The following websites were researched for lesson plan content on the topic of science or biology as a category for high school students target audience.
4 Stars: Easy to navigate, good layout excellent content and concepts. Would definitely use as a resource.
3 Stars: May use as a backup resource but did not fit expectations of content or concepts.
2 Stars: Not enough content, may be formatted badly, may not offer pertinent links.
1 star: Would most likely not use due to shallow content, non-maneuverable format.
4Star Websites (Back to top)
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http://www.zerobio.com/index.htm
This site is focused on grade 9-12 science. This is a website for high school science students. You'll find a variety of interactive quizzes, games and puzzles to practice what you're learning in high school. It even offers a dissection lab.
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The site has a wonderful format. The homepage is very inviting. It features the creature of the month. It gives free posters you can download.The site has teamed with NASA to explore stromalites.
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http://camillasenior.homestead.com/resources.html
The lessons are arranged by categories such as diversity of living things and cell to organ systems. The site gives good descriptions and text-like diagrams with labels.
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http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.cfm
Topics and grade level are in a chart form when you enter the site. References are given in the right column. The site has an excellent array of lessons and a very colorful layout. The site is easy to navigate. So many lessons to choose from!
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http://sps.k12.ar.us/massengale/animal%20dissections.htm
This website offers animal dissections of a few species as well as cow heart and cow eye. This site has great descriptions and format.Definitely for use for the lab.
3Star Websites (Back to top)
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http://student.biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/biology.html
Offers various activities generated at exploring the topics of science. The categories offered are neuroscience activities, general anatomy and physiology activities and environmental sciences and animal biology activities.
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http://www.iit.edu/~smile/biolinde.html
Many categories offered and an easy direct format. Objectives, materials needed, activities and evaluation are offered. However there is no link to the materials which are needed.
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http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
This site allows you to choose your subject area and grade level. The entire lesson plan is given with the activity outline and websites for reference. It even includes a rubric! There were very few concepts to choose from in life science though.
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http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/
This site allows you to initially choose your topic and then subtopic. It then gives further subtopics with the grade specification outlined. It provides the overview, objective, references, and activities and procedures.
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http://www.actionbioscience.org/
This site offers subtopics, but not all subtopics in biology. However many great lesson plans. There are articles describing the significance of the lessons introduced.
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http://www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/toc.html
This site is divided into: molecules and cells; population biology. There are enough lessons, but what I liked the best was their Knowledge Mapping which provides you with what the lesson is teaching. The also provide Lesson SemNet which is an overview of the concepts covered.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Science/Biology/Biology.html
Biology subtopics are given on the homepage. Not many lessons given but an easy to read layout and easy to navigate format.
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http://biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/lessons2/lessons.html
Lessons are given with and introduction, teacher’s lesson plans and student’s lesson plans. The touch the surface of biology but do not go in depth.
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http://lessonplans.fundingfactory.com/
This site allows you to pick you subject and sub-subject. The site gives a brief description of the lesson and the grade level. The lessons are complete; however there are few lessons to choose form.
2Star Websites (Back to top)
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http://www.forlessonplans.com/
This site is easy to navigate and a great layout. However does not go beyond grade 7 as far as content.
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http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/index.htm
This site offers labs for using SI units, graphing, using a microscope and lab safety. It also offers the scientific fact of the week.
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This page allows you to choose your subject first and then choose the grade level you teach. The lessons themselves are limited to specifics. For biology junior/high school level there is a few activities. However the activities are unique such as using owl pellets to aide in studying the skeletal system.
1Star Websites (Back to top)
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This site allows you to select the grade level you are teaching (in this case9-12) and then in the blank cell search for the subject area(science). The search provided 8 categories and 114 resources.However once you pick a category it reverts back to any grade level.
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http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
This site allows you to pick your subject first. It then gives you categories and links. The categories are grade levels. However it does not give many plans that are relevant.
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http://sciconn.mcb.arizona.edu/lessons.html
Many good topics however most are generated to the 1stgrade level. There are subtopics such as biology, earth science,chemistry, physics and math. Nothing is relevant to my grade level.