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Virtual Science : experiments,"hands-on", laboratories

BioInteractive Virtual lab

Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: BioInteractive Virtual lab is an extensive website that features virtual labs, lectures, animations and articles on various topics in biology...
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Biology Labs On-Line

Type: Web-tool
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Biology Labs On-Line is a commercial web site that offers a series of 12 interactive, inquiry-based biology simulations and exercises designed for...
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BioQuest

Curriculum Consortium
Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: BioQUEST welcomes collaborative project ideas designed to support investigative, student-centered learning from individuals at other institutions...
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Chemcollective

Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: The Virtual Laboratory allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real...
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Cow's Eye Dissection

Type: Website
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Description:   At the Exploratorium, we dissect cows’ eyes to show people how an eye works. This Web site shows photos and videos of a dissection.
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EARTH SCIENCE LAB

Mineral Physical Properties and Identification
Type: Website
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Description: A simple tool for teaching the identification of the most commonly found minerals
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Hands on activity from Exploratorium

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: The is a web-listing of fun do it/make it yourself yourself activities and explanations to fun topics.
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Lab View

Type: Website
Status: Other
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Description: NI LabVIEW graphical development has revolutionized the development of scalable test, measurement, and control applications. Regardless of...
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Late nite Labs

Superior Lab Preparation For Today's Successful Chemistry Student
Type: Web-tool
Status: Free Trial
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Description: With REACTOR Prep Labs from Late Nite Labs, students ...
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NASA Learnign Technologies

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Description: The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is NASA’s educational technology incubator. LTP funds activities and collaborates with endeavors...
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NASA Virtual Lab

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Description: Virtual Lab completely emulates a scanning electron microscope and allows any user to zoom and focus into a variety of built-in microscopic...
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NEES

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) is a service-focused organization created to deliver...
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Net Frog

The Online Dissection
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:   The Interactive Frog Dissection was designed for use in high school biology classrooms. It takes you through all of the stages of frog...
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Operation: Heart Transplant

or How to Transplant a Heart in Nineteen Easy Steps
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Although the operation has been greatly simplified, all of the basic steps are outlined. By the end, you will have a good idea of what's involved...
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Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:   Not exactely a virtual lab but you are able to see and identify plants on line. The Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory...
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Remote Microscopy

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description:   The Remote Microscopy project provides web based remote control of microscopes in the ITG as part of the World Wide Laboratory. Its provide...
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Science Lab

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: A site mostly for kids with various virtual experiments.
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The biology project

Biochemistry
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: As we learn about amino acids, it is important to keep in mind that one of the more important reasons to understand amino acid structure...
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The Biotechniques Virtual Laboratory

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Very easy, pedagogical and very clear. Interactive Biotechniques Laboratory, where you can learn and practice basic techniques that molecular...
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The pressure chamber

Type: Website
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Description: A series of virtual experiments,  where the users control the action of a piston in a pressure chamber which is filled with an ideal gas.
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The Telelab project

Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description: An industrial robot can be controlled by the users. A Faculty Initiatives Fund project by the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at...
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The virtual Labs project

Type: Website
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Description:   The goals of the Virtual Labs Project are to change basic life sciences undergraduate education by developing innovative web-based learning...
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Tool Factory

Type: Web-tool
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Simulate science experiments virtually, design your own diagrams and experiments, develop scientific method skills and play games to enhance those...
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Virtual chemistry

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: The Oxford VR Group is developing a three-dimensional simulated laboratory for the teaching of chemistry. This laboratory will be modeled using...
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Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Virtual Dating (sorry geologic time not match.com), Virtual River, Virtual Earthquake, Global Warming and Earthquake labs are available without...
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Virtual Frog dissection kit

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: This program, part of the "Whole Frog" project, allows interactive dissection of a frog, and includes the capability to make on-the-fly...
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Virtual Genetic Lab

Type: Website
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Description: The Virtual Genetics Lab (VGL) is a simulation of transmission genetics that approximates, as closely as possible, the hypothesis-testing...
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Virtual Laboratories - Experiments

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Description: This virtual laboratory accompanies the Johns Hopkins University course 500.101 What is Engineering?he labs listed below are WWW-based...
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Virtual Laboratory for Earthquake Engineering

Type: Website
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Description: The purpose of these Virtual Laboratories is to provide an interactive framework for students and practitioners to gain fundamental understanding...
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Virtual laboratory in Probability and statistics

Type: Website
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Description: The goal of this project is to provide free, high quality, interactive, web-based resources for students and teachers of probability and...
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Virtual Microscope Screenshot

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: The Virtual Microscope is a NASA-funded project that provides simulated scientific instrumentation for students...
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Virtual Pig Dissection

Type: Website
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Description: Another virtual pig dissection website, that takes the user through a pigs reproductive, digestive, excretory, circulatory, repiratory and neverous...
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Virtual radioactivity Lab

Type: Website
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Description: This virtual lab lets you explore radioactive decay and half-life using a radioactive source and a geiger detector, with an optional screen between...
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Virtual SEM

Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: These pages use JavaScript to put you at the control panel of a virtual Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
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Xplora / Magalab

Hand-on experiments and web experiment
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Web experiments are great tools for science teaching – they are practical science procedures controlled at a distance, using a web site. The...
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