In this interactive module, explore the anatomical changes in four-limbed animals (tetrapods) as they evolved from fish. http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/great-transitions/ For more resources from BioInteractive and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, please visit their website at: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/great-transitions-interactive
Explore the science behind the key concepts of DNA through animations, videos and questions in this interactive module. http://www.dnaftb.org/4/index.html For more resources from the DNA Learning Center, please visit their website: http://www.dnaftb.org/ Other related resources: Interactive learning module on DNA from Annenberg Learner: https://www.learner.org/interactives/dna/index.html
Learn about centrioles, lysosomes, microvilli and other parts of the animal cell in this interactive module. https://www.wisc-online.com/LearningContent/ap11403/index.html (Content author: Dr. Gerald Heins; Content Developer: Tim Gremore) For more resources from Wisc-Online, please visit their website: https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/natural-science/life-science/ap11403/a-typical-animal-cell
Learn all about carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and their (sometimes very unstable) neighbours in this interactive periodic table of the elements. http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table For more resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry, please visit their website at: http://www.rsc.org/ Other related resources: Periodic table (interactive learning module) from Scientific American Periodic table (interactive learning module) from Annenberg Learner […]
This interactive module is a tribute to the teachers, health care workers, social workers, journalists and politicians who are working hard to contain the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. http://www.jackievannice.com/challenge_54_faces/story.html This interactive module was developed by Jackie Van Nice (http://www.jackievannice.com/). It features content and photographs that were originally presented by The […]
Learn about the bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that maintain human health. http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0612-human-microbiome/index.html For more resources from Scientific American, please visit their website at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microbiome-graphic-explore-human-microbiome/
This 3D-animation, created by Drew Berry, explores the Fas signal transduction pathway that induces apoptosis (programmed cell death). http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/apoptosis_and_signal_transduction/ For more resources from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, please visit their website at: https://www.wehi.edu.au/
(This one’s for you, Pranav… Thanks for the tip! – Anne) This 3D-animation focuses on the role of clathrin cage assembly and disassembly during endocytosis. http://player.vimeo.com/video/63913620?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 This animation was created by Janet Iwasa (University of Utah) in collaboration with Tomas Kirchhausen (Harvard Medical School). For more animations and resources from Janet Iwasa, please visit her […]
This 11-minute video-animation describes the biological processes that are involved in the development, growth and spread of cancer. https://www.cancerquest.org/education-center/videos/cancer-biology-animations For more interactive resources from CancerQuest, please visit their website at: http://www.cancerquest.org/.
The proteins we can‘t live without
In this interactive module, explore the nine different types of protein that keep us, and other organisms, alive and healthy. http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/molecules/proteintypes/ For more resources from the Genetic Science Learning Centre (University of Utah Health Sciences), please visit their website: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
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