The students are in daily contact with hands-on materials; no traditional science
textbook is issued. Depending on the class and the unit, students may receive
a reference text to supplement the information presented in class. These may
include titles from the Prentice Hall Science series: Motion, Forces, and Energy;
Parade of Life: Animals; Parade of Life: Monerans, Protists, Fungi, and Plants;
Electricity and Magnetism; Human Biology and Health; Exploring the Universe;
Cells: The Building Blocks of Life; Sound and Light.
The science program draws heavily upon the following resources for activities
and information:
TOPS activities (Task Oriented Physical Science)
AIMS activities (Activities in Math and Science)
GEMS activities (Great Explorations in Math and Science)
ESS activities (Elementary Science Study)
NSTA publications (National Science Teacher Association)
AAPT publications (American Association of Physics Teachers)
Exploring (the Exploratorium quarterly magazine)
The Exploratorium Science Snackbook
700 Science Experiments for Everyone (UNESCO source book)
Conceptual Physics, 6th edition, Paul Hewitt
Thinking Physics, 2nd edition, Lewis Carol Epstein
Invitation to Science Inquiry, 2nd edition, Tik Liem
Al Guenther’s Science Solutions, Al Guenther
Turning the World Inside Out, Robert Ehrlich
Teaching Science With Everyday Things, 2nd edition, Schmidt and Rockastle
The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers, Jearl Walker
The Everyday Science Sourcebook, Lawrence F. Lowery
Chemical Demonstrations, Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography,
Falk, Brill, and Stork
An Island Called California, 2nd edition, Elna Bakker
Project WILD
A Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide: The Sierra Nevada, Stephen Whitney
Sierra Nevada Natural History, Storer and Usinger
The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park, N. King Huber
Living Invertebrates, Pearse, Buchsbaum
The Natural Histroy of the Point Reyes Peninsula, Jules G. Evens
Between Pacific Tides, 5th edition, Ricketts, et.al
The Weather Book, Jack Williams
Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region, Harold Gilliam
Biology, 5th edition, Barnes and Curtis
The Evolution of Life, Gamlin and Vines
The Evolution Book, Sara Stein
A Sourcebook for the Biologic Sciences, 3rd edition, Morholt and Brandwein
The Bottle Biology Book, Mrill Ingram
Wisconsin Fast Plants: Growing Instructions, Carolina Biological Supply Company
Rapid Cycling Brassicas: A Context for Plant Biotechnology, Paul Williams
Science Is, Bosak
