• Scratch would let you make it as easy as possible. Colorful drag and drop tiles to build functions, would introduce the really basic concepts of control flow and all
• You could play with Visual Studio a bit. Dragging and dropping buttons and showing how to do something simple like make a popup window with text or add two numbers
• Python is pretty easy to start with too for obvious reasons, maybe that would make sense to start with for some basics.

AP Computer Science A
In AP Computer Science A, you’ll learn how to use Java to build games or creatively address real-world issues. Through hands-on experiences in analyzing, writing, and testing code, you’ll learn how to transform an idea into a functioning program.

AgentCubes Tutorial Book
You are a traveler on a journey to find a treasure. You must avoid walls, and chasers who try to catch you. If you find all the treasure, you win.

Alice
Learn to program interactive 3D graphics. The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students. Appeals to girls.

CyberToy
Windows download for teens who want to try their hand at creating fly-though scenery such as found in games. Experimental.

Fundamentals of Visual Basic
Students who have little programming experience can expect to spend between 1 and 2 hours on each lesson, including the time for doing the hands-on examples and exercises. Typical completion time for the course is about 1 quarter, or 12 weeks.

Game Maker
Have you ever wanted to be able to design computer games, but didn’t want to spend countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you’ve come to the right place. Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code.

GameProgrammer.Com
BBS, Mailing List, Articles, Source Code, Demos, Tutorials. Most of this community are in their teens and twenties. Everything you need to help you start programming games.

GitHub Copilot woven into Visual Studio
Your AI coding partner for faster and smarter development. Elevate your efficiency. Let Copilot and Visual Studio 2022 help you generate and refactor code, identify bugs and resolutions, optimize performance, and get context specific help throughout your coding workflow.

Introduction to Programming Using Java Version 4.1, June 2004
This on-line book contains Java applets, many of which require Java 1.3 or higher. To see these applets, you will need a Web browser that uses a recent version of Java.

Java Tutorial from SUN
A practical guide for programmers with hundreds of complete, working examples and dozens of trails–groups of lessons on a particular subject.

Learn HTML – CodeAcademy
Start at the beginning by learning HTML basics — an important foundation for building and editing web pages.

Linux Survival – Where learning Linux is easy
If you would like to learn the basics of Linux quickly, try this entertaining online Linux tutorial. You don’t need to install it on your computer, and best of all, it’s free!

Khan Academy Computing Courses
Intro to computer science – Python. Computer programming – JavaScript and the web. AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles. Computers and the Internet. Computer science theory. Pixar in a Box. Code.org. Hour of Code.

Phrogram
You can make your own games, explore how math and science concepts work and have fun. Get Learn to Program with Phrogram!: A Guide to Learning Through Game Programming Using the Latest Version of Kids Programming Language now with the O’Reilly learning platform. Free trial.

Python for Beginners
Before getting started, you may want to find out which IDEs and text editors are tailored to make Python editing easy, browse the list of introductory books, or look at code samples that you might find helpful.

Scratch
Mac OS and Windows. A free programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Snake Wrangling for Kids
A printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python programming language to teach the concepts. Editions for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Visual BASIC for Kids
This tutorial is written for and directed to kids. Kids learn about project design, the Visual Basic toolbox, and many elements of the BASIC language. Numerous examples are used to demonstrate every step in the building process.

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• American History
• Ancient History
• Civics
• Geography
• People
• World Culture & History

American History

American History
Participate actively in the history of the United States of America.

Indian Peoples of the Americas
Native culture, past and current. An introduction for children.

Pilgrims
How Squanto helped the Pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving at Plimoth Plantation.

Colonial Times
Life in early America was both tough and fun, and these sites show you why.

Pirates of Colonial Times
If you want to hear stories of pirates, galleons, lost treasures, horrendous deeds, and gallant heros, this is a place to find them.

Salem Witch Trials
One theory that has come out recently is that the girls had been traumatized by earlier events: Indian massacres of families familiar to them.

American Revolution
Causes, events and people of the Revolution presented in formats intriguing to children.

Lewis and Clark
200 years ago these brave men led an expedition up the Missouri River, across wild mountain ranges, befriending Native Americans through the help of the Indian woman, Sacagawea.

Pioneer Times
In the early 1800s people headed across the western plains and mountains to settle in Oregon and California.

Civil War
Coloring pages, recipes, craft projects, reenactments and songs make the Civil War come alive for kids.

Modern Times – 20th Century
This page takes you from rural America at the turn of the century, through the mid-century battles, and to the advent of the technological society.

Ancient History

Prehistoric Man
Find out the truth about cave men, women and kids, as well as the lovely art they created.

Ancient History
Kids have fun exploring ancient cultures within these links.

Ancient Egypt
Wander through the mazes of ancient tombs to discover the secrets of ancient Eqypt.

Ancient Greece
Travel back in a time machine. Contribute stories. Find out about original Olympic games.

Ancient Rome (Italy)
Play the games that ancient Roman children played. Find out about daily life.

Civics

Activism 4 Kids
Participate actively in solving the world’s problems.

Civics
Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, and the UK explained to children.

Economics for Kids
Learn about economics through these fun interactive sites just for kids.

Iraq Conflict For Kids
Read current events about Iraq Conflict. Lesson plans, ideas. How to help the children. Support Peace. Support the Troops.

News 4 Kids
Keep on top of current events. Write your own news stories.

Geography

Habitats
Visit the earth’s Biomes which are areas with very different geology and plant and animal life: deserts, rainforests, tundra, taigas, temperate and grasslands.

Maps
Really good maps and atlases online to help with geography and history studies. Treasure maps, too!

United States Geography
Each and every state of the union has interesting and unique features for kids to explore through these interactive links.

World Geography
Participate actively in geographical quests and meet kids all over the world.

People

Biographies of Famous People
Read the stories of famous people and villains who have gone this way before.

Genealogy – Family History
Find out about your family members and create a family museum of scrapbook.

Women In History
Famous and outstanding women throughout the world and throughout time.

World Culture & History

World Culture & History
Fun sites with ideas for social studies in general. Learn about people all over the world.

Age of Exploration – 1400 – 1600
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world’s continents.

Canadian History
From the Children of Eagle and Raven to modern times. Resources for Canadian children and others to study Canada.

Flight History
Since early times, people have been fascinated with the idea of flight. Learn how these dreams of flight came true.

Inca Culture
The Inca society was very organized. Everyone understood his or her position in the social pyramid.

India
Come explore India, its mysterious past, games, culture and language.

Mayan Culture
Mayan stories, activities and virtual tours help you learn more about this ancient culture.

Medieval Times
Find out about Castles, Happenings, Heraldry, Kings & Queens, Knights & Ladies, Organizations, and Plays.

Renaissance for Kids
Are we still in the Renaissance Period today? Come decide for yourself.

Vikings
What is myth? What is fact? Learn about Scandinavian history, play games, and explore with the Vikings.

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India for kids – an amazing and quick guide to India

Geography

Indus River
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Indusis the principal river of Pakistan. It originates in Tibet, flowing from the Himalayas in a north-westerly direction through Kashmir, and then turning south for nearly the entire length of Pakistan. The Indus Valley Civilization had some of the earliest urban settlements in the world.

Maps of India
18 maps of India showing states and major cities. From the Global Security website.

History

The Ancient Indus Valley Slideshows
South Asia’s first cities were established around 2600 B.C. in what is now Pakistan and western India. The peoples who built and ruled these cities belong to what archaeologists refer to as the Harappan Culture or Indus Civilization. This civilization developed at approximately the same time as the early city states of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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Armoured Elephants
Ancient Indians used elephants as “tanks” armed with heavy canons. They were used this way since 1100 B.C.

Daily Life in Ancient India
What did the ancient Indians wear? What did they eat? Did kids play with toys? Did they go to school? This site shares daily life in three major time periods of ancient India history; the mysterious and so cool Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic & Epics Periods, and the Age of Empires.

Harappa: The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan
Glimpses of India and Pakistan before 1947 and the story of the ancient Indus Valley. Old photographs, rare film footage and long unseen media from before independence in India and Pakistan.

Was Indus Valley script like emojis?
Despite a mountain of research, the Indus script remains shrouded in mystery. Recent research by an independent Kolkata researcher looks at the structure of texts, and finds the symbols may have more in common with your favourite emoji than you might think.

Itihaas: The History of India
50 years of Independence. 5,000 years of history. This is India’s story.

Women In India
Commercial Unit Study. The unit ensures that the perspectives of women are included in the study of India’s religious, aesthetic, intellectual, political and social traditions. Outline to help you create your own unit study.

India For Kids

India Facts and Pictures
National Geographic Kids site. India’s earliest known civilization arose about 5,000 years ago on the Indus River in what is now Pakistan. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of two huge cities with brick houses, piped water, and sewer systems. Nobody knows why, but these cities, called Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, were abandoned in 1700 B.C.

India For Kids
This section is for children aged 7-9, to give them an insight into the diverse culture and landscape of India.  For each part  there is a ‘slide show’ … a bedtime story … somewhere to keep ‘notes’ and suggestions for other web sites to explore.

Pitara Kids Network
A huge kids network with news, activities, stories and things to discover.

Mocomag
Packed with great visual experience, games, educational content, interactive stories and activities, Mocomi provides a safe and complete online experience for kids and families.

Travel For Kids: India
Fun places to go and things to see and do in India.

Language

The Indus Script
There is no such thing as an accepted Indus dictionary; if at all possible, one is probably decades away. Nonetheless, below are summarized some of Parpola1 and Mahadevan’s2 speculations on various signs.

Sanskrit Documents
You will find here various tools for learning Sanskrit such as the Online Sanskrit Dictionary, Sanskrit Tutorials, Sanskrit Pronunciation guides, and software for learning Sanskrit and producing documents in Devanagari & Roman formats, and much more.

Literature and Arts

India: The Living Arts
Our people have inherited great talents. Our way of life is imbued with the sense of beauty. Our women paint on the walls naturally. Our craftsmen know how to make . . . with their hands everything that we have in India. If we have faith in them, they can perform miracles. – Ghandi

Chapter Books by South Asian Authors for Children
All titles on this list are written by authors within the South Asian community! Reading books about and by people from other cultures and communities is one of many ways to encourage empathy and understanding within children.

Religion

Buddha Net’s Kids Page
(563?-483? BC) Buddha was an Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism, who was born in Kapilavastu, India, just inside present-day Nepal. He was the son of the head of the Sakya warrior caste, with the private name of Siddhartha; in later life he was known also as Sakyamuni (Sage of the Sakyas).

Religions in India
In India, religion is a way of life. It is an integral part of the entire Indian tradition. Secular India is home to Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other innumerable religious traditions, Hinduism is the dominant faith, practiced by over 80% of the population.

Sports

How football is changing lives of Indian slum girls
An American, Franz Gastler, is teaching young Indian slum girls how to improve their lives through the game of football. Monica Sarkar reports from Mumbai.

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Optics: Light at Work – Part I.
Light in Action: Lasers, Cameras & Other Cool Stuff; Optics: Light at Work; and Careers in Optics.

Art & Optics: Science and Art Closer Than You Think
Optical technology and the study of light go far back in human culture. Contemporary artists are often quick to adopt new technology, or to absorb its implications. Was it any different then? Why should the use of a tool diminish the value of the art?

Concepts of Light and Color
A set of interactive Java applet tutorials to help you understand how color and light work. Beautifully done. Lots of levers to slide to make changes. From Molecular Expressions.

Cool Cosmos
Here you’ll find pictures, videos, games, educational materials, and more. A fun way to learn all about the “cool” part of the electromagnetic spectrum: infrared light.

Discovering Light
This site is dedicated to light in all its manifestations: in physics, in technology, in nature and in culture. To help you learn about light, we’ve included a message board for posting questions. A Thinkquest site.

Fermilab’s System of Web Pages About Light
Light is great, light is mysterious, light is useful. After all, they say everything started with light. When any revolution has happened in the history of science, light was always there. So it deserves a little attention.

The Light Stuff
Here on Earth the speed of light can change. How? Go to Joe’s Room and see if you can figure it out.

MicroWorlds
An interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. For high school students, this site explains how intense light is used for physics research.

Optics For Kids: Science and Engineering
Some fun and interesting things about OPTICS: the science of LIGHT, and one of the most important fields of PHYSICS. by Bruce Irving, Optical Research Associates.

Chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence – Light without Heat
To do this experiment, you’ll need some light sticks from a sporting goods store or a necklace from a fair. You’ll watch what happens when you put it in hot water and in your refridgerator.. From Home Experiments by Professor Shakhashiri.

Firefly Files
How fireflies produce light via a chemical reaction and how you can attract fireflies to your yard, if you have them in the area in the first place.

A Modest Chemiluminescence Movie
Glow-in-the-dark chemical reactions you can watch online.

Chromatography

Chemistry of Autumn Colors
Formerly green leaves turn to brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red. These color changes are the result of transformations in leaf pigments.

Paper Towel Chromatography
Colors makes color! Separate different colors from a marker.

Separate Colors in a Green Leaf using Chromatography
To help you understand just how leaves change colors in the fall and why some trees change to red while others change to orange or yellow, try this experiment on leaves from the same tree both before and after color changes.

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?
Separate colors in a green leaf using chromatography. Observe how light affects color development. Word Scramble puzzles as well.

Forums

Optical Society of America Student Center
This is your opportunity to network electronically with OSA members who have expertise in various technical groups and application areas.

Heat & Light

The Infrared Zoo
What do animals look like in the infrared? Actually “see” the differences between warm and cold-blooded animals, and learn how animals use fur, blubber and feathers to insulate themselves.

Build a Pizza Box Solar Oven
The sun is hot enough to bake food. Here’s how to make a simple solar oven that gets hot enough to warm up cookies and other treats, like s’mores. It won’t get really hot, though, so you can’t bake things in it and you won’t burn yourself when playing with it. Be sure to have an adult help you with this!

Language of Color

Feng Shui and Color
Response to color symbolism is a response to color preconception, and it is a predetermined response based on literary and psychological ideas about color itself.

Make a Splash with Color
We see red apples, green grass, and blue sky. Did you ever wonder why this is? Maybe it has something to do with the apples, the grass, and the sky? Or maybe something to do with your eyes? Or maybe even something to do with your mind?

Lasers & Holograms

Holography Lasers and Holograms
Learn all about these 3-D photographs. Make them for yourself.

Lenses

How Glasses Are Made

Up Periscope!
Be able to look over high fences and around corners with this handy device made with a tube and mirrors.

Optical Illusions

Counter-Rotating Spirals Illusion
Stare at the spirals for 20 seconds and then at the pattern on the right. What causes this affect? An optical illusion!

A didactic downloadable moiré demonstration kit
A printable moiré demonstration kit, where each layer is given by a separate PostScript file that can be downloaded and printed on a transparency.

Gallery of Visual Illusions
View and test various illusions by dragging seemingly different objects together or apart.

Illusions
20 visual illusions, hidden faces, moving yet still graphics.

Op Art
Illusion design works that look like op art. Please note that this page could make you feel sick.

Polorization

Polarized Light in Nature and Technology
Polarization is present in the rainbow, in the hidden color of minerals, in the dance of honeybees, in the flow of molten metal, in the color of beetles, and the gloss of tree leaves at dawn.

Shadows

Bob Miller’s Light Walk
Artist Bob Miller’s “Light Walk” at the Exploratorium is always an eye-opening expereience for students and teachers alike. His unique discoveries will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.

Shadow Dance
The purpose of this activity is to experiment with shadows and light sources and to understand the relationship between the angle of illumination and the shadow’s length.

Sky Lights

Aurora

Aurora Borealis
What creates these shimmering celestial lights? Information, resources and experiments you can carry out to learn more about the Northern Lights. From Newton’s Apple.

Lightning

Lightning in a Pan
Try this easy experiment to make your own miniature version of a lightning bolt.

Rainbows

Building a Rainbow
Young students will enjoy just creating online rainbows. More advanced students can take the whole lab course to understand how rainbows obey the rules of calculus.

The Physics of a Rainbow
A most charming example of chromatic dispersion is a rainbow. When white sunlight is intercepted by a drop of water in the atmosphere, some of the light refracts into the drop, reflects from the drop’s inner surface, and then refracts out of the drop.

Sunsets & Blue Skies

Blue Sky – Red Sunset
Why is the sky blue? What makes colorful sunsets? This simple demonstration will show you how these sky colors happen.

Sky Window
What color is the sky? Well, it’s just not any old blue! Make a blue-gray-white color wheel to make surveys of sky colors over several weeks.

Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets red?
Take a look at light through a prism and notice all the different colors that you can see. Light that looks white to our eyes actually is made up of many different colors. From Optics For Kids.

Spectrums

Color Theory
Artists were fascinated by Newton’s clear demonstration that light alone was responsible for color. An online course on color, vision and art.

Seeing Color
You may ask yourself why is it that we only see the “visible” portion of light?

Web Safe Color Chart – Paired Color Values
Click on a color to lock it as the background. Click on any color to unlock. Place your mouse over a color to see the CSS shorthand value tooltip.

Triboluminescence

Triboluminescence in Quartz Crystal

Electric Candy- Or Triboluminescence
The wintergreen candy contains wintergreen oil. When the candy is chewed the wintergreen oil rubs against the course sugar and an electrical charge is produced.

Wintergreen Candy and other Triboluminescent Materials
Go into a closet or other dark room. Take along a mirror and some WintOGreen Lifesavers. Wait for your eyes to adjust and then bite down on the candy real hard while watching in the mirror. If the candy hasn’t gotten soggy, your mouth will glow, and here’s why.

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Spanish for Young Children

Little Explorers English – Spanish Dictionary
Use this dictionary to surf the web.

Zoom School Mexico
Simple lessons about Mexico for young children.

Spanish for Beginners

BBC Languages – Spanish
Includes assessment tool to get you started at the right level, extracts from tv series. Designed with the European learner or visitor to Spain in mind.

Grammar/ Gramática
From initial pronunciation to sentence constrution, this Business Spanish site is also good for high school students as it has mp3 files to help you learn correct pronunciation. You could download these to your mp3 player.

Learn Spanish
Same name, different site. Lots of specialized vocabulary, such as soccer and guitar word lists. Offers Spanish chat room.

Spanish Course for Beginners
The Embassy of Spain is pleased in introducing a Course of Spanish for beginners which has been programmed and supervised by the Department of Spanish at the University of Calgary. A downloadable course in Windows format.

Advanced Spanish

Language Express Spanish Game
Flash Spanish game for those who have a pretty good Spanish vocabulary, and can translate English into Spanish. Nice special effects.

Quia page for Spanish 2
Includes all of the Java Games for your vocabulary in Paso a Paso 2. Milpitas Spanish teacher, Srta. Feige, has also started entering other games/activities you can do with the vocabulary.

Quia page for Spanish 3
Includes all of the Java Games for your vocabulary in Paso a Paso 3. Milpitas Spanish teacher, Srta. Feige, has also started entering other games/activities you can do with the vocabulary.

Comprehensive Spanish Sites

eLearn Spanish Language
A free resource for Spanish students and teachers. Laura K. Lawless adds new lessons and links weekly.

Online

Spanish Forum
This is the place to learn about Spanish, have your questions about Spanish answered, or simply meet other people who enjoy one of the world’s most-used languages. The languages of this bulletin board are Spanish and English.

Stories & Songs

Los tebeos de siempre
Comic strips in Spanish.

Songs of the Kids of Mexico
Un Elefante Se Balanceaba ~ Una Rata Vieja
Itzi, Bitzi Araña ~ Brinca La Tablita
Tortillitas ~ Senora Santana
Arroz con Leche ~ Estrellita

Spanish For Kids
I teach a Spanish computer lab and have written several simple songs for my young students.

Type Spanish

Type Spanish with Accents Online
This page allows you to easily type Spanish accents and other Spanish characters without a Spanish keyboard. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your e-mail application, word processor, etc.

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For Small Children

Little children can make these with a little adult supervision. Scissors needed for cutting. Some gluing. Tuning unnecessary or minimal. Recommended by your homeschool guide.

The Bullroarer

Children’s Music by Nancy Stewart – Homemade Instruments
Here are some musical instruments you can make with your child from everyday items: Plastic Egg Shakers, Paper Mache Fruit Shakers, Jingle Sticks, African Tambourine, Sand Blocks, Juice Can Shakers, Jingle Bracelets, and Quilting Hoop Drum.

9 D.I.Y Instruments That Really Work
We’re all partial to rockstar moments every now and then, aren’t we? Combine your love of crafts and music with these fun D.I.Y musical instrument ideas. Not just for kids, adults can rock out using their handmade creations too.

Preschool Musical Instruments
Very simple musical instruments little children can make and play.

Beginners

Children 6-10 will find these easy to make. Scissors or box cutting knife or glue gun may be needed. Tuning not difficult.

Guitars Sculptures
This is a motivating project that incorporates music and history as students construct guitar sculptures.

5 instruments kids can make
Encouraging creativity and play while the kids are homeschooled is more important than ever, so spark their imaginations with these colourful, homemade instruments.

Invent a Musical Instrument
Invention can happen anywhere, anytime, with anything. There are lots of everyday materials you can use to build your invention.

Panpipes by Phil Tulga
Building pan pipes is a fun way for students to apply their knowledge of measurement and length. As they will hear: longer tubes produce a lower pitch, and shorter tubes produce a higher pitch.

Singing Glasses
What dinner party is complete without a song from the Wine Glass Symphony? You’ll need a few wine glasses, some water, and a tune in mind to demonstrate the sounds of science. Amaze everyone and display incredibly bad manners all at once.

More Instruments to make – for older people

• Intermediate Home Made Instruments ~ Children between 10-14. Sharp tools, Tuning skills. Low cost.
• Advanced Homemade Musical Instruments ~ Complicated designs. Costlier materials. Tricky tuning.
• Utilities to help you Make Your Own Instruments ~ Fret placement. Inventing instruments.

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Intermediate and High School Classes
AP Biology Online Classes
Biology Topics

Intermediate and High School Online Classes

Biology 4 Kids
If you are looking for biology basics, stay on this site.

Crash Course: Biology
Hank Green teaches you biology! Learn, study and understand the science of life. Topics covered range from: taxonomy, systems, biological molecules, photosynthesis, evolution, animals, plants, anatomy, and ecology.

Fundamentals of Biology
MIT OpenCourseware. Focuses on the basic principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and recombinant DNA.

Troy High Home Labs
These biology labs are easily done at home.

University of California Scout Biology
“A-G” Approved. A first-year course in biology at the high school level. Four themes organize important concepts: science, technology, and society, evolution, the relationship between structure and function, and science as a process.

AP Biology Online Classes

The Biology Project
Fun, richly illustrated, and tested on 1000s of students. This biology class has been designed for students at the college level, but is useful for high school students.

Mastering Biology
Buy the Campbell Biology Plus Mastering Biology with eText — Access Card Package here. Combining the website and book with labs from The College Board AP Advanced Placement Program Biology Lab Manual For Students can prepare a teen for the AP Biology exam.

Concepts of Biology
The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.

University of California Scout AP Environmental Science 
Earth’s Systems, Human Population Dynamics, Natural Resources, Environmental Quality, Global Changes, and Environment and Society.

Biology Topics

DNA From the Beginning
The science behind each concept is explained in this online class by animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem sets, biographies, and links. Available also on CD-rom.

Evolution
PBS TV Series: “Great Transformations” traces how life moved from water to land — and back again.

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Anatomy Arcade
A fun interactive site with games that will help you learn the formal names, say, of muscles, bones, and such. Games organized by body system. You need to be a good enough reader so that terms like “pituitary gland” and “deltoid” don’t throw you.

Anatomy of the Human Body
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. Advanced.

Animal Cell Structure
Animal cells are typical of the eukaryotic cell, enclosed by a plasma membrane and containing a membrane-bound nucleus and organelles.

Human Body and Mind – Interactive Body
Rotate, drag and drop body parts into a male or female body. Find out more about each part.

Innerbody Anatomy Explorer
There are 12 major anatomy systems: Skeletal, Muscular, Cardiovascular, Digestive, Endocrine, Nervous, Respiratory, Immune/Lymphatic, Urinary, Female Reproductive, Male Reproductive, Integumentary. 3D images can be turned to get multiple views. Don’t be deterred by home page. Once you dig down, you’ll see fantastic images and summaries of bodily functions of each organ.

Life Fantastic – Where do I come from?
From the Christmas Lecture Series. Your life stems from a single cell. Yet within the trillion of cells that make up your body lies a fundamental conundrum. Each cell contains identical DNA, yet muscle cells are very different from skin cells; blood cells are very different from brain cells.

Visible Human
Annotated images of cross sections of the human body.

Inside a Chicken

Dissecting a Whole Chicken
Why not dissect a whole chicken to investigate the muscles and bones of the torso? (Come to think of it, you could probably also dissect a turkey, a cornish hen, or a holiday duck, but I haven’t tried any of these myself.)

Inside a Frog

Whole Frog Project
Computers can’t teach everything in anatomy, but they can teach some things better, either by themselves or through synergy with conventional methods. Try out this award-winning virtual frog- as a case in point.

Inside Mammal Bodies

Atlas of Veterinary Clinical Anatomy
The body is composed of several functional units called organ systems. Each organ system is a collection of organs that function together to perform a specific job to keep the body healthy. Tissues, and the microscopic units of tissues, the cells, are the building blocks of organs. Tissues include materials such as muscles, nerves and epithelia and connective tissues that bind the other tissues together. Provided by Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection
Our simulation of the dissection of the fetal pig was designed to provide an alternative exercise for students in our introductory biology class as well as provide review material for students prior to their lab practical exam.

Body Functions

Introduction to human body systems
Kahn Academy introduction to human anatomy. You’ll learn some general anatomy (a roadmap of your body), learn how the arm bone actually connects to the shoulder bone, and how the different organs work together to keep you alive. Watch some videos, read some articles, try some flashcards, and then quiz yourself!

Virtual Labs
Immerse yourself in the world of biology. Become a scientist in our virtual labs, where you can identify deadly pathogens, probe heart patients, dissect a leech, or assay antibodies!

Respiratory System

Inside the Human Body – The Respiratory System
Discover what our breathing system looks like and how it functions. The web site was produced by a youth team at the Saskatchewan Lung Association.

How To Make a Model of the Lungs
Constructing a lung model is an excellent way to learn about the respiratory system and how the lungs function.

Remembrance of smells past
How do smells impact on memories and emotions? Science is unraveling how a whiff of perfume or a newly mown lawn can offer us a free ticket back to our childhood. As a child, if you want badly to remember something, would it help to also smell something?

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Science Fair Help
Looking for help with that science fair project? You’ve come to the right place!

Scientific Method For Kids
How to successfully set up and run science experiments at home.

Astronomy for Kids
Outer Space, Asteroids & Comets, Constellations & Stars, Rockets, The Solar System, Space Exploration, Telescopes

Biology Experiments For Kids
Animals, Animals, Biology Classes, Body Parts – Anatomy, Microscopes, Plant Science Projects

Chemistry Experiments For Kids
Chemistry Experiments, Chemicals, Chemistry Classes, Chemistry Software, Crystal Ornament, Food Chemistry, Gak Recipe, Ice Cream

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