LibGuides: Biology: Biology STEM Education

Library Resources

We have several education databases that cover a wide variety of science classroom needs, including the latest research, reports from schools, and other significant milestones in education.

ERIC (at EBSCOhost)
Covers all aspects of education and educational research and provides access to education-related resource such as conference proceedings and selected presentations; Congressional hearings and reports; reports on federal/state standards, testing, and regulations.
ProQuest Education Database
Excellent full text coverage of a wide variety of education and related topics. Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of similar themes.
Education Full Text
Provides coverage on the topics of secondary education, adult education, continuing education, literacy standards and more. Full text coverage for 350 journals and additional indexing for another 770 periodicals.
Professional Development Collection
A specialized collection of journal articles and pamphlets especially for professional educators that includes abstract and index coverage for searchable full text 500 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.

Interactive Learning

Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry
Offers interactive animations, an amino acids game, biochemical structure tutorials, quizzes, and more.
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This site is the interactive multimedia companion to Wiley's Concepts in Biochemistry (2nd edition). The instructional resources features are intended to supplement and extend the critical concepts presented in the textbook.
McGraw Hill Biology (7th ed.) Textual Animations
View full color, dynamic animations to help you visualize key biological processes.
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Play animations with or without text or narration. You can also start, stop, or rewind animations to any point you choose.
McGraw-Hill Essential Study Partner Version 2.0: General and Human Biology
Interactive lessons on the following topics: cells, genetics, evolution, ecology, diversity, plants, and animals. Requires IE 5.0 or higher, Macromedia Flash 4.0 or higher, and Macromedia Shockwave 8.0 or higher.

For Educators

MERLOT Biology
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff, and students of higher education to share learning materials and pedagogy. Sign up for a (free) membership in order to contribute materials.
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MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, cataloged by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

MERLOT’s activities are based on the creative collaboration and support of its Individual Members,
Institutional Partners, Corporate Partners and Editorial Boards.
BEN: BiosciEdNet
BEN offers a variety of tools and services to support your teaching of life sciences. Search by resource type, school level (preschool through graduate studies), or subject.
HHMI's BioInteractive
A collection of lectures, videos, and short animations for the science educator. Also features virtual labs and a classroom with activities, teacher guides, posters, and more.
Animal Diversity Web (ADW)
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
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ADW has thousands of species accounts including text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Since students write the text of these accounts, we cannot guarantee their accuracy.

ADW also contains descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, e.g., phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part.
BIODIDAC
A bank of digital resources for teaching biology featuring images of bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, as well as human biology and histology. (University of Ottawa)

Resources for Teaching Science

Georgia Performance Standards for Science
Designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills for proficiency in science.
Science Education.gov
The unification of federal science agencies’ science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education content, supporting cyber-learning and open participation.
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Educators, students, and the public can go to ScienceEducation.gov and conveniently find via a single query and use (for free) the STEM education offerings of several leading science and technology agencies. The content of ScienceEducation.gov is stratified by grade level and includes lesson plans, curricula, classroom activities, homework help and professional development information. Over 35,000 web pages of STEM content can be accessed.

Animated Tutorials

Sumanas, Inc. Animated Tutorials: General Biology
Sumanas develops animated tutorials in a variety of formats for many scientific disciplines.
Introductory Biology Tutorials
A diverse collection of introductory biology tutorials, including the carbon cycle, catabolism, mitosis and meiosis, prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic cells, and more. (University of Alberta)