Asking Questions in Biology: Discovery versus Knowledge

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.06.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Bibliography/Resources
  6. Endnotes
  7. Appendix

What Can We Learn About Animals?

Megan McLaughlin

Published September 2012

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Bibliography/Resources

Bibliography/Resources for the Teacher:

Coyne, Jerry A. Why evolution is true. New York: Viking, 2009. Print.

Darwin, Charles. The Voyage of the Beagle. Auckland: Floating Press, 1839. Print.

Darwin, Charles, and Francis Darwin. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. New York: Basic Books, 1959. Print.

Darwin, Charles, Robert Jastrow, and Kenneth Korey. The essential Darwin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. Print.

Darwin, Charles, and Francis Darwin. The autobiography of Charles Darwin. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. Print.

Eiseley, Loren C.. Darwin's century: evolution and the men who discovered it. [1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958. Print.

FitzRoy, Robert, and Charles Darwin. A narrative of the voyage of HMS Beagle: being passages from the 'Narrative' written by Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N., together with extracts from his logs, reports and letters, additional material from the diary and letters of Charles Darwin, notes from M. London: Folio Society, 1977. Print.

Hickson, W. E., and T. R. Malthus. Malthus an essay on the principle of population in refutation of the theory of the Rev. T.R. Malthus. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1849. Print.

Huxley, Robert. The great naturalists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Print.

Knapp, Sandra. "What is Taxonomy?" Natural History Museum. London Museum of Natural History, 1 Jan. 2012. Web. 14 July 2012. www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/ science-of-natural-history>.

Lyell, Charles, and M. J. S. Rudwick. Principles of geology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 19901991. Print.

Stearns, S. C., and Rolf F. Hoekstra. Evolution: an introduction. London: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.

"The Linnaean Correspondence." c18. Version 1. Swedish Linnaean Society, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University, the Linnaean Society of London, 1 Jan. 2012. Web. 13 July 2012. http://linnaeus.c18.net/Doc/lbio.php>.

Bibliography/Resources for the Classroom and Read Aloud

Anderson, Margaret Jean. Carl Linnaeus: father of classification. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1997. Print.

Gutnik, Martin J. The science of classification: finding order among living and nonliving objects. New York: F. Watts, 1980. Print. Read Aloud

Lasky, Kathryn, Matthew Trueman, and LLC Books. One beetle too many the extraordinary adventures of Charles Darwin. Unabridged. ed. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2010. Print. Read Aloud

Pringle, Laurence P., and Steve Jenkins. Billions of years, amazing changes: the story of evolution. Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills, 2011. Print. Read Aloud

Schanzer, Rosalyn. What Darwin saw: the journey that changed the world. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2009. Print. Read Aloud

Silverstein, Alvin, Virginia B. Silverstein, and Lee J. Ames. Carl Linnaeus: the man who put the world of life in order. New York: John Day, 1969. Print. Read Aloud

The tree of life: a book depicting the life of Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist & thinker. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. Print. Read Aloud

Winston, Robert M. L. Evolution revolution. London: DK Pub. 2009. Print. Read Aloud

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