Thursday: Science
Week 1
TITLE: Cloning
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Human Genetics, Lewis, Ricky. McGraw-Hill, Fourth Edition, 2001.
*www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml
*www.roslin.ac.uk/public/cloning.html
*www.roslin.ac.uk/public/dolly_final_report_pstr.pdf
RECOMMENDED READING: The website of the Roslin Institute www.roslin.ac.uk/public/cloning.html
Week 2
TITLE: Eratosthenes
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
*http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eratosthenes.html
*http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html
*Scientists of the Ancient World, Anderson, Margaret J., Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1999.
*Groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the ancient world, Krebs, Robert E., Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Week 3
TITLE: The Solar System
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Too Many Planets Numb the Mind, The New York Times, August 2, 2005 Tuesday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 20, 425 words
*Planet or Not, Pluto Now Has Far-Out Rival , The New York Times, July 30, 2005 Saturday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 1; National Desk; Pg. 1, 1200 words, By Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye
*Pluto, the Maybe Planet, Gets Another Look, The New York Times, November 16, 2004 Tuesday, Late Edition - Final, Section F; Column 2; Science Desk; Pg. 4, 401 words, By John Noble Wilford
*www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/
*www.nineplanets.org/
RECOMMENDED READING: www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system
Week 4
TITLE: The Greenhouse Effect
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.epa.gov
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect.
*Liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov
*www.smh.com.au/news/environment/artic-melting
RECOMMENDED READING: The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan
Week 5
TITLE: Black Holes
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
*http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/black_holes.html
*The everything astronomy book : discover the mysteries of the universe / Phillips, Cynthia, Avon, MA : Adams Media Corp., c2002.
*The Scientific American Book of Astronomy. New York: Lyons Press, 1999.
*The astronomers : companion book to the PBS television series / Goldsmith, Donald. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
RECOMMENDED READING: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
by Stephen Hawking
Week 6
TITLE: Supernova
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *The everything astronomy book : discover the mysteries of the universe / Phillips, Cynthia, Avon, MA : Adams Media Corp., c2002.
*The Scientific American Book of Astronomy. New York: Lyons Press, 1999.
*The astronomers : companion book to the PBS television series / Goldsmith, Donald. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
*http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia
*heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html
RECOMMENDED READING: The Supernova Story by Laurence Marschall
Week 7
TITLE: Nociception: The Perception of Pain
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Psychology, Henry Gleitman, W. W. Norton & Company; 5th edition, 1998.
*“Soothing Truths about Pain,” Psychology Today, Maia Szalavitz, October 2005.
*http://opioids.com/pain/congenital-anaesthesia.html
*http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/congenital-insensitivity/nopain.html
RECOMMENDED READING: Pain by Patrick Wall
Week 8
TITLE: The Placebo Effect
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2709-2002Apr29
*http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/mdd/99/aug/mysterious.html
*http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20041112-000003.html
*Psychology, Henry Gleitman, W. W. Norton & Company; 5th edition, 1998.
Week 9
TITLE: Mendelian Genetics
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm
*www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html
*library.thinkquest.org/20830/Textbook/Genetics.htm
*www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/27/reviews/000827.27cainlt.htm
*www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/mendelexperiments.html
RECOMMENDED READING: Gregor Mendel: And the Roots of Genetics by Edward Edelson
Week 10
TITLE: Surface Tension and Hydrogen Bonding
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bonding/hbond.html
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bond
*www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/sticky_water.html
*www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041201_water_bonds.html
Week 11
TITLE: Earthquakes
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *neic.usgs.gov
*www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
*earthquake.usgs.gov
*http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm
*http://www.answers.com/topic/1989-world-series
RECOMMENDED READING: Earthquakes in Human History : The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
Week 12
TITLE: Sunspots and Solar Flares
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/sunspots.htm
*The everything astronomy book : discover the mysteries of the universe / Phillips, Cynthia, Avon, MA : Adams Media Corp., c2002.
*The Scientific American Book of Astronomy. New York: Lyons Press, 1999.
*The astronomers : companion book to the PBS television series / Goldsmith, Donald. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Week 13
TITLE: The Milgram Studies: Lessons in Obedience
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.stanleymilgram.com/
*http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20020301-000037
*Psychology, Henry Gleitman, W. W. Norton & Company; 5th edition, 1998.
RECOMMENDED READING: The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass
Week 14
TITLE: Galileo Galilei
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
*en.wikipedia.org
*scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography
*space.about.com
RECOMMENDED READING: Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Week 15
TITLE: Static Electricity
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.americanrevolution.com/BenjaminFranklinElectricity
*www.sciencemadesimple.com
*www.school-for-champions.com
*www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electricity
RECOMMENDED READING: Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
Week 16
TITLE: The Ozone Layer
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.epa.gov
*www.nas.nasa.gov
*www.physicalgeography.net.
*www.en.wikipedia.org
*www.news.nationalgeographic.com
RECOMMENDED READING: What If the Hole in the Ozone Layer Grows Larger? by Holly Cefrey
Week 17
TITLE: Radiocarbon Dating
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.bbc.co.uk
*www.physlink.com
*science.howstuffworks.com
*hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/cardat.html
Week 18
TITLE: Albert Einstein
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *nobleprize.org
*inventors.about.com
*rescomp.stanford.edu
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: Einstein's Miraculous Year : Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics by Roger Penrose
Week 19
TITLE: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Darwin.htm
*msnbc.msn.com
*www.bbc.co.uk
*www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com
*www.allaboutthejourney.org
RECOMMENDED READING: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Week 20
TITLE: Gravity
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *csep10.phy.utk.edu
*science.howstuffworks.com/weightlessness.htm
*science.howstuffworks.com/question232.htm
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
RECOMMENDED READING: Gravity from the Ground Up : An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity by Bernard Schutz
Week 21
TITLE: Vaccines
RECOMMENDED READING: Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine by Albert Marrin
Week 22
TITLE: Marie Curie
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.iap.org/history/curie/contents.htm
*www.diplomatie.gouv.fr
*nobelprize.org
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: Madame Curie: A Biography, by Eve Curie, her daughter
Week 23
TITLE: Hypnosis
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.apa.org
*science.howstuffworks.com/hypnosis
*skeptic.com/hypnosis
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hypnosis by Ph. D., Roberta Temes
Week 24
TITLE: Cognitive Dissonance
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *tip.psychology.org/festinge.html
*en.wikipedia.org
*www.apa.org
*skeptic.com/cognitivedissonance.html
RECOMMENDED READING: The Human Legacy by Leon Festinger
Week 25
TITLE: Reproduction
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *doramt.tripod.com/evolution.srepod.html
*science.howstuffworks.com/human-reproduction.htm
*biology.about.com
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: How Animals Have Sex : A Guide to the Reproductive Habits of Creatures Great and Small -- by David Strorm
Week 26
TITLE: Stem Cells
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *science.howstuffworks.com
*National Institute of Health
*www.time.com
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy by Suzanne Holland
Week 27
TITLE: Electromagnetic Spectrum
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *imaginers.gsfc.nasa.gov
*imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov
*hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: Invisible Universe: The Electromagnetic Spectrum from Radio Waves to Gamma Rays, by Alan Gould, Stephen Pompea
Week 28
TITLE: Circadian Rhythms
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *nimh.nih.gov
*www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm
*http://www.sleepdisorderchannel.net/jetlag/
*http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~neuro/kns/tutor/medical/rhy.html
RECOMMENDED READING: Rhythms of Life : The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing by Russell G. Foster, Leon Kreitzman
Week 29
TITLE: Sleep
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
*science.howstuffworks.com
*Psychology by Harold Gleeman, fifth edition
RECOMMENDED READING: Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss
The Promise of Sleep by William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan
Week 30
TITLE: Blood
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Health.howstuffworks.com
*Sln.fi.edu/biosci/blood/blood.html
*www.aabb.org/All_About_Blood
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: Five Quarts : A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes
Week 31
TITLE: Batteries
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.qrg.northwestern.edu
*www.open2.net/science
*electronics.howstuffworks.com
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: Handbook Of Batteries by David Linden and Thomas B. Reddy
Week 32
TITLE: Friction
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/friction/invest.htm
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/friction
*hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/frict.html
*auto.howstuffworks.com/brake.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: What Is Friction? by Lisa Trumbauer
Week 33
TITLE: The Sun and Nuclear Fusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.enchantedlearning.com/sunjects/astronomy/sun
*www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter13.html
*www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Snuclear.htm
*Science.howstuffworks.com/sun/htm
RECOMMENDED READING: Fusion: The Search for Endless Energy by Robin Herman
Week 34
TITLE: Rainbows
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.deltatech.com/rv/rainbows.html
*eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/
*science.howstuffworks/rainbow.htm
*En.wikipedia.org
*Hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/rbowpri.html
RECOMMENDED READING: The Rainbow Bridge by Raymond L Lee and Alastair B. Fraser
Week 35
TITLE: Sound Waves
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound
*www.school-for-champions.com/science/sound.htm
*Science.howstuffworks.com/hearing.htm
*En.wikipedia.org
Week 36
TITLE: X-rays
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *imagers.gsfa.nasa.gov/ems/xrays/html
*www.school-for-champions.com/science/xrays.htm
*science.howstuffworks/x-ray.htm
*En.wikipedia.org
Week 37
TITLE: The Atom
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/atom_anatomy.html
*www.aip.org/history/electron/jjhome.htm
*science.howstuffworks/atom.htm
*En.wikipedia.org.wike/atom
RECOMMENDED READING:Introductory Nuclear Physics by Kenneth S. Krane
Week 38
TITLE: Elements: Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/au.html
*www.chem4kids.com/files/elem_metal.html
*modelscience.com/PeriodicTable.html
*En.wikipedia.org.wiki/metal
RECOMMENDED READING:Nature's Building Blocks : An A-Z Guide to the Elements by John Emsley
Week 39
TITLE: Chemical Bonds
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/chemical/bond.html
*www.visionlearning.com
*En.wikipedia.org.wiki
RECOMMENDED READING:Chemical Bonding by Mark J. Winter
Week 40
TITLE: The States of Matter
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.school-for-champions.com
*www.science-uwaterloo.ca
*En.wikipedia.org.wiki
*www.dmturner.org/Teacher/Library
Week 41
TITLE: Photochemistry
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
*Science.howstuffworks.com/film.htm
*www.yesmag.bc.ca.how_work/film.html
*www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING:The Photographer’s Handbook by John Hedgecoe
Week 42
TITLE: Sir Isaac Newton
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www-groups.dcs.st-and-ac.uk/~history/Printonly/Newton.html
*www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html
*www.lucidcafe.library/95dec/newton.html
*galileoandeintstein.physics.Virginia/edu/lectures/Newton.html
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: *The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard Westfall
*Newton’s Gift by David Berlinski
Week 43
TITLE: The Real Numbers
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RealNumber.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_numbers
*www.math.com/school/subject2/lessons/S2U2L1GL.html
*http://www.themathpage.com/areal/real-numbers.htm
Week 44
TITLE: Prime Numbers
RECOMMENDED READING: *Prime Obsessions by John Derbyshire
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prime.num.html
mathworld.wolfram/primenumbers.html
en.wikipedia.org
The Story of Science by Joy Hakim
Week 45
TITLE: Pi
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html
*http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pi&printable=yes
*Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim
RECOMMENDED READING: A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann
Week 46
TITLE: The Pythagorean Theorem
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Aristotle Lead The Way by Joy Hakim
*mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTheorem.html
*http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/pythagthm.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
*http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/Pythag'sTheorem.html
RECOMMENDED READING: Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Scott Loomis
Week 47
TITLE: The Golden Ratio
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~demo5337/s97b/art.htm
*en.wikipedia.org
*http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html
*Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim
RECOMMENDED READING: The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Week 48
TITLE: Fermat’s Last Theorem
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Mathforum.org
*www.pbs.org
*mathworld.wolfram.com
*en.wikipedia.org
RECOMMENDED READING: The Moment of Proof by Donald C. Benson
Week 49
TITLE: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Mathworld.wolfram.com/prisonersdilemma.html
*www.britannica.com
*www.en.wikipedia.com
*plato.stanford.edu/enties/prisoner-dilemma/
RECOMMENDED READING: The Complexity of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
Week 50
TITLE: Factorials!
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Mathforum.org
*www.factmonster.com
*www.en.wikipedia.com
*www.themathpage.com
Week 51
TITLE: The Normal Curve
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/webtexts/stat06.htm
*www.willamette.edu/~mjaneba/help/normalcurve.html
*www.sunmed.org/basicbios.html
*En.wikipedia.com
RECOMMENDED READING: The Mismeasure of Man by Stephan Jay Gould
Week 52
TITLE: Nuclear Fission
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *www.atomicarchive.com/Fission/
*hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu
*library.thinkquest.org
*en.wikipedia.org
*science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
RECOMMENDED READING: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhode
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