These labs can be run independently or with a Virtual Science Facilitator using DIMDIM web conferencing software for integrated laboratory programs and assignments designed to educational standards and stimulating lab experiences. Labs can be setup for single students or groups. To get a lab program started, contact Virtual Sciences using the "Contact US" link in the Main Menu.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.php

Virtual Dissections, Labs, and Field Trips

• The Cell Visualization Project Home Page
  Computer reconstructions of a human white blood cell from serial transmission electron micrographs are presented as a brief guided tour and as still photos. Although more organelles will be added in the future, enough are included for this site to be useful to anyone introducing cell structure.
• Boston Museum of Science
  this site looks at science & technology in the news, including leading edge research & exploration. ÊLearn about the fats of life, Ritalin, garlic, carbon nanotubes, stem cells, diabetes, experiments in near zero gravity, visualizing influenza, growing heart cells, regenerative medicine, amorphous metals (metallic glasses), & nanotechnology. (NIH)
• The Exploratorium Home Page
  This is the home page of the San Francisco Exploratorium. Check it out for information on science education resources, great interactive exhibits, access to an ongoing bioethics discussion group, and more!
• Geology Labs Online
  Virtual Dating (about geologic time),Virtual River, Virtual Earthquake, Global Warming and Earthquake labs are available without cost. Biology Labs are available on a subscription basis.
• The Heart
  The Franklin Institute Science Museum" virtual exploration of the heart uses graphics and text to explore cardiac development and structure; blood, blood vessels, and blood flow through the body. The exhibit also includes information on maintaining a healthy heart, monitoring the heart's function, and a look at the history of heart science.
• HHMI Biointeractive: Virtual Museum
  Stroll through exhibits on biological clocks, infectious diseases, cardiology, and neuroscience at HHMI's Virtual Museum, then visit the HHMI Virtual Labs and Lecture Halls to learn about stem cells, evolution, obesity, cancer, genomics, neuroscience, infectious diseases and immunology.
• The 'original' Interactive Frog Dissection and the 'new and improved' NetFrog
  Published in 1994, The Interactive Frog Dissection was designed for use in high school biology classrooms. It takes you through all of the stages of frog dissection from initial preparation to examination of internal organs. A &qyot;new and improved" version called NetFrog was released in 2002. You can choose the version that works best for you, your browser and your computer.
• Microbe Zoo
  This virtual field trip through a microbial zoo contains images and descriptions of microscopic organisms and the habitats in which they live.
• Natural History Museum Picture Gallery
  Take a virtual tour of the British Museum of Natural History without leaving your computer. This site has been recently updated and has many opportunities for interaction with the exhibits.
• Nobelprize.org
  This site has games, experiments, and simulated environments ready to be explored and discovered. The materials, aimed at 14-18 year old students, focus on topics related to Nobel Prize-winning achievements. Organized by Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics, there are activities related to lasers, liquid crystals, conductive polymers, blood typing, and nerve signaling. There's even a virtual biochemistry lab!
• Operation: Heart Transplant or How to Transplant a Heart in Nineteen Easy Steps
  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 in taking the heart of one human and making it work in another.
• Paleontology Without Walls
  The University of California Museum of Paleontology website provides a vast amount of information on the diversity of life, the history of life on earth, biographies of contributors to evolutionary thought, online exhibits and more. There is also a glossary and web lift for quick help. With nearly 2000 pages dense with information, it is one of the best resources for organismal biology on the web.
• Royal Tyrrell Museum
  The emphasis here is on dinosaurs. In addtion to an excellent guided tour of the Museum, this site has a virtural reality dinosaur, (you'll need to download QuickTime VR if you don't have it, but instructions are quite clear), opportunities to participate in field research, workshops for teachers and more.
• Virtual Blood Typing Lab
  This lab is offered at various times on May 6, 2009 with advanced sign-up required. If interested, see details posted on the website. Pre-lab teaching resources in Word documents and PDF formats can be downloaded for classroom use prior to the lab.
• The Virtual Cell
  This site lets you explore the structure of a virtual plant cell. You can zoom in on organelles, cut or turn them, look at real EM images and more.
• Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
  This program, part of the "Whole Frog" project, allows interactive dissection of a frog, and includes the capability to make on-the-fly movies. A browser that supports forms and sensitive images is needed. The dissection kit is available in seven languages.
• The Visible Human Project
  The Visible Human Project creates complete anatomically detailed, three dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The representations are created from CAT, MRI and cryosection images taken at one millimeter intervals from cadavers.

 http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html

	The Transgenic Fly Virtual Lab The lab will familiarize you with the science and techniques used to make transgenic flies. Transgenic organisms, which contain DNA that is inserted experimentally, are used to study many biological processes. In this lab, you will create a transgenic fly to study circadian rhythms.
	The Bacterial Identification Lab The purpose of the lab is to familiarize you with the science and techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequences. Not long ago, DNA sequencing was a time-consuming, tedious process. With readily available commercial equipment and kits, it is now routine. The techniques used in this lab are applicable in a wide variety of settings, including scientific research and forensic labs.
	The Cardiology Lab The focus of this lab is on heritable diseases of the heart. You are cast here as a virtual intern to accompany a doctor examining three different patients. Each patient is examined using more than one diagnostic tool, and at each stage, the doctor will invite you to examine the patient yourself and ask for your opinion.
	The Neurophysiology Lab Record electrical activities of individual neurons while you deliver mechanical stimulus to the attached skin. Inject fluorescent dyes into the neurons to visualize their morphology. Identify the neurons based on the morphology and the response to stimuli, comparing them to previously published results.
	The Immunology Lab Components of the immune system called antibodies are found in the liquid portion of blood and help protect the body from harm. Antibodies can also be used outside the body in a laboratory-based assay to help diagnose disease caused by malfunctions of the immune system or by infections. This virtual laboratory will demonstrate how such a test, termed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), is carried out and show some of the key experimental problems that may be encountered.

General Biology 101 Labs

http://vcell.ndsu.edu/public.html

Virtual Cell Laboratory - Animated Interactive cell laboratory

http://www.chemcollective.org/applets/vlab.php

Virtual Lab Simulation

The Virtual Laboratory allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real lab. It allows students to design and perform diverse experiments in acid-base chemistry, thermochemistry, solubility, and redox chemistry.

Coming Soon!

We will be beta testing a new version 3D version of the Virtual Lab. Please check back for updates.

Virtual Chemistry Lab

Chemistry Experiments and Exercises

 http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/GlobalWarming/

Energy Budget Model

This lab explores climate at Mono Lake using an energy-budget model. Energy is input from the sun and is rface is what controls the surface temperature, which you will compute. But does the modestored in the atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The fraction of energy budgeted to the sul work correctly? You can use the model to estimate temperature for any month for modern climate and then see how well the model can estimate ice-age climate, when temperatures were about 7°C colder than today.

 http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eec/Earthquake/

This activity illustrates how seismic waves are used to determine the magnitude of an earthquake and to locate its epicenter.

Genetic Science Learning Center

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

  Compound Microscope Lab

 Microscope Lab

 http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu/

 The Virtual Microscope is a NASA-funded project that provides simulated scientific instrumentation for students and researchers worldwide as part of NASA's Virtual Laboratory initiative. This site serves as home base for the Imaging Technology Group's contributions to that project—namely virtual microscopes and the multi-dimensional, high-resolution image datasets they view. Currently we provide 90 samples totaling over 62 gigapixels of image data. The Virtual Microscope, which is available for free download supports functionality from electron, light, and scanning probe microscopes, datasets for these instruments, training materials to learn more about microscopy, and other related tools. The project is open source and the code is available on Sourceforge.

 http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/vlab/index.html

  Virtual Lab completely emulates a scanning electron microscope and allows any user to zoom and focus into a variety of built-in microscopic samples. It also comes with a set of educational materials such as a demo on how a SEM works and movies of the real thing in action. Virtual Lab is freely available with a growing library of samples to choose from.