- SUBJECT: Great experiments in biology
- DATE: 4/97
-
-
- Hi all,
-
- I am going to teach a portion of our 120 university honors course,
- Development of Scientific Thought. Usually three or four "great
- experiments" are taught for each of our portions. I'd like to
get your
- opinions on what you'd teach, and on which texts/readings you would
use.
- Help me decide!
-
- Thanks,
-
- Ann
-
- *****************************************************
-
- Ann E. Stapleton
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- 615 McCallie Avenue
- Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
-
- (423) 755-4397
- fax (423) 785-2285
- email Ann-Stapleton@utc.edu
-
-
- There a new book out called "Doing Biology" by Hagen, Allchin,
Singer.
- Harper Collins ISBN 0-673-99638-7. This text seems to do exactly what
you
- intend. The sections include FOR EXAMPLE:
-
- EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY (3 EXPS)
- Kettlewell & the Peppered Moths
- Margulis & the Question of How Cells Evolved
-
- CELLULAR BIOLOGY (5 EXPS)
- Steven & Sex determination
- Hunt Morgan & the White eyed mutant
- Avery
- Krebs
- Mitchell
-
- ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY (5 exps)
- Cannon
- Selye
-
- ECOLOGY & BEHAVIOR (4 EXPS)
-
- I haven't read it yet but I like the lay-out (problem solving approach),
- historical and biographical and looks to be for educated non-majors
although
- I don't think majors would be bored with it.
- Pat Hauslein, Ph.D Understanding need not
- Associate Professor diminish wonder.
- Biology & Science Ed
- St. Cloud State Uni
- St Cloud, MN 56301
-
-
- I agree with Pat Hauslein. I haven't used the book in class, but I
have
- seen it, and talked with the authors at a conference about it last
Spring
- and it looks like what you are looking for.
-
- I was going to suggest it earlier today, but it is at home right now.
- Tonight my computer will beep at me and tell me to look for the above
- information.
-
-
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- When A scientist isn't sure of what he's doing, he calls it research.
- I must do a lot of research
-
- Terry Davin
- Biology and Allied Health
- Penn Valley Community College
- Kansas City MO 64111
- davin@kcmetro.cc.mo.us
- http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/DAVIN/DAVIN.html
- (816) 759-4236 (PHONE)
- (816) 759-4553 (FAX)
-
- I have read and used the book in an honors course for non-majors. It
was
- great. It spurred many discussions. The students responded to the
- historical information. Fortuitously, the week we read the chapter
on
- Whittaker, was the same week the articles came out about the archae
- bacteria and the three domains. What a powerful lesson in the process
of
- science. I would recommend this one. --cmw
-
- Charlene M. Waggoner, Ph.D. "Great art is eternal;
- Department of Biological Sciences great science tends to be
- Bowling Green, State University replaced by greater science."
- Bowling Green, OH 43403
- -- John A. Moore
- cwaggon@bgnet.bgsu.edu
-
-
- Darwin, Mendel, Hershey-Chase, The Modern Synthesis and Neo-Darwinism,
- Watson and Crick, Lindeman (Ecosystem Models). Texts? I don't know.
- Notice, by the way, except for Hershey-Chase I didn't suggest "a
great
- experiment". I really don't see how "a great experiment"
fits with the
- development of scientific thought. Maybe you could help me out. I'm
- sure everything you teach is in context and that many sources are read
- with regards to work preceeding and following that of the "great
- experiment". I'd like to know more about what you do. My university
is
- in the process (early discussion stages) of developing an honors
- program, and I'm looking for successful models.
-
- Dave McNeely, Biology, University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort
- Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520; mcneely@utb1.utb.edu
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