Visual Dictionary

Visual Dictionary Mainanimations (frog life cycle), pictures, topic listing, french language. Biology: animal, plants and the human body, Transportation, Clothing and MusicVisual Dictionary Plants

The Visual Dictionary is a beautifully excuted interactive resource. While the topics are very limited (Animal, Human and Plant Biology, transportation, music and clothing) they are visually rich. Each image is labelled in great detail.  For example, the plants category has 55 illustrations of plant topics such as berries, meiosis, leave shapes, nuts, seeds, growth cycle of a mushroom, stems, roots etc.

Visual Dictionary Plants

Plant Cell

Many topics, such as the Amoeba and Life Cycle of a Frog, have animations and/or photographs. The Dictionary may be browsed visually by image, by theme or alphabetically through the Lexicon, or searched by keyword.  some topics are linked to Wikipedia entries. The Dictionary is available in two languages — English and French making this a great foreign language resource.

Hippocampus — Multimedia lessons for High School courses

Hippocampus

Suitable mainly for high school, Hippocampus is a digital library of multimedia modules for instruction in popular courses such as Calculus, U.S. Government, AP Biology,

Biology

 Environmental Science, Pscyhology or Statistics. Users may browse the content in two ways, either through the Course or Textbook interfaces. 

Modules are browsable either through alphabetical or sequenetial topic listing or through a course view which is organized into main units, organized into lessons.

An especially useful feature is the “textbook” tab which presents content in correlation with popular subject textbooks. There’s also a detailed index of page numbers and topic coverage by text.

American Goverrnment

 The media modules incorporate rich graphics and text to convey content. Students may also access this resource at home making this a great resource for the classroom or independent learning after school.