Asking Questions in Biology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.06.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Instructional Strategies
  4. Classroom Lessons
  5. Conclusion
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  8. Notes

You Will Find the Infinite

Kasalina Maliamu Nabakooza

Published September 2026

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[1] Ian Goldsmith, Colour Theory for Artists: Everything you need to know about working with colour, (Ilex Press, 2024), 22.

[2] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class. (New York: Flammarion, 2023), 26.

[3] Ian Goldsmith, Colour Theory for Artists, 13.

[4] Jan Kremers and Rigmor C. Baraas, and N. Justin Marshall, eds. Human color vision. Vol. 5. (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2016), 111.

[5] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002), 64-65.

[6] Jan Kremers et al, Human color vision, 158.

[7] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 65-67.

[8] Jan Kremers et al, Human color vision, 102.

[9] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 123.

[10] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 226.

[11] Ian Goldsmith, Colour Theory for Artists, 62-63.

[12] GR Martin, Katzir G, Visual fields and eye movements in herons (Ardeidae). Brain Behav Evol. 1994;44(2):74-85. doi: 10.1159/000113571. PMID: 7953610.

[13] DK, The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (New York: DK, 2019), 113.

[14] Jan Kremers et al, Human color vision, 73-74.

[15] Jan Kremers et al, Human color vision, 158.

[16] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 124.

[17] Jan Kremers and Rigmor C. Baraas, and N. Justin Marshall, eds. Human color vision. Vol. 5. (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2016), 158.

[18] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art,  124.

[19] Jan Kremers and Rigmor C. Baraas, and N. Justin Marshall, eds. Human color vision. Vol. 5. (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2016), 11.

[20] Jan Kremers and Rigmor C. Baraas, and N. Justin Marshall, eds. Human color vision. Vol. 5. (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2016), 11.

[21] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 69.

[22] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 69.

[23] Jan Kremers, Human color vision, 6.

[24] Jan Kremers, Human color vision, 3.

[25] DK, The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (New York: DK, 2019), 112.

[26] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 63.

[27] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi (Wiltshire: The Crowood Press, 2024), 79.

[28] Adam Dant and Brian Clegg, How it All Works: All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated & Demonstrated (London: Ivy Press, 2021), 143.

[29] James Fox, The world according to colour, 144.

[30] DK, Simply Physics: Facts Made Fast (New York: DK Publishing, 2025), 99.

[31] James Fox, The world according to colour, 144.

[32] DK, The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained. New York: DK, 2019, 112.

[33] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi, 79.

[34] Adam Dant and Brian Clegg, How it All Works, 25.

[35] DK, Simply Physics, 150.

[36] Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988), 51.

[37] Stuart Firestein,. Ignorance: How It Drives Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 12.

[38] Sarah Barker, 50 Things to See in the Sky. (London: HarperCollins, 2019), 24.

[39] Timothy Gowers and June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader, eds, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 844.

[40] DK, Simply Physics: Facts Made Fast (New York: DK Publishing, 2025), 148-149.

[41] Jan Kremers et al, Human color vision, vii.

[42] Wharton, David. "A cultural history of color in antiquity." (2022): 24 -25.

[43] James Fox, The world according to colour: a cultural history. Penguin UK, 2021, 225.

[44] James Fox, The world according to colour, 224.

[45] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi, 23.

[46] David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé, The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015), 35.

[47] David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé, The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015), 36.

[48] Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf, eds. A cultural history of color in the Age of Enlightenment, 94.

[49] James Fox, The World According to Color: A Cultural History (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2022), 164.

[50] Jan Kremers and Rigmor C. Baraas, and N. Justin Marshall, eds. Human color vision. Vol. 5. (Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2016), 265.

[51] David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé, The hidden half of nature: The microbial roots of life and health. (WW Norton & Company, 2015), 37.

[52] Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf, eds. A cultural history of color in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), 129.

[53] Carole P. Biggam et al, A cultural history of color in the Age of Enlightenment, 98-99.

[54] Carole P. Biggam et al, A cultural history of color in the Age of Enlightenment, 93.

[55] Carole P. Biggam et al, A cultural history of color in the Age of Enlightenment, 37.

[56] Jan Kremers, Human color vision, 224.

[57] James Fox, The world according to colour: a cultural history (Penguin UK, 2021), 153.

[58] Kory Stamper, True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2026), 11.

[59] Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colours, 205.

[60] Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colours: Weird and Wondrous Colours from Science and Nature (Portland, OR: Blue Star Press, 2024), 29.

[61] David R. Montgomery, David R., and Anne Biklé, The hidden half of nature: The microbial roots of life and health (WW Norton & Company, 2015), 92. 

[62] David R. Montgomery et al. The hidden half of nature, 49.

[63] Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colours, 222.

[64] Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colours, 217.

[65] Adam Dant and Brian Clegg, How it All Works: All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated & Demonstrated (London: Ivy Press, 2021), 83.

[66] DK, Simply Genetics (New York: DK Publishing, 2025), 52.

[67] Gerald S. Wilkinson, Heidi Kahler, and Richard H. Baker. "Evolution of female mating preferences in stalk-eyed flies." Behavioral Ecology 9, no. 5 (1998): 525-533.

[68] DK. The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained. New York: DK, 2019, 264.

[69] Adam Dant and Brian Clegg, How it All Works: All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated & Demonstrated (London: Ivy Press, 2021), 144.

[70] Rosalind Ormiston, " Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts by Diana Donald and Jane Munro (Eds)." The Art Book (2010), 165.

[71] Rosalind Ormiston, "Endless Forms,” 165.

[72] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class, 211.

[73] Alexandra Loske, "A cultural history of color in the Age of Industry." (2022): 139.

[74] Alexandra Loske, "A cultural history of color in the Age of Industry”, 139.

[75] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi, 85.

[76] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi, 101.

[77] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class,158-159.

[78] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class, 210.

[79] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class, 158.

[80] Fritz Horstman, Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers's Color Experiments. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024), 5.

[81] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002), 71.

[82] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class, 180.

[83] Camille Viéville, Color: A Master Class, 180.

[84] Kurt Schwitters, Merzbild mit Regenbogen (Merz Picture with Rainbow), 1920–39, mixed media on plywood, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/84135.

[85] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002), 227-229.

[86] Margaret Livingstone, Vision and Art, 226.

[87] UC Davis, “UC Davis Stories Geerat Vermeij,” March 23, 2016, http://stories.ucdavis.edu/stories/faculty/vermeij.html.

[88] UC Davis, “UC Davis Stories Geerat Vermeij,” http://stories.ucdavis.edu/stories/faculty/vermeij.html.

[89] Claire Kathleen Ward, Drawing and Painting Fungi, 81.

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