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This article has a link for a digital microscope. This is a low-cost, technology tool for science teachers. It allows the same magnifications and capabilities as an optical microscope, but the images can be imported into microsoft word and PowerPoint. Also, this tool allows for real-time and time-lapse movies... a great tool!

This is the homepage of the NSTA, which has great links to other organizations, shows upcoming conferences for science teachers, contains interactive blogs, and a bank of lesson plans and activities for teachers to share.

This a great resource that provides science articles for students to read. Also, they are also updated articles that stay up to date with "what's new" in biology.

This interactive site provides images, videos, and articles relating to the most current, and controversial topics in Science. This is a great tool to make the material relevant to the real-world.

Website provides links to some great FREE SmartBoard lessons in biology, chemistry, and physical science.

This is a database of images that can be used by science teachers in lectures/presentations. It contains organismal biology, human biology, and histology. All the images in one place!

Over 200 biology lessons covering topics including zoology, microbiology, general biology, physical science, etc. There are different quality lessons, but gives a variety of resources for teachers.

The Concord Consortium is a non-profit organization that helps develop technologies for math, science and engineering education. Their free, open source software is available for teachers to download to use in their classes. They include visualizations and models for a broad range of topics.

This cite has complete lesson plans for various grades and subjects, but I think that Social Studies and Science will find it most helpful. There are also activities that the students can do at home or during class.

This website has so many resources for all grades and areas of learning. They're not just broken down into math, science, and social studies. Under each subject area the resources are broken down further.

While I don't plan on directly using this for Englsih, I could. It is going to be more helpful for the math and science teachers.

A great resource for all science teachers!

Tons of resources for HS Biology. Wonderful worksheets for Ecology!

This man is AMAZING! He has a ton of lab experiments that you can do in your classes for really cheap!

Students review and become familiar with basic genetic concepts and terms, such as DNA, chromosome, gene, allele, homozygous, heterozygous, recessive and dominant genes, genotype, phenotype, complex traits, Medelian inheritance, and Punnett Square. Students apply these to identify and examine several examples of simple and complex genetic traits in several characters in Harry Potter. Students also examine inheritance patterns of magical ability in Harry Potter, and use the concepts they have learned to identify possible genotypes of the magical ability demonstrated by several characters in the series.

This link provides great sample questions according to the goals of the NC standard course of study for science. They are great for exam review or even to use as exam questions.

This site is useful for easily generating lab worksheets in a simple, clear format.

This website has an amazing selection of practice exam questions for standardized end of semester/end of year tests. The questions are all categorized by subject so this site is a great tool for generating exams, practice tests and review questions.

This site is really interesting because it is a blogging website that is maintained through a high school teacher and her students. There is also a contact email if teachers were interested in getting permission to allow their students to blog about anything biology related. This would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom while allowing students to learn from videos, podcasts, and articles created by other students from around the United States.

Online resource that provides numerous activities, interactive cartoons, and online labs. There is also a link provided on the website "Tips for teachers" that provides teachers with suggestions on how to incorporate this technology into the classroom

This is an online interactive resource for learning biology. There are lesson plans and activities for both high school and middle school teachers. This is accessbile to people using assistive technologies.