Subject and Course Guides: Free Resources by College: Science

Labs and Simulations

There are a number of open source resources available for labs and simulations. Below are few of the links that can be used to locate images, streaming videos for your courses.

Chem Collective

Resources include virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials and concept tests.

PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness.

Online Resources for Science Laboratories

This google sheet contains a list of links to videos that can be used as a lab guide for courses in Biology, Neuroscience, Anatomy and Physiology.

The National Science Digital Library

Resources include textbooks, but also activities, assessments, case studies, data sets, diagram/ illustrations, games, interactives, lectures, lesson plans, simulations and more.

Open Resources

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - Earth and Environmental Sciences

Academic, peer reviewed texts published Open Access

InTech

InTech is the publisher of one of the largest multidisciplinary open access collection of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.

OpenTextBookStore

Free textbooks for Arithmetic, Prealgebra, Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus, Statistics, Higher Math, and Liberal Arts.

American Institute of Mathematics

Math, Liberal Arts, Elementary/College Algebra, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Caluclus, Proofs, Number Theory, Probability, etc

Public Resources

Labs for Chemistry, Biology, Physics
Praxilabs is a virtual lab which can be accessed by students at any point of time from their devices.
MERLOT Materials
Use the advance search filter feature to get resources that best suit your course. Once logged in to Merlot under Other Attributes select Simulation in Material Types. Choose College General Ed/ Graduate School for Audience. You can also choose desired Technical Format. Click on Search.
MIT YouTube Videos
The MIT Video website aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration.
National Science Digital Library
Provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
TED ED
Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk ot YouTube Video.
WolframAlpha Demonstrations
Demonstrations can be used to enliven a classroom or visualize complex concepts, while others shed new light on cutting-edge ideas from academic and industrial workgroups. Each is reviewed and edited by experts for content, clarity, presentation, quality, and reliability.