This is really well done, from a group of Stanford students:

There are more cell biology clips on their YouTube channel.

Essential Biology 2.2 Prokaryotes

Click4Biology Prokaryotes

-

MrT’s terrible pun:

If you get salmonella from a 3 day-old bacon sandwich, does that mean you’ve contracted a porkaryote?

-

Essential Biology 2.3 Eukaryotes

Click4Biology Eukaryotes

-

BioCoach Cell Structure and Function topic

The Biology Project Cell Biology page

Wiley Science tutorial (Flash)

Bacterial growth populations from umich.edu

Don’t forget the great resources at Learn.Genetics.

-

Review quiz on Quia: Cell Theory, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. (for my class only)

-

And here’s a nice timelapse of bacterial growth:

Here’s a story of a giant bacterium, from NotExactlyRocketScience

Here is the presentation for the Core content – Grade 9’s, you can look too, as we’re on this unit in HPD! There are tons of videos and animations out there about reproduction – many are linked in the presentations, so click on the shadowed images to watch them.

-

And here is the AHL presentation, including spermatogenesis, oogenesis, hcg, hormonal control of birth.

-

Standard Level students Essential Biology 6.6 Reproduction (Click4Biology)

Higher Level students Essential Biology 6.6 & 11.4 Reproduction (Click4Biology)

-

Here are the Pythons with their birth sketch:

-

And some BioEthics cases on IVF:

Australasian bioethics special: IVF

Vatican condemns IVF

Journal of Medical Ethics: State of the Debate

Octomom signs reality TV deal

Check out this display of Tesla-coil dramatics, via Wired.com:

From Brian Malow, Science Comedian.

More on his channel, ScienceComedian.

Not the  Tim Lee in our class, this guy has a PhD and uses it for powerpoint comedy. Check out his inventive use of cladograms:

More science comedy to come…

These are for Grade 9 as we learn about Cosmology together!

The universe to scale:

Zoom-out from Earth:

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope:

Keep asking those questions!

Grade 10 Pathogens and Disease – IB Biology prep course

Stay tuned to the class page, found here: Pathogens and Disease

Complete all the notes on Essential Biology: Pathogens and Disease

Click4Biology notes:

Core content: http://click4biology.info/c4b/6/hum6.3.htm

Further content: http://click4biology.info/c4b/11/hum11.1.htm

Here is the Pathogenic or Non-Pathogenic? Quiz:

Check out some of these video clips on the immune system:

SL Students are working on your EE’s this week. HL’s, take care to understand this completely – it’s not as easy as it looks!

Essential Biology 11.2: Muscles and Movement.

Click4Biology page here.

-

Joints and the Skeleton:

Knee: rotary hinge joint

Hip, shoulder, ankle, foot, knee from Mid South Orthopedics

Inside the knee from choroknamu

Muscles and Contraction:

Full tutorial from Brooks Cole

Great explanation from Campbell Biology

And another from McGraw Hill

Actin and myosin from Blackwell

Can you explain the steps using all the key terms?

Neuromuscular junction:

McGraw Hill - Freeman – Blackwell

Art trippers, you missed the first episode of Cell – but don’t worry, you can get it from student access or see it here. All students, I expect you to watch the remaining episodes over the coming weeks, in your own time. Here is the work for this topic.

Cell Theory:

-

Essential Biology 2.1: Cell Theory

And the wikipedia page

And C4B page

And the brilliant Amazing Cells resource from Learn.Genetics at Utah.

-

Size of cells:

Learn.Genetics cell size

Practice calculations sheet: Calculations in Microscopy

Here’s a page of animations about techniques in microscopy

SA:Vol ratio from Wikipedia

And some cool animations to put things in perspective:

From Learn.Genetics at Utah (best one) or this one from Cells Alive.

-

Cell Differentiation:

Wikipedia page

Cell differentiation video from Teachers Domain

-

Virtual Electron Microscope - free and cool

Stem Cells:

NewScientist special reports on Stem Cells

Great Stem Cell videos from Eurostemcell.org (look at who they quote as a reviewer!)

Stem Cells cribsheet from SEED Magazine

Stem Cells transplants in lymphoma (animation)

-

Electron Microscopy

Get the awesome free Virtual Electron Microscope, or send off some samples to be scanned for nowt, from here or here.