Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and related bodies 
香港特別行政區政府及有關機構



Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department 漁農自然護理署
http://www.afcd.gov.hk/
 
 
Curriculum Development Institute 課程發展處
http://cd.ed.gov.hk/cdihome
 
 
Department of Health 衛生署
http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/
 
 
Consumer Council 香港消費者委員會
http://www.consumer.org.hk/
 
 
Environmental Protection Department 環境保護署
http://www.info.gov.hk/epd
 
 
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department 食物環境衛生署
http://www.info.gov.hk/fehd/
 
 
Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health 香港吸煙與健康委員會
http://www.info.gov.hk/hkcosh
 
 
Hong Kong Government Laboratory 政府化驗所
http://www.info.gov.hk/govlab/
 
 
Hospital Authority 醫院管理局
http://www.ha.org.hk/
 
 
The Virtual AIDS Office of Hong Kong 香港愛滋病網上辦公室
http://www.info.gov.hk/aids/
 
 
Waste Reduction Committee 減少廢物委員會
http://www.info.gov.hk/wrc/
 
 
Water Supplies Department 水務署
http://www.info.gov.hk/wsd/
 
 


General resources

一般資料

HKeducationCITY.net 香港資訊教育城
http://www.hkedcity.net/
A large-scale local web site, hosted by Education Department, which delivers healthy and quality education information to schools, teachers, students, parents, and the public.
教育署的資訊科技教育網站,為學生、教師、家長及公眾人士提供多個科目的參考資料。
English / 中文
 
香港生物支援網 - 學科天地
http://www.hkedcity.net/iworld/iclub_main.phtml?iclub_id=54
An iWorld of HKeducationCITY.net which provides enormous teaching and learning resources for teachers and students.
香港資訊教育城的其中一個學科天地,為生物科教師及學生提供大量教學及學習材料。
English / 中文
 
Digital Repository 網上教學資源庫
http://www.ited.ed.gov.hk/chinese/chinese_index.htm
The site for IT education hosted by the Education Department of the Hong Kong SAR. Here resources for different subjects are gathered for teachers' reference.
教育署的資訊科技教育網站,提供多個科目的參考資料。
中文
 
IT in Education Network 教育資訊科技網絡
http://itied.net/home.htm
This site is hosted by The Hong Kong Institute of Education. It provides ideas for applying information technology to teaching.
香港教育學院的網站,介紹資訊科技教育的應用。
English / 中文
 
World Wide Fund For Nature, Hong Kong 世界自然(香港)基金會
http://www.wwf.org.hk/
Provides the missions and programmes of the WWF (HK).
列出世界自然(香港)基金會的宗旨及工作。
English / 中文
 
魚骨網(香港生物科網頁)
http://www.hkbiology.net/
提供在本港進行野外考察的資料。
中文
 
Biology Teaching Home Page
http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~johnson/
A local web site holding a lot of biology teaching resources like animations, videos, photomicrographs, TAS resources etc.
English
 
Department of Biological Science, University of Alberta
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/multimedia/
Holds a lot of multimedia learning aids of biology. Flash animations for both PC and Mac are available for downloading.
English
 
Introductory Biology Courseware
http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/animations.html
Holds numerous online biological animations in quicktime format.
English
 
BioMedNet
http://www.bmn.com/
Provides enormous hyperlinks to web sites about biology with well categorization and descriptions.
English
 
Graphics gallery
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/
Holds a collection of coloured drawings of various topics for viewing online or downloading in PDF format for future use.
English
 
The National Library of Medicine, US
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Holds enormous data concerning common diseases and ailments. Slide bank, news update and health information are available at this site.
English
 
Bioethics in the classroom
http://www.accessexcellence.org/21st/TE/BE/
Bioethics is the study of ethical decision-making in the context of biological information and technology. This page discusses the various aspects concerning inclusion of bioethics in the curriculum.
English
 
Department of Molecular Biology of Harvard University
http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html
Links to online resources and research titles in universities around the world.
English
 
Netfrog
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/intro.html
Introduces the dissection of a frog to give students an idea of the anatomy of vertebrates, in addition to that of human skeleton and rats.
English
 
Biocrypt
http://www.execulink.com/~ekimmel/index.htm
Online games, quizzes and puzzles with science themes (mostly biology) related to the secondary school science curriculum in Ontario.
English
 


Section I: General variety of organisms
第一部分:生物的種類


Chapter 1: Studying biology
第1章:學習生物學

Organ donation in Hong Kong – Gift of life 愛心獻再生
http://www.ha.org.hk/odhk/od_home.htm
This site is a joint cooperation of the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority. It contains information about organ donation.
這個網站由衛生署和醫院管理局共同製作,內有關於捐贈器官的資料。
English / 中文
 
Public health and disease surveillance 公眾健康及疾病監察
http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/diseases/index.htm
This site contains information about common infectious disease in Hong Kong.
這個網站提供傳染病的資料。
English / 中文
 
Hong Kong Travel Health Centre 香港旅遊健康服務
http://www.info.gov.hk/trhealth/
This site provides information that are related to going abroad.
這個網站提供與旅遊時須注意的事項。
English / 中文
 
Blue Mountain – The World's Favourite eCards
http://www2.bluemountain.com/
Biology is an interesting subject. You may create and send a biology-related greeting card at this site.
English
 
Chapter 2: The diversity of organisms
第2章:生物的種類

Hong Kong Fish Net 香港魚網
http://www.hk-fish.net/
This is a new web site hosted by Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong. It provides a lot of useful information about the fishes found in Hong Kong.
這是由漁農自然護理署製作的最新網站,當中載有大量介紹本港魚類的資料。
English / 中文
 
Hong Kong Nature Net 香港自然網
http://www.hknature.net/
This web site is built to link nature conservation work in Hong Kong.
這個網站連繫全港自然護理工作及資訊。
English / 中文
 
海的巨人與精靈
http://whale.zo.ntu.edu.tw/
包含所有關於台灣水域內的海豚資料,並連結至全球的海豚網站。
中文
 
野生動植物網
http://www.wow.org.tw/
這個網站載有大量關於自然保育和野生生物的資料。
中文
 
台北植物園
http://www.tfri.gov.tw/tbg/tbg-1.html
列有台北植物園內各種植物的詳細資料。
中文
 
British Columbia Creature Page
http://www.clever.net/kerry/creature/creature.htm
Introduces underwater organisms in British Columbia, Canada with photos and brief information about their usual habitat.
English
 
Classification of living things
http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/default.htm
Introduces the principle of taxonomy with a focus on human classification categories.
English
 
蕨類植物園
http://www.meps.tp.edu.tw/oldweb/campus/gestree.html
介紹蕨類植物的種類和結構。
中文
 
Chapter 3: The basic structure of a cell
第3章:細胞的基本構造

A Three-Dimensional Interactive Cell
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/outrea/greenhouse/nursery/biology/home.html
A web site hosted by the Brown University. It leads you through the interior of a cell and provides photographs of some of the organelles.
English
 
Cell and molecular biology online
http://www.cellbio.com/
This site contains detailed information and the latest researches on cells.
English
 
The Visible Embryo
http://www.visembryo.com/
Provides information on human development from conception to birth and offers a detailed pictorial account of normal and abnormal development.
English
 

Chapter 4: Life processes in a cell
第4章:細胞內的生命程序

Characteristics of Enzymes
http://www.colorado.edu/epob/academics/web_resources/cartoons/wrenc.html
A cartoon illustrates the characteristics of enzymes with a brief description.
English
 
Osmosis is a Matter of Life and Death
http://www.colorado.edu/epob/academics/web_resources/cartoons/slugs.html
A cartoon illustrates the properties of osmosis with a brief description.
English
 
Chapter 5: Cell division and levels of body organization
第5章:細胞分裂及身體的組織層次

The Cell Cycle & Mitosis Tutorial
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/cells3.html
Provides useful information and animation of mitosis in quicktime format.
English
 
Mitosis World
http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/salmon/lab/mitosis/
Holds enormous teaching resources about mitosis including mitosis lab, movies of mitosis, mitosis links and journals.
English
 
Mitosis
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/mitosis.html
This page contains detailed description of mitosis.
English
 

Chapter 6: The modes of nutrition
第6章:營養方式

Fungus
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0050/00707072_A.html
Provides information about the structures and types of fungi, as well as their modes of nutrition.
English
 


Section III: Maintenance of life
第三部分:維持生命


Chapter 7: Food and humans
第7章:食物與人類

Foodwatch
http://www.foodwatch.com.au/
Contains a lot of useful information about nutrition and provides a health check for the public.
English
 
Genetically modified food 基因改造食物
http://www.info.gov.hk/fehd/safefood/gmf/index1c.html
The site hosted by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department provides information of genetically modified food.
這個由食物環境衛生署製作的網站列有關於基因改造食物的資料。
English / 中文
 
Fast Food Facts
http://www.thinkfast.co.uk/foodfacts/facts.html
Provides nutrition facts about fast foods.
English
 
Chapter 8: Nutrition in mammals
第8章:哺乳動物的營養作用

Kellogg's nutrition camp
http://www.nutritioncamp.com/index.html
Resourceful education materials related to nutrition.
English
 
The Virtual Body – the digestive system
http://www.medtropolis.com/Vbody.asp
Information and on-line game about human digestive system.
English
 
Chapter 9: Nutrition in plants
第9章:植物的營養作用

Photosynthesis
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html
Describes the process of photosynthesis in great details with numerous beautiful illustrations.
 
Bunns fertiliser online
http://www.jhbunn.co.uk/
The sites provide expert information about different functions of minerals to plants.
English
 

Chapter 10: Respiration: releasing energy from food
第10章: 呼吸作用:從食物中釋放能量

Vindata
http://www.winetitles.com.au/auswine/suppliers/vindata/summary.htm
Detailed data on about 2500 wines from the major wine producing countries.
English
 
Chapter 11: Gas exchange in humans and plants
第11章︰人類和植物的氣體交換

Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases
http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
Holds a lot of high quality images and animations of thoracic organs.
English
 
Chapter 13: Transport in organisms
第13章:生物的運輸作用

Birkey.com Web Design - animation of blood
http://www.birkey.com/anim/blood.asp
With a high quality animation showing the flow of blood in blood vessels.
English
 
All about the Heart
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/heart_noSW.html
Articles introducing the structure of human heart and the mechanism of pumping action.
English
 
The Heart: An Online Exploration
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Explore the heart and blood. Suggesting the methods to monitor heart’s health.
English
 

Chapter 14: Support and movement
第14章:支持作用與運動作用

How the body works – the muscles
http://www.kidsHealth.org/misc_pages/bodyworks/muscles.html
A short movie introducing how mammals move.
English
 
The big story on bones
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/bones_SW.html
Discussion of the components of bones, the structure of joints and the methods of taking care of bones.
English
 
The virtual body – the skeleton
http://www.medtropolis.com/Vbody.asp
A narrated tour of human skeleton.
English
 
Chapter 15: Detection of the environment by mammals
第15章:哺乳動物對環境因素的探測

Eye Physiology
http://artsci.shu.edu/biology/Student%20Pages/Kyle%20Keenan/eye/prvr/windex.html
A rich source of information and animations on eye anatomy, eye disorders and optical illusions, etc.
English
 
The big story on eyes
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/eye_SW.html
A brief introduction of the eye and how it works.
 
The big story on ears
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/ear_SW.html
Introduces the structure of the ear and the hearing process.
English
 
The big story on nose
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/nose_SW.html
Describes the structures and functions of the nose.
English
 

Chapter 16: Coordination in mammals
第16章:哺乳動物的協調

Reflexes
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/13/rlxes.html
Why in the world do we sneeze, cough, yawn, blink, and belch? This page discuss how reflex actions help protect us.
English
 
The Virtual Body – the human brain
http://www.medtropolis.com/Vbody.asp
An interactive introduction to the brain.
English
 
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Resourceful education materials related to neuroscience, including booklists, experiments and activities.
English
 
Chapter 17: Homeostasis in mammals
第17章︰哺乳動物的體內平衡

Nephron Information Center
http://nephron.com/htkw.html
Holds an animation to describe how the kidneys work. You can also get an understanding of the fate of various substances that travel down the tubules of the kidneys.
English
 
Nephronline - Nephrology at your fingertips
http://www.nephronline.org/
Its resource and education section contains an animation of kidney anatomy which interactively describes the structure of kidney.
English
 
Chapter 18: Growth response of plants
第18章︰植物的生長反應

Plants in Motion
http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantsinmotion.html
Provides facts and animations of phototropism and geotropism of plants.
English
 
Chapter 19: Body defence
第19章:身體防衛

HHMI Virtual Laboratory
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/lectures/vlab1
You can be the manager of a clinical laboratory. Perform an antibody test and learn more on our immunity.
English
 
Medicine Box
http://www.medicinebox.com/
Provides information about the causes of different diseases.
 


Section IV: Development of organisms and continuity of life
第四部分:生物的發育及生命的延續


Chapter 20: Reproduction
第20章:生殖作用

First 9 Months
http://www.parentsplace.com/
Interactively describes how a fertilized egg develops into a foetus and the birth process.
English
 
The Visible Embryo
http://www.visembryo.com/
A comprehensive resource of information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical students and interested lay people.
English
 
The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong香港家庭計劃指導會
http://www.famplan.org.hk/
Provides the missions and programs of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong.
列出家庭計劃指導會的宗旨及工作。
English/中文
 
Chapter 21: Growth and development
第21章︰生長與發育

How a Corn Plant Develops
http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/corngrows.html
Describes the various stages of growth of corn with numerous high quality images.
English
 


Section V: Genetics
第五部分:遺傳學


Chapter 22: Genetics
第22章:遺傳學

Mitosis and Meiosis
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~bi107vc/sp99/saul/experimental/Celldiv.html
A web site hosted by the University of Connecticut. It holds an interactive quiz to test your understanding of the passing of chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis.
English
 
DNA from the Beginning
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/
An excellent web site for the beginners of learning genetics. The concept is explained by animation, image gallery and video interviews.
English
 
Access Excellence – the national health museum
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
More information about meiosis.
English
 


Section VI: Interrelationship of organisms with each other and with the environment
第六部分:生物與生物間及其與環境的相互關係

Chapter 23︰Introductory to Ecology
第23章︰生態學入門

生態日記
http://www.hknature.net/ecodiary/index.htm
這是由漁農自然護理署製作的最新網站,利用護理員的生態日誌,透過日記的形式介紹各類植物、昆蟲、雀鳥及其他動物的生活,十分有趣。
中文
 
Chapter 24: Humans and micro-organisms
第24章:人類與微生物

Herpes Simplex Virus
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~faculty/wagner/movieindex.html
Provides animations to simulate the invasive process of herpes simplex virus to living cells.
English
 
Influenza A (H5N1)
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2188/h5n1.html
Updated information about H5N1 Influenza A virus is provided.
English
 
The "Bad Bug Book"
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic micro-organisms and natural toxins.
English
 
Microbes – what doesn't kill them makes them stronger
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/038badbugs/
A New Jersey high school student suspects that overuse of household disinfectants can increase bacteria's resistance to them. This page summarizes his studies.
English
 
Chapter 25: The effects of humans on the environment
第25章:人類對其環境的影響

Friends of the Earth 地球之友
http://www.foe.org.hk/
Friends of the Earth (HK) is a registered Charity, founded in 1983, dedicated to protect and improve the environment in Hong Kong. This site contains a lot of information about this organization and the activities it holds.
香港地球之友是於1983年在香港成立的一個慈善環保團體,致力改善本港及內地的生活質素及環境,此網站載有大量有關地球之友的信息及其最新舉辦的活動。
English / 中文
 
The Conservancy Association 長春社
http://www.conservancy.org.hk/
長春社成立於1968年,是香港歷史最悠久的民間環保團體,由一群關心香港生活環境的志願人士組成,旨在與市民一起努力創造一個可持續的生態環境。此網站載有很多環保資訊及其荃灣環境資源中心的介紹。
中文
 
Produce Green Foundation 綠田園基金
http://www.producegreen.org.hk/
Produce Green Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization, was established in 1988. This site contains enormous resources for the public about the green technology and the concept of organic farming.
綠田園基金於1988年成立,是全港第一個有機教育農場,致力於推廣有機耕種、環保科技及綠色生活方式。此網站載有大量資料,讓市民了解最新的綠色科技及綠色管理概念。
English / 中文
 
Hong Kong Bird Watching Society 香港觀鳥會
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/
The HKBWS was founded in 1957, and is now an active and fast-growing society. This site contains a lot of conservation news and local bird records.
香港觀鳥會是一個本地活躍的觀鳥組織,成立1957年。此網站載有大量自然保育信息及本港鳥類的介紹。
English / 中文

 
World conservation monitoring centre
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/
This site provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
English