Links to some other cool
sites:
email me if you find sites you think
the rest of the class would enjoy and find useful
Weather:
The
Current Weather in Charleston
Tropical Weather
Unbiased News:
The New
York Times - you have to
register, but it's free and I've never gotten any spam from them.
National
Public Radio
The League of
Women Voters
AARP
Anki - a flash card program for
studying
Study guides:
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
- many good tips for studying
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak3.htm
- tips especially for test-taking
Evolution:
http://avida-ed.msu.edu/ - this
download lets you "play" with evolution.
Berkeley
Evolution Information - this site gives very good explanations of
evolutionary processes, and discusses many misconceptions about
Darwinian evolution
Understanding
Evolution: the EvoLibrary - another excellent site from Berkeley
The National Center for Science
Education - many links to informative sites that explain evolution
Palomar
Community College - an excellent review
Talk Origins - this is a site
devoted to discussing the Creation/Evolution controversy
Plant Structure and Function:
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/botany/index.html
- good general information + be sure to see all the additional links!
http://plantphys.info/ - The home
page of a botany professor in Connecticut - lots of good links
http://plantphys.info/Plant_Biology/roots.html
- more specific information on root systems
http://employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/biol327/Lab/maple/maple-sap.htm
- sugar maple sap flow
Angiosperm Reproduction:
Great
reveiw site - this one is from the University of California system,
and has some great animations and a LOT of review information - quizzes
and questions where you have to drag terms to different parts of a
diagram. I did not investigate the entire site, but the
information I looked at is correct and the site is very interactive.
Gametophyte
development - this comes from a small private college in
Maryland. The information that I reviewed is correct, but I did
not look at the entire site.
Flower
structure - this site has pretty good information. There are
some typos, and the first diagram of the embryo sac is incorrect, but
the rest of the info is OK and the diagrams are helpful. I'm not
sure of the source - there is no description, but it's a .org.
Animal Structure and Function:
http://www.biocourse.com/mhhe/bcc/domains/content.xsp
- this site has chapters on all aspects of biology. Scroll to the
right to see the chapters on animal physiology.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html
- a site devoted to the heart and other circulatory organs
http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/Webanatomy/self/default.htm
- University of Minnesota site with self tests on human organ
systems. It has not been updated since 2005, so be a little
careful.