Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning with Discrepant Events
Thomas O'Brien
Internet connections
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+ denotes new websites not listed in book
Activity 1: Science and Art
ActionBioscience.org:
Error and the nature of science: www.actionbioscience.org/education/allchin2.html
Why Should You Be Scientifically Literate: www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/hazen.html
American Association for Physics Teachers: Physics Photo Contest: www.aapt.org/Programs/contests/photocontest.cfm
ArcAttack! Musical/Singing Tesla Coil: www.arcattack.com
*Art Institute of Chicago: Science, Art, and Technology: www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/2a.html
Austine Studios Polarized Light Art or Polages: www.austine.com
Chris Jordan, Photographic Arts: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait: www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#lightbulbs
Clip Art Links for (Science) Educators: http://sciencespot.net/Pages/refdeskclips.html
Democracy and Education: www.ilt.columbia.edu/Publications/dewey.html
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Science Stock Photography: www.denniskunkel.com
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: LightandColor: http://dep.disney.go.com
Exploratorium, the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception: www.exploratorium.edu
Fractals: A Creative Integration of Science and Art:
Chaoscope: www.chaoscope.org
Cynthia Lanius's Unit on Fractals: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac
Exploring Fractals: www.math.umass.edu/~mconnors/fractal/fractal.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals
Wolfram MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html
YouTube (search for fractals; some animations have music): www.youtube.com
Franklin Institute: The World of Benjamin Franklin: See especially the Scientist, Inventor, and Musician links and experiments: www.fi.edu/franklin
Graphic Organizers:
Freeology: http://freeology.com/graphicorgs
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place: www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer
Inspiration: www.conceptmapping.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition: http://cmap.ihmc.us
Learning Point Associates: www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
Periodic Table of Visualization Techniques: www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_organizer
Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology: www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo
M.C. Escher Official Website: www.mcescher.com
*McGill University Laboratory for Musical Perceptions, Cognition and Expertise: http://daniellevitin.com/publicpage/
http://daniellevitin.com/levitinlab/LabWebsite/
Michael Bach's 88 Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena: www.michaelbach.de/ot
Microscopy-UK: (2-3D images): www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html
Museum of Science ( Boston): Leonardo: Scientist, Inventor, and Artist: www.mos.org/leonardo
National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition's Where Science Meets Art series: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111499
Nova Celestia: Astronomical Illustrations and Space Art: www.novacelestia.com
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition: www.olympusbioscapes.com
Princeton University 's Art of Science 2005 Online Competition Gallery (also 2006 and 2009): www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education: http://pzweb.harvard.edu
Science and Art.com (The Astronomy Store's Photo Gallery): www.scienceandart.com
Scientific American Digital: 105 Mind-Bending Illusions: What They Reveal About Your Brain: www.scientificamerican.com/special/toc.cfm?issueid=55&sc=singletopic
Sea and Sky Astronomical Art Links: www.seasky.org/links/skylink08.html
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/snow_1959.pdf
See also synopsis at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
Think Quest:
Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of Both Worlds: http://library.thinkquest.org/3044
A New Perspective on Science and Art: http://library.thinkquest.org/3257
Visual and Auditory Illusions: www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/flinn/Illusions/Illusions.html#intro
WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton (the nature of color and light), Benjamin Franklin (scientist and musician), Thomas Edison (motion picture camera), M.C. Escher, and lenticular printing (art-science illusion of 3D depth, motion, or morphing images)
YouTube: Science-Music-Nature's Art type videos:
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and Moon (photo) montage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tkBNF0ghU
Enya's "Shepherd Moons": www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iRpa-hi1N4
Activity 2: Acronyms and Acrostics Articulate Attributes of Science (and Science Teaching)
Acronyms
Acronym Finder: www.acronymfinder.com
The Free Dictionary: Acronyms: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com
WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Search: acronym, acrostic, and list of mnemonics.
American Educator , journal of the American Federation of Teachers: Winter 2008–09: How Words Cast Their Spell, theme issue on spelling and the Ask a Cognitive Scientist:
What Will Improve a Student's Memory?: www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/winter08_09/index.htm
Ask a Cognitive Scientist: Students Remember …What They Think About: www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/summer2003/cogsci.html
Constructivism and Learning Theories: Supplemental readings for teachers:
Concept to Classroom: www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index_sub5.html
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology: http://eet.sdsu.edu/eetwiki/index.php/Main_Page
Exploratorium: www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/constructivistlearning.html
Human Intelligence: New and Emerging Theories of Intelligence: www.indiana.edu/~intell/emerging.shtml#intro
Learning-Theories.com: www.learning-theories.com
Research Matters—to the Science Teacher: http://narst.org/publications/research.cfm
See, for example, constructivism and the learning cycle, conceptual change teaching, metacognitive strategies, and pedagogical content knowledge
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism
Discovery Education: PuzzleMaker: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
Goldenrod Paper as an Acid-Base Indicator:
Becker Demonstrations: http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/beckerdemos/BD022.html
Daryl's Science: www.darylscience.com/Demos/Goldenrod.html
Science Hobbyist: http://amasci.com/amateur/gold.html
*Steve Spangler Science: www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/goldenrod-paper-message
NSTA Position Statement: Nature of Science: www.nsta.org/about/positions.aspx
PhET Interactive Simulation: pH Scale: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/ph-scale
Wikipedia: pH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pH
Activity 3: Tackling the Terrible Tyranny of Terminology
A Little Etymology—Greek and Latin Roots—Prefixes and Affixes: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa052698.htm
Biology Corner: Language of Science: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/language.html
Discovery (Channel) Education: PuzzleMaker: criss-cross, word search, and other templates: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
Humorous "Scientific" Laws:
Unwritten Laws of Life (Huge Rawson): www.stc.edu.hk/2005/subjects/rs/2000/Stories/laws.htm
*An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws: http://hdssystems.com/Articles/Laws.pdf
Laws of Life: www.weknowcleanjokes.com/lol-a.html
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition: Concept Mapping Tools: http://cmap.ihmc.us
Just Read Now: Reading in the Sciences: www.justreadnow.com/content/science/index.htm
Lung Model With Two Lungs and Diaphragm: www.scribd.com/doc/3394749/lung-model-with-two-lungs-anddiaphragm-lab
www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Bell_jar_model_lung
MakeBeliefsComix!: www.makebeliefscomix.com
PhET Interactive Simulations: Gas properties: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gas-properties
Quotations for Teaching Science
Brainy Quote: www.brainyquote.com/quotes/type/type_scientist.html
Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html
GIGA Quotes and Witticisms (search by topic or author): www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/qutopwitticismsx001.htm
Science Quotes: www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/sciquote.htm
Vocabulary University: www.vocabulary.com
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search: biological nomenclature, concept mapping, longest word, laws of science, and technobabble.
Activity 4: Inquiring Into Reading as Meaning-Making
AAAS Project 2061 Textbook Evaluations: www.project2061.org/publications/textbook/default.htm
ActionBioscience: www.actionbioscience.org/education
See Classroom Methodology: Using Case Studies to Teach Science (by Clyde Freeman Herreid) and Tapping Into the Pulse of the History of Science With Case Studies (by Douglas Allchin)
American Educator , Winter 2008–09: "How Words Cast Their Spell" theme issue on spelling; includes PDF of the "Ask a Cognitive Scientist" column: "What Will Improve a Student's
Memory?": www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/winter08_09/index.htm
American Educator, Spring 2002, "The Story of Science and the Power of Story" issue: www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/spring02/index.htm
American Educator, "Ask a Cognitive Scientist" column: www.danielwillingham.com
The Privileged Status of Story: www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/summer04/cogsci.htm
*The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies: www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/winter0607/CogSci.pdf
Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn?: www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/summer2010/index.cfm
*Centre for Science Stories: http://science-stories.org/
Center on Instruction: www.centeroninstruction.org/index.cfm
Colorado State University: Critical Reading and Cognitive Reading Theory: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/reading/critread/index.cfm
+ Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts: www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Cuesta College Academic Support: How to Read Effectively in the Sciences: http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/621.htm
International Reading Association: www.reading.org
Learning Point Associates (formerly NCREL): Adolescent Literacy and Reading Strategies (31): www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/strategies.php
Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI): www.literacyintervention.org/documents/MARSI.pdf
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST): Research Matters to the Science Teacher: A Guide to Assessing, Selecting and Using Science Textbook Visuals Using Textbooks for Meaningful Learning in Science: www.narst.org/publications/research.cfm
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs
National Reading Panel: www.nationalreadingpanel.org
Prereading Strategies: http://departments.weber.edu/teachall/reading/prereading.html
Reading Quest.org: Making Sense in Social Studies: Strategies for Reading Comprehension (28): www.readingquest.org/strat/home.html
Reciprocal Teaching: www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/atrisk/at6lk38.htm
The Fifth Dimension: Cognitive Evaluation: Cloze Test: www.psych.ucsb.edu/~mayer/fifth_dim_website/HTML/cloze_test/cloze_home.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: cloze test, graphic organizer, reading process, and schema.
Activity 5: Ambiguous Text
See those listed for Activities #3 and #4, as well as the following:
Ambiguous Figure Optical Illusions: www.optillusions.comand http://planetperplex.com/en/index.html
Biology Corner:
Blind Men and the Elephant Poem: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/elephant_poem.html
Identify controls and variables in five one-paragraph-long cartoon stories: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/controls.html
*Scientific Method Stories and Scenarios: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/scientific-method/
Fossil Footprints Activity: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5787&page=87
See also www.teacherlink.org/content/science/class_examples/Bflypages/timlinepages/nosactivities.htm#footprints; www.teacherlink.org/content/science/class_examples/Bflypages/timlinepages/nosactivities.htm#mystery; and www.teacherlink.org/content/science/class_examples/Bflypages/timlinepages/nosactivities.htm#bones.
Graphic Organizers:
Freeology: http://freeology.com/graphicorgs
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place: www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer
Inspiration: www.conceptmapping.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition: http://cmap.ihmc.us
Learning Point Associates: www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
Periodic Table of Visualization Techniques: www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_organizer
Just Read Now: Science: www.justreadnow.com/content/science/index.htm
Memory: Myths, Mysteries and Realities: www.answers.com/topic/memory-myths-mysteries-and-realities
Science News on the Internet:
BBC Science and Nature: www.bbc.co.uk/sn
CNN: www.cnn.com/TECH/science/archive/index.html
EurekAlert!: www.eurekalert.org
Science Daily: www.sciencedaily.com
The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/snow_1959.pdf
See also synopsis at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
Activity 6: Resurrection Plant
Articles and Resources on Plant Misconceptions and the Lack of
Curriculum:
ActionBioscience.org: www.actionbioscience.org/education.
See Classroom Methodology: Using Case Studies to Teach Science (by Clyde Freeman Herreid) and Tapping Into the Pulse of the History of Science With Case Studies (by Douglas Allchin); www.actionbioscience.org/education/hershey.html#primerand www.actionbioscience.org/education/hershey3.html
American Society of Plant Biologists: Education: www.aspb.org/education
Biology Corner: Plants: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/plants
Water in Living Things: www.biologycorner.com/lessonplans/scientific-method
Botanical Society of America:
Carnivorous Plants: www.botany.org/Carnivorous_Plants
Parasitic Plants: www.botany.org/parasitic_plants
Statement on Evolution: www.botany.org/outreach/evolution.php
*BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins, Effectiveness and Applications: www.bscs.org/bscs-5e-instructional-model
http://science.education.nih.gov/houseofreps.nsf/b82d55fa138783c2852572c9004f5566/$FILE/Appendix%20D.pdf
http://theonlinepd.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/executivesummary5emodel.pdf
Center for Plant Conservation: www.centerforplantconservation.org/welcome.asp
Elodea Experiments: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/linhares_lab.php
http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu/labs_and_activities/plants_and_other_cool_organisms.php
www.biologyjunction.com/carbon_dioxide_use_in_plants.htm
Miami Museum of Science: Constructivism and 5E: www.miamisci.org/ph/lpintro5e.html
Missouri Botanical Garden: Charms of Duckweed: http://mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/duckweed.htm
National Association of Biology Teachers: Two NABT Position Statements:
Teaching Evolution and Role of the Laboratory and Field Instruction in Biology Education: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35
National Center for Science Education: Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools: http://ncse.com
National Science Teachers Association Position Statements:
The Teaching of Evolution: www.nsta.org/about/positions/evolution.aspx
Private Universe: Minds of Our Own: Program 2. Lessons From Thin Air: Video-On-Demand: www.learner.org/resources/series26.html
Resurrection Plant: http://faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombrello/POW/resurrection_plant.htm
*Science and Plants for Schools: www.saps.org.uk/
Teaching resources: www.saps.org.uk/secondary
Triops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4quPALV24Ww
www.discoverthis.com/triops.html?gclid=CMOBydDc8aMCFYp_5Qod3mpy1g
www.amazon.com/Triops-Inc-DLX-Deluxe-Kit/dp/B000A6QMTM
Videos and DVDs on the Unique Adaptations of Plants:
Carolina Biological: www.carolina.com; Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants: http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=724292. This BBC series is described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Plants
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Flowers and Plants: http://dep.disney.go.com
Nature (PBS series): The Seedy Side of Plants: www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/plants
Plants-In-Motion: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu
Resurrection plant: search Google Videos for a variety of time-lapse images
Teachers' Domain: Living Life as a Plant: www.teachersdomain.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.oate.lplifeasplant
Teachers' Domain: Photosynthesis: www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.stru.photosynth
YouTube.com: online video clips from The Private Lives of Plants: Carnivorous Plants
Poisonous Pitcher Plants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWzDlRvv1M
Venus Flytrap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIGVtKdgwo
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Search topics: Jan Baptist van Helmont, Melvin Calvin, duckweed, elodea, hydroponics, invasive species, Mimosa (sensitive plant), nature deficit disorder, parasitic plants, resurrection plant, Selaginella lepidophylla (includes 3 hr. time-lapse movie), and tumbleweed:
Wisconsin Fast Plants: www.fastplants.org
Carolina Biological Supply Co., 800-334-5551: www.carolina.com/category/living+organisms/wisconsin+fast+plants.do
Activity 7: Glue Mini-Monster
101science.com: Everything you need to know about paramecium: http://101science.com/paramecium.htm
Access Excellence Activities Exchange:
Cells (many activities): www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG
Living or Nonliving?: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0067-HopkinsKathryn/index.php
Yeast fermentation: www.accessexcellence.org/LC/SS/ferm_activity.php
The Four Creatures: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0114-LenoreKop
ActionBioscience.org: www.actionbioscience.org/education.
See Classroom Methodology: Using Case Studies to Teach Science (by Clyde Freeman Herreid) and Tapping Into the Pulse of the History of Science With Case Studies (by Douglas Allchin)
American Society for Microbiology: Classroom Activities: www.asm.org/index.php/education/classroom-activities.html
Antonj van Leeuwenhoek: Father of Microbiology: www.vanleeuwenhoek.com
Biology Corner: Cells: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/cells
The Martian and the Car Story: Characteristics of Life: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/martian.html
Paramecium Lab: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/parameciumlab.htm
Brine Shrimp Labs:
Access Excellence: Brine Shrimp: Fish Farm Open Ended Lab: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/manerchia_fish.php
*American Physiological Society: Little Shrimpers: A Brine Shrimp Activity: www.apsarchive.org/resource.cfm?submissionID=236
North Carolina State University: Brine Shrimp Project: www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/downloads/brishrim.pdf
Sea Monkeys: www.sea-monkey.com/html/aboutsm/whatarethey.html
*BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins, Effectiveness and Applications: www.bscs.org/bscs-5e-instructional-model
http://science.education.nih.gov/houseofreps.nsf/b82d55fa138783c2852572c9004f5566/$FILE/Appendix%20D.pdf
http://theonlinepd.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/executivesummary5emodel.pdf
Cells Alive: www.cellsalive.com
Cell Biology Animations: www.johnkyrk.com
Cell-ebration: How cells work: http://people.usd.edu/~bgoodman/Cell-ebrationframes.htm
Cellupedia: http://library.thinkquest.org/C004535/cell_simulation.html
+ Characteristics (& Diversity) of Life video clip [3:39 min. video]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=juxLuo-sH6M
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Science Stock Photography: www.denniskunkel.com
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Cells:http://dep.disney.go.com
Diversity of Life: www.diversityoflife.org
Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Yeast-Air Balloons: www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/activity-yeast.html
Flinn Scientific: Glue Monsters: Are They Alive?: www.flinnsci.com/Documents/demoPDFs/Biology/BF10227.pdf
GENE Project Yeast Experiments: www.phys.ksu.edu/gene/chapters.html
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BioInteractive: www.hhmi.org/biointeractive. See Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease and Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicine.
MedMotion Interactive Health Care Education: Animations and Images: Cell and Molecular Biology: www.medmotion.com/gallery.shtml
Microbe Zoo: Water World: Pond: http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo
*Microbus: Pond Water Critters including Ciliates (e.g., Vorticella): www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/pond-critters.htm
Microscopy-UK: (2D and 3D images): www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html
Molecular Expressions: Digital Video Gallery, Streaming Video, and Downloads: Pond Life: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/pondscum.html
+ Protists Labs: www.siue.edu/~rbrugam/protists.pdf
http://lpsl.coe.uga.edu/mile3/resa/gpsinaction/protist.html
*Red Star Yeast Science Experiments: www.redstaryeast.com/science-yeast/yeast-experiments
Robert Hooke's Micrographia: Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hooke/hooke.htmland www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15491
Serendip: Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Learners:
See Introduction to Biology: Yeast, Cellular Respiration in Yeast, and other resources: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron
The Biology Project, University of Arizona: www.biology.arizona.edu/site.html
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophylls (2D structural formula image)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin (2D structural formula image)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeuwenhoek
Activity 8: Water "Stick-to-It-Ness"
3-D Molecular Designs: www.3dmoleculardesigns.com/news2.php#water
Biological adaptation to water's high surface tension:
Basilisk lizard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk_lizard
www.societyofrobots.com/robot_jesus_lizard.shtml
Water Strider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_strider
www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/common_water_strider.htm
*BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins, Effectiveness and Applications:
www.bscs.org/pdf/5EFull Report.pdf
http://bscs.org/pdf/bscs5eexecsummary.pdf
Cell Biology Animations: Water: www.johnkyrk.com/H2O.html
DiHydrogen MonOxide (DHMO) Hoax: www.dhmo.org
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ban_dhmo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide
www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/dihydrogen-monoxide
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Fluids: http://dep.disney.go.com
Drops on a Penny activity:
Katz, D. A. 2004. Drops of Liquid on a Penny: www.chymist.com/drops%20on%20a%20coin.pdf
Trimpe, T. 1999. How many drops of H20 can fit on a penny? www.sciencespot.net/Media/pennylab.pdf
Biology Corner: Scientific Method: www.biologycorner.com/lessonplans/scientific-method
Earth, the Water Planet images: Search Google for photos.
www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/spaceship_earth.jpg
HyperPhysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University:
Surface tension: Molecular explanation and applications: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/surten.html
National Geographic Society: Special Issue, April 2010: Water: Our Thirsty World: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/table-of-contents
Non-Newtonian Fluids:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid
www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-non-newtonian-fluid.htm
www.answers.com/topic/non-newtonian-fluid
Oobleck: The Dr. Seuss Science Experiment: www.instructables.com/id/Oobleck
Steve Spangler Science: Cornstarch Science and Quicksand Goo: www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000088
*Silly Putty:
www.staidenshomeschool.com/files/silly_putty_lesson_plan.pdf
www.sci-experiments.com/slime/slime.html
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000039
Walking on Water: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw
Official M.C. Escher Website (www.mcescher.com) sells a work titled Waterfall Cascade (showing an impossible arrangement), which makes for a great prop for an extended discussion of the unusual and seemingly discrepant physical and chemical properties of water.
San Diego State University: Biology Lessons for Prospective and Practicing Teachers:
Properties of Water: www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/ta/classes/lab1/index.html
Teachers' Domain: Earth as a System:
www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.hologlobe
United Nations: Sick Water: The Central Role of Wastewater Management in Sustainable Development: www.unwater.org/downloads/SickWater_unep_unh.pdf
U.S. Geological Survey: Water Science for Schools: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mwater.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: detergents, surface tension, surfactants, and water and water properties.
Activity 9: Burdock and Velcro
American Society for Microbiology: Classroom Activities: One of These Things is Not Like the Other: www.asm.org/index.php/education/classroom-activities.html
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB): Education: www.aspb.org/education
Biomimicry Institute: www.biomimicryinstitute.org
In particular, download Velcro Race: www.biomimicryinstitute.org/education/k-12/curricula.html
Bioteams: www.bioteams.com
Botanical Society of America (BSA): Statement on Evolution: www.botany.org/outreach/evolution.php
*BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins, Effectiveness and Applications: www.bscs.org/bscs-5e-instructional-model
http://science.education.nih.gov/houseofreps.nsf/b82d55fa138783c2852572c9004f5566/$FILE/Appendix%20D.pdf
http://theonlinepd.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/executivesummary5emodel.pdf
Darwin 's Finches and Pliers Laboratory Simulation:
www.scribd.com/doc/13189835/Galapagos-Finch-Lab
www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/sprague_beaks.php
http://biol1114.okstate.edu/study_guides/labs/lab6/lab6_frameset.htm
http://biochemnetwork.com/download.php?id=113
www.sciencecases.org/darwins_finches/prelude.asp
Miami Museum of Science: Constructivism and the 5E: www.miamisci.org/ph/lpintro5e.html
National Association of Biology Teachers: NABT Position Statement on Teaching Evolution: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35
National Center for Science Education (NCSE): Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools: http://ncse.com
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA): Position Statements:
The Teaching of Evolution: www.nsta.org/about/positions/evolution.aspx
*Science and Plants for Schools: www.saps.org.uk/
Teachers' Domain:
Design Inspired by Nature: www.teachersdomain.org/resource/eng06.sci.engin.design.biomimicry
The Remarkable Cocklebur: Worldwide Hitchhiker and Nature's Velcro: www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.stru.cocklebur
University of NC Learning/NC Lesson Plans: Modify a Seed Activity: www.learnnc.org/lessons/BertWartski5232002651
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Velcro, Patent No. 2717437: http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=2717437&idkey=NONE
Velcro Invention: George de Mestral: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091297.htm
Videos and DVDs that feature the variety of strategies used by plant seeds to aid in their dispersal:
Carolina Biological: Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind: www.carolina.com
David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants: http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=724292(The BBC series is described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Plants.)
Nature (PBS series): The Seedy Side of Plants: www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/plants
Plants-In-Motion: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu
Wayne 's Word: An Online Textbook of Natural History: Noteworthy Plants: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/index.htm
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: bidens (or sticktight), biological dispersal (seeds), biomimicry, bionics, burdock, cocklebur, greater burdock, serendipity (links to large number of examples), symbiosis, and Velcro.
Activity 10: Osmosis and "Naked" Eggs
Access Excellence:
Investigating Cell Sizes: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0239-AltonBiggs/index.html
The Cell Membrane and Surface Area Demos: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0307-TrumanHoltzclaw/index.html
Modeling Limits to Cell Size: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/deaver_cell.html
Egg Osmometers: Teacher Notes: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0519-NancyIversen/index.html
Diffusion and Osmosis: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0081-JeffLukens/description.html
Using Bubbles to Explore Membranes: www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1995/wardell_membranes.php
http://psusdscienceresources.wikispaces.com/file/view/Bubble+Lab.doc
America 's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science: www.nap.edu/catalog/11311.html
*BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins, Effectiveness and Applications: www.bscs.org/bscs-5e-instructional-model
http://science.education.nih.gov/houseofreps.nsf/b82d55fa138783c2852572c9004f5566/$FILE/Appendix%20D.pdf
http://theonlinepd.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/executivesummary5emodel.pdf
Biology Corner: Cells: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/cells
Cell Biology Animations: www.johnkyrk.com
*Cell-ebration Homepage: http://people.usd.edu/~bgoodman/Cell-ebrationframes.htm
*Concord Consortium: http://mw.concord.org/modeler/
Diffusion, Osmosis and Active Transport: www.concord.org/activities/diffusion-osmosis-and-active-transport
Osmosis:
www.concord.org/~btinker/workbench_web/models/osmosis.swf
http://mw.concord.org/modeler/molecular.html
Cornell Institute of Biology Teachers: Physiology: Diffusion Across Biological Membranes: http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu/labs/phys.las
DarylScience: Biology Demos: www.darylscience.com/DemoBio.html
See demonstrations #7, "Crisp or Limp Salad"; #8, "Exploding Blood Cells"; #11, "How Does Penicillin Work?"; #12, "A Bill Nye Quickie (Vanilla and Balloon)"; see also Brain-Powered Science, Activity #20, Extensions.
Democracy and Education: www.ilt.columbia.edu/Publications/dewey.html
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Cells: http://dep.disney.go.com
Egg-citing Egg-speriment: www.haverford.edu/educ/knight-booklet/theegg.htm
Exploratorium: www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/eggs/kitchenlab.html
HyperPhysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University: Fluids: select diffusion, osmosis and membrane transport for concept maps and explanations: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Miami Museum of Science: Constructivism and 5E: www.miamisci.org/ph/lpintro5e.html
Minnesota Science Teacher Education Project: Osmosis and Gummy Bears: http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep/activities/26990.html
+ Osmosis on You Tube:
Animation [0:46 min.]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdiJtDRJQEc
Mini-Lecture [5:06 min. with animation and demonstration with dialysis tubing]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-QJ-UUX0iY&feature=endscreen
Demonstration with Raw Egg [3:47 min./timelapse]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c8acUE9Itw&feature=fvwp
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: Osmosis Is Serious Business: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=283&id=283
Polymer Science Learning Center: Diffusion and Gummy Bears: http://pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/activity/bear.htm
Salmonella Poisoning:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/salmonella
Mayo Clinic: www.mayoclinic.com/health/salmonella/DS00926/DSECTION=symptoms
Medicine.com: Salmonella: www.medicinenet.com/salmonella/article.htm
San Diego State University: Biology Lessons for Prospective and Practicing Teachers:
Cells: www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/ta/classes/lab7/index.html
Osmosis: www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/ta/classes/lab5/index.html
Science Cartoons Plus: The Cartoons of S. Harris: www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/index.php
See also other sites listed in Activity #12.
Science-Class.net: Osmosis and Diffusion: http://science-class.net/Biology/Osmosis.htm
Science NetLinks AAAS: Plasmolysis in Elodea Plant Cells: www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=106
Serendip: Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Learners: See Diffusion and Investigating Osmosis: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron
*Steve Spangler Science: The Egg in the Bottle Trick and How to Make a Folding Egg:
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/egg-in-bottle
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/how-to-make-a-folding-egg
Teachers' Domain: Cell Membrane: Just Passing Through: www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cell.membraneweb
Wikipedia: Osmosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis
+ Wikipedia: Soap bubble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_bubble
Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Surface area increase by size reduction: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SurfaceAreaIncreaseBySizeReduction
Activity 11: 5 E(z) Yet pHenomenal Steps to Demystifying Magic Color-Changing Markers
About Chemistry:
Acid-Base Indicators, their pH ranges and respective colors: http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa112201a.htm
Chemistry Experiments and Demonstrations You Can Do at Home: http://chemistry.about.com/od/homeexperiments
America's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science . Executive Summary: www.nap.edu/catalog/11311.html
Biology Corner: Scientific Method: Carbon Dioxide Production: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/scientific-method
Chem Guide:
Indicators: www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/indicators.html
Paper Chromatography: www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/chromatography/paper.html
ChemMatters CD (1983–2008): http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content
David Katz: Investigating the Chemistry of Color Changing Markers: www.chymist.com/color%20changing%20investigation.pdf
Democracy and Education: www.ilt.columbia.edu/Publications/dewey.html
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Chemical Reactions: http://dep.disney.go.com
Doing Chemistry: Movies of chemical demonstrations: Colorful reactions of red cabbage juice:
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/dochem/DoChem098.html
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/dochem/DoChem099.html
Fun Science Gallery: Experiments With Acids and Bases: www.funsci.com/fun3_en/acids/acids.htm
General Chemistry Online: Indicators and Their Color Changes/pH Ranges: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/acidbase/indicators.shtml
Goldenrod Paper pH Indicator:
Becker Demonstrations: http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/beckerdemos/BD022.html
Daryl's Science: www.darylscience.com/Demos/Goldenrod.html
Educational Innovations: http://blog.teachersource.com/2009/10/01/goldenrod-paper
Science Hobbyist: http://amasci.com/amateur/gold.html
Steve Spangler Science: www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000040
National Science Center: How Color Change Markers Work:
Video: www.nscdiscovery.org/TeacherTools/topic_details.asp?ID=184
National Science Teachers Association Position Paper: The integral role of laboratory investigations in science instruction: www.nsta.org/about/positions/laboratory.aspx
PhET Interactive Simulations: http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=pH_Scale
Purdue University: Voice-activated chemical reaction: www.chem.purdue.edu/bcce/Voice_Activated_Reaction.pdf
Steve Spangler Science:
Sharpie Pen Science: www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000032
Do You Have Acid Breath?: www.stevespangler.com/experiments
University of Virginia Physics Dept: pH, Soda Science, Flower Indicators, and Magic (HOEs):
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/SodaScienceFrm.htm
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/FlowerIndicatorsFrm.htm
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thGradeSOL/AcidBaseFrm.htm
U.S. Patents Office: Patent #5,232,494: Color changing compositions by Richard E. Miller of Binney & Smith Inc.: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: autumn leaf color, chromatography, pH indicators (includes list), and redox indicator.
Activity 12: 5 E(z) Steps Back Into "Deep" Time
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion: www.aaas.org/spp/dser
AAAS Project 2061: Evolution on the Front Line Resources: www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution
Access Excellence: www.accessexcellence.org
ActionBioscience: Issues in Evolution: www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/index.html
+ American Educator, Summer 2012: An Evolving Controversy: The Struggle to Teach Science in Science Classes: www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/issues.cfm
American Geological Institute: Evolution and the Fossil Record: www.agiweb.org/news/evolution
American Museum of Natural History ( New York): www.amnh.org
American Society for Microbiology (ASM): Classroom Activities: Earth History: Time Flies No Matter What the Scale: www.asm.org/index.php/education/classroom-activities.html
Annenberg Foundation's Teachers' Professional Development: Rediscovering Biology: www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/units/humev/images.html
Arizona State University's (ASU) Institute of Human Origins: http://iho.asu.edu
Becoming Human: www.becominghuman.org
Awesome Science Teacher Resources by Nancy Clark: Evolution Activities, Labs and Links: www.nclark.net/Evolution
BBC Prehistoric Life: www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/redesign.shtml
Biology Corner: Evolution and Taxonomy: www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/evolution-taxonomy
Biology in Motion: Evolution Lab: www.biologyinmotion.com
Breve: www.spiderland.org
Concord Consortium: Biology Simulations: www.concord.org/activities/subject/biology
Free download: Competition (MS), Conflicting Selection Pressures (HS), Modern Genetics (HS), Natural Selection (ES), Population Explosion (HS), Predators and Prey (ES), and Virtual Greenhouse (ES). See also the article "Teaching Evolution With Models": www.concord.org/publications/newsletter/2009-spring/evolution.html
Contextual Science Teaching: http://sci-ed.org.
See Centre for Science Stories: Biological Sciences (Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles
Darwin ): http://science-stories.org/category/subject/biological-sciences
Earth Sciences (Age of the Earth: A Very Deep Question and Alfred Wegener/Continental Drift): http://science-stories.org/category/subject/earth-sciences
*Cosmic Calendar:
http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul/AstroCourses/P303/BB-slide.htm (data tables/charts)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8UwPd1z20 (4:58 video from original Cosmos series)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=igPPh8_bXWw (longer version; features evolution)
Darwin Pond (Artificial Life Simulation): www.ventrella.com/Darwin/darwin.html
DarylScience: Biology Demos: www.darylscience.com/DemoBio.html
See demonstrations #1, "Opposable Thumbs," and #2, " Darwin's Finch Beaks
Deep Time—the Geological Time Scale": http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/methods/quantlit/DeepTime.html
*Dinobase at the University of Bristol: http://dinobase.gly.bris.ac.uk/index.htm
*Discovery Institute: www.discovery.org.
See critique of supposed "flaws" in PBS Evolution series: www.reviewevolution.com/index.php
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and Fossils: http://dep.disney.go.com
Evolution and the Nature of Science Institute: www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/home.html
Evolution Timeline: www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.swf
EvoTutor Interactive Simulations: www.evotutor.org
Geological Society of America: Geological Time Scale: www.geosociety.org/science/timescale
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biointeractive: www.hhmi.org/biointeractive.
See for example Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads and Evolution: Fossils, Genes and Mousetraps DVDs.
Human Origins and Evolution in Africa: www.indiana.edu/~origins
*Institute for Creation Science: www.icr.org
*Intelligent Design Resources: www.intelligentdesign.org/resources.php
International Darwin Day Foundation: www.darwinday.org
Kentucky Geological Survey: It's About Time: www.uky.edu/KGS/education/about_time.htm
Millerandlevine.com: http://millerandlevine.com
Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI): www.museumoftheEarth.org
National Academy of Sciences and National Academies Press:
Evolution Resources: www.nationalacademies.org/evolution
Science and Creationism (booklet): www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6024
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309063647
Science, Evolution, and Creationism: www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11876
National Association of Biology Teachers: Position Statement on Teaching Evolution: www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=35
National Center for Science Education: Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools: http://ncse.com
National Science Teachers Association: NSTA Reports Blick on Flicks column: www.nsta.org/publications/blickonflicks.aspx
National Science Teachers Association: Evolution Resources: www.nsta.org/publications/evolution.aspx
NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo
*Northwest Creation Network: "Creation Science"/Anti-Evolution Cartoons and Humor: http://nwcreation.net/humor.html
NOVA: Intelligent Design on Trial (DVD): www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html
Online Literature Library (The Voyage of Beagle, Origin of Species, and Descent of Man): www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles
Pangea Animations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0806/es0806page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
http://education.sdsc.edu/optiputer/teachers/overview.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001002.html
PBS Evolution series and related resources: www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution
Deep Time/History of Life: www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/index.html
PhET Interactive Simulations:
Natural Selection: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/natural-selection
Radioactive Dating Game: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/radioactive-dating-game
Rev. Ken Collins website: Evolution Versus Creationism: A Stupid and Arrogant Fight: www.kencollins.com/bible-i4.htm
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science: http://richarddawkins.net
Richard Milner's Darwin's Universe: http://darwinlive.com
Royal Tyrrell Museum: www.tyrrellmuseum.com
Scientific American Digital Special Editions: Our Ever-Changing Earth, Becoming Human, Dinosaurs, and a New Look at Human Evolution: www.scientificamerican.com/special/toc.cfm?issueid=34&sc=singletopic
Serendip: Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Learners:
See Evolution by Natural Selection simulation and other resources: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron
San Diego Museum of Man: Footsteps Through Time: Four Million Years of Human Evolution: http://abouthumanevolution.net
San Diego State University: Biology Lessons for Prospective and Practicing Teachers: www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu
Concept Cartoons for Evolution: www.biologylessons.sdsu.edu/cartoons/concepts.html
Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection: www.sci.sdsu.edu/CRMSE/old_site/kfisher_conceptual.htm
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History: www.mnh.si.edu
Department of Paleobiology: http://www.paleobiology.si.edu/
Sources of Science Cartoons:
Mark Anderson: www.andertoons.com/cartoons/science
Ashleigh Brilliant (Brilliant Thoughts, Pot-Shots and more): www.ashleighbrilliant.com
*Nick Downes: www.cartoonstock.com/portfolios/Nick_Downes.asp(Big Science and Whatever Happened To " Eureka"?)
Benita Epstein: www.benitaepstein.com
CartoonStock/science: www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/science.asp
Cartoonist Group: Science: www.cartoonistgroup.com/bysubject
John Chase: Chasetoons Science Humor: www.chasetoons.com/schum.html
Randy Glasbergen, The Better Half (and more): www.glasbergen.com
Sidney Harris at Science Cartoons Plus: www.sciencecartoonsplus.com
Nick D. Kim, Nearing Zero: www.lab-initio.com and www.nearing-zero.net/index.html
Gary Larson, The Far Side: www.thefarside.com
John McPherson, Close to Home: www.physlink.com/Fun/McPherson.cfmand www.gocomics.com/closetohome
Mark Parisi, Off the Mark: www.offthemark.com/science/science.htm
Science Humor—It's Alive: www.sciencehumor.org
Tom Swanson: http://home.netcom.com/~swansont/index.html
Bob Thaves, Frank and Earnest: www.frankandernest.com
Talk Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy: www.talkorigins.org
Teachers' Domain: Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development:
Search topic: Evolution yields more than 200 lessons with linked video clips; for example, see Fossil Evidence for Evolution:
www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.lp_fossilevid
The Paleontological Society: Position Statement: Evolution: www.paleosoc.org/evolutioncomplete.htm
University of California–Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology: http://ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html
Understanding Evolution: http://evolution.berkeley.edu
Geological Time: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html
U.S. Geological Survey:
Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs
Fossils, Rocks and Time: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils
Geological Time: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime
Virtual Fossil Museum (geological history, paleobiology, phylogenetics, and evolutionary biology information): www.fossilmuseum.net
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Search for films: Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus and Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed for contrasting perspectives.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Evolution: A Context for Biology: www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/1995. Also available at www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995
Worldwide Museum of Natural History: www.wmnh.com
YouTube:
Evolution Is a Blind Watchmaker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0
In the Year 2525/Exordium and Terminus:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJU_UutAME4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tLTb4P1HD8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FgSmdfRUus
Activity 13: 5 E(z) Steps to Earth-Moon Scaling
American Astronomical Society, Education Services: http://aas.org/education
+ American Educator, Fall 2004: Fantastic Journey: How Scientists Figured out the Shape and Size of the Earth: www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/issues.cfm
Annenberg Foundation: A Private Universe: www.learner.org/resources/series28.html
Association for Astronomy Education: Resources: www.cis.rit.edu/~jnspci/AAE/resources.shtml
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Education: www.astrosociety.org/education.html:
Free and for-sale resources: www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/astropubs/universetoc.html
Astronomy Café: www.astronomycafe.net
Astronomy Course for Middle/High School Students: http://darkskyinstitute.org
Astronomy Diagnostic Test: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/aae/adt
Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Bad Astronomy: www.badastronomy.com/index.html
BBC Science and Nature: Space: www.bbc.co.uk/science/space
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and Moon (photo) Montage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tkBNF0ghU
CERES Project: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres
Challenger Center for Space Science Education (search: Lessons): www.challenger.org
Cheryl Robertson's Whole Moon Page: www.moonlightsys.com/themoon/index.html
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench:
Our Solar System (Middle School): www.concord.org/activities/our-solar-system
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Steps: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Boeke/frames.html
Cosmos: www.hulu.com/cosmosor search Google Videos
Debussy's "Clair De Lune":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSV_k3MhCw
Disney Educational Productions: Bill Nye the Science Guy: http://dep.disney.go.com
Enya's "Shepherd Moons":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iRpa-hi1N4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9UWnzzAoc
*Enya's Music for 2010 Travel in the Universe documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys47ZXPTRio
Exploring Planets in the Classroom: www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/index.html
Flat Earth Society:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/FlatHome.htm
Fourmilab Switzerland: www.fourmilab.ch
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
How Big Is Our Universe?: www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/howfar/howfar.html
*MOSART: Misconception Oriented Standards-based Assessment Resource for Teachers: http://mosart.mspnet.org/
Heavenly Errors: www.physics.umaine.edu/ncomins
In Search of the Edge: An Inquiry Into the Shape of the Earth: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/search.html
Jet Propulsion Lab, Solar System Dynamics Group: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: Space Program: www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Space+Program.htm
Microcosm , CERN's Interactive Science Centre: Powers of Ten: http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/Microcosm/P10/english/welcome.html
Monty Python's "The Galaxy Song" (from The Meaning of Life movie):
Lyrics: www.lyricsdepot.com/monty-python/galaxy-song.html
Wikipedia: Analyzing the scientific validity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Song
*YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY
NASA Apollo 40th Anniversary: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
NASA Home (for Educators): www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory: http://teachspacescience.org/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex
NASA Space Store and Gift Shop: www.thespacestore.com
NASA Video Clip of Neil Armstrong stepping onto lunar surface: www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11v_1092338.mpg
Nine 8 Planets: A Multimedia Tour of Solar System: http://nineplanets.org
Noon Day Project: Measuring the Earth's Circumference: www.ciese.org/curriculum/noonday
Nova Celestia: www.novacelestia.com
NOVA Online: Runaway Universe: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe
To The Moon: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon
NSTA's Astronomy With a Stick and Day Into Night: www.nsta.org/publications/interactive/aws-din
NSTA Reports Blick on Flicks column: www.nsta.org/publications/blickonflicks.aspx
PhET Interactive Simulations: Estimation: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/estimation
Physlink.com: Physics and Astronomy Online: www.physlink.com/Index.cfm
Powers of 10: http://powersof10.com
Sciencemall-usa: www.sciencemall-usa.com
*Science Posters Plus: www.super-science-fair-projects.com/science-posters-plus.html
Sea and Sky: Astronomical Art: www.seasky.org/links/skylink08.html
Secret Worlds, the Universe Within: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: www.nasm.si.edu
Snopes.com: One Small Misstep: www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.asp
Sources of Science Cartoons: See listing in Activity #12.
Space Telescope Science Institute: www.stsci.edu/portal
A variety of resources, such as Comparing Earth and Its Planetary Neighbors: www.stsci.edu/exined/Comparing.html
Starry Night: www.starrynight.com
The Known Universe:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations: http://faraday.physics.uiowa.edu
Vangelis—"Albedo 0.39": www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL1oU6fH25w
See also:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmR8kWotPWg
Views of the Solar System: www.solarviews.com
We Choose the Moon: www.wechoosethemoon.org
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki. Search topics: Apollo 13 (1995 film), Cosmic Voyage (1996 IMAX film that depicts 42 orders of magnitude; similar to Powers of 10), From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne's science fiction story, 1958 movie, and 1998, 12-part HBO miniseries on the Apollo missions), Goldilocks, orders of magnitude (length), parts-per notation, Powers of 10 (film), and Spaceship Earth
Windows to the Universe: www.windows2universe.org
YouTube:
Meet Our Scientist: Tom Watters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7avaIqEiygc
Hints of a Shrinking Moon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6uxsLOzMI