​​What Are the SPO Virtual Classrooms?

Science Prof Online offers FREE fully-developed science curricula, including the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom, the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, the Virtual Anatomy & Physiology Classroom, and the Virtual Biology Classroom -Health Careers (featured on this page) Click here > for our other biology classroom, the Virtual General Biology Classroom (VBC).  These are all materials used in real, live high school and college science classrooms.

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Virtual Biology Classroom
Biology for Health Careers

from Science Prof Online

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Image of eukaryotic cell. For labeled diagram of same cell, click here.
ANAT & PHYSGENERAL BIOCELL BIOMICRO 8wkMICRO 15wkINSTRUCTORS



Page last updated 12/2015
  • Chem4Kids website (Also good for grown-ups!)
  • Cells - song by They Might Be Giants


Instructor's Corner
SPO VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
​This biology class is a prerequisite for Intro Human Anatomy & Physiology, and, as such, focuses mainly on the subtopics of chemistry, cell biology and anatomy, rather than other biology subtopics, such as ecology or evolution. New resources are regularly added to the Virtual Biology Classroom. Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter @ ScienceProfSPO for updates.

Virtual Biology Classroom Lecture Topics


UNIT 1
Class #1 - Introduction to Biology

LECTURE

IN-CLASS EXERCISE: 
  • V.A.R.K. Learning Styles Website: One of the things that students do during our first class meeting is explore their own learning preferences through V.A.R.K. (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic). Students complete and discuss the V.A.R.K questionnaire, which provides them with a profile of their learning preferences, the ways that they best take-in and present information. The V.A.R.K. Help Sheet can help you understand what this questionnaire reveals about how you learn.


​​The Virtual Classrooms are organized by lecture into several topics, each lecture topic typically includes free:
  • PowerPoint lectures
  • lecture study guide 
  • class note articles
  • practice test and review questions
  • homework assignments



Need Help with Chemistry?

SPO offers free PowerPoint lectures, sample test
questions, review questions and assignments on many different science topics. 

Below are links to those that relate to chemistry:

 1. ​Chemistry Basics & Periodic Table

2. Chemistry of Solutions

3. Acids, Bases, Buffers & pH
Chemicals in Flasks, Joe Sullivan
The VBC offers 
homework assignments 
based on Radiolab podcasts. 

RADIOLAB PODCASTS:
"Inheritance" Podcast
"Henrietta's Tumor" Podcast
"Yellow Fluff" Podcast

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
- "Inheritance"
Homework document

- "Henrietta's Tumor"
Homework document 

- "Yellow Fluff" 
Homework document

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"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."

 - Thomas Huxley (1825-95)

The Virtual Biology Classroom - Health Careers is one of our newest virtual classroom, so does not have all materials developed yet. Below are links to the VBC's PowerPoint lectures. 
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UNIT 2
Class #7 - Acids, Bases, pH & Buffers

LECTURE:

Class #8 - Organic Chemistry Basics

LECTURE: 

Class #9 - Macromolecules & Nutrition

LECTURE: 

Class #10 - Enzymes

LECTURE:

Class #11 - Biological Cells & Microscope Use

LECTURE:
         [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]
        [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]

Class #12 - Biological Cell Structure & Function

LECTURE:


UNIT 3
Class #13 - Cell Membrane Structure & Transport
         [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]

Class #14 - Genetics Basics 
         [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]

​Class #15 - Cell Cycle & Mitosis 

Class #16 - Human Anatomy: Tissues
        [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]

Class #17 - Human Anatomy: Organ Systems
       [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]

​Class #18 - Human Anatomy: Skeletal System 
        [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]​

Tami Port, MS
Chief Executive Nerd of Science Prof Online & College Biology Instructor
Periodic Table Showing Group and Period Number
Class #5 - Chemical Bonds, Reactions & Notation + a Botany Break!

LECTURES:
  • Botany Lecture PPT Show "What Are The Plants Up To?"  [Printable Lecture & Editable PPT] This botany lecture is a very low-tech ​"bonus lecture" designed to give students a brief break from chemistry to talk about the biology of flowering plants, a topic that may seem more accessible to some students.

Class #6 - Ionic and Covalent Compounds & Solutions

LECTURE:

Class #4 - Atomic Theory & Periodic Table

LECTURE:​

HOMEWORK:​

Periodic Table
Tami Port, MS Chief Executive Nerd of Science Prof Online & College Biology Instructor
Science Prof Online 
has several 
Virtual Classrooms
including:

General Biology
(15 weeks)

Cell Biology for Health Careers 
(8 weeks)

Applied Microbiology 
(8-weeks)

Microbiology 
(16 weeks)

SPO Instructor's Corner

What Are the Plants 
Up To?
Get your phyto-nerd on! Check out our biology lecture on the crazy strategies plants use to compete with each other.
Flowering Plant PPT Lecture
Class #2 - Scientific Method & Metric System

 LECTURES: 

        [Printable PDF File of Lecture  & Editable Lecture PPT]

Class #3 - Matter & Energy

LECTURE:
        [Printable PDF of Lecture & Editable Lecture PPT]