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What Are the SPO Virtual Classrooms?
Science Prof Online offers FREE fully-developed science curricula, including the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom, the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, the Virtual Anatomy & Physiology Classroom, and the Virtual Biology Classroom -Health Careers (featured on this page) Click here > for our other biology classroom, the Virtual General Biology Classroom (VBC). These are all materials used in real, live high school and college science classrooms.
Virtual Biology Classroom
Biology for Health Careers
from Science Prof Online
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Page last updated 12/2015
- Biology4Kids website (Also good for grown-ups!)
- Chem4Kids website (Also good for grown-ups!)
- Crash Course Biology video tutorials
- The Biology Project, from University of Arizona
- Cells - song by They Might Be Giants
- Golgi Apparatus - song by Phish
- Cell's Alive interactive cell biology website
- John Kyrk Cell Biology Animations
- Interactive Cell Diagrams from Wiley
SPO VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
This biology class is a prerequisite for Intro Human Anatomy & Physiology, and, as such, focuses mainly on the subtopics of chemistry, cell biology and anatomy, rather than other biology subtopics, such as ecology or evolution. New resources are regularly added to the Virtual Biology Classroom. Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter @ ScienceProfSPO for updates.
Virtual Biology Classroom Lecture Topics
UNIT 1
Class #1 - Introduction to Biology
LECTURE:
- Introduction to Biology Main Page
IN-CLASS EXERCISE:
- V.A.R.K. Learning Styles Website: One of the things that students do during our first class meeting is explore their own learning preferences through V.A.R.K. (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic). Students complete and discuss the V.A.R.K questionnaire, which provides them with a profile of their learning preferences, the ways that they best take-in and present information. The V.A.R.K. Help Sheet can help you understand what this questionnaire reveals about how you learn.
The Virtual Classrooms are organized by lecture into several topics, each lecture topic typically includes free:
- PowerPoint lectures
- lecture study guide
- class note articles
- practice test and review questions
- homework assignments
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SPO offers free PowerPoint lectures, sample test
questions, review questions and assignments on many different science topics.
Below are links to those that relate to chemistry:
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The VBC offers
homework assignments
based on Radiolab podcasts.
RADIOLAB PODCASTS:
"Inheritance" Podcast
"Henrietta's Tumor" Podcast
"Yellow Fluff" Podcast
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
- "Inheritance"
- "Henrietta's Tumor"
- "Yellow Fluff"
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
- Thomas Huxley (1825-95)
The Virtual Biology Classroom - Health Careers is one of our newest virtual classroom, so does not have all materials developed yet. Below are links to the VBC's PowerPoint lectures.
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UNIT 2
Class #7 - Acids, Bases, pH & Buffers
LECTURE:
- Acids, Bases, Buffer & pH Main Page
Class #8 - Organic Chemistry Basics
LECTURE:
- Organic Chemistry Basics Main Page
Class #9 - Macromolecules & Nutrition
LECTURE:
- Macromolecules, Diet & Nutrition Main Page
Class #10 - Enzymes
LECTURE:
- Enzymes Main Page
Class #11 - Biological Cells & Microscope Use
LECTURE:
Class #12 - Biological Cell Structure & Function
LECTURE:
- Biological Cell Structure & Function Main Page
UNIT 3
Class #13 - Cell Membrane Structure & Transport
Class #14 - Genetics Basics
Class #15 - Cell Cycle & Mitosis
- Cell Cycle: Mitosis Main Page
Class #16 - Human Anatomy: Tissues
Class #17 - Human Anatomy: Organ Systems
Class #18 - Human Anatomy: Skeletal System
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Class #5 - Chemical Bonds, Reactions & Notation + a Botany Break!
LECTURES:
- Chemical Bonds, Reactions & Notation Main Page
- Botany Lecture PPT Show "What Are The Plants Up To?" [Printable Lecture & Editable PPT] This botany lecture is a very low-tech "bonus lecture" designed to give students a brief break from chemistry to talk about the biology of flowering plants, a topic that may seem more accessible to some students.
Class #6 - Ionic and Covalent Compounds & Solutions
LECTURE:
- Chemistry of Solutions Main Page
Class #4 - Atomic Theory & Periodic Table
LECTURE:
- Atomic Theory & Periodic Table Main Page
- Periodic Table (printable, detailed)
- Periodic Table (simpler, with period and group numbers)
HOMEWORK:
- "Yellow Fluff & Other Curious Encounters" Radiolab Podcast: Listen and learn some of the unique ways that scientists explore and explain the world. Featuring the history of the Perioidic Table.
Periodic Table
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Class #2 - Scientific Method & Metric System
LECTURES:
- Scientific Method Main Page
Class #3 - Matter & Energy
LECTURE: