Some good cell sites

Check out some of the links below for more information on cells and their organelles.

1. http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm Lets you look inside a eukaryotic cell and play with it's organelles

2. http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/cell/ Try this MegaCell game!

3. http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm Another interactice cell site

4. http://www.zerobio.com/drag_gr11/organell.htm Test your knowledge of cell organelles with this easy to use site.

Regents review and practice

http://www.regentsprep.org

Sept. 29, 2009 Classwork Assignment

Use the websites provided on this blog to answer the following questions:

1. How many chapters are there for the web books?

2. Why is the Red planet better known as the wet one? (NY Times article)

3. How do you respond to/make posts to a blog?

4. Find information on the following:
1. nucleus
2. mitochondria
3. chloroplasts
4. ribosomes
5. cell membrane
6. Endoplasmic Reticulum
7. Golgi complex/Golgi apparatus
8. lysosome
9. microtubules
10. Cell Wall (plants)

Free Online Textbooks

Check out these websites for free online biology textbooks. Click around and get used to them. There will be future assignments using the blog and online texts. :-)

1. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

2. http://www.web-books.com/MoBio/

Some interesting websites worth checking out:

1. http://www.backyardbiology.net/Backyard_Biology.html

2. http://www.kidsbiology.com/human_biology/index.php

3. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html