Kevin Peterson's Internet Sites for Biology Teachers

Sites offering valuable information on content:

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/main.html

This site is part of the Biology project and offers free access to learning materials in all the fields of science. The science department at Arizona state university maintains this site. It freely offers to teachers and students at all grade levels useful information and learning materials related to science. This is a good place to find activities and class project ideas.

http://home.comcast.net/%7Ejohn.kimball1/BiologyPages/
This is a public site that offers a great deal of content information. It is like an on-line textbook. This site is just packed full of information for biological science. Here you can find a comprehensive view of all your classroom topics, broken down and easy to access for both teachers and students. This would be a great site for your class to do web based research.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/
Access excellence is a site that was originally created by a company named Genentech but was later turned over to the nation health museum, a non-profit organization. This site offers a database that includes both content information and lesson plans. Here a professional educator can find information in content areas as well as information on planning lessons for it. This is good site for teachers because not only can you find information regarding your subject but you can also get help creating the lesson plan, creating activities around that plan and also get help with assessment.

http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/
This site is created and maintained by the graduate cell biology program in the university of Texas's medical branch. The group is dedicated to providing information that is useful to students as they study the key concepts of cellular biology. Their intent is to enhance the learning process in basic science and systems courses. These pages seem to be well kept and updated with current information. It is listed in outline form and has a great deal of information directly related to cell biology lessons.

Sites offering valuable information on unit plan design:

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/science/biology/: This site is a privately owned company, which supports a database for all educators. It is a comprehensive site for all teachers that include lesson plan ideas and activities. I have found many different lesson options in the field of biology here. This site also offers other links to sites with similar attributes. It is created with the professional in mind so it would not be a place to send students. I would use this site as a guide or reference when creating and planning lessons for my class.
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search/Science/Biology/Cell_Biology: This also is a privately owned site that has created a lesson plan database for professional educators. Like the others it is a national site that covers all subjects. It contains over 1200 possible biology lessons. It has a small fee to become a member but with that comes the ability to find many different lesson plans for a topic in the same place. I was able to find 20 or 30 different lesson plans here just for cell structure. I did find some of these plans on other sites but nowhere did I find as comprehensive a collection as they had here. I subscribed to this site.
http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/mcvittiej/resources/unitplans/biology/Bio30Cells.htm: This is a site that has a complete unit plan for teaching cell biology
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Biology.html: This site is a small database of science lesson plans that include about a dozen on biology.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~woltril/unitplan.pdf: This is a PDF file for a unit plan on cellular biology in secondary education.
http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-13515_13516_13519-36195--,00.html: This a site for Michigan state that list there basic course outline and requirements for secondary biology classes

Sites offering valuable information on student assessment

http://www.help4teachers.com/Nikicelldivision.htm: This site offers some scoring rubric examples for biology lab lessons
http://www.flaguide.org/extra/download/cat/rubrics/rubrics.pdf: This is a link to a site for understanding, creating and using scoring rubrics
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1993/rubrics/teresa/rubrics.htm: This is a link to a site that helps design scoring rubrics specifically for science lessons