Online Teaching Resources for STEM: Biological Sciences Resources

Bring the lab home with comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory biology lab courses. (Available through 06/13/20)

Isolate key scientific concepts and visualize them to maximize learning comprehension. (Available through 06/13/20)

Includes textbooks in all STEM fields in both pdf format and web versions at no cost to students.

Teach scientific fundamentals with this video library of simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations in 8 STEM fields. (Available through 06/13/20)

The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Over 20,601 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences topics are available.

Free online teaching/learning portal that combines high quality educational articles with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Contains scientist-authored educational articles in the fields of genetics, cell biology and ecology, and is intended for undergraduate faculty and students.

Created in 2011 by a group of Stanford scientists, Bio-protocol is an online, peer-reviewed journal curating high-quality research protocols within the life sciences. Bio-protocol provides critical information that enables scientists to be able to reproduce published experiments.

On-line laboratory resources designed for students to work through before entering the laboratory.

Medical students, doctors, researchers and life scientists can watch and share their favorite videos in the fields of biology, medicine and life science including but not limited to laboratory methods, techniques, experimental or operation procedures, lab actions, animations, lectures, seminars, meetings, as well as teaching and learning slideshow.

Online community for learning, sharing, and collaboration. Covers multiple disciplines, but strongest in Biology.

Collaborative effort of biodiversity, data, and education specialists to identify core biodiversity data competencies for undergraduates, develop strategies for integrating these competencies into the introductory biology curriculum, and build capacity for sustained development and implementation of biodiversity and data literacy education.

The site aims to educate and promote awareness of all things regarding biology, offering free and easy access to information in the biological sciences.
Created in 2001, the site is the worlds most comprehensive database of biology terms, tutorials, and articles.

Repository for images and movies of cells from a variety of organisms. It demonstrates cellular architecture and functions with high quality images, videos, and animations.