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"Effective use of ICT in secondary science: guidelines and case studies Val Oldham" Scroll down to number 53 and click on this article to download and read the pdf

On this website, the author provides examples of using Internet and three different web applications: Voky, Glogster and Stupeflix.

The Globe and Mail

This paper reports the findings of a national survey on the use of dataloggers in secondary schools (grades 7-10) and junior colleges (grades 11-12). In particular, it explores the types of learning activities that teachers conduct using dataloggers, the support structures they deem necessary and the difficulties they face.

A unique website which allows students to perform real world experiments at some of Australia's leading research facilities. All thats needed is an internet connection and a browser.

Great links to videos and simulations in all science areas with the option of signing up (for free) and creating annotated playlists for your students to access and watch.

Video shows how one teacher uses ICT in his classroom to teach his students the more abstract concept of astronomy which does not have any easy 'hands-on' aspects

In this YouTube clip you'll see how Ngee Ann Secondary school uses ICT to engage their students.

Journal article by Slavko Kocijancic; Cohn O'Sullivan. Describes the uses of ICTs in conducting science experiments. Specifically it describes teaching strategies which utilize specialized software to assist real laboratory experiments followed by virtual laboratory tasks which explain and explore the science further.

Paul Andersen explains how cells duplicate through the process of cell division. Prokaryotic cells (like bacteria) duplicate through a process of binary fission. Eukaryotic cells (like you) duplicate body cells through mitosis and create sex cells through meiosis.

Journal article describing research into science teachers' effective implementation of technology in their science classrooms. The paper sets out a model for teachers to become intrinsically motivated to use technology.