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LACSSP March 3, 2012
Teacher workshop: Photosynthesis and Chemosynthesis
Chromotagraphy demo on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzp2S0e9o8s
Photosynthesis videos and information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgkuT12e14&feature=related Photosynthesis video
by Bill Nye
photosynthesis http://www.biologie.unihamburg.de/bonline/library/falk/Photosynthesis/n
ewPhoto.htm
Photosynthesis , this is a nice clear visual with reasonably good detail about electron
transport, oxidation, and reduction reactions.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/forestbiology/photosynthesis.swf
Chemosynthesis vs Photosynthesis:
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/light.html
Deep Sea vents and chemosynthesis vs photosynthesis
Vent Biology: Introduction to Photosynthesis vs. Chemosynthesis
Good diagrams comparing photosynthesis and chemosynthesis
NASA Science Article Life as We Didn’t Know It - includes photosynthesis and
chemosynthesis comparison http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer.html
http://oceanlink.info/SOLE/LP/ecology/LP_survival.html - comparison with
chemosynthesis and photosynthesis
Hydrothermal vents:
Hydrothermal vent communities (additional background, lesson plan, vocabulary,
etc): http://www.botos.com/marine/vents01.html
National Geographic, vol.186, No. 5. November 1994, pg. 114-126.
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/vent-chemistry.html - basic vent info explained
with images from chemistry to biology
http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/amazingbiology/oceanography/chemof.htm hydrothermal vent questions/answers with sources cited
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer.html images from seafloor observatory
NOAA Oceanexplorer lesson plans
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06mexico/background/edu/lessonplans.html
includes activities for Grades 5-6 Keep Away Focus: Effects of pollution on diversity in
benthic communities (Life Science) and What’s In That Cake? Focus: Exploration of
deep-sea habitats Grades 7-8 Life is Weird Focus: Biological organisms in cold seep
communities (Life Science) It's a Gas! Or Is It? Focus: Effects of temperature and
pressure on solubility and phase state (Physical Science/Earth Science)
Winogradsky Column Lesson Plan
http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/kahana/downloads/curriculum/SectionII/Unit9/9.A.Microbial
Ecology/9.A.2.MicrobialEcologyProject.pdf
Lesson plans---Ecological units covering biodiversity, habitat and succession, guidance
on observations and hypothesis and includes student handouts on building a Microbe City
and an Observation Sheet.
Photosynthesis and respiration:
http://www.mrothery.co.uk/ biology website with links to variouos modules. Module 4
links to photosynthesis and cellular respiration
http://www.mrothery.co.uk/photosynthesis/photosynth&respnotes1.htm
Cellular respiration - http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bonline/library/falk/Respiration/respiration.htm