Paul M. Jones
Books and selected readings
Appenzeller. 2008. Tracking the next killer flu. National Geographic. October 2005. This article presents a journalistic review of the latest Influenza virus epidemic. May be difficult reading for some students, selections can be used to fill out the knowledge base of student about inter species viruses. It contains a graphic showing the relative sizes of historical epidemics.
Biggs. 2005. Biology: The Dynamics of Life. McGraw Hill. This is a quality High School Biology text to be used as a student reference.
Walsh. 2009. How to prepare for a pandemic. Time Magazine. May 18, 2009 pgs 30-33. This article is a concise review of how vaccines work; it contains a vivid graphic of viruses and vaccines.
Websites
Johanson & Marable. 2009. Becoming human. The Institute of Human Origins. http://www.becominghuman.org/. This interactive website travels through time and shows the path of hominid evolution with interviews, site visits, and visuals, it is an excellent enrichment activity that can be used at the end of the unit to further evolutionary study.
MacPhee & Marx. 1997. What killed the mammoth? The American Museum of Natural History. http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/biobulletin/biobulletin/story981.html. This website is set up like a web quest discussing a hyper-disease hypothesis as a reason for mammoth extinction. Attractive visuals of archeological sites with reading level appropriate content on viruses, disease, and evolution.
Watson. 1997. Fossil Succession. US Geological Survey. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/succession.html. This website offers a reading level appropriate printable reading on the formation of fossils and the laws of fossil succession.