A Symposium on the Nature of Science

Fermilab's Wilson Hall
Saturday, March 18, 2000
8:15 AM to 4:00 PM

Bibliography of selected classroom resources

Evolution

Attenborough, David, Life on Earth, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1979.

Berra, Tim M., Evolution and the Myth of Creationism, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1990.

Cole, Joanna, Evolution, New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987.

Futuyma, Douglas J., Science on Trial, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1995.

Gallant, Roy A., Before the Sun Dies, New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1989.

Godfrey, Laurie R. Editor, Scientists Confront Creationism, New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Gould, Stephen Jay, Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1998.

Nardo, Don, The Scopes Trial, San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1997.

National Academy of Sciences, Science and Creationism, 2nd Edition, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.

Pimenta, Leander R., Before the First Day, West Sussex, England: Creation Books, 1998.

Stein, Sara, The Evolution Book, New York, NY: Workman Publishing, 1986.

Wills, Christopher, The Wisdom of the Genes, New York, NY: Basic Books, 1989.

Life on Earth

Bosch Roca, Nuira, Cells, Genes, and Chromosomes, New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1996.

Cohen, Daniel and Susan, Where to Find Dinosaurs Today, New York, NY: Cobbelhill Books, 1992.

Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1986.

Dixon, Dougal, Prehistoric Life (Spotlights), New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Fagan, Brian M., The Journey from Eden, New York, NY: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1990.

Gould, Stephen Jay, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1995.

Gronlund, Gaye and Dr. Adrian Melott, How We Happened: The Beginning of Everything, Privately published.

Jackson, Ellen, The Tree of Life, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993.

Lasky, Kathryn, Traces of Life, New York, NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1989.

Llamas, Andreu, The Era of the Dinosaurs, (Development of the Earth series)

New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1996.

Llamas, Andreu, The First Amphibians, (Development of the Earth series)

New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1996.

Llamas, Andreu, Life Starts in the Sea, (Development of the Earth series)

New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1996.

Llamas, Andreu, Mammals Dominate the Earth, (Development of the Earth series)

New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1996.

Melott, Adrian and Gaye Gronlund, Origins in the Universe (An Enrichment Curriculum About the Beginnings of the Universe, the Earth, and Human Beings on the Earth, Indianapolois, IN: ECE Consulting, Inc., 1997.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshlaw, Mystery of the Lascaux Cave, New York, NY: Benchmark Books, 1999.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshlaw, Secrets of the Ice Man, New York, NY: Benchmark Books, 1999.

Sereno, Paul C., How Tough Was a Tyrannosaurus? New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1989.

Snedden, Robert, Life (Science Horizons), New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishing, 1995.

Weiner, Jonathan., Time, Love, Memory?, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

 

Nature of Science

Doris, Ellen, Doing What Scientists Do, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.

Feynman, Richard P., The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Cambridge, MA: Helix Books, 1999.

Gelman, Rita Golden and Susan Kovacs Buxbaum., What Are Scientists?, New York, NY: Scholastic Inc. 1991.

Gratzer, Walter, Editor, A Bedside Nature, New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1997.

Kramer, Stephen P., How to Think Like a Scientist, New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987.

Markham, Lois, Discoveries That Changed Science, Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1995.

Marshall, Ian and Danah Zohar, Who’s Afraid of Schrodinger’s Cat? All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking, New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997.

Shermer, Michael, Teach Your Child Science, Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1989.

Sprung, Barbara, et.al., What Will Happen if . . . Young Children and the Scientific Method, New York, NY: Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 1985.

Wynn, Charles, M. and Arthur W. Wiggins, The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

Physics

Epstein, Lewis Carroll, Relativity Visualized, San Francisco, CA: Insight Press, 1991.

Ferris, Timothy, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the Universe Report, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Gamow, George, Mr. Tompkins in Paperback, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Gribbin, John, The Cartoon History of Time, New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1990.

Gribbin, John, Schrodinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.

Han, M. Y., The Probable Universe, Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1993.

Hawking, Stephen W., A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, New York NY: Bantam Books, 1988.

Jewett, Jr., John W. Physics Begins with an M . . . Mysteries, Magic, and Myth, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1994.

Lederman, Leon, The God Particle, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.

Paul, Richard, A Handbook to the Universe: Exploration of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time for Beginning Scientific Thinkers, Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1993.

Schwarz, Cindy, A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo, New York, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1992.

Stwertka, Albert, The World of Atoms and Quarks, New York, NY: Twenty-First Century Books, 1995.

Weinberg, Steven, Dreams of a Final Theory, New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1992.

The Universe and Cosmology

Asimov, Isaac, How Was the Universe Born? New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1989.

Bond, Peter, DK Guide to Space, New York, NY: DK Publishing, 1999.

Chown, Marcus, Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples, Sausalito, CA: University Science Books, 1996.

Cosmology, American Association of Physics Teachers, Stony Brook, NY: American Association of Physics Teachers, 1979.

Dalrymple, G. Brent, The Age of the Earth, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Davies, Paul, The Accidental Universe, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Ferris, Timothy, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, New York, NY: Doubleday, 1989.

Gardner, Robert, Experimenting with Time, New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1995.

Kolb, Rocky, Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.

Kolb, Edward W. and Michael S. Turner, The Early Universe, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1990.

Lightman, Alan and Roberta Brawer, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Peebles, P. J. E., Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Riordan, Michael and David N. Schramm, The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe, New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1990.

Ross, Hugh, Ph.D., The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God," Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress Publishing, 1993.

Silk, Joseph, The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe, New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1980.

Snedden, Robert, Time, New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

Multimedia:

Clearvue/eav, What is Science? MAC/Win CD-ROM, school edition, Chicago, IL: Clearvue/eav, 1998.

Connections, MAC/Win CD-ROM

Corbis, Leonardo da Vinci, MAC CD-ROM, Corbis, 1996.

Coronet Film & Video, NOVA: Race for the Top Quark, VHS, 58 min., Northbrook, IL: Coronet Film & Video, 1992

Cosmos: Voyage through the Universe, MAC/Win CD-ROM

DK Multimedia, Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe, Win CD-ROM, New York, NY: DK Multimedia, 1996.

DK Multimedia, I Love Science, Win CD-ROM, New York, NY: DK Multimedia, 1996.

Discovery Communications, Understanding: The Universe, VHS, 60 min.,

Teacher’s Guide, Bethesda, MD: Discovery Communications, 1997.

Eames, Demetrios, Powers of Ten Interactive, MAC/Win CD-ROM, Pyramid Media,

1999.

Fermilab, Detectors, VHS, 6 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1996.

Fermilab, Internet Physics Bowl, VHS, 11 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1997.

Fermilab, The Odyssey of Proteus, VHS, 12 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1997.

Fermilab, Particles, VHS, 6 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1996.

Fermilab, Primordial Soup, VHS, 10 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1995.

Fermilab, The Small Things of Nature: Postcards from the Particle Frontier, VHS,

Batavia, IL: Fermilab.

Fermilab, What is an Electron Volt? VHS, 4 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1997.

Fermilab, What is Superconductivity? VHS, 3 min., Batavia, IL: Fermilab, 1997.

Great Plains National, Universe: The Infinite Frontier Earth and Mars, VHS, 20 min., Lincoln, NE: Great Plains National, 1996.

Goodman, Harvey, Thinking Like a Scientist, MAC/Win CD-ROM, Freeport, NY: Educational Activities, 1996.

Hawkhill Video, The Atom, VHS, 20 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1990.

Hawkhill Video, Charles Darwin Explains the Diversity of Life, VHS, 22 min., Guide, Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1994.

Hawkhill Video, Evolution, VHS, 41 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1998.

Hawkhill Video, How Scientists Discovered the Expanding Universe, VHS, 19 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc.

Hawkhill Video, How Scientists Think and Work, VHS, 19 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1995.

Hawkhill Video, How We Found Out About Atoms, VHS, 19 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc.

Hawkhill Video, The Origin of Species: Creationism & Evolution, VHS, 30 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1997

Hawkhill Video, Physics the Basic Science, VHS, 19 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1995.

Hawkhill Video, Planets, Stars and Galaxies, VHS, 20 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1998.

Hawkhill Video, Scientific Methods and Values, VHS, 35 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1999.

Hawkhill Video, The Soul of Science, VHS, 80 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1998.

Hawkhill Video, The Story of Evolution, VHS, 18 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1999.

Hawkhill Video, What is Science, VHS, 20 min., Madison, WI: Hawkhill Associates, Inc., 1999.

Mervis, Jim and Robit Hairman, Stephen Hawking a Brief History of Time: An Interactive Adventure, Milpitas, CA: Blasterware Creative Labs, MAC/Win CD-ROM, 1994.

National Institutes, To Do Science is to Know Science: My Life as a Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Office of Education.

PBS Video, The Astronomers Series (A Window of Creation, Waves of the Future, Where is the Rest of the Universe?, Searching for Black Holes, Stardust, Prospecting for Planets), VHS, 60 min. each, Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1991.

PBS Video, Mysteries of the Universe, VHS, 120 min., Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1998.

PBS Video, Origins, VHS, 120 min., Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1998.

REMedia, Prehistoric Animals: A History of Life on Animals, vol. 9, MAC/Win CD-ROM, San Diego, CA: REMEdia, 1998.

Scientific American Library, From Quarks to the Cosmos, MAC/Win CD-ROM

Videodiscovery, Evolution: Inquires into Biology and Earth Science, Videodisc, Seattle, WA: Videodiscovery, 1991.

Voyager, Invisible Universe, MAC/Win CD-ROM, New York, NY: Voyager, 1995.

Web Resources:

Darwin Day, Evolution Links, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, October 1998.

http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/

Human Evolution Education Network, National Center for Science Education, Molleen Matsumura, Network Project Director.

http://WWW.NatCenSciEd.org/heenhm.htm

Science and Creationism, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1998.

http://www4.nas.edu/opus/evolve.nsf

Sue: The Inside Story, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

http:// www.fmnh.org/sue/default.htm

The Talk. Origins Archive. Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy, University of Ediacara, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1997.

http://www.talkorigins.org.origins/faqs.html


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