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Bachelor of Science » 100 Best YouTube Videos for Science Practitioners

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, August 25, 2011, In : Video

YouTube’s value in the classroom is self-evident, the website offers up excellent videos to supplement lessons and provide windows into different facts and concepts.

Science teachers have plenty to love and appreciate with this valuable resource. Everything from microbiology to astrophysics makes an appearance through a channel operated by a museum, university, educator, professional or interested individual.

Here is a post highlighting 100 Best YouTube Videos for Science Teachers.

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Succeeding with Science

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, In : STEM

The Succeeding with Science website, created by Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, contains many different interactive activities and downloadable resources.

There are resources here for different age groups...

4 - 7;
7 - 11;
11 -14;
14 - 16; and
16+

...as well as a section for teachers.

The resources cover a range of different topics such as...

electricity;
states of matter;
carbon footprints; and
radioactivity.

There’s also information about the Sellafi...

Time zones: BBC

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, March 28, 2011, In : Time

In Lisa's words "About Time... < brilliant"

As visitors have come to expect from the BBC, another excellent interactive resource that includes...

text;

video clips;

interactive flash tools;
the science of time; and

Personal experiences as case studies etc.

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12849630 to find out more.

Teacher Resources Websites

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, March 11, 2011, In : Health Education

This American Association for Health Education (AAHE) Toolbox (pdf) provides a list of websites offering teacher resources.

Note: AAHE does not endorse any of the non-AAHE/AAHPERD websites. They are making the list available for practitioner perusal and potential use.

Visit and/or download the pdf at http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/publications/upload/Teacher-Resources-Websites.pdf.

Open Heart

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 20, 2010, In : Medicine

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...

British Science Association

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, February 28, 2010, In : Associations

The British Science Association <http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/index.htm> was re-launched in January ; a registered charity that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering in the UK.

The National Science and Engineering Week takes place this year from 12-21 March.

A nationwide celebration of...

science,
engineering and
technology

...involving people of all ages in thousands of events across the country.

Mo...

Animated Tutorials: General Biology

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, In : Biology

38, yes 38 animations for those engaged in the delivery of Biology.

The Legal notice on their website tells us that...

"Noncommerical links to animations on this website are permitted only if the link is to the HTML file displaying the animation. Direct links to Flash (.swf), Shockwave (.dcr) or QuickTime (.mov) files are expressly prohibited. Links for commercial purposes are prohibited without the prior written permission of Sumanas, Inc."

This is yet another wonderful re...

Human & Animal Health: WellcomeTrust

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, January 10, 2010, In : Nursing, Midwifery and Health & Social Care

The Wellcome Trust, an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health, has a number of web presences that are well worth a visit.

They include, among other things...

Three YouTube Channels...
- Wellcome Film: a channel at YouTube where they are posting archival medical films and films about the archive e.g. Cruel Kindness are films from the 1960s about childhood obesity
  
  http://www.youtube.com/wellcomefilm#p/p.
- Wellcome Trust: Videos of the research that the Wellco...

NASAcast

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, November 13, 2009, In : Podcasts

NASA_CAST is a podcast repository containing a growing selection of audio-visual resources across a wide range of subject areas related to...

astronomy,
earth sciences, and
space exploration.

Audio topics covered include...

the Solar system,
recent NASA news,
the Shuttle and International Space Station,
NASA moments and
earth science stories.

The video casts include similar topics plus videos of...

space missions and
archive footage.

Note: podcasts are available through iTunes, and vi...

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John Dalziel

Liverpool

I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.