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Unit 1: Living in God’s World
Chapter 1: The Living Creation
Lab 1A A Method to this Madness
- Science Daily—Database of readable summaries of recent scientific studies
Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Living Things
Lab 2A Lost in the Woods
- Greenville, SC Water Quality Study—an assessment of the process used to provide clean drinking water to Greenville SC
Lab 2B Bubbles of Life
- Virtual Enzyme Lab—a virtual lab examining how enzymes increase the rates of reactions
Chapter 6: Energy and Information in the Cell
Lab 6A No Swimming Today
- Water Quality Testing—a water testing program for middle schools and high schools produced by Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
- BOD demonstration—a demonstration of the Winkler method produced by Carolina Biological.
Lab 6B Hidden Code
- Virtual DNA Extraction Lab—a virtual lab that explains the process of extracting DNA using much more expensive and precise instruments than used in Lab 6B
Chapter 9: Advanced Genetics
Lab 9A Fix It!
- Genetic Drift Simulator 1—simulates one population; inputs for allele frequency and population size
- Genetic Drift Simulator 2—simulates up to five populations with multiple initial settings
- Genetic Drift Simulator 3—downloadable Java-based simulator
- Answers in Genesis—young-earth creationist apologetics website
Chapter 10: When Worldviews Collide
Lab 10A In Darwin’s Own Words
- On the Origin of Species—digital copy of Darwin's entire work
- Darwin Correspondence Project—a database of over 8,000 of Darwin’s personal letters
Lab 10B Worldview Sleuthing
- NOVA—a database of NOVA videos shown on PBS
- Nature—a database of Nature videos shown on PBS
- Science Articles—a database of recent science research articles written for the nonprofessional
Unit 3: Microorganisms and Plants
Chapter 11: Classifying Life
Lab 11B All Myxed Up
- Myxozoan Classification—a scientific article on the supposed phylogenetic relationship between myxozoans and cnidarians
Chapter 12: Energy and Information in the Cell
Lab 12B One Slick Solution
- Cleaning Up Contamination—technologies and case studies related to cleaning up the environment from contamination
- Oil Spill Trajectory—predicting the movement of an oil spill in the ocean
- Oil-Eating Bacteria Kit—oil-eating bacteria kit available from Flinn Scientific.
Chapter 14: Plant Classification and Structure
Lab 14A Name that Plant
- Plant ID App—an app that allows users to upload and retrieve pictures of plant species as an aid in identification
Chapter 15: Plant Processes
Lab 15A Bananamania
- Yang Cycle—a brief history of processes used throughout history to hasten the ripening of fruit
Lab 15B Too Salty?
- Soil Salinity—background information on the effects of soil salinity on plant growth
- Howe's Paper—“Seed Germination, Sea Water, And Plant Survival in the Great Flood,” by George F. Howe in Creation Research Society Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3 (December 1968), pp. 105–12
- On the Action of Seawater—“On the Action of Seawater on the Germination of Seeds” by Charles Darwin
Unit 4: Animals
Chapter 19: Endothermic Vertebrates
Lab 19A Our Fine, Feathered Friends
- Winter Wren Populations—Publication of Royal Society Open Science
Unit 5: The Human Body
Chapter 20: Protection
Lab 20A Chill Out!
- Vernier Skin Temperature Lab—skin temperature lab available at Vernier's website
Chapter 24: Communication
Lab 24B Rat Recap
- Virtual Rat Dissection 1—virtual rat dissection at Biology Corner
- Virtual Rat Dissection 2—review of rat anatomy at University of Tennessee at Martin
- Virtual Rat Dissection 3—images of rat dissection at Kansas State University
- Virtual Rat Dissection 4—virtual rat dissection app available at Apple iTunes
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