Category Archives: Free Resources
3D Body Models from Global 3B Scientific
Models you can manipulate – and the labels come in a range of languages, so ideal fo
r international students trying to learn the content in a foreign language.
You can zoom in and out, highlight different sections and turn it around.
I Love Wales
This site has a good few downloadable SMART Board resources and the like. There’s a nice, simple enzymes activity right here. Their KS3 Science area has some Physics and Chemistry resources, too.
Oxford Scientific Videos – another great big archive of good clips
Some great short clips here, and a searchable database. Clips can be saved by right-clicking on the ‘download’ button below each frame. Have a hunt about – plenty to see.
Thanks to fannafanna from the TES Boards for posting the link.
Arkive.org – a whopping great video archive
This site is a great resource for short clips of hundreds of different species in the wild. Thanks to Philips78 from the TES Boards for the link. They are streamed videos – WMV, RealVideo or Qucktime – and you can download each one via a button below the video. Go and have a look – you could spend hours and all your bandwidth, so get comfortable.
PhET Simulations
PhET have some good simulations on their website (Physics and Chem):
Well worth trawling through to find some good ideas (like this skate-ramp) for the SMART board.
EDIT: this site’s helpfulness rating is boosted by the ‘run offline’ button next to each sim – they actually want us to download these and use them for free. Rock on. Needs Java.
“Carboxyl groups: really important. Don’t forget those bad boys – ooh!”
Thanks to Karen Smith for this link: Thinkwell virtual textbooks. 
They have a sample video online here:
http://www.thinkwell.com/marketing/demos/play.cfm
It’s about 10mins long, is about functional side-groups and is actually pretty entertaining.
EDIT:
Here’s the link Karen intended – an animation about protein synthesis:
Multimedia Resource Site: teachersdomain.org
This site has some good resources, including savable flash videos.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/sci/index.html
You’ll need to register yourself and your school, but it’s worth the odd email in the inbox.
i-Biology 