Resources for Teachers For links of general interest to teachers, check out our awards page. For links about the individual chapters, check out the Helpful Web Sites. Other helpful sites include: http://130.17.2.215/ California State University Biological Sciences World Wide Web Server Excellent menu with links for all sorts of science areas helpful to world builders. Many have good entry level information and graphics. http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html The World Lecture Hall Courses which are at least in part on line in many different fields Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA A great resource for teachers! Public Access computer bulletin Board Service includes directories for news releases, mission updates, GIF images, software for Macs and PCs, teacher guides, and text from JPL newspaper. Suggestion: begin with the README file. To access by modem: use anonymous ftp.jpl.nasa.gov or 137.78.104.2 and log on as anonymous. Password = city and state or city and country, up to a total of 15 characters. Mailing Address: Questions and Requests for Information Information Office Mail Stop 186-120 Jet Propulsion Laboratory4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 (818) 354 5011 Mission Status Line (818) 354-2410 Check with them for video tapes, posters, and a teacher information package. This information was abstracted from a JPL printout. http://www.bgsu.edu/Departments/biology/algae/index.html The Biology Department of the University of Bowling Green has many photographic images of unicellular life forms. It also has links to a history of microscopes and resources for K-12 teachers. http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/Mendel.html Read Gregor Mendel's reporton his experiments! This document is the foundation of modern work on genetics. The manuscript is easy reading. Science teachers, this is a treat for you! http://www.onyxtree.com/ A program that draws trees! Super! Order demo CD-ROM from 1 617 876 3876 for $20 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/flightintro.html Vertebrate Flight Exhibit: from the museum of the University of California in Berkeley. Check this out if you plan to have flying lifeforms on your planet! There is information on Pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Interesting and informative. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ University of California, Berkeley, Virtual Museum exhibits. At this site three areas are addressed: Philogeny: the "family tree" of life. Here you will see charts classifying the life forms on earth. If you study these models, constructing your own "family trees" will be easy for you! Geological Time: Studying this branch will help you to understand the immense stretches of time that are involved in the development of life forms. It will give you an idea of how more complex forms evolve from simple ones, and how periodic extinctions are followed by the emergence of different dominant groups. Evolutionary Thought: will give you an opportunity to see how scientists are thinking about the development of life. http://www.mbayaq.org/ At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Home Page. Try the Habitat's Path . Check out the temporary exhibits. Descriptions and images: very nice! http://tyrrell.magtech.ab.ca/home.html Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology An absolute must for World Builders! Take the Virtual tour. Here you will see the first life, early plants, trilobites, evolution of fish and on and on -- marvelous graphics and manageable amounts of very helpful information. http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/ The Hunterian Museum of Glasgow Take the virtual tour and click on the map. You will see sections on just what we are doing -- the beginning of the earth and it's life forms. It is similar, chapter for chapter, to our assignments -- don't miss this one! http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html The Tree of Life Phylogeny Project from the University of Arizona. Alarge project showing the interelationships of all life forms Unicellular and Multicellular living things different perspectives -- geological, by creature type. http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/downloads.html Do searches for software by name or key words. Software Archives: contains software for Macintosh, DOS, and Windows, Educational, Multimedia, and Children's categories. HTML related software. Send your comments and suggestions to this e-mail address: eviau@earthlink.net Return to Resources Page © Elizabeth Anne Viau, 1997. This material may be used freely for instructional purposes but not sold for a price beyond the cost of reproduction. As a courtesy, please inform the author if you use it at eviau@earthlink.net Thank you!