NESCent Education and Outreach
Reading List
This reading list was initiated at the Evolution 2009: Workshop for Educators. The list includes books for instructors and students in middle and high school. The readings cover a range of biological topics as well as the nature of science. Suggestions for additional materials may be sent to eog@nescent.org.
Journals
Newspapers
- Regular pieces by Sean Carroll
- Regular pieces by Olivia Judson
- Videos
Books
Science and It’s Way of Knowing
Ed. John Hatton and Paul Plouffe
The Plague
Albert Camus
Mr. Darwin’s Shooter
Roger McDonald
The Nature of Life
To Know a Fly
Vincent Gaston Dethier
Essays by John McPhee
Lorax
Dr. Seuss
There’s a hair in my dirt!
Gary Larson
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
Who Really Killed Cock Robin?
Jean Craighead George
A Short History of Everything
Bill Bryson
Universal Robots
Carol Kapek
Evolution as a Religion
Mary Midgley
Jefferson Bass series on forensics
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
Craig Ventner
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Tears of a Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors
Stephen O’Brien
Harry Potter series
J.K. Rowling
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Voices for Evolution
Carrie Sager
Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species
Lynn Marguilis and Dorian Sagan
North Carolina: The Years Before Man
Fred Byer
Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas
Kevin Stewart and Mary Russell Roberts
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat
J.D.Bransford, A.L.Brown, R.R. Cocking, editors
National Academies Press, 2000
Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation
Joel Cracraft and Rodger Bybee, Eds
Evolutionary Science and Society: Activities for the Classroom
Roger Bybee, Ed
BSCS, 2006
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
and
The Making of the Fittest
Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Guns, Germs and Steel
and
Collapse
Jared Diamond
Every Living Thing
Rob Dunn
The Panda's Thumb
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
An Urchin in the Storm
David Mindell
The Naked Ape
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
National Academies, 1998
Steve Olson
National Academies of Science, 2004
David Quammen
Galileo's Daughter
The Beak of the Finch
Understanding by Design
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Download Overview
Evolution: the Triumph of an Idea
Your Inner Fish
Neil Shubin, 2008
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