#EsslerScience
Biology is the study of life and all living organisms. Students will be challenged to go one step further in Biology II. After learning to explore and observe in Biology, students will now have their eyes opened up to the History of Biological Diversity and how biologists have organized and classified living organisms.
Bozeman Science – AP Biology and Environmental Science
Jack Horner: Why Do We Continue To Care About Dinosaurs? TED radio
Jack Horner: Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken TED talk
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Principles of Ecology
Quizlet: Section 1: Organisms and Their Relationships
Quizlet: Sections 2-3: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem and Cycling of Matter
Bozeman Science – Ecosystem Ecology, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, and Biogeochemical cycles
Khan Academy: Coral Reef Symbiosis
Crash Course: The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycle
Crash Course: Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycle
NPR: Mystery of White Trees Among California’s Redwoods May Be Solved
NYTimes: In the Wild, Goldfish Turn From Pet to Pest
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Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems
TEDtalk: Emily Penn: How Do Toxins From Plastics Find Their Way Into Our Food?
Science News: Arctic Passageways Let Species Mingle
Timelapse: Watch 27 Years of “Old” Arctic Ice Melt Away in Seconds
Science News: Animals on the Move
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Grizzly Bears on Ice
US Forest Service: Hellbender – The Last Dragon
PBS NOVA: Franklin’s Arctic Expedition Interactive
Ralph Lee Hopkins: Quest for the Northwest Passage PhotoBlog
Biology Letters: The Northwest Passage opens for bowhead whales
BioSCAN Project (National History Museum)
Nat Geo: Aquatic Ecosystems
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The History of Life
Quizlet: History of Life
Crash Course: The History of Life
HHMI: The Day the Mesozoic Died
HHMI: Deep History of Life on Earth Click and Learn
HHMI: Geological History of Oxygen
Phet Simulation: Radioactive Dating Game
It’s Ok To Be Smart: Why Are You Multicellular?
Stated Clearly: Can Science Explain the Origin of Life
NY Times: From Old Vials, New Hints on the Origin of Life
Stated Clearly: What Was the Miller-Urey Experiment?
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Evolution
Quizlet: Chapter 15 – Evolution
HHMI: The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory
HHMI: The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans
HHMI: Lizard Evolution Virtual Lab
Stated Clearly: What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly: What it Natural Selection?
Stated Clearly: What Caused Life’s Major Evolutionary Transitions?
Stated Clearly: Does the Theory of Evolution Even Matter?
Science Channel: Natural Selection video
Crash Course: Natural Selection video
Crash Course: Speciation: Of Ligers & Men video
Crash Course: Overpopulation video
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Primate Evolution
Quizlet: Primate Evolution
Smithsonian: Human Evolution
NOVA: First Primates video
SciShow: Facts about Human Evolution video
HHMI: Origin of Humans
HHMI: Animated Life: Mary Leakey
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Organizing Life’s Diversity
Quizlet: Organizing Life’s Diversity
Crash Course: Taxonomy video
ARKive – Species archive
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Introduction to Animals
Hydra eating brine shrimp! video, and an even cooler video!
Horse eating a…carrot!
Humpback whale feeding on krill!
Sponges: Origins video
Cnidarians: Life on the Move video
Giraffe Autopsy video
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Worms and Mollusks
Flatworms: The First Hunter video
HHMI: C. elegans mating
Vinegar Eels (free-living roundworm) movement video
Melbourne Zoo: Giant Squid Dissection!!
Molluscs: The Survival Game video
Dirty Jobs: Geoduck video
BBC TWO: Earthworms video
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Arthropods
Student Science: This Shrimp Packs a Punch
SciShow: Horseshoe Crabs! video
Spider catching Prey video
Water Strider video
Metamorphosis: Egg to caterpillar video
Caterpillar to Butterfly video
BBC: Butterfly eggs and caterpillar survival video
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Fishes and Amphibians
Crash Course: Chordates video
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MICROBES
Learn.Genetics – What Are Microbes?
Learn.Genetics – Your Microbial Friends