Week 1 Laboratory - Biol 307
Bruce R. Thomas, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, Cosumnes River College
Classification: Finding Unity in Diversity
What is life (http://www.earthlife.net/life.html)
Characteristics of Living Matter - Fullerton Community College (http://www.oceansonline.com/lifeprops.htm)
Being Alive! (http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/alive.html)
Museum of Zoology Tour - Univ Michigan (http://www.earthlife.net/life.html)
Birding on the Web - National Audubon Society (http://www.birder.com/)
Fun Science Resources (http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/resources.html)
Inquiry Project 1 - What is life?
Science - Content Standards - California State Board of Education (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/scmain.asp)
This site describes the science concepts that children are supposed to
learn during each year of school. If you decide to interview children
for inquiry project 1 this site will help you to design age-appropriate
survey questions and to make hypotheses about how accurately the
children will be able to answer the questions.
Becoming Literate in Mathematics and Science (http://www.enc.org/focus/literacy/
) This website contains numerous articles on these topics.
Science TEKS Toolkit - Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills - Univ
Texas
(http://www.tenet.edu/teks/science/index.html)
Excellent website that contains information on: National Science
Education standards, assessments, resources for teachers, a definition
of scientific literacy, equity and access in science, international
comparisons, and much more.
The Clark Foundation (http://www.clarkfoundation.org/literacy.html)
An organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific
literacy.
Science Literacy & Conservation in Developing Countries (http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/delarosa.html)
Building Websites for Science Literacy
(http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article2.html)
A paper written by a UC Santa Cruz Librarian and a UC Santa Cruz
Reference Specialist that explores the definitions of science literacy
and a method for evaluating and
organizing websites.
Association for the Advancement of Science - Science for all Americans
(http://www.project2061.org/tools/sfaa/default.htm)
Coalition for Science Literacy - Univ South Florida
http://w3.usf.edu/~sl/CSL/
Science Literacy By Gentry Lee
http://www.space.com/opinionscolumns/gentrylee/science_literacy_gentry_000804.html
The Ever More Pressing Problem of Science Literacy - Leon Lederman
http://www.rescorp.org/science%20frontiers/frontiers_contents.htm
updated 18aug2004, Bruce Thomas.