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Physics Education Technology - University of Colorado, Boulder"

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"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. " Pretty much an online interactive text book

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"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

Dow Chemical contacted Professional Learning Board asking what we thought of their new science videos for education. We think they're worth sharing with teachers!

you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free! Science Netlinks provides a wide variety of science lesson plans and other materials that teachers can use with their students in class.

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"... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. "

Graeme Monk you might like this one!

"INSTRUCTIONAL Tech, AP physics, projects environmental science, honors physics, physics quest, college prep, and astronomy

"The Physics Classroom Tutorial A set of instructional pages written in an easy-to-understand language and complemented by graphics and Check Your Understanding sections. An ideal starting location for those grasping for understanding or searching for answers. Multimedia Physics Studios A large collection of GIF animations and QuickTime movies designed to demonstrate physics principles in a visual manner. Each animation is accompanied by explanations and links to further information. Shockwave Physics Studios A collection of pages which feature interactive Shockwave files that simulate a physical situation. Users can manipulate a variable and observe the outcome of the change on the physical situation." In addition it contains practice and review resources and teacher tools including a photo gallery, labs and curriculum sheets

"A free ebook in six colour pdf files on physics, the science of motion. Explore the motion of muscles, animals, stones, lightning, stars, light and empty space itself! Be fascinated by the beauty of nature and the concepts of modern physics, from the principle of cosmic lazyness - least action - to gauge symmetry! Browse it here."

Different ideas for using apple's free iBooks Author

This site is designed as a supplement to laboratory dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology - it is basic and many details have been omitted for clarity.  We hope that it is suitable for AP Biology students or for students of introductory anatomy and physiology at the college level. We have revised this site to improve the learning experience and accessibility. Please see the "About" page for more details and contact information. We hope you find it useful and enjoy using it!

"With science and math in the headlines, teachers are under more pressure than ever to keep kids up to date. But with shrinking budgets and growing class sizes, it is getting more and more difficult to do so. You could always go to the internet for help, but digging through all of those sites could take hours. Save yourself the hassle and worry. We have done the work and provided the 100 best websites for science teachers below."

Interactive maths and science simulations for middle and high school

A website containing links to videos associated with specific elements of the periodic table... and the links are arranged as found on the table itself! The links jump to various YouTube videos that are embedded in the site. There are a number of other video resources found on the site, so be sure to explore as much as you can.

" Learn your own way. Free on the iPhone App Store Download for iPhone or iPod touch. Are you learning about mitosis for a high school or college level course? Take an interactive guide to mitosis with you on your iPhone or iPod touch! In Mitosis, you'll learn about the process of cell division by directly interacting with the cell. You'll have a glossary of relevant definitions at your fingertips, and you can listen to a recording that describes mitosis while you follow along in the text. Best of all, Mitosis is a free app for your iPhone or iPod touch."