aclJohn's Science Finds

Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of...

• health,
• technology, and
• work.

With Open Heart, learners can perform, among other things, heart surgery, and learn a lot about how the heart works in the process.

Open Heart has lots of interactive components to help teach about the structure and function of the heart. Learners can...

• put together the pieces of the heart,
  
• make it pump by correctly identifying the blood-flow pathway,
  
• diagnose patients, and
  
• performing bypass surgery (virtually, that is).
  

In each section there is clear readable, easy-to-understan...

The costs of textbooks and scholarly journals continue to rise, so it is nice to find websites like Sciyo; Sciyo is valuable to cash-strapped science learners.

Sciyo is a free service that allows scientists to publish their works and connect with other authors.

• Works published on Sciyo are made available for free to visitors.
  
• Visitors can download works as PDFs.
  
• There are currently 211 free books on Sciyo.
  

Note: In the future videos will also be available on Sciyo.

OE-CAKE acts as a physics-based paint program.

Users can insert objects and see them interact under the laws of physics.

OE-CAKE has an advanced fluid simulator with support for things such as...

• gases;
• rigid objects; and
  
• elastic materials.
  

As usual, before I include anything in a blog/podcast/eMagazine etc., I've had a play and found it both intuitive (in part perhaps, because I taught Physics in the past) and impressive.

It is an ideal tool for use on an interactive white bo...

Ever wondered how a baby sees the world? Many believe that babies

TinyEyes is an online image manipulation tool that simulates what a baby sees during the different stages of their development.

To use TinyEyes...

• Click the “Try it!” link; found at the top of the homepage;
• Select the age of the child, who’s vision that you want to see, from the drop-down menu;
• Enter the distance in inches from the child;
• Uplo...

Another interactive resource and tutorial for Biologists; this time it concentrates on the eye and all its parts.

Visit http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html to try it out.

As Chemistry is one of those subjects that really can flourish with the addition of multimedia elements, practitioners should check out the Chemistry Educational Digital Library.

The Chemistry Educational Digital Library is a great place to find video and/or other multimedia elements to use in the classroom, as well as find interactive online applications like...

• a java-based three-dimensional molecule diagramming program;
• an interactive periodic table; and
• a host of other collections to...

Microsoft Research Cambridge <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/default.aspx>, working with the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, have come up with an add-in that makes it easier for learners and researchers to include chemical information – such as...

• labels;
• formulas; and
• 2-D depictions;

...within a Word document. And easy to edit afterwards.

Note: Will only work on a computer that is running Office 2007 or Office 2010

And the bonus news is ...

If you are a 'typical British' person, then weather is something we all talk about. You may well have the latest weather displayed...

• on your phone;
• on your computer’s desktop; and/or even
• on the sidebar of your blog.

You may well check the weather...

• before heading out to work ;
• before heading back home; and
• before heading out at the weekend.

Weather applications usually consist of little more than text featuring the latest temperature, barometric pressure readings and maybe a fore...