Biology - middle & high school - week 1

We are looking at Quirks and Quarks Biology curriculum and McLeod Biology Assignments and some other things too. Real need to list the "other things". Again, a blog is not the right place for this!

Primary Texts:

• Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology (Mahlon Hoagland, Bert Dodson, Judy Hauck, 2001) (We started with The Way Life Works by Hoagland, Mahlon B.(1995) from the library -- but that is a different book and NOT just a different edition!)
  
• Biology: Concepts and Connections (Campbell, Mitchell, Reece)
• D.I.V.E. Biology (from the DIVE into Math folks)
• syllabus to use DIVE with Campbell & Reeves (online from DIVE)
  

Websites on "Scale" - add to the "week one" websites

• Gravity Wells (neat graphics - sense of scale, not directly related to biology!)
• Universe Scale (Extremeties of Space)
• Scale of the Universe
  
• Cell Size and Scale
• Not assigned: 20 minute video "How large is the universe?"
  

Parental assignment: Find microscope & clear space to call "lab table"
Then assign/do "microscope lab" from MacLeod's Biology: Week 1