CrashCourse is a YouTube Channel where they are constantly uploading interesting videos packed full of facts for world history, US history, literature, chemistry, ecology, and biology!
This website gives you support and tips for "flipping" your classroom - videotaping your lectures and assigning them for homework, so that you are able to interact with the students on assigned activities during class and not wasting your time lecturing. Really interesting new method!
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.
Penalty Shootout Games are interactive, online games that combine high school biology knowledge with a soccer shootout. Good to keep in mind for students who are interested in sports
This website offers links to virtual dissections available on the internet/iPad applications - and most of them are FREE! Earthworm, fetal pigs, human body systems and more!
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.