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STEM Academic Resources

Join the NC-STEM Pathways Canvas page to receive important announcements and information on upcoming STEM events, internship, research, and scholarship opportunities. You can self-enroll at https://rccd.instructure.com/enroll/TWNAEL

Free Library Textbooks

Did you know that there are several STEM course textbooks available on loan through the Norco College Library? Save $$$ by borrowing your textbook for free from the Library for the entire semester. You can view the full listing of available textbooks here.

Currently the library has textbooks available for the following STEM courses:

ARE/DFT-24: Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2002; Architecture: Residential Drafting & Design; Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Fusion 360
BIO-50A & 50B: Human Anatomy & Physiology (Marieb & Hoehn 11 edition)
CHE-1A & 1B: Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (Tro 5 edition)
CHE-12A & 12B: Organic Chemistry (Wade & Simek 9 edition)
ELE-73: Electrical Motor Controls for Integrated Systems (5 edition)
ENE/DFT-21: Exploring Drafting
ENE/DFT-30: AutoCAD 2022 Tutorial First Level 2D Fundamentals (Shih)
ENE/DFT-42: SOLIDWORKS 2021 Basic Tools (Tran)
ENE-52: Exploring Drafting (Walker, Mathis, Scribner 12 edition)
MAN-73: Electrical Motor Controls for Integrated Systems
MAT-1A, 1B & 1C: Calculus Early Transcendentals (Stewart 8 edition)
PHY-4A/4B/4C: University Physics with Modern Physics (Young 14 edition)

Free Access to Electronic Textbooks

Connect with a Norco Librarian for help finding access to free eBooks.
Libby, by Overdrive app - use your local library card to borrow thousands of eBooks and audiobooks free of charge
Open Stax - Browse a variety of disciplines for textbooks and Learning Modules.
Open Textbook Library - browse by subject
Cool 4ed - well organized collection of 149 open access textbooks
Lumen Learning

Free Online STEM Resources

Anatomy & Biology

Bozeman Science - free anatomy and physiology videos and resources
Bozeman Science - free biology videos and resources
Get Body Smart - list of 50+ websites and Apps to learn human anatomy and physiology online
HHMI BioInteractive - view the cell cycle
Khan Academy - free biology video lessons, exercises, and quizzes
MIT Open Courses - free access to MIT anatomy and physiology courses and materials
MIT Open Courses - free access to MIT biology courses and materials
PhET Interactive Simulations - for biology
Smart Servier Medical Art - free biology and medical images
WEHI.TV - explains discoveries at the frontier of medical research through accurate and entertaining 3D animation
Zygote Body Get Body Smart - list of 50+ websites and Apps to learn human anatomy and physiology online

Astronomy

Chemistry

Bozeman Science - free chemistry videos and resources
Khan Academy - free chemistry video lessons, exercises, and quizzes
MIT Open Courses - free access to MIT chemistry courses and materials
Periodic Table
PhET Interactive Simulations - all the molecular shapes in a simulator

Environmental Science

Bozeman Science - free environmental science videos and resources

Engineering

Khan Academy - free electrical engineering video lessons, exercises, and quizzes
MIT Open Courses - free access to MIT engineering courses and materials

Math

Desmos - online graphing tool
Khan Academy - free video lessons, exercises, and quizzes for statistics, algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra
Math-o-mir - software tool designed to write and edit math equations as easily as possible by acting as your personal math notepad where you can write down your quick and informal calculations.
MIT Open Courses - free access to MIT math courses and materials
PhET Interactive Simulations - for math
Statistics and Graphing - free statistics and graphing resources

Organic Chemistry

Khan Academy - free organic chemistry video lessons, exercises, and quizzes
Marvin - a chemically intelligent desktop toolkit built to help you draw, edit, publish, render, import and export your chemical structures and as well as allowing you to convert between various chemical and graphical file formats. It requires a free account, but it’s not a scam.