From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 10:19:35 PDT
Message-Id: <l03130300b98d6f534703@[192.174.2.157]> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:19:35 -0700 From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu> Subject: - Learning Studio - week of August 11
Folks:
Many more e-texts this week, and I spent very little time looking for stuff
this month, I just (again) found lots of rich veins of texts. This week
there several historical texts on genetics and evolution as well as quite a
variety of electronic periodicals.
WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK:
Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/index.html
A great place to get simple information, with lots of pictures, of various
animals. My favorite is Glyptonotus antarcticus
(http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda1.html) which Jo described
as an aquatic roach, my reply was "is it good with butter?"
UPDATED WEB GUIDES:
For a full list of the Learning Studio web guides see:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/ResGuides.html
Several pages had a few links added.
These pages had a bit more done:
Earth System Science
General Science
Hydrosphere
Paleobiology
Polar Studies
The San Francisco Bay Area Related Resources pages had a major work over,
about time I had not touched it since November.
PRINTED, NEW ACQUISITIONS:
An affair with Africa : expeditions and adventures across a continent /
Alzada Carlisle Kistner.
General collection circ.
QL 568 .K55 1998
The account of a series of entomology expeditions in several African
countries. Using such traditional scientific tools like aspirators and
pickaxes they located and captured their small prey. Of course a lot more
happens on such expeditions, long road trips, lions sleeping under the
rover, outbreaks of fighting and such other everyday matters not different
from research in many other parts of the world.
NEW INTERNET eTEXTS:
Each week I will list online materials are freely available over the Internet.
These materials were located in the past week by Learning Studio staff.
Some of these documents may be in PDF format and require the use of a free
reader.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
This week I again highlight a page, this time the standards page at the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
http://www.nbpts.org/standards/standards.html
I also include the Mathematics and Science standards (two each, four in
all) below. I include NBPTS in the entry for easy searching.
Additions for the week of August 18:
New Books and Pamphlets:
1. Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Mathematics Standards Second Edition*
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
http://new.nbpts.org/standards/complete/aya_math_2ed.pdf
2. Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Science Standards
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
http://new.nbpts.org/standards/complete/aya_science.pdf
3. Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Arctic Environment Report
http://www.amap.no/assess/soaer-cn.htm
4. The Cell in Development and Heredity (second edition, 1900),
by Edmund B. Wilson
http://www.esp.org/books/wilson/cell/2nd/facsimile/title3.html
5. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (second edition;
London: John Murray, 1882),
by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/descent/descent_front.html
6. Early Adolescence/Science Standards
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
http://new.nbpts.org/standards/complete/ea_science.pdf
7. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, by August
Weismann, ed. by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schonland, and Arthur E. Shipley
http://www.esp.org/books/weismann/essays/facsimile/title3.html
8. The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and
1844,
by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/foundations/foundations_fm.
htm
9. Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South
America (London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward Lock and Co., 1910),
by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/geological_observations/fro
nt_matter.html
10. The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1893), by August Weismann, trans. by W. Newton Parker and Harriet
Ronnfeldt
http://www.esp.org/books/weismann/germ-plasm/facsimile/title3.html
11. Handbook of Mathematical Functions, With Formulas, Graphs, and
Mathematical Tables (10th printing, with corrections, 1972), ed. by Milton
Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun
http://members.fortunecity.com/aands/
12. A History of Genetics (1965, with additional material),
by Alfred Henry Sturtevant
http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/
13. Intracellular Pangenesis, Including a Paper on Fertilization and
Hybridization (Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1910),
by Hugo de Vries, trans. by Charles Stuart Gager
http://www.esp.org/books/devries/pangenesis/facsimile/title3.html
14. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the
Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle (11th
edition; London: John Murray, 1913),
by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/beagle_voyage/beagle_front.
html
15. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (revised edition; New York: Henry
Hold and Company, 1915),
by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Henry Sturtevant, Hermann Joseph Muller, and
Calvin Blackman Bridges
http://www.esp.org/books/morgan/mechanism/facsimile/title3.html
16. Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence/Mathematics Standards
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
http://new.nbpts.org/standards/complete/mcea_math.pdf
17. North America's environment: A thirty-year state of the environment and
policy retrospective
World Resources Institute, the International Institute for Sustainable
Development, and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of the North
American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_pdf.cfm?PubID=3770
18. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (first edition;
London: John Murray, 1859),
by Charles Darwin
HTML at British Library
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/origin1859/origin01.html
PDF files at esp.org
http://www.esp.org/books/darwin/origin/facsimile/title3.html
19. On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are
Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing (London:
John Murray, 1862),
by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/orchids/orchids_fm.htmi
20. The Physical Basis of Heredity (Philadelphia: J. B. Kippincott, 1919),
by Thomas Hunt Morgan
http://www.esp.org/books/morgan/physical-basis/facsimile/title3.html
21. Principles of Geology (3 volumes, 1830),
by Charles Lyell
http://www.esp.org/books/lyell/principles/facsimile/title3.html
22. Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia
Lauretta Burke, Liz Selig, Mark Spalding
http://www.wri.org/wri/reefsatrisk/reefriskseasia.html
23. Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science
Second Edition
http://www.nsc.org/ehc/guidebks/climtoc.htm
24. Science and the Endangered Species
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309052912/html/index.html
25. Selected works and commentary, by Charles Darwin
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/
26. State of the forest: Indonesia
Charles Victor Barber, Emily Matthews, David Brown, Timothy H. Brown, Lisa
Curran, Catherine Plume, Liz Selig
http://www.wri.org/wri/forests/indoforest.html
27. The Theory of the Gene (revised edition; New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1928),
by Thomas Hunt Morgan
http://www.esp.org/books/morgan/theory/facsimile/title3.html
28. Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm
New Bibliographies/Indexes:
Environmental Change and its Impact on Species/Ecosystems
http://www.pacinst.org/wildlife.html
New Maps:
A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/atlas/#Introduction
New Periodicals:
1. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-archive
2. Conservation Ecology
http://www.consecol.org/Journal/
3. Ecological Applications
http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-archive
4. Ecological Monographs
http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-archive
5. Ecology
http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-archive
6. Electronic Green Journal
http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.html
7. Issues in Science & Technology
http://www.nap.edu/issues/
Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
Learning Studio, Exploratorium Museum
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