Videos/Activities
I recommend students watch a video(s) before I present the topic in class.  I don't spend a lot of time lecturing, so these videos supply some background knowledge for the activities we will do in class.   I recommend all of the Amoeba Sister and Crash Course videos on Youtube.
You'll notice I have many BrainPop videos listed below.  BrainPop is a subscription website that has excellent science videos, as well as history, English, math, arts, etc.  Each video has a quiz and additional learning material associated with it.  Horizon Charter School offers a discounted subscription price.  You do not need to purchase a subscription to BrainPop, I just wanted to let you know about this great site.   Some of the videos are free to watch without a subscription.

BIO - Biology
BIO1 - Taxonomy

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRVJyUZoQow

BIO1 - Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes (Taxonomy)

• Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBAHiij4EA

Domain: Eukarya (Taxonomy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo0QHAS-x8A
Archaea (Taxonomy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8deF3Rw4ti4
Bacteria (Taxonomy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-z9-9OOWC4
Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxM_9DL2GYw&feature=youtu.be
Plantae (Taxonomy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4L3r_XJW0I
Protista (Taxonomy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8deF3Rw4ti4
Amoeba Moving and Eating (Taxonomy)
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWItglvTiLc
Fungi (Taxonomy)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9m7Oc36wM

BIO2 - Animal Cell Structure

• Biological levels of organization - Watch before animal cell video
  Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWknf1gzKo
• Animal Cell: ​www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUJD5NEXC8 (excellent detailed video)
• BrainPop: Cell Structure

BIO3 - DNA

• Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POdWsii7AI
• Crash Course (high school): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kK2zwjRV0M
•  BrainPop: DNA (free) 

BIO4 - Mitosis

• Amoeba Sisters:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwcwSZIfKlM
• Amoeba Sisters - The Cell Cycle & Cancer: Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAa4TWjHQ4
• Amoeba Sisters - DNA Replicaton (more advanced): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qSrmeiWsuc
• Crash Course (high school): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kK2zwjRV0M
• Time lapse video of cell dividing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61Gp_d7evo
• BrainPop:  Mitosis

BIO5 - Meiosis

• Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toWK0fIyFlY
• Crash Course (high school): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLmR9-YY7o

BIO6 - Genetics and Heredity

• Monohybrids and the Punnet Square Guinea Pigs
• Punnett Squares and Sex-Linked Traits
• Mutations
• Gregor Mendel (high school) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTiOETaZg4w
• Gregor Mendel  "The Father of Modern Genetics" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mehz7tCxjSE
• BrainPop: Heredity (free), Genetics, Charles Darwin

BIO7 - Cell Membrane, Osmosis, Diffusion, and Tonicity (High School)

• Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZ8MtF3C6M
• Amoeba Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptmlvtei8hw
• Isotonic, Hypotonic, and Hypertonic Virtual Demo

BIO7 - ​Cellular Respiration (High School)

• Amoeba Sisters:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eo7JtRA7lg

BIO8 - ​The Microscope

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-86MDmjns
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzGwn6C8OmY (recent microscope inventions)

BIO9 - Slide Preparation -  No Video
BIO10 - Bacteria
BIO11 - Yeast
BIO12 - Mold

• Food Mold:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyqOE2Z-MdU

BIO13 - Mushrooms
BIO14 - Protista

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBhVnfSlhZ0​ (43 min)
• Amoeba Moving and Eating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWItglvTiLc
• photos of protists:  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/protistvideo/list.dsml?list=gallery

BIO15 - Animal Behavior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyyDq19Mi3A
BIO16 - Homeostasis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufv9Txb7nU0 (12:46)
Homeostasis (detailed loop examples) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkioZCDHT_E (8:50 min)




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