information, the website offers an extensive collection of K-12 lesson plans for educators to use in outdoor settings. The concise lesson plans are available in HTML for viewing online or in pdf for downloading. Examples of lesson titles include Bug Study, Sound Portraits, Study of a Rotting Log, Conducting an Ecological Inquiry Investigation, and many more. Although this website was developed for Canadian residents, many of the lesson plans are applicable for use by teachers in other regions as well. The Plant Database website also offers a wealth of additional information to residents of Canada, and anyone with an interest in Canadian vegetation. [NL]

http://www.nhm.org/birds/home.html

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has compiled some general information about bird evolution and diversity, anatomy and physiology, adaptations and behavior, flight mechanics, and conservation. Educators will find suggested classroom activities, which have been developed to assist educators in preparing students for a visit to the Ralph W. Schreiber Hall of Birds at the museum, but can also be adapted for use in any K-12 classroom or at home. A short description is provided for each of the activities, which are "designed to help young people develop an appreciation, respect and understanding of the diversity and nature of birds." A vocabulary section reviews some key terms used for learning about birds. [VF]

http://www.cmelist.com/list.htm

Bernard M. Sklar, M.D., M.S., a psychiatrist in Oakland, Calif., provides this Annotated List of Online Continuing Medical Education (CME). Online CME allows physicians to earn CME credits over the Internet. The instruction might involve reading an online journal article, listening to or viewing a lecture, playing a game, answering quiz questions, enrolling in correspondence courses, or having an opportunity to make choices according to the clinical presentation using a case-based interactive format. This website provides a description and link to each website, with a total of over 14,500 courses offered through more than 275 online CME sites. The listing can be browsed alphabetically by the first letter of the site name, or by dominant medical specialty or medical topic. Although most of the courses are fee-based, a number of the courses are available free of charge. The bottom of the website provides information on how the websites were selected, as well as a link to Sklar's master's thesis, "The Current Status of Online Continuing Medical Education," and PowerPoint presentations that provide an introduction to Online Continuing Medical Education and updates its current status. [VF]

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/immunizationPrograms/

Through this OpenCourseWare program website, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) offers a "snapshot" of its course offerings. The course entitled "Problem Solving for Immunization Programs" addresses immunization basics and provides an overview to the public health, sociological, and economic literature in relation to the topic. Covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, the course covers vaccine-delivery strategies, program management and supervision, epidemiological surveillance, community participation, and disease eradication. One primary activity for the students who enrolled in this class involved analyzing actual vaccination data using the US Center for Disease Control's CASA software program. The materials available here include the syllabus, lecture notes, assignments, and links to related websites, such as information on the CASA software program. Due to copyright restrictions, the schools is not able to provide the readings online, but has posted a bibliography to help users locate the materials. (Note: The materials are not applicable for credit towards any degrees or certificates through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.) [VF]

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20050511wednesday.html

The New York Times Daily Lesson Plan website regularly features lesson plans for grades for six through twelve on a variety of topics. In this lesson plan, entitled "No Place Like Home: Arguing for the Protection of Endangered Species," students research and present analysis on the impact of the physical environment on an endangered species. Based on their investigations, they also create "a plan for the ideal care of the species" and develop an advertisement that is intended to promote awareness about species protection. The authors list the materials needed, describe the activity and identify the science standards for grades six through eight and grades nine through twelve met by this lesson. Interdisciplinary connections and related resources available online are also presented. [VF]