Online teacher tools, resources, and science education newsletters
Stay up-to-date with current science news and trends with Carolina! We've pulled together some of our favorite Web sites we think you'll like too. Browse through the list below to find helpful online tools, guides, and videos!

Helpful Teacher Tools

A collection of articles on fossils, geological eras and periods of the earth.
Paleos

Create and print graphs using your own data.
National Center for Education Statistics

Create rubrics for scoring assessments.
Rubistar®

Dynamic distribution maps, photographs, species accounts, and species checklists for each county in the U.S. and each state in Mexico.
Butterflies and Moths of America

Hands-on science activities.
TOPS Learning Systems

Genetics Science Learning Center
The University of Utah

Great source of teacher-developed lab activities.
National Health Museum

Guide to understanding genetic conditions.
Genetics Home Reference

Introductory Genetics Tutorial.
Rutgers University

Lab activities for High School and College students.
Association for Biological Laboratory Education

Lab for using sea urchins for developmental studies (embryology).
Stanford University©: Sea Urchin Embyrology

Online Biology Textbook.
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online reference book to using zebrafish for developmental studies
ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Online guide to birds of North America
Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter

Resources for Molecular Biology
DNA Dolan Learning Center

Search many popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases.
San Diego Super Computer Center: Biology Workbench

Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century, but this modern version has a short video about each one.
The Periodic Table of Videos

The Tree of Life web project's goal is to place taxonomic data for all organisms, both living and extinct, online.
Tree of Life

View video clips, animations and media projects explaining rigorous scientific models of how biological processes occur.
BioVisions at Harvard University

Science eNewsletters & Listservs

R&D® Magazine

The Scientist®

NC State University: The Science House

NCSciteach Listserv (For all science teachers in North Carolina).